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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Cathie Pelletier is one of my favorite novelists, and she's at the top of her game with The One-Way Bridge."—Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone
In her highly anticipated new novel, acclaimed literary master Cathie Pelletier returns to Mattagash, Maine, the beloved New England town where it all started.
Welcome to Mattagash, the last town in the middle of the northern Maine wilderness. The road dead-ends here,
...2) Ivy and Bean
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Language
English
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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.
3) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
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English
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Book Chat December 17: Underdog Day
Book Chat September 21-23: Wife Appreciation Day
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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Series
Ivy + Bean volume 5
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Best friends Ivy and Bean learn that being very good, or very bad, can be a real challenge when they set out to become like a man Ivy heard about who was so pure of heart that birds and animals followed him.
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Language
English
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"Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Throughout the seasons in northern Vermont, Darrell helps his neighbors with snowplowing, supplying wood, and excavation work, never finding time to fix his own barn roof, but when a windstorm passes through town, he finds his kindness to his neighbors returned.
Author
Series
Grandma Dowdel volume Book 3
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
10) Bottomland
Author
Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the two youngest daughters of the German-American Hess family go missing, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Small, perfect towns often hold the deepest secrets. Such is the case for Essie and her family. When a new woman moves next door to Essie, she is an immediate object of curiosity in this neighbourhood. As the two women grow closer and Essie's friends disapprove, it starts to become clear that Isabelle's choice of neighbourhood was no accident. And that her presence might bring even more secrets to light."
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
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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, who's headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans--a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter--raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly...
Author
Series
Christmas hope series volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
15) Simply the best
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 10
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet and have a disastrous one-night stand, resulting in murder, they find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
16) Five stories
Author
Series
Sprout Street neighbors volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Henry, Violet, Emma, Wilbur, and Fernando are neighbors in the same apartment building and they are also friends���though they have very different personalities and interests. Henry prefers peace and quiet, and poetry. Violet spends hours knitting and practicing her flute. Emma loves planning birthday parties. Wilbur would be happy to spend all day in his garden. And Fernando is just a little bit shy, but has a secret talent for the stage. Sharing...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 8
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.
18) Good riddance
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion, scribbling notes and observations after each one--not always charitably--and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering...
19) Those people
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lowland Way is the suburban dream. The houses are beautiful, the neighbors get along, and the kids play together on weekends. But when Darren and Jodie move into the house on the corner, they don't follow the rules. They blast music at all hours, begin an unsightly renovation, and run a used-car business from their yard. It doesn't take long for an all-out war to start brewing. Then, early one Saturday, a horrific death shocks the street. As police...
20) Rain!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.
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