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Author
Series
Something to die for mystery volume 4
Publisher
St. Kitts Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson becomes a ladies’ companion for Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie, garnering the wrath of Elspeth’s cold and bitter daughter, which leads to the discovery that there were two companions before her, never to be seen again.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
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Description
Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
67) Far and away
Author
Series
Godmothers novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
With her three extraordinary friends by her side, Sophie De Luca is ready to confront a terrible wrong that occurred within her new house decades ago.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
Author
Language
Español
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Formats
Description
"A los veintidos años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno."-- cubierta de libro.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When she gets word that her old flame has been arrested for art theft and forgery, seventysomething influencer Gloria Rose decides to go on the run but her plan is complicated when the nieces she raised are thrown into crises of their own.
76) A place for us
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down one late summer's morning to write out the invitations to her eightieth birthday celebration, she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have spent over fifty years building. But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed. She can't live a lie any more.
Author
Series
Marlow Murder Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"BBCOne show creator of Death in Paradise, Robert Thorogood delights in giving the Christie-mystery a busy-body twist. Judith (our favorite skinny-dipping, whiskey-sipping, crossword puzzle author), along with Becks the vicar's wife, and Susie the dogwalker find themselves in a head-scratching, utterly clever country house, locked-room murder mystery. Holiday festivities are now January doldrums when Judith gets a call—Sir Peter Bailey, a prominent...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
A terrified, aging actress draws a California writer into a search for the killer of several stars from Hollywood's heyday.
A young screenwriter and his crafty partner, detective Elmo Crumley, protect an aging movie queen from a deadly enemy who is determined to put an end to both her career and her life.
80) Angelmaker
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
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