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1) The bookshop
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Language
English
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In 1959, Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop -- the only bookshop -- in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
"At the age of twenty-four, postmistress Grace Cristler has all but given up hope of finding a husband among the narrowing group of eligible men in her town of Fairland, Kansas. But when her uncle decides to retire from the pulpit, Grace is responsible for corresponding with the new preacher set to take his place. She can't deny the affection growing in her heart for Reverend Rufus Dille-- a man she deeply admires, but has only met through his letters....
3) Whereabouts
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant:...
4) Firestick
Author
Series
Firestick novels volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Language
English
Description
"In his mountain-man days, Elwood 'Firestick' McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name 'Firestick.' His two best buddies are Malachi 'Beartooth' Skinner--whose knife was as fatal as a grizzly's chompers--and Jim 'Moosejaw' Hendricks, who once wielded the jawbone of a moose to crush his enemies in the heat...
5) Mercury
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and...
Author
Series
Firestick novels volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As sleepy as Buffalo Peak’s been, legendary marshal, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen, and his deputies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks never expected a couple of drifters to wake it up — by kidnapping two lovely ladies in town. Hardly the sharpest quills on a cactus, these dim drifters call it courtin’. Firestick doesn’t see it that way. Now the woman snatchers are heading for West Texas with their reluctant brides-to-be — and unwittingly...
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Language
English
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"One rainy night fifteen years ago, a knock at the door changed Liss Kehoe's life forever. On that night, Ashley Hay stood on Liss's front porch and handed over her brand-new baby Callan. She was never seen or heard from again. Since then, Liss has raised Callan as her own, and loves him as fiercely as any mother would. But in the back of her mind, she's always wondered whether Ashley is still out there somewhere--and feared what might happen if she...
8) Blackbird
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in Ark-La-Tex, Detective Jim Bonham has been assigned to a new case. On the outskirts of the town, a woman has been found brutalized and nailed to a cross. Bonham recognizes her immediately: it is Dr. Deborah Gold, one of the town's psychologists. The questions pile up quickly. How many perpetrators would it have taken to commit this atrocity? Why was a Roman coin found at the foot of the body? And why a murder as gruesome and cruel...
9) Ink me
Author
Series
Seven volume 4
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Bunny doesn't understand why his late grandfather wants him to get a tattoo. Actually, Bunny doesn't understand a lot of things, so it's good that his older brother, Spencer, is happy to explain things to him. But this is a task Bunny is supposed to do on his own, and nobody is more surprised than Bunny when, after he gets tattooed, he is befriended by a kid named Jaden and adopted into Jaden's gang
10) The sea watch
Author
Series
Shadows of the apt volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Despite their tenuous peace, Stenwold Maker knows the Empire will return to Collegium. Yet even as he prepares the city for battle, these efforts are sabotaged. Ships sailing from Collegium's harbour are sunk by pirates, while others just go missing. Lulled by lies and false promises, Stenwold's allies are falling away too. He faces betrayal on every side, even as the Empire is poised to strike. Despite the city's military might and technology, it...
Author
Series
Most likely to volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Down-on-her-luck single mom Melanie Bartlett wants a complete do-over. With her family long gone from River Bend, with her friends Jo and Zoe, by her side, and a comfortable room at Miss Ginas quirky bed-and-breakfast, she just might have turned the corner on a new life. Wyatt Gibson never liked the big city, and River Bend suits the ruggedly handsome builder just fine. Is Wyatts calm devotion enough to convince Mel she may have found a home to call...
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