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21) Coastliners
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Madeleine returns to her island home after ten years in Paris, haunted by the memories she has of the island and its inhabitants, but instead of finding peace and comfort, she discovers both the island and her own father have become withdrawn and quiet.
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Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds, too. And where has the mayor's wife gone, vanished without trace, her note saying "Don't worry about me"?
24) Harvest
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A stable fire in a remote English village leads to disputes between newcomers who are wrongly accused and long-term residents who refuse to believe one of their own could be responsible.
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A land developer is killed in Sherebury, England, and police suspect environmentalists, but they are too busy to handle the case because of a forthcoming royal visit. So the case is taken by Dorothy Martin, an American widow working in a bookstore who is the sweetheart of the chief of police.
26) Easy to kill
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An elderly lady suspected of murder in the sleepy village of Wychwood dies--another victim of an unseen hand. Since too many accidents and unexplained deaths have occurred, even for a town with a history of witchcraft, policeman Luke Fitzwilliam vows to discover the reason--and finds a very cunning killer.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 7
Wheeler large print book
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 06
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 07
Wheeler large print book
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 06
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 07
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Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.This time, the feisty sleuth stumbles upon the victim of an unnatural death in Cotswold village's famous natural spring. Who was the unlucky corpse? The Ancombe Parish Council chairman-and the only uncommitted member voting on whether to allow the Ancombe Water Company to tap...
28) The Wednesdays
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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880L
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In a village where peculiar things happen every Wednesday, one boy must save the town to save himself.
29) The searcher
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Cal Hooper volume 01
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"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small...
30) A test of wills
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Having just returned from France after World War I with a medal of honor and serious shell shock, Inspector Rutledge struggles to settle back into his duties at Scotland Yard, when an envious supervisor assigns him to a traumatic case.
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Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of a local apothecary, is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside to save the family legacy at a time when women are forbidden to work as apothecaries and the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her.
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With White Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called to London to be with her dying aunt. She leaves her children and husband behind, to the all--but--forgotten town Connemara, on the western coast of Ireland.
35) Miramar Bay
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Miramar Bay novels volume 1
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When Connor Larkin boards a late night bus in downtown L.A., he's not sure where he's going or what he's looking for. Putting his acting career-and his fiancée-on hold, he's searching for a part of himself he lost on the road to success. Now, with his wedding day approaching, Connor finds himself stepping into the sleepy seaside town of Miramar Bay-where one remarkable woman inspires him to rethink all of his choices . . . Unlike the pretentious...
36) Enchanted glass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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790L
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After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
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Reservoir novels volume 2
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English
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"A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And now an interviewer arrives, intent on capturing the community's unstable stories about life in the weeks and months before Becky Shaw vanished. Each villager has a memory to share or a secret to conceal, a connection to Becky that they are trying to make or break. A young wife pushes against the boundaries of her marriage, and another seeks a means of...
38) The Near Witch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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760L
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The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. There are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. But when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The next night,...
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A baker's apprentice in Normandy endures shame and anger as her kind mentor is targeted and arrested for his Jewish heritage, a violation that compels the young woman to engage in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.
40) Swann's way
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Presents the first book of Proust's monumental work "Remembrance of Things Past", introducing such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories.
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