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5701) Cathedral of bones
Author
Publisher
Stoneheart Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Salisbury, 1226. A young pregnant woman is found tangled in reeds in the river Avon, her identity a mystery. Grieving widow Ela Longespée is determined to succeed her husband as sheriff of Salisbury, and quickly takes charge of the investigation. She soon finds herself in the thick of a neighborhood scandal and a struggle to maintain her authority. With multiple suspects, can she identify the true killer?"--Page 4 of cover.
5702) When impossible happens
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the pandemic lockdown in India, almost-nine-year-old Swara's irrepressible spirit helps her come to terms with the death of her grandmother and solve a neighborhood mystery"--
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 536 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this second volume, Beau L'Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father's notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended. These selections include the beginnings of a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's isolated West Texas home and finds her missing, she embarks on a search for clues about Drea's disappearance while facing the unsettling, cult-like and possibly murderous behavior of Drea's roommates.
5705) Excavations: a novel
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At home in Seoul, former journalist Sae, is waiting with two clingy toddlers for her husband to come home from work. He has never been this late before. Her children are crying, and Sae, exhausted and anxious, turns on the TV to distract herself. She clicks to the news, which shows a horrific disaster, the collapse of a massive skyscraper where Jae was an engineer. Minutes, then hours, and then days pass. No one has seen Jae, but things aren't adding...
5706) The lurking lima bean
Author
Series
Night frights volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition.
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wolver Hollow is not a normal town. The adults are too busy shuffling off to work at the old coffin factory to notice or care, but the kids know all about monsters, ghosts, and strange lights in the sky. Strange things happen in Wolver Hollow. Creepy things. Madeline Harper does not like lima beans and she's not afraid to make that clear. But when she gets sent to bed for not eating her vegetables, she'll find something far worse than her mother's...
5707) The cursed ground
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston and a short biography.
5708) The year of the gun
Author
Series
Irregular spy volume 3
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost-lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Britain's poorest city, Dublin. Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause - a cause needing guns to defeat the British--and then they go to find them in America....
5709) Play the game
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four months have passed since his best friend Ed was killed by a white man in a Brooklyn parking lot. When Singer, the man who killed Ed, is found dead in the same spot where Ed was murdered, all signs point to Jack, VZ's other best friend, as the prime suspect. VZ's determined to complete the video game Ed never finished and figure out who actually killed Singer....
5710) Fatale
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
98 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there's no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she's set her eyes on a backwater burg--where, while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous) newcomer to town, she means to sniff out old grudges and engineer new opportunities, deftly playing different people and different interests against each other the better, as always, to make...
5711) A book by its cover
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a stranger leaves a box of books at Mary Fisher's shop, each containing a letter written by Mary's mother to a man named Jacob, Mary sets out to discover the truth about this youthful relationship.
5712) The lost noel
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is coming, and Mary is excited that both of her children are bringing their families to Ivy Bay for the holiday. Someone begins to sabotage the living Nativity at Grace Church and Mary investigates.
5713) In the name of truth
Author
Series
Sandhamn murders volume 8
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
449 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Loekholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it something more ominous? The disappearance has also captured the interest of Thomas's longtime friend, attorney Nora Linde. The missing child happens to be the...
5714) Camp Murderface
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The year: 1983. The place: Ohio. The camp: Scary as heck. Camp Sweetwater is finally reopening, three decades after it mysteriously shut down. Campers Corryn Quinn and Tez Jones have each had more than enough of their regular lives--they're so ready to take their summer at Sweetwater by storm. But before they can so much as toast one marshmallow, strange happenings start...happening. Can they survive the summer? Or will Camp Sweetwater shut down for...
5715) The unfair fair case
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin Quix hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mack Rhino is a private eye whose latest case finds him at the Coral Cove Fair, where someone has been winning game after game after game, taking all the prizes! It's up to Mack to figure out if the winning streak is a case of fair -- or foul -- play."--
5716) Trained to hunt
Author
Series
Pierce Hunt volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"He'll hunt the through the jungle, across the desert, and into the grave. Former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt is second-guessing his decision to join a CIA hunter-killer team that will take him far away from his daughter. But when a new performance-enhancing drug kills four football players--including his daughter's boyfriend--settling down becomes the last thing on Hunt's mind. When Anna Garcia, Hunt's love and head of the largest drug cartel in Miami,...
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume no. 4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ada and Mary take on the case of young Princess Alexandrina Victoria's missing diary.
5718) Play of shadows
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a stormy Chicago night, renowned semiotician Dr. Evan Wilding and his brother, River, who's back from an archaeological dig, reunite in a mystery. A package addressed to both of them contains a hand-drawn maze, an ancient Cretan coin, and a cryptic greeting: Let the game begin. The opening move is murder. In a downtown alley, a man has been found nearly cleaved in two, a symbol drawn on his forehead and a savage rip in his throat. Given the clues,...
5719) The teatime mystery
Author
Series
Jenny Starling volume Book 1
Publisher
Brilliance: Audible Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Starling is doing the catering for the village cricket match. But she's not expecting one of the players to turn up dead.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"11-year-old Meranda thought her life was complicated enough with her weak legs (she needs crutches to walk because of cerebral palsy) and her helicopter parents. She lives in Calgary but has always felt drawn to the East Coast, where her parents grew up...though she's never visited. Her mother, a pediatric ER doctor, has all the excuses: it's too far, it's too expensive, it's not safe near the water. When her great-uncle Mark dies, Meranda's parents...
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