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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...
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"Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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When she stumbles upon the body of her best friend, a death that could be linked to several others, librarian Greer Hogan employs what she has read in detective novels to investigate until she realizes that she may have helped convict an innocent man in her own husband's murder.
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"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
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Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"There was only one woman who could set me free. But I would rather set myself on fire than ask Sloane Walton for anything. Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his abusive father's mark on the family name, he spends every waking minute pulling strings and building his empire. The more money and power he gains, the safer he feels. Except when it comes to one feisty small-town librarian… Bonded by an old,...
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Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Set in small-town Oregon, the latest in the witty, charming Witch Way Librarian series from Amazon bestselling and acclaimed author Angela M. Sanders features a spellbinding heroine, a clever cat familiar, colorful locals—and of course, murder. The perfect read for fans of Bailey Cates, Adele Abbott, Juliet Blackwell, and all cozy mystery lovers with a taste for the supernatural. Josie is eager to show off Wilfred’s delights to her visiting...
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Has a curse fallen on the small town of Taylorsford, Virginia? Spring has sprung, and the mayor has revived the town's long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert. All seems well at first, but spring takes on a sudden chill when a university student inexplicably vanishes during a bonfire. The local police...
10) Maid of murder
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Five Star
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Martin College librarian India Hayes is surprised when her childhood friend Olivia asks her to be a bridesmaid. The pair's friendship has been cool ever since Olivia dumped India's math-whiz brother Mark. When Olivia is murdered days before her nuptials, Mark is the obvious suspect, and India turns amateur sleuth to prove his innocence.
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India Hayes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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On the cusp of Halloween, her bossy sister has roped small-town college librarian India into working a crafts fair on campus. When Tess, a fellow vendor, is bludgeoned to death in her booth after hours, India stumbles over her body. Derek, Tess's clingy undergrad son, begs India to find the killer. Demonstrating her research prowess, India digs into Tess's past and finds unexpected connections to an older, unsolved case. Danger escalates when another...
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2020.
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English
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As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. Sixty-five years later, a book...
15) The winter man
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Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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In Silent Night Man the special government agent Millie has loved from afar for years has vowed to protect her from a hit man. In Sutton's Way Wyoming rancher and single father Quinn Sutton rescues a beautiful city woman with secrets of her own.
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Obsidian Mystery
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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With her sort-of boyfriend Marcus calling it quits and her ex-boyfriend Andrew showing up out of the blue, small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson plenty of drama to deal with-- and that's before a local theatre festival relocates to Mayville Heights. Now the town is buzzing with theatre folk, many with their own private dramas. When the director, Hugh Davis, is found shot to death near the marina, it's up to Kathleen to play detective-- with a little...
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Finfarran Peninsula volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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The second in Felicity Hayes-McCoy's Finfarran Peninsula series, and sequel to The Library at the Edge of the Worlda heartwarming story about secrets between four generations of Irish women, and the healing powers of books, love, and friendship. The Garden Café, next to Lissbeg library, is a place where plans are formed and secrets shared, and where, even in high tourist season, people are never too busy to stop for a sandwich and a cup of tea. But...
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2021.
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English
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Based on a true story, describes how a lonely teenager in 1983 Montana befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.
"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris,...
20) Read it and weep
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Library lover's mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for "A midsummer night's dream," and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful library pages are trying out for parts. Brought in to play the mischievous Puck is the flirtatious professional actor Robbie Vine, who seems to have eyes for Lindsey. Before her blush has faded, the bard's dream turns into a nightmare when one of the cast is poisoned. Now Lindsey...
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