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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Faye Travers appraises the estate of a family who descended from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family, she finds a rare drum. The story traces the drum's passage both backward and forward in time, from the reservation on the northern plains to New Hampshire and back.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely and always looking for company. There are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths Lexi has heard all her life. But when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The next night, the children...
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 4
Language
English
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Susan Wittig Albert delights mystery lovers with this series based on the life and stories of beloved English children's author Beatrix Potter. When Beatrix finds an abandoned infant, Captain Woodcock and Dimity care for the child as Beatrix and her furry and feathered friends search for its mother. "The whimsical blend of romance, mystery and nostalgia will keep cozy fans happily entertained."-Publishers Weekly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils-Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry...
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
10) Holding: a novel
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama but when human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke--a former lover of two different inhabitants--the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated sergeant PJ Collins struggles...
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English
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"It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's newest resident prove yet again its enchanting ability to matchmake? But when Crispin Windle arrives, no one knows what to make of him: seemingly a loner, he repels every welcoming gesture and appears altogether uninterested in being a part...
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Series
Home Fires volume 1
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Join Frances Barden, Sarah Collingborne, Pat Simms, Miriam Brindsley, and the women of the Great Paxford Women's Institute as calamity hits their beloved village and they prove once again that when women work together they can surmount almost any challenge. Frances struggles as her factory is shut down and her husband's secret child arrives at her door. Pat's abusive husband is home from the war. Newlyweds Teresa and Nick hide a secret. Meanwhile,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Winner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction "A very good novel indeed, with echoes of Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and even Graham Greene."--The New York Times Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, have come to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine abandoned by Richard’s grandfather fifty years before. They have mortgaged, sold, borrowed, left friends and country,...
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Aunt Dimity series volume 24
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English
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It's almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch--and everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma and Derek Harris's annual Christmas bash, Lori Shepherd has no intention of missing it. When the winter weather takes a turn for the worse, it's agreed that none of the guests will leave until morning. There's general merriment as the Christmas party becomes a pajama party--until a car appears...
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