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61) Death overdue
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut. Then she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the local library-- which comes complete with its own ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by retired homicide detective Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience...
62) Howloween murder
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When a tenured colleague is accused of poisoning her famous marshmallow puffs to murder an elderly neighbor, Melanie Travis finds her investigation challenged by the boisterous Halloween festivities at Howard Academy.
Greenwich, Connecticut. Just a few days left before Halloween, everyone at Howard Academy is anticipating gorging on Harriet Bloom's famous marshmallow puffs. The private school's annual costume party revolves around the headmaster's...
64) Perfect family
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of Speak Softly, She Can Hear, a literary page-turner about a proper New England family and the dark secrets that undo them. Pony Carteret -- the lovely headstrong youngest member of the Carteret family -- has always been a strong swimmer. So when she is discovered drowned at the family's summer home on Lake Aral, Vermont, her red hair tangled in an anchor chain and her baby abandoned on shore, her family is stunned by disbelief....
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A Miracle for St. Cecilia's is a heartwarming story that all lovers of Christian fiction will find uplifting and entertaining. St. Cecilia's, an old, outdated Catholic Church in a small New England town, is about to be closed down, much to the dismay of the faithful townsfolk. What will become of Father James Flaherty and the aging Father Keene-and what of the flock? When faith and hope endure, even miracles are possible.
67) Pup fiction
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"While usually protective, Melanie feels comfortable sending her sons to the Graceland School's summer camp for two reasons: The institution is well-regarded and proprietor Emily Grace is a trusted friend. But Emily has been acting strange since three rambunctious Dalmatian puppies suddenly appeared on her doorstep. The unusual arrival marks the first of several mysterious happenings at camp, each more intense than the last. Emily's rough streak takes...
69) The Moffats
Author
Series
Moffats volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As Greenwich, Connecticut, slows down during a bitterly cold February, Melanie and her spunky Aunt Peg head to the city that never sleeps for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. Aunt Peg can't wait to demonstrate her judging chops on national TV, even after being hounded by frustrating mishaps - all seemingly orchestrated by Victor Durbin, an ousted Paugussett Poodle Club member with a bone to pick. But the bright lights...
72) True blue
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rumer Larkin never felt the need to stray from her hometown of Hubbard's Point, even after those she loved have left. Many years after Zeb Mayhew broke her heart, he returns with his teenage son, hoping to reconnect with his son and his past, with all its mistakes. Both Zeb and Rumer wonder whether it's too late to do more than regret the path not taken, or if every path leads us back to our one true love.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Cody and his father, an undercover agent, are nearly killed, Cody moves in with his aunt in Connecticut, where he is helped with his adjustment to the trials of attending public school for the first time and investigating a threat in nearby woods by a wounded Iraq War veteran.
74) Mystic summer
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her career is suddenly put in jeopardy, Maggie Griffin returns home to small-town Mystic, Connecticut, to reassess her life. Past and present collide as she struggles to decide which is the right path to take"--
When her career as an elementary teacher in Boston is suddenly put in jeopardy, Maggie Griffin returns home to small-town Mystic, Connecticut. There she reassesses her life, hoping to find comfort with family. Instead she finds Cameron...
75) A gentle rain
Author
Publisher
Belle Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Kara Whittenbrook is an unlikely heiress. Down-to-earth and lovably quirky. She's never fit in with the stodgy Whittenbrook clan of Connecticut. Growing up at her parents' rainforest preserve in Brazil, she has a quaintly off-beat view of life. Now her beloved parents have died in a plane crash, and Kara's learned a stunning truth. She was adopted. Her birth parents are Mac and Lily Tolbert. They live and work on a backwoods cattle ranch in northern...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Daphne Marriott strolls into Clover Ridge and informs librarian Carrie Singleton that she's a psychic. But had she foreseen what fate awaited her, Daphne would have steered clear of the quaint Connecticut town. Evelyn, the library ghost, tells Carrie that there's more to Daphne than she lets on.The mysterious woman grew up in Clover Ridge with her no-good dad, who apparently met his end at the hands of Daphne's brother, Billy. Still, Daphne proves...
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Rather than a summer of fun transforming her family's pharmacy into an eco-spa, Lucy Desberg must face her sister Claudia's new boyfriend Bean, investor Gary's irritating daughter Bevin, and a spa coordinator who is put in charge of the plans.
79) Killing time
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When her favorite teacher is murdered, true-crime obsessed teenager Natalie Temple launches her own investigation with the help of a new boy in town, but soon discovers some secrets were never meant to be told.
Author
Series
Witches of West Harbor volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention--as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches. So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One. Not chosen by West Harbor's snobby elite to style them...
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