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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher.
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English
Description
CLASSIC FICTION. You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my freckles, taunted by a brazen Jersey cow and kept on my toes by the new twins, Dora and Davy, life at Green Gables is just as eventful as ever. I do try to be a little more grown-up now that I'm a school teacher. The other day I asked the class, 'If you had three candies in one hand and two in the other,...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 10
Language
English
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A puzzling message attached to the leg of a wounded homing pigeon involves Nancy in a dangerous mission.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
84 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.
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Language
English
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Description
Years after armed men loot the city zoo in Baghdad, Lorna Polk, a Louisiana state veterinarian, discovers strangely deformed animals with a heightened intelligence in the cargo of a shipwrecked fishing trawler and must track down the one that got free, but she will need help from a man from her past, U.S. Border Patrol agent Jack Menard.
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Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
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Series
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English
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This is A.A Milne's only detective story, where secret passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic crime caper. And when the local police prove baffled, it is up to a guest at a local inn to appoint himself 'Sherlock Holmes' and, together with his friend and loyal 'Watson', delve deeper into the mysteries of the dead man. This book is a lost gem from a time before Tigger and a perfectly crafted...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (ca. 4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Humphrey the hamster is puzzled when unfamiliar students fill Mrs. Brisbane's classroom at summer's end, but he soon learns that his friends from last year are fine and that the new class needs his special help.
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Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 1
Language
English
Description
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
10) Chances are
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Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
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Series
Bobbsey Twins series volume 10
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Bert's eyes went to the labyrinth which he was so eager to finish. His heart gave a leap, and he stopped still. Over the top of the hedge near the entrance, he could see the head of an animal moving. "It's a huge, brown bear!" Bert thought wildly. The Bobbsey Twins -- Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie -- have won millions of fans since their first adventure. Now Grosset & Dunlap is proud to reissue the classic editions of these mysteries.
12) The blood card
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
May 1953. As the country prepares for the coronation of Elizabeth II, the optimistic mood is spoiled for DI Edgar Stephens and his wartime comrade, magician Max Mephisto, when they are informed by a high-ranking general that their old commander, Colonel Cartwright, has been murdered. This general found some puzzling items in Cartwight's pockets, not least a playbill featuring Tony 'The Mind' Mulholland (deceased), and a playing card, the ace of hearts:...
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English
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Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 27
Language
English
Description
"Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman's universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic police procedural with chilling glimpses into the darkest...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
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"From the author of "The House at Riverton" comes a story of outer and inner journeys as "Nell," abandoned as a child, leaves her adoptive parents in Australia and travels to England to trace her story, to find her real identity--a quest that ultimately leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family."
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
238 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, she takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions.
17) Blood memory
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic expert Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a thirty-one year old woman at the peak of her professional career when she begins to have panic attacks and blackouts at murder scenes. Suspended from her current case, a string of puzzling murders in New Orleans, she returns to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to regroup. When two bloody footprints are revealed by a spill of her forensic materials on the floor of her childhood bedroom, the sight shocks...
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Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Half-Scottish, half-Italian Enzo MacLeod used to be one of the top forensics experts in Scotland, and now he lives in Toulouse, working as a university professor. Divorced in Scotland and widowed in France, he has an estranged Scottish daughter and a French daughter he has raised by himself. As if his life isn't complicated enough, he soon finds himself unexpectedly in the hunt for solutions to some vexing cold cases thanks to an ill-advised wager...
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite....
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirement--doing morning crossword puzzles by a roaring fireplace; playing frisbee with his new dog; having quiet lunches with his still working wife. But then his past comes calling. When an acquaintance from long ago, Alan Dale, shows up on Beau's doorstep with a newborn infant in hand and asking for help locating his missing daughter, Beau finds himself faced...
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