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21) One house over
Author
Series
Neighbors volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without...
Author
Series
Christmas hope volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Relocating to an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Gretchen offers to help clear out the home of a reclusive neighbor's recently deceased mother and discovers that the neighbor, Melissa, has two siblings and an identity that she never suspected.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.
Eudora Honeysett has lived a full life, and witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age. At eighty-five, her end will be on her terms. A call to a clinic in Switzerland sets the plan in motion. Then she meets...
24) Ivy and Bean
Author
Series
Ivy and Bean volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
25) Four friends
Author
Language
English
Description
When BJ, a newcomer to Mill Valley, enters their close-knit circle and opens up about her dark past, Gerri, Andy, and Sonja come together to help her get back on track and, in the process, make strides in their own lives, becoming stronger as individuals and unfaltering as friends.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling King of Christmas Fiction is back this holiday season with another heartwarming and wintery tale of rediscovering faith and love. A coming-of-age holiday tale based on Richard Paul Evans's own childhood that shows us how hope and acceptance can be found in the most unexpected of places. -- From the publisher.
It's 1967, and for young Richard it's a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his...
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 14
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor--until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that's looming ever closer. Three years after her late mother's death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of Jean's Norfolk cottage with a peculiar inscription. Ruth returns to the cottage to uncover its meaning as...
28) Extra normal
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Un-super" in a household of supernatural siblings, Charlie Greer is convinced that her "too nice and too normal" new neighbors are up to something and must uncover the truth, proving you don't need special powers to stop evil.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
133 p.
Language
English
Description
When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr., 35 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door -- an apparently traditional family with new money, ambition, and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter. Thanks...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Katy Duck, who loves to dance, meets her new neighbor Ralph, it turns out that he loves rough and tumble games and the two of them must figure out a way to play together.
32) Ivy + Bean
Author
Series
Ivy and Bean volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
Author
Series
Osborn brothers volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hunter Osborn left his family, his friends and his job as a park ranger after uncovering a disturbing crime scene. Haunted by nightmares and harrowing memories, Hunter relocated to an isolated property near Triple Creek, Colorado, where he lives alone and keeps his interactions with people to a minimum. Still, Hunter can spot trouble from a mile away, and when he encounters Jodi Bentley, he knows she's trouble of the most tempting kind--even more...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (ca. 9.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Audio book features three thrillers by James Patterson. 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...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 13
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson - he of the clove-scented hair gel - it may finally be time to settle down, and surely it can only be a question of picking the lucky winner from the hordes of his admirers. The Duke of Johannesburg is...
Author
Series
Katie the Catsitter volume 2
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
205 pages;
Language
English
Description
Back-to-school time for Katie the Catsitter finds the Mousetress getting blamed for things she didn’t do, among other problems, challenging Katie and 217 out-of-the-ordinary cats to uncover the real supervillain to clear the Mousestress’s name.
Author
Series
Katie the Catsitter volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
205 pages;
Language
English
Description
What’s better than BFFs? Super sidekick BFFs! Katie can’t wait to have Beth join her for sidekick training! Until . . . it turns out Beth might be a way better sidekick than Katie! And now Beth and Marie are hanging out all the time, Jess is acting super weird, and Katie still needs to tell her mom about being a sidekick. Oh yeah, and giant robots are attacking the city. So. That’s not great.
Can Katie and 217 super-unusual cats work together...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A CIA analyst with an empty nest, a broken marriage, and nothing to lose risks her life to crack an unsolvable case in this utterly gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know Use the children. This is the phrase picked up in a Chinese intelligence intercept, the one that convinced CIA analyst Beth Bradford to take on the case that would haunt her ever since. She will not rest until she tracks down the Neighbor, a...
Author
Publisher
Templar Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a pirate family moves into her quiet seaside town during ship repairs, young Matilda defies the edicts of the gossiping adults in the community to befriend young pirate Jim Lad.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As seen on Discovery ID, these two true-crime thrillers follow a neighbors' quarrel that turns violent and cyber-bullying that explodes in a double murder.