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Summary: Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSPerry, Anne.
Summary: The Dreghorn family reunion in the Lake District of England is shattered by what appears to be an accidental death. Henry Rathbone, distinguished mathematician and inventor from Perry's William Monk series, is summoned to help in the role of amateur investigator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PERYoungson, Anne
Summary: Eve left her thirty-year career to become a Free Spirit. Sally waved goodbye to her indifferent husband and two grown-up children. Anastasia, a defiantly independent narrowboat-dweller, is suddenly landlocked and vulnerable. Before they quite know what they've done, Sally and Eve agree to drive Anastasia's narrowboat on a journey through the canals of England, as she awaits a life-saving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Youngson 2021Perry, Anne.
Summary: Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERJames, Anna (Anna Lois)
Summary: Eleven-year-old Tilly Pages, who has found comfort in her grandparents' bookshop since her mother's disappearance, now learns that she can bookwander into any stories, and decides to seek her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JAMShaffer, Mary Ann.
Summary: In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction ShaShaffer, Mary Ann.
Summary: London, January 1946, emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. She finds it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb. As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHASewell, Anna
Summary: A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Here is the compelling tale of a spirited young Thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published in 1877. This masterfully illustrated classic is skillfully adapted by Newbery Award-winning author Robin McKinley and remains faithful to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SEWShaffer, Mary Ann.
Summary: As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ShaCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ShafferRyan, Anne Marie
Summary: "In small-town England, two booksellers facing tough times decide to spread some Christmas cheer through the magic of anonymous book deliveries in this uplifting holiday tale for book lovers everywhere"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYAPurser, Ann.
Summary: After her own daughter's grocery shop is the latest establishment hit in a series of robberies in Long Farnden, Lois Meade tries to track down the thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PURPurser, Ann.
Summary: Housecleaning is hard work.but when Lois decides to take a little break in the peaceful atmosphere of a small chapel, she discovers a dead body-dressed in a suit of armor...and winds up with even more work to do. Since her job is tailor-made for snooping, Detective Inspector Cowgill convinces Lois to polish up her sleuthing skills once again, against her husband's wishes. But when she discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PURCleeves, Ann
Summary: "On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cleeves 2020Cleeves, Ann
Summary: "Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-returns with the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call, in the Two Rivers series, soon to be a major TV series too. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLECleeves, Ann
Summary: "When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and legend--blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his body is discovered in a dinghy anchored off Scully Cove. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector Matthew Venn. Greystone is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLECleeves, Ann
Summary: For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CleevesCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLECleeves, Ann
Summary: "North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr. Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr. Yeo is a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLECleeves, Ann
Summary: "Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco-sailor, adventurer, and legend-blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLECleeves, Ann
Summary: "Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLEPurser, Ann.
Summary: Long Farnden villagers don't know what to make of the reclusive Abrahams of Carthanger-and malicious rumors have surrounded the family as long as anyone can remember. But ever-spotless housecleaner Lois Meade isn't one for mudslinging-and when young Enid Abraham applies for work with New Brooms, Lois's cleaning business, Lois decides to give the girl a try.then she sees what may be a body in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005