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Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. With the body count rising, the clock ticking...
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
3) Freewater
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
4) Paletero man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When a little boy finally catches up to Paletero Josae, who has the perfect treats for a hot summer day, his pockets are empty, so the entire community bands together to help him find his dinero.
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus? But this time they...
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders, ten years apart. To make matters worse, a new nemesis pays Elizabeth a visit, presenting her with a deadly mission: kill or be killed. While Elizabeth grapples with her conscience...
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Savannah Perry, social director of Whisper's Edge, a retirement community struggling to stay afloat financially, finds a savior in business-minded Tristan McMillan who, determined to prove himself, has purchased the community from his grandfather.
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Language
English
Description
"Lucy Abbott returns home to Fawn Grove, Maine, after serving time in Afghanistan, then years spent as a sous chef in New York. She's realized her only hope of moving on from the past involves facing it again. But Fawn Grove, like Lucy herself, has changed and the murder of a Muslim girl brings back difficult memories"--
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Language
English
Description
Everyone's favorite octogenarian is back and, together with his pals in the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he is more determined than ever to wreak havoc and turn a twinkly eye on the brighter side of life. After a year spent mourning the death of his beloved friend Eefje, Hendrik may be older and a little more wobbly, but his youthful appetite for mischief hasn't diminished. When fears arise that the home is set for demolition, it's up to Hendrik and the...
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Language
English
Description
Lyle Hovde lives a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence, Shiloh has become deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is convinced Isaac has the spiritual ability to heal the sick. When the church's radical belief system threatens Isaac's safety, Lyle is forced to make a decision from which the family may not recover....
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Language
English
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"Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian's speech reveals secrets that shake the town to its core"--
Every town has its secrets... In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. At Thornton, the...
15) Community board
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Language
English
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"A wise, bighearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics"--
"Darcy Clipper, prodigal daughter, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined. But Murbridge,...
Author
Series
Boob Girls volume 5
Publisher
Centering Corporation Grief Digest Magazine
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
An evil family has taken over Meadow Lakes Retirement Community. Led by older brother, Thorny Busch, his wicked sisters, Rose and Lilac, their brother enforcer Huckleberry "Whacker" Busch, and their feisty mother, BeataRhonda Busch, we have gambling, prostitution and of all things... chickens!
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Recently widowed after twenty years of marriage, Frances Lehman is only just tasting the freedom and opportunity that her Promise Lodge friends enjoy. So she's not about to be pressured into marriage by her widowed brother-in-law, even if she and her daughter have no real means of support. Much more promising is her new friendship with Preacher Marlin Kurtz, though their respective families don't see their relationship as proper . . . When Frances...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
19) The summer house
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Language
English
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After her husband leaves her, hair stylist Lily Bishop accepts a position at the local retirement community where she, while contemplating her next steps, forms an unlikely friendship with Rose, the community's owner, that brings about new beginnings and unexpected romance.
Author
Series
Boob Girls volume 6
Publisher
Centering Corporation Grief Digest Magazine
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
A haunted bed and breakfast. A mummy. A mysterious key. A bank robber who is also a Goth. A strange but beautiful little old lady with dementia whose only words are, "Shut up and drink." Put all those together in the monster of a mansion that Dr. Robinson Leary, retired professor from Creighton University has inherited from an unknown great aunt, and the Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12 have their hands full and Geoffrey the mastiff is no protection...
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