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1) Olivetti
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Witty typewriter Olivetti and twelve-year-old introvert Ernest embark on a mission to find Ernest's missing mother that takes them across San Francisco.
Author
Publisher
Story Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Story Comics’ series Mysterious Adventures is an excellent example of the horror-suspense genre popular during the Golden Age of comics (1930s, '40s and '50s). Story Comics pushed the envelope of what was acceptable in terms of violence and gore and their comics certainly contributed to the eventual founding of the Comics Code Authority in 1954. Full of mysterious tales of the undead and monsters beyond the imagination, the stories are richly illustrated...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Moving into a senior living apartment, retired nurse Frannie Greene, in one dreadful, impulsive moment, exacts revenge on whom she believes is responsible for the death of her beloved granddaughter, but when someone winds up dead, she must find out what really happened that night.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
A member of the Bayview Crew disappears and everyone feels like they could be next, but the situation suddenly worsens when someone unexpectedly returns to Bayview.
Ever since Simon died in detention, life hasn't been easy for the Bayview Crew. First the Bayview Four had to prove they weren't killers. Then a new generation had to outwit a vengeful copycat. Now, it's beginning again. At first the mysterious billboard seems like a bad joke: Time for...
Author
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Izzy is helping the Seaside Knitters make a magnificent throw to celebrate the fortieth wedding anniversary of her aunt and uncle, and she and her husband are finally selling the cottage she lived in before she got married and had a darling baby girl. To Izzy's surprise, newcomer Julia Ainsley seems determined to buy the home-- although she's never set foot inside. But on the day of the open house, a body is uncovered in the cottage's backyard, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Foglia Publications
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
After finding a dead woman on the shores of Monterey, California, Detective Brad Evans is called to San Carlos Cathedral where his twin sister, Bea, has found an abandoned child. Unable to talk, the little girl holds the key to the murdered woman. Bea has taken the child into her home and, unwittingly, invited danger into their lives. Brad's investigation intensifies and the search for the killer becomes personal.
Author
Publisher
Jay Stamps
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a youngster's birthday party turns unaccountably surreal, Dr Ardvarkus and his assistant Gary, a raccoon, are enlisted to get to the bottom of things. Was Pekka Penguin, the famous conductor, the culprit? Was it the irascible Chef Chicken? Or maybe Primula Platypus, the party planner? On the way to the mystery's surprising conclusion, you'll meet a number of the curious, charming and frequently longwinded characters who populate Old Blighty."--...
12) Take the fall
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When Sonia's best friend is found murdered everything she thought she was sure of is turned on its head as the biggest suspect comes to Sonia for help proving his innocence"--
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A Case with a Bang is the final book in the series of funny detective stories for early readers set in a friendly forest in which two determinedly fair police--retired toad Gordon and the indefatigable mouse Buffy--solve the mystery and stop regularly to eat cake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Aunt Saffronia drops the Sinister-Winterbottoms off at the Sanguine Spa, which is possibly owned by vampires, and where they must continue to complete the tasks they have been set if they are to see their parents again.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
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Description
"Mick Hardin is back in the hills of Kentucky. He'd planned to touch down briefly before heading to France, marking the end of his twenty-year Army career. In Rocksalt, his sister Linda the sheriff is investigating the murder of Pete Lowe, a sought-after mechanic at the local racetrack. After another body is found, Linda and her deputy Johnny Boy Tolliver wonder if the two murders are related. Linda steps into harm's way just as a third body turns...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twins Theo and Alexander and their sister Wil are abruptly dropped off at their Aunt Saffronia's house, where they learn they must complete a series of tasks in order to see their parents again--and their first assignment is at a waterpark.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As part-time Tinker's Cove, Maine reporter Lucy Stone says "oui" to her daughter's surprise wedding invitation in France, she must also make a different kind of vow--to catch a killer!"--
"When Lucy Stone arrives at a sprawling French chateau with the whole family, it should be the trip of a lifetime--especially because she's about to watch her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, marry the handsome, successful man of her dreams. But while navigating the...
19) Liar's beach
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Michael Linden--or just Linden to his preppy boarding school pals--doesn't belong in wealthy, storied Martha's Vineyard. But when his roommate Jasper invites him to spend the end of summer at his massive beachfront home, August House, Linden tries his best to fit in. Linden wouldn't call it lying, exactly. Though it turns out August House is full of liars. Then someone is found unconscious in Jasper's pool, and everyone has something to hide--Jasper,...
20) Please tell me
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Connecting with an eight-year-old kidnapping victim named Kathy, child therapist Robin Hart is unsettled when it seems Kathy is playacting real unsolved murders and must unlock the secrets in Kathy's brain and stop a serial killer before he strikes again.
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