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21) A man called Ove
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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English
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"Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment's hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors...
Author
Series
Sneaky Pony series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Upon learning that an older woman has moved into run-down, creepy Crabapple Farm, nine-year-old Keeker rides over on her pony, Plum, to find out whether the woman is a witch.
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Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 40
Language
English
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Malcolm Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk -- from back East -- who has come to claim his inheritance: the 600-acre ranch of recently deceased Humbolt Puddle, The Mountain Man's former neighbor. Poor, unsuspecting Malcolm finds his new property being coveted by a greedy cattle baron. Smoke, another neighbor, figures that any enemy of old-man Puddle's is his enemy, too. So, a take-no-prisoners mountain man and a timid tinhorn make for an army of two...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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At first, Laura Sherman is thrilled to meet a fresh face, but will her relationship with the man next door go too far before she realizes he's not what he seems? Detective Andrew McGrath knows the only way to find six girls that have vanished without a trace is to get close to the suspect's wife - but will he get too close? Robert Barnett, a disgraced scientist, receives a shocking message that could change the world. But when a nationwide manhunt...
29) Nickel Bay Nick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old Sam gets into trouble and is forced to work for his reclusive neighbor Mr. Wells, he soon finds out that his mysterious new acquaintance hides many secrets of his own--including one that will change Sam's life forever.
30) Between us girls
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Jasmyn Albright has had more than her share of bad breaks lately, beginning with the tornado that demolished her farmhouse. Feeling utterly alone, Jasmyn heads west, hoping to outrun her heartbreak. When she finds herself the newest tenant at Casa de Vida, Jasmyn hardly dares to hope that her fortunes might be about to change ... but when God is at work, anything can happen.
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Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the new Vintage Kitchen Mystery from the author of White Colander Crime, someone with an old grudge decides it's time to bury the hatchet . . . "Smartly written and successfully plotted, the debut of this new cozy series . . . exudes authenticity." --Library Journal on A Deadly Grind Vintage cookware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton has agreed to help her sister clear out the house of a deceased older neighbor, and she's thrilled at the...
Author
Series
Those darn squirrels volume 2
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grumpy Old Man Fookwire's new neighbor has a cat that threatens his beloved birds, but some pesky squirrels figure out a way to solve the problem.
34) Pug's snow day
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Series
Diary of a pug volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Bub the pug has never seen snow before, and when Duchess the cat tells him it is frozen rain he is appalled and does not want to go out even to play with his human, Bella--but the week is about to get worse because a new family has moved in next door, and they apparently have a pet monster (at least if Nutz the squirrel can be believed) and Bella's mother has arranged a play date for Sunday.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society--and now he wants to get even. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn't take into her home and her heart. When her imposing--and attractive--new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving...
36) The whispers
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Language
English
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"The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
Author
Series
Winterville volume 4
Publisher
Carrie Elks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"He's not made for relationships. Especially not the kind she wants. Mason Parker doesn't believe in love. Sure, he cares about people. His younger brother, for example. That's why he's bringing him all the way to an abandoned cabin in the mountains to straighten him out. But love? That's for fairytales. And people who haven't had the hope knocked out of them. People like his brand new Little-Miss-Sunshine neighbor with the golden hair and unwavering...
38) The new neighbor
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity that turns into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's complicated and cloaked life"--
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Language
English
Description
"Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's not just Morgan's death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night....
40) Heart bones
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Language
English
Description
"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
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