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1) Atonement
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father's extreme faith and very public fall from grace. The only antidote to all this venom is his friendship with fellow outcasts Travis and Lydia. But as they are starting their senior year, Dill feels the coils of his future tightening...
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Koko, Yum Yum, and Jim Qwilleran investigate foul play at the Great Food Expo. A hotel is bombed, a housekeeper killed, a mysterious guest disappears, the owner is hospitalized, and Koko and Yum Yum develop a new interest in cheese.
5) Reservoir 13
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 1
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
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Description
A teenage girl has gone missing and everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the English moors as the police set up roadblocks and news reporters descend. Meanwhile, there is still work that must be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who...
Author
Series
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the brink of manhood, Josh's world is filled with studies and life with Aunt Lou and the menfolk, along with an occasional fishing trip thrown in. When a new teacher arrives, Josh thrives under his encouragement as well as from the attentions of the teacher's pretty daughter. Josh faces important questions about life and love and about himself.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Breakfast Island, known for its purity of nature and spirit, has fallen victim to a ruthless band of developers. After a local proprietor suffers a series of "accidents" at the Domino Inn, he enlists Qwill's help in determining if it's bad luck or sabotage. As Qwill and Koko begin the search for evidence, an unexpected event threatens the investigation -- and Qwill's life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different, but equally intriguing people. Plagued by loneliness, regret, abandonment and loss, fate will unite them in a dilapidated estate house in Northern Scotland. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that these five people will find each other and, ultimately, find themselves."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When the town of Pickax celebrates the groundbreaking of a new bookstore, James Qwilleran and his famous felines are not prepared for the discovery of the body of a man shot execution style on the very same day.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While the residents of Pickax eagerly await a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town's founding, newspaper columnist James Qwilleran must entertain Harvey Ledfield, an aspiring architect. Strange occurrences seem to follow Harvey around. Koko, the Siamese cat, leaps on his head, a knitter predicts murder, and a woman comes from California to leave a message for Qwill. It's up to Koko to help Qwill piece the clues together. -- from...
11) The lost man
Author
Language
English
Description
Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The people of Pickax are in a state of eager anticipation. The Pirate's Chest, the long-awaited new bookstore, is finally set to open, and the Theatre Club is preparing to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. However, the play is brought to an abrupt halt as a cast member is killed in a car accident. But was it really an accident? As suspicions rise, Qwill and his sleuthing Siamese cats have their work cut out for them.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim Qwillerman and his feline sleuthing companions search for a motive to the murder of Harley Fitch and his pregnant wife Belle in the isolated community of Picka.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
With his companion Polly in Paris, Qwill keeps himself occupied by writing an absurdist play called "The Cat Who Got Elected Dog Catcher." Meanwhile, things are spicing up in Pickax. Huge inheritances from old families are suddenly and mysteriously pouring in to town, but nobody is quite sure why. Except Koko, that is--and she's not telling. Then things get really interesting when one resident drops dead from an apparent bee sting. Can Qwill and his...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"--
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly...
17) The country life
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A woman gives up the rat race in the city for the calm of the country--taking a job as family help--only to discover that country life with its eccentric people can be just as stressful. A British comedy by the author of Saving Agnes.
18) Unsettled ground
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also, as the Introduction to this edition reveals, one of the most potent revenge narratives. Its ingenious narrative structure, vivid evocation of landscape, and the extraordinary power of its depiction of love and hatred have given it a unique place in English literature. The passionate tale of Catherine and Heathcliff is here presented in a new edition that...
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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