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Author
Publisher
Dutton Book
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco, a midget is accused of murder he did not commit in a case that has its origins in the migrant workers' camps in the 1950s. Lawyer Zeferino Del Campo takes up his defense and in the process discovers the violent world of exploited immigrants. By the author of La Maravilla.
102) Before morning
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Let snow fall overnight and change the world before morning, making it "slow and delightful and white."
103) Dusk
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Boy with dog and grandfather with beard watch holiday lights turn on in the city"--
104) La ley de la calle
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
105) In the pond: a novel
Author
Publisher
Zoland Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A factory worker in China revenges himself on party bosses when they pass him up for promotion because he won't kow-tow to them. The worker, Shao Bin, creates a political cartoon in a provincial newspaper and it becomes an instant success. A satire on China by the author of Ocean of Words.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A novel on a small town in Georgia. The protagonists are a peanut virologist who is fending off insects which threaten the town's livelihood and a woman painter of chickens with whom he has a romance. A third character campaigns to save vanishing typefaces.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter's skills, rebuilding his life at the same time. He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Spanning the years 1916 to 1987, the lives of sisters Idella and Avis Hillock are described in a series of vignettes, opening with an account of their mother's death in childbirth and closing with Idella's husband, Eddie, now an old man, reminiscing about his life with Idella. Set in the rough landscape of New Brunswick, Canada.
109) Find a cow now!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Tired of hearing Dog yipping at chairs and trying to round up rugs, Bird tells him to go to the country to find a cow, but this is one cattle dog who does not know a cow when he sees one.
110) What I lived for
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire.
111) Seeing off the Johns
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Concepcion "Chon" Gonzales, the year that high school athletic stars John Robison and John Mijias left for college and never made it was the beginning of a new life in his small town and the first time he understood about love.
112) Hotel Paradise
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old girl, waiting at tables in her mother's hotel, becomes interested in the death, 40 years earlier, of a girl her age. The victim drowned in a nearby lake. So little Emma Graham starts analyzing available evidence, questions old ladies and woodsmen, and through perseverance solves a mystery. By the author of The End of the Pier.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For Linnet, owner of a Bed and Breakfast in Mountain Springs, Pennsylvania, life has been a bit complicated lately. Hundreds of snow geese have died overnight in the dam near the B & B, sparking a media frenzy, threatening the tourist season, and bringing her estranged sister, Myna, to town. If that isn't enough, the women's father has been charged with investigating the incident. But when a younger expert is brought in to replace him on the case...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A "novel about the disturbing secrets of a quiet small town... After his wife's death and the collapse of his newspaper, David Harwood has no choice but to uproot his nine-year-old son and move back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, New York. David believes his life is in free fall, and he can't find a way to stop his descent. Then he comes across a family secret of epic proportions."--
118) Out the door
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follows a girl through her day in a busy city as she travels to school and back again.
119) The summer kitchen
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In a small Minnesota town, a tale of love and intrigue whose protagonist is Lily Dahl, a young actress. The cafe where she works is a meeting place for eccentrics and a New York artist who has come to paint them, with whom Lily has an affair. But one customer is a murderer and Lily turns sleuth.
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