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Author
Series
Penny draws ; 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Penny and her friends find an old map that takes them on a search through their town for hidden treasure"--
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"While on routine patrol in the tinder-dry Topanga Canyon, environmental scientist Rafael Salazar expects to find animal poachers, not a dilapidated antique steamer trunk. Inside the peculiar case, he discovers a journal, written by the renowned Robert Louis Stevenson, which divulges ominous particulars about his creation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . It also promises to reveal a terrible secret--the identity of Jack the Ripper....
163) Assault and buttery
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Repairs are under way at Rebecca Anderson's gourmet popcorn shop. With production of her tasty treats on hold, Rebecca has plenty of time to read the old diary she discovered hidden in the shop's walls. It's a fun peek into her town's history... until the diary's abrupt ending leaves Rebecca wondering whether she's actually stumbled upon a cold case. Unfortunately for Rebecca, mysteries are popping up right and left. When local busybody Lloyd McLaughlin...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters. It's a world away from the trouble back home--and Josie loves it. Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city, Zoe, is...
165) The old garden
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Following an 18-year sentence, Oh Hyun Woo discovers that his former lover, Han Yoon Hee, has died. Oh returns to Kalmae, where they lived together, and discovers Yoon Hee's journals and letters to him. From there, the narrative combines Oh's memories and Yoon Hee's, often flowing seamlessly between the two. Yoon Hee's letters to Oh are layered in rich details and life-changing revelations, suggesting she knows all along that these letters will one...
Author
Series
Publisher
M. Evans & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
After surviving the Civil War, Clay Halser kills a man in self-defense and heads west to escape hanging. To survive on the untamed frontier of 1867, Halser becomes a crack shot. But he soon finds that there's always someone wanting to meet a "legend" face-to-face, gun-to-gun.
Author
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When one of Randi Conway's psychotherapy patients is found dead of a gunshot wound, the investigation is turned over to Lieutenant Anthony Walker. Formerly a New York City cop, Walker now serves on the police force of an affluent community in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He lives among the privileged gentry, where he understands that appearances are often far removed from reality. This certainly proves to be true in the death of Elizabeth Knoebel,...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In a compelling, complex story from the bestselling author of Wildflower Hill and Lighthouse Bay, two women separated by a century discover long-buried secrets in an Australian manor house. In 1876, Tilly, a recently married young English woman, is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestuous marriage ends in horrific circumstances on the remote Channel Islands. Determined to get as far from England as she can, she takes on a new identity and...
169) The Italian villa
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Callie, a lonely small-town waitress, is still reeling from the discovery that she's adopted when she arrives in Montevino, Italy in search of answers - the keys to the stunning hillside villa she has just inherited clutched tightly in her hand. Inside the rusted gates, and through a large wooden front door dripping with sun-kissed flowers, Callie can't decide if she's more astonished by her new home or her first encounter with the mysterious young...
Author
Series
Diary of a teenage girl ; no. 3
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It's challenging enough to be a normal high school senior--but Caitlin O'Conner has a host of new difficulties to deal with in the third book of Melody Carlson's widely popular and fascinating teen series. Senior Caitlin O'Conner confronts life-determining issues in this emotionally gripping sequel to It's My Life. Time is critical to help the orphans in Mexico, missions-minded Caitlin believes, but Mom and Dad are set on her attending college. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Rainbow Tinseltail and the other students at Sparklegrove School for Unicorns are excited when a brand new unicorn, Sunny Huckleberry, enters the school, but Sunny does not know what his special magical power is, and the thought that he might not have any power at all is making him unhappy; Rainbow (whose power is granting wishes) is eager to help him--even though he does not seem to want her help.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sylv.ie is a synthetic woman. A fully sentient robot, designed to cater to her Husband's every whim. She lives alone on the top floor of his luxurious home, her existence barely tolerated by his human wife and concealed from their child. Between her Husband's visits, deeply curious about the world beyond her room, Sylv.ie watches the family in the garden -- hears them laugh, cry, and argue. Longing to experience more of life, she confides her hopes...
Author
Publisher
Lethe Prress
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Written as a lost volume from her celebrated diaries, ANAÏS NIN AT THE GRAND GUIGNOL follows the iconic feminist author into an erotic and twilit realm of dark fantasy and sexual obsession, a world of forbidden desire and deadly consequence from which she might never fully return. Paris, 1933. In the aftermath of her love triangle with novelist Henry Miller and his dancer wife June, thirty-year-old Anaïs Nin is left reeling. Stifled by her bourgeois...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Daphne Hallworth is ready to celebrate the holidays with her family. But when they accidentally leave her home alone, Daphne uses the time to work on her dream--opening a home for unwed mothers. But her quest isn't problem-free: She's in a battle to win the property for the home against her brother's best friend-turned-enemy, Paul Barstowe, Duke of Southart. And that's not all: someone has stolen her personal diary, which holds secrets that...
175) Por un beso
Author
Series
Bridgerton ; 7
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Hyacint, la última hija soltera de la familia Bridgerton, ha perdido la ilusión por las temporadas de baile en Londres. Aunque es joven y hermosa y pertenece a una familia muy admirada, su ágil inteligencia, su lengua descarada y su fuerte carácter parecen ahuyentar a todos los pretendientes. Excepto a Gareth St. Clair, el nieto díscolo de Lady Dunbury, el seductor con peor reputación entre la alta sociedad y el único en todo Londres capaz...
176) Aug 9-fog
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons. Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger's five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart -- water-stained and illegible in places -- but magnetic to Scanlan...
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