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A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge-- the perfect getaway... until the storm hits. It's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and lots of sports opportunities. So when the a blizzard cuts off the electricity and all contact with the outside world the guests settle in for the long haul. When one of the guests turns up dead it looks like an accident....
3) Dockside
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"With her daughter grown and flown, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new adventure. She's waited a long time for dating, travel and chasing dreams. But just as she's beginning to enjoy being on her own, she finds herself falling for Greg Bellamy, owner of the charming Inn at Willow Lake and a single father with two kids of his own. Greg lost his first marriage to a demanding career. Now he's determined to make a new start before it's too late....
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 1
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English
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"Real estate expert Olivia Bellamy reluctantly trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family's old resort camp in the Catskills., where her primary task will be renovating the bungalow colony for her grandparents, who want one last summer together filed with fun, friends, and family. A posh resort in its heyday, the camp is now is disarray and Olivia is forced to hire contractor Connor Davis--a still-smoldering flame from her own summers at camp...
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When a murder disrupts the Catskill Shakespeare Theater Company's annual fundraising performance at a wealthy widow's estate, costume designer Charlotte Fairfax is enlisted to investigate discreetly only to be embroiled in a shady business deal, a dog's disappearance and long-buried family secrets.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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910L
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Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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770L
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. The foolish school teacher, Ichabod Crane, is besotted with the lovely Katrina Van Tassel. Surely there can be nothing to stand in the way of his designs on her fortune. Sadly for him, imagination is a dangerous thing in Sleepy Hollow, and Katrina is in the sights of another who claims to have bettered...
11) Untimely death
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When a Catskills resort's production of "Romeo and Juliet" takes a murderous turn, ironically resulting in the death of the leading lady, costume designer Charlotte Fairfax must piece together the clues to unmask a killer before she meets the same fate.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales collects the best macabre stories of Washington Irving. Blending sly humor with supernatural thrills, these tales are among the most beloved and re-read of all American fiction. In the thirteen stories gathered for this volume, Irving evokes the colorful landscapes of his Hudson Valley hometown, and conjures characters and creatures from its historical past for a unique kind of weird tale that speaks directly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 11.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Contents: Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Dolph Heyliger; The Legend of the Storm-Ship; Kidd the Pirate; The Devil and Tom Walker; Philip of Pokanoket; The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood; The Phantam Island; The Adalantado of the Seven Cities
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2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world. Rip Van Winkle is an idler who would rather starve for a penny than work for a pound, and his wife is constantly nagging him. In search of peace, Rip heads off to the woods one day with his faithful dog, Wolf. High up in the Catskill Mountains, Rip meets an unusual group of little men. He drinks their strong beverage and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakens,...
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"A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway. But when the storm hits, no one is getting away. It's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing maybe even romantic weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with...
17) Rip Van Winkle
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A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
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Aula de literatura volume 32
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Español
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The legend of Sleepy Hollow: A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. Rip Van Winkle: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
19) Shadow song
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In the summer of 1955, Bobo Murphy gets a job as a waiter in the Catskills and meets Amy Lourie, the most beautiful girl in the world. Unfortunately, there is no way of bridging the gulf between a wealthy Jewish girl and a rural farm boy. Thirty-eight years later Bobo runs into Amy again and this time love conquers all. By the author of To Dance with the White Dog.
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2015.
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"The Catskills ("Cat Creek" in Dutch), America's original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest preserve and its five counties--Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America's first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs ... refuge...
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