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Summary: Madeline Dare goes to work as a teacher at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teenagers in the Berkshires. Once there she finds a disturbing realm where students and teachers must follow the dean's bizarre therapies. She quickly discovers that many of her colleagues are devout followers of the dean. Maddie forms an unlikely alliance with a small group of rebellious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REAMiller, Samuel
Summary: In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2024
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Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Devastated after the vicious assault she suffered in The Last Temptation, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan has returned to Bradfield to resume her career. But she is surprised to discover that clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill has followed her there to take up a post in a high security mental hospital. When she is assigned a case involving the grotesque murder of a prostitute, she turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCDCitro, Asia
Summary: Pip shows up with a new look that's just as surprising to him as it is to Zoey and Sassafras. When they retrace Pip's steps in the forest, they see another magical friend change right before their eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Innovation Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CITKeene, Carolyn
Summary: Nancy, Bess, and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missing leading cat star, Fluffington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEETodd, Charles
Summary: "Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TODBeaton, M. C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BEAWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: When the Aldens take up the case to investigate if a catastrophic oil spill that affected hundreds of species could have been prevented, they are led on an adventure to help other endangered animals around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARCameron, Stella
Summary: When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder. A new year arrives and winter holds Britain's Cotswold Hills in its icy grip once more. But it's the construction of a new housing development that's causing the residents of Folly-on-Weir most concern. As she passes the site late one afternoon, pub...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMBeaton, M. C.
Summary: Investigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beaton 2014Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BEAChristie, Agatha
Summary: Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007
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Summary: Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and she wants Boston's top detective, D.D. Warren, to handle the death investigation. Each year at 8:00 pm on January 21st a woman has died, and all have been childhood friends from a small town in New Hampshire. Grant is the only remaining member of the group, but is she the next victim or the perfect perpetrator?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYS GARBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "An irresistible new adventure for the bossy, vain, and endearing Agatha Raisin, from New York Times bestselling M.C. Beaton, "the reigning queen of the cozies" (Booklist). The picturesque Cotwsold village of Winter Parva has decided to warm the winter months after the holidays by roasting a pig in the town square. Agatha, always one for a good roasting, has arrived with her former protege;e...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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Summary: The Cotwsold village of Winter Parva has decided to roast a pig in the town square. Agatha has arrived with her current rival in the private detection racket, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the pig is carried toward its final resting place, Agatha realizes that things are not as they seem....the pig, in fact, is Gary Beech, a policeman not exactly beloved by the good people of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEACass, Laurie
Summary: "Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, cruise around lovely Chilson, Michigan delivering happiness and good reads in their bookmobile. But the feisty librarian is worried that the bookmobile's future could be uncertain when a new library board chair arrives and doesn't seem too friendly to her pet project. Still, she has to put her personal worries aside when she and Eddie are out on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASAtherton, Nancy.
Summary: U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd and Aunt Dimity investigate sabotage (and possible regicide) at a local Renaissance faire held in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Finch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATHCameron, Stella
Summary: "Although he has always kept his past carefully hidden, as the ever-reliable manager of her well-stocked pub, The Black Dog, Hugh Rhys has Alex Duggins' total trust. However the unexpected arrival of two women from his past raises the fury of the usually even-tempered Hugh, threatens his carefully-crafted reputation and sends shockwaves through the village. When a battered body is discovered in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMBeaton, M. C.
Summary: A visit to the local village fete turns into a nightmare when Agatha Raisin discovers a body, and becomes the prime murder suspect. Determined to clear her name, she launches her own investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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Summary: "When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems. The factory mystery soon turns to murder and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beaton 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BEAAtherton, Nancy.
Summary: U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd and Aunt Dimity investigate sabotage (and possible regicide) at a local Renaissance faire held in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Finch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATHBeaton, M. C.
Summary: Unlike quite a number of people, Agatha has not given up on Christmas. To have the perfect Christmas had been a childhood dream while surviving a rough upbringing in a Birmingham slum. Holly berries glistened, snow fell gently outside, and inside, all was Dickensian jollity. And in her dreams, James Lacey kissed her under the mistletoe, and like a middle-aged sleeping beauty, she would awake to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Beaton, M. C.
Summary: When Mr. John Sunday, a self-important officer with the Health and Safety Board, is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife during the village's Christmas festivities, Agatha's detective agency is on the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABeaton, M. C.
Summary: Having fallen hopelessly in love with local gardener George Marston, a shameless Agatha Raisin donates the money for a charity ball in the hope of dancing with him, only to discover that he has been murdered by a killer who caused him to be bitten by a poisonous snake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012