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Author
Series
Mystery bookshop volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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While visiting the land of Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes, bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Samantha Washington finds herself on a tragical mystery tour. Sam joins Nana Jo and her Shady Acres Retirement Village friends Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae on a weeklong trip to London, England, to experience the Peabody Mystery Lovers Tour. The chance to see the sights and walk the streets that inspired Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle is a dream come...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Hollanders, a typical family on vacation, are stranded in Vulgaria after a hijacking. Trying to maintain their vacationing spirits, they start taking pictures, but the Vulgarians think they're spies. The Hollanders try to flee the country before the evil government throws them in prison.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.
7) Slack bay
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide.
Author
Series
Dotsy Lamb travel mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Veronica Rosenthal novels volume 2
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Veronica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for...
10) Untamed shore
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A coming-of-age story set in Mexico which quickly turns dark when a young woman meets three enigmatic tourists. Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Tourists in the English countryside, David and Jack are attacked by what they think is a wolf; while Jack dies, David recuperates with the help of a pretty nurse and begins to have strange dreams of hunting on all fours.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Gretchen Brannon unexpectedly finds herself working as personal assistant to a handsome and formidable sheikh.
Sheltered small-town girl Gretchen Brannon was out of her element when she aligned herself with Sheikh Philippe Sabon, the formidable ruler of Qawi. They came from different worlds, yet she found a soul mate in the powerful, sensual man who'd suppressed his passions for far too long -- and harbored a secret anguish. Nevertheless, he made...
14) Say no moor
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tour escort Emily Andrew-Miceli's plan to boost her business with social media threatens to backfire in merry old England. Hoping to reach an expanded clientele of senior travelers, Emily Andrew-Miceli invites a handful of bloggers to join her group's tour of England's Cornwall region. But when the quarrelsome host of a historic inn dies under suspicious circumstances, Emily worries that the bloggers' online reviews will torpedo her travel agency....
Publisher
Aurora Dominicana
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Todas las tardes Noeli, una joven dominicana, se dirige a las playas de Las Terrenas con su novio para buscar la manera de ganarse la vida a costa de uno de los muchos turistas que vagan la playa. Como personas desfilan por su vida, Noeli tiene un cliente constante; una mujer francesa madura que, conforme pasa el tiempo, ha encontrado un refugio ideal en la isla para pasar sus ultimos anos.
Every afternoon Noeli, a young Dominican girl, goes to the...
16) Babel
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An accident in Morocco sets off a chain of links that connect people in Mexico, Japan, and California, despite distance and cultural differences
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
A defrocked, alcoholic, and emotionally-troubled minister struggles with his desire for earthly pleasures as a tour guide in Mexico. Shepherding a busload of school teachers...
19) In Bruges
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Language
English
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"Hit men Ray (Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson, Harry Potter) have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss (Fiennes)."--Container.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
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