Flake, Sharon
Summary: In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FLAWebb, Wendy (Wendy K.)
Summary: After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction WebRacculia, Kate.
Summary: Isolating themselves from everyone save their four eclectic boarders, Mona and her daughter, Oneida, find their quiet life upended by the arrival of a widower in the middle of a nervous breakdown who carries his late wife's mementos and a never-sent, revelatory postcard to Mona.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010