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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn't all peace and love among the "flower children" when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune. Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber's friend "Sunny" Fields is running for mayor. But nothing puts a damper on a campaign like an actual skeleton in a candidate's closet. Sunny's grandparents ran a commune back in the 1960s on their organic farm. But these former hippies face...
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
After the death of their parents, thirteen-year-old Lisette and her nine-year-old brother Riley go to live with their grandparents in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia where, along with facing their losses, they experience a series of adventures that bring new dimensions to their lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"When former barrel racer Cheyenne McCafferty left the circuit, she left her past behind too. Now, as part owner of Lavender Blue farm, she's content rescuing and rehabbing horses, and growing a new business. She's only got one regret: letting go of Wyatt Reed. When he professed his love, she was too young and foolish to know her heart. After that he disappeared. But when his beloved horse turns up on the auction block, Chey makes a bid and wins more...
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English
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High up on a mountain, young Clay-Boy Spencer joins his father and eight uncles to hunt the mythical white deer. What he finds on the mountainside changes his life and marks him for a special destiny. Years later, Clay-Boy is the first in his family to get the chance to go to college; but success as an adult is much more complicated and bittersweet than the legendary success of Clay-Boy's childhood quest.
A heartwarming novel of love, family, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Investigating an art dealer's murder to help clear a friend's name while juggling the demands of her approaching nuptials, librarian Amy Webber is thwarted by her aunt Lydia's boyfriend, who believes the chief suspect is guilty."--Publisher
At a party celebrating their upcoming nuptials, Taylorsford, Virginia library director Amy Webber and her fianc�e Richard Muir discover the body of art dealer Oscar Selvaggio, a bitter rival of their host,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young widow living in the Pennsylvania mountains and flipping burgers for hunters and hikers befriends a stranger visiting from Uzbekistan and becomes embroiled in a manhunt after he confesses to committing a terrible crime in his home country.
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library mystery volume 8
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last thing library director Amy Muir wants. She's already buried under an avalanche of responsibilities, including sharing the directorship of the local public library, parenting her holiday-obsessed five-year-old twins, and helping her choreographer husband, Richard, present The Nutcracker as part of the town's festivities. With her frosty mother-in-law, Fiona, visiting for the holidays, Amy definitely...
8) Wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family she barely knows, it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true. That is until she meets Wishbone,...
9) Birthright
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Language
English
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Overseeing the evacation of an ancient skeleton at a small-town construction site, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook copes with accidents and rumors that the project is cursed, a situation that is complicated by a stranger's claims about her past.
10) Full cry
Author
Series
Sister Jane Foxhunting mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Amy Webber and her new husband Richard Muir are settling into married life - and a new project. Richard is choreographing a suite based on folk music and tales, while Amy scours the library's resources for background information on the dance's source material. But the mellifluous music comes to a halt when an unknown woman's body turns up in Zelda Shoemaker's backyard gazebo. Chief Deputy Brad Tucker puts Zelda at the top of his suspect list, thanks...
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Series
Sister Jane Foxhunting mysteries volume 16
Language
English
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Description
"An eye-wateringly expensive watch is found discarded on the land days prior to a dead body turning up. "Sister" Jane Arnold sets out to find the connection between the two, with a little help from her friend-both two legged and four-in this transportive mystery. Between organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt, leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club's fox hunting season, and looking after her beloved hounds and horses, "Sister" Jane...
Author
Series
Sister Jane Foxhunting mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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Description
When a body is found curiously displayed on "Sister" Jane Arnold's foxhunting grounds, members of her hunt club realize someone is sending them a dire message, in this exciting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. Early fall in Virginia means shorter days, cooler temperatures, the blooming milkweeds of summer giving way to fields of fluffy seeds--and of course, the start of fox hunting season. It’s “Sister” Jane Arnold’s...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's early summer, and while Richard Muir and his dance partner, Karla, are preparing their new choreographic piece, Richard's wife, Amy, is gathering the dance's source materials. Based on folktales and the music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the production is set to premiere at an old cinema that has been converted to a theater. But when dancer Meredith Fox Richard's former fiancée is found dead backstage, Amy is once again propelled into a murder...
15) A dog's way home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie Tam overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"She'll do anything to save them. But what will she do to save herself? When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice to make: face yet another round of chemotherapy or surrender gracefully. Self-reflection quickly proves impossible as her getaway...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town's long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert. Spring takes on a sudden chill when a university student inexplicably vanishes during a bonfire, and Amy's neighbor Richard Muir becomes a person of interest. The student...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Librarian Amy Webber leaves her university job to live with her aunt in a historic Virginia mountain town. She lands a new gig managing the charming public library, which has too little money and too many eccentric patrons. The last thing busy Amy needs is a charming new neighbor. Choreographer Richard Muir inherited the farmhouse next door--and its scandalous story--from his great-uncle. Town folklore claims the original owner was poisoned by his...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A blackmailer targeting wealthy members of "Sister" Jane Arnold's club has turned the hunters into the hunted in this thrilling mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. It's the start of fox hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, several members of the hunt club receive ominous videos in which they appear to be doing...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Mia Valentina Amore loves valentines. After all, her name means My Valentine. When she wakes up on Valentine's Day, it looks like just another morning in the rickety old Amore house in the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia. But over the course of the day, her home is transformed into the House of Love. Mia and her mama festoon the halls, build a gumdrop tree, bake cupcakes, and most importantly, make valentines for all six of her siblings. But when...
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