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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.
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English
Description
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they've chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands--the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. But after...
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Series
Pacy Lin books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
It's the Chinese year of the dog! When Pacy's mom tells her that this is a good year for friends, family, and "finding herself," Pacy begins searching right away. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, deals with disappointment, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the year of the dog is a lucky one for her after all
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Series
Pacy Lin books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the Chinese Year of the Rat, a young Taiwanese American girl faces many challenges: her best friend moves to California and a new boy comes to her school, she must find the courage to forge ahead with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and she must learn to find the beauty in change
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English
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"Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn't be more different. After thirty years of missed connections, they're about to meet again ... Minnie Cooper knows two things with certainty: that her New Year's birthday is unlucky, and that it's all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she's never met. Their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year's Day, but Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first...
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English
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After a successful Christmas parade in Tinker's Cove has ended, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth, start planning for their glamorous trip to New York City, which they won in a competition from Jolie magazine. The glitz and glamour of haute couture is bizarrely fascinating, but Lucy senses something is not quite right at the magazine. When one of the fashion editors suddenly dies and when Elizabeth gets ill and must be hospitalized, Lucy knows...
9) The rewind
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Hangover meets When Harry Met Sally in this whip-smart rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch. When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation, they vowed to never speak to each other again. Ten years later, on the eve of the new millennium, they find themselves back on their snowy, picturesque New England campus together for the first time for the wedding of mutual friends. Frankie's on the rise...
10) Holiday in death
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Series
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English
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No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lt. Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer, has made a disturbing discovery: all of the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. Eve soon enters an elite world of people searching for their one true love - and one killer searching for his next victim
11) The dark hours
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Series
Language
English
Description
"There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the deadly bullet could not...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 11
Language
English
Description
As each holiday season approaches, some revel in welcoming the New Year ahead; others quietly mourn the passing of time gone by. "We can't hold on to the past," says Master Quilter Sylvia Compson, "but we can keep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' in our hearts and in our memories, and we can look forward to the future with hope and resolve." As Sylvia, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can...
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Series
Miss Fortune mystery volume 24
Publisher
Jana DeLeon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Beckett Rousseau is the firstborn son of one of New Orleans' most prominent families. He's the quintessential golden boy--great looks, money, and a political career in his future--until his wife murders him. Or at least that's what everyone thinks. Athena Durand is still reeling from her murder conviction but now that it's overturned, she's at a loss on how to proceed with her life. As long as people still believe she's guilty, she has no future in...
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series, Chinese New Year is illustrated with color photographs throughout. Readers will learn how a simple gathering of family and friends grew into a weeklong, worldwide festival."--
16) New Year's Eve
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stellar ensemble cast celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Description
"Explosive firecrackers are red! Lucky coins are gold! Sweet peanut puffs are brown! Welcome to the festivities of the Chinese New Year, where gifts, foods, dancers, and flowers come together in a riot of beautiful colors! This vibrant and simple bilingual book is the perfect introduction to color words and to one of the world's biggest holidays. Happy New Year!" -- page [4] of cover
19) Midnight kiss
Series
Virgin River volume 12
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Midnight confessions. At a local bar New Year's Eve party in Southern California, two lonely revelers decide that the best balm for their broken hearts might be each other. Midnight surrender. When a flirty woman lawyer with a "bad-boy addiction" meets a nice Irish carpenter on Thanksgiving at her friends' home, she is not expecting the sparks that begin to fly between them. Midnight assignment. Working together over the Christmas and New Year's...
Publisher
Distributed in Canada by Séville Pictures
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight
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