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Until a mischievous dog changes everything.,,, When pregnant widow Lexi Thomas moves to Alaska for a fresh start, the last thing on her mind is romance. Fortunately her neighbor's affectionate goldendoodle is just the distraction she needs-unlike his gruff owner. Police officer Heath Donovan hopes building a fence in exchange for pet sitting will keep Lexi at a distance. But when his unruly dog turns matchmaker, can he face his biggest fear for a...
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In a small pocket of London lies a neglected community garden. It waS a little oasis for neighbors by day and the local foxes at twilight. Now it’s overgrown and neglected, and the garden’s gate is now firmly closed. Two neighbors share the garden, but they're not neighborly. Then one of them receives a mysterious photo of the garden in bloom. Somewhere out there, a secret gardener made a decades-old promise to keep the community’s spirit alive....
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Andy Russell series volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Andy and Tamika are watching their neighbors' house while they are away, but when strange and troubling things start happening inside the house, the police do not believe the children.
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"Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond...
9) The watcher
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Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can't help spying on her neighbours. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going...
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"Salma Khatun is hopeful about Blenheim, the suburban development into which she, her husband, and their son have just moved. The Bangladeshi family needs a fresh start, and Blenheim feels like just the place. Soon after they move in, Salma spots her white neighbor, Tom Hutton, ripping out the anti-racist banner her son put in the front garden. Avoiding confrontation, Salma takes the banner inside and puts it in her window. But the next morning, she...
11) Just flowers
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Izzy's grumpy neighbor insists Izzy remove unwanted flowers from his rose garden, but instead of discarding them, Izzy spreads the joy to others, leading to a town blossoming with a rainbow of flowers.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"A little boy promises his beloved friend, an elderly lady, that one day he will fix up her old house--and his words inspire the other people in the neighborhood to pitch in and get it done"--Verso page.
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Once upon a time in Manhattan . . .
. . . there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty. Behind the blue door lived Sadie, the widow of a famous British rocker who died of an overdose, and two of her children, Hamish and Deen.
The children manage to muddle along as best they can with a loving but distracted mother. But their...
15) Mr Cadmus
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Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered.
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Friends. Without benefits. They both agreed.
Until she stole his heart.
Tabitha Jones will find her kidnapped toddler...even if it means searching every daycare in Southern California. So when her hunky, wealthy neighbor, Johnny Brubaker, offers a deal, Tabitha sees it as an ideal way to expand her search. In exchange for working his food truck, Johnny agrees to pose as Tabitha's husband. It's the perfect relationship...until Johnny realizes posing...
18) Coral reef views
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HL 500L
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"In the world of crime fiction, paramedic Ashley Grant helps her visiting father solve the mystery of a missing neighbor."--
19) Neighbors
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IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Lying in bed, a child reflects on her new apartment, and the neighbors living around and above her, and looks forward to meeting them and her new classmates.
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