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Discworld volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Time itself is threatened and it's up to the History Monks to save it. Everybody wants more time. Which is why, on Discworld, only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it up and pump it from where it's wastes, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?) to places like cities, where busy denizen lament never having enough of it. While everyone talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Minty’s boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he is actually dead, but for reasons of her own decides not to pursue the matter. Fiona’s fiancé, Jeff, has simply disappeared–quite inexplicably since she was supporting him in style.
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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
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Toward the end of World War II, four soldiers from the Army's Negro 92nd division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema, in the peasants who shelter them, in the unspoken affection of an orphaned child, in a newfound faith in fellow man....
12) Hunting season
Author
Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 10
Language
English
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Description
A nude body found in the Natchez Trace National Park in Mississippi puts district ranger Anna Pigeon in danger as a circle of suspects, as well as her own deputy, do everything they can to disrupt her investigation.
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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Koko, Yum Yum, and James Qwilleran embark on their latest mystery when gold prospectors, wildlife photographers, and pirates arrive at the Nutcracker Inn to take part in a game.
18) Rapture
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Language
English
Description
Former lovers Kay and Benjamin, estranged for over a year, carry on interior monologues in which they analyze their feelings for each other while engaged in an unanticipated sex act.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
One winter morning James Jack Wright finds ninety-four-year-old Marguerite Deo—the woman he has always known as “Tante”—lying dead in the woods outside his cabin, clad only in a flowered nightgown. With this arresting scene, Elizabeth Inness-Brown ushers readers into her mysterious and lyrical narrative, the story of two closely braided lives that forces a reconsideration of our notions of maternity, loyalty, love, and perhaps death itself.
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