Donnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONGallo, Tina
Summary: Mavis wants to help her friend Wendy, an adorable little green blob with a heart of gold, who lives at Hotel Transylvania with her family. Other monsters keep telling Wendy that she is too cute and too little, and Wendy is sick of it! Mavis sets out to help Wendy prove she's more than just an adorable little blob, but in the process, she accidentally turns Wendy into a giant!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2019
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Summary: "It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she's sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC TAYHigginson, Sheila Sweeny
Summary: Wanting to prove that she can take care of a living creature, Mavis rescues a "bad egg" from Quasimodo's clutches, but when the egg hatches she learns that her adorable creature eats vampires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HIGGuterson, Ben
Summary: Orphan Elizabeth Somers's malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms, most notably its massive library. It's not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. But the deeper she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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Summary: A group of teens are trapped in an old motel with a murderer in this chilling YA mystery by New York Times bestselling author April Henry. Nell has always wanted to be an actor, but doubts her ability. As a member of her schools theater program, she prefers working backstage. On the way to a contest, an unexpected blizzard strands her acting troupe in a creepy motel. Soon they meet a group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Jasmine Richards has always been afraid of dolls, so finding herself in a room full of decorative dolls in an extremely creepy hotel on the north shore of Lake Superior is a nightmare to begin with--but these dolls are at the heart of the deadly secret of the hotel, aptly named Devil's Mooring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BREQuick, Amanda
Summary: A romance set in Burning Cove, California, an idyllic small town on the coast that has become a refuge for Hollywood moguls and stars seeking privacy for scandalous trysts and wild parties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIMcBride, Eimear
Summary: "By the award-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Strange Hotel is a book about grief, travel, and female loneliness narrated by an unnamed middle-aged woman from a series of hotel rooms around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBGuterson, Ben
Summary: Back at the Winterhouse hotel for another holiday season, Elizabeth and Freddy, who love puzzles, dig deeper into the mystery surrounding a hotel guest who left behind odd artifacts, including a magical book that evil Gracella Winters once attempted to use to gain destructive power over the entire Falls lineage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUTGrabenstein, Chris
Summary: From Chris Grabenstein, the bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor with James Patterson of I Funny, House of Robots, and Treasure Hunters, comes the second hilarious, fun-in-the-sun adventure in his new illustrated series about all the wacky things that happen when you live in a motel! There's always something wacky happening when you live in a motel, and P.T....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: The inventiveness of A Visit from the Goon Squad meets the down-the-rabbit-hole suspense of The Girl on the Train in this chilling, pulse-racing thriller from an electrifying new writer. When the gleaming new Manderly Resort opens in twenty-four hours, Santa Barbara s exclusive cliff-top hotel will offer its patrons the ultimate in luxury and high-tech security. No indulgence has been ignored,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOHColgan, Jenny
Summary: On the remote island of Mure, a new hotel opening is a big event. New mother Flora MacKenzie and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get it ready in time for Christmas. The new hotel's impressive kitchens throw together two unlikely new friends: Isla Gregor is the hardworking young girl who has been a waitress in the island's cafe, dreaming of a bigger, better life now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COLAndrews, Donna
Summary: "It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia--invited by Grandfather in rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: M ANDProse, Nita
Summary: "Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter--she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PROWiseman, Beth
Summary: "Naomi Byler cooks meals for the guests at The Peony Inn, where Amish sisters and owners of the inn Esther and Lizzie love her like a granddaughter. She's as happy there as a young woman can be, considering that her fiancé, Thomas, has left her to court someone else. She knows she'll get over the love of her life in due time, but she assumes marriage will never be a part of her future. Amos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISBostwick, Marie
Summary: Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Twelve-year-old orphan Warren's pride and joy is his family's hotel, but he's been miserable ever since his evil Aunt Anaconda took over the management. Anaconda believes a mysterious treasure known as the All-Seeing-Eye is hidden somewhere on the grounds, and she'll do anything to find it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DELMiller, Kirsten
Summary: People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. Bram wanted was to disappear from her old life and the scandal that continues to haunt her. She ends up in Louth, a tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion. Months earlier his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILGraham, Heather
Summary: Kerri Wolf has joined the crew of The Seekers, a show that searches for paranormal phenomena, as they explore a supposedly haunted old inn on the road between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The place is famous for its warm welcome - and infamous for being the site of an ax murder rampage in the 1920s. They've barely begun when a very real dead body is discovered in the basement. As a nonfiction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2019Milway, Alex
Summary: "It's a blazing summer on Animal Boulevard-and Hotel Flamingo is buzzing with excitement. The King and Queen Penguin are coming to stay! It's been a long time since the hotel had royal guests, and there's a lot for Anna and her team to do. But looking after penguins in the middle of a heat wave is no easy task..." --Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MILThompson, Kay
Summary: Collects six stories featuring Eloise, a little girl who lives in the Plaza hotel in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books 2016
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Summary: "Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the final riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever in The Bronzed Beasts. After Séverin's seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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Summary: "A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022