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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are closing, and as the institution breathes its last gasp, the people inside it dream of something different, something more. In its pages, You Are Here brings this diverse group of characters vividly to life--flawed, real, lovable strangers who are wonderful company and prove unforgettable even after...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool"--
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Forty-two, divorced, and responsible for an aging aunt and uncle, florist Emily Lucretia, deciding to put herself out there, starts dating the owner of the local barbecue joint until her meddling small town gets involved in her relationship, with hilarious and unexpected results.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of fourteen interwoven short stories from the author of Zorrie, each of which takes place on the same day, in the same close-knit, small-town community in Indiana, each told from the perspective of a different resident.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida enters a small-town high school after years of attending a rural one-room schoolhouse, but the enthusiasm she and her new friends have for the modern world and modern ways pits them against the school's old-fashioned principal.
6) The edge
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets--can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...
Author
Series
Tyrant Philosophers volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 500 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the Seaside Knitters who also is also an avid birdwatcher enlists the help of her crafting crew when a fellow birder is murdered.
10) The City Tree
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dani lives on a city block carpeted with concrete—until a street tree moves in.
The tree brings the wonders of nature to Dani’s doorstep and is good company through the days and seasons. But it will need help to thrive . . .
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Texas, on the gulf coast, twenty-nine-year-old Lou, mourning her brother's death in Vietnam, attempts to solve the murder of her elderly neighbor and unearths disturbing secrets involving the history of her tight-knit, religious small town and its residents that may be the key to catching a killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Johannes is a free dog, a fast dog--such a fast dog! He lives in an urban park by the sea, and every day, he runs through the park, seeing all, missing nothing, and reporting what he sees to the park's three ancient Bison, the Keepers of the Equilibrium. But the Equilibrium has been disrupted. Mysterious rectangles are hypnotizing Johannes, the humans are erecting a mysterious new building, and an entirely new kind of animal has arrived in the park--and...
13) Small town pride
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jake is just starting to enjoy life as his school's first openly gay kid. While his family and friends are accepting and supportive, the same can't be said about everyone in their small town. When Jake's dad hangs a comically large pride flag in their front yard in an overblown show of love, the mayor begins to receive complaints. A few people are even concerned the flag will lead to something truly outlandish: a pride parade. Except Jake doesn't...
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Martin and James wait patiently to see Santa in his Grotto, Martin spots a medical concern that has him shut it down and send Santa packing - until he's sure he isn't infectious. Louisa is determined not to let Martin ruin Christmas.
15) Anywhere farm
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
All it takes for an anywhere farm is one farmer, plus soil and sunshine, some water, and a seed.
16) Save what's left
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. Who said anything about being happy? They live in Kansas, for goodness sake! But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thoughts lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town that has always looked lovely in the Christmas cards her childhood friend Josie sends every...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (452 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
In this long-running, wildly popular UK dramedy, Martin Clunes (Manhunt) stars as surly and self- centered yet beloved Dr. Martin Ellingham with a rude bedside manner and a phobia of blood. A year has passed since Martin resigned his medical license, and his wife, Louisa (Caroline Catz), is now the one seeing patients as a child counselor, while he looks after their own two young children. But does the Doc truly never want to practice medicine again?...
Author
Series
Tyrant Philosophers volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiv, 585 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the frontline. Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows...he has been sequestered to a particularity unorthodox medical unit....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amelia and Kylee, two young sisters, were found unharmed in their upstairs bedroom the night their teenage cousin Grace, who was babysitting them, vanished from the farmhouse in rural Missouri, leaving behind evidence of a violent struggle. Grace had been on the verge of escaping their dead-end town, the first in their family to go to college instead of getting married and going to work at the meatpacking plant. Her disappearance is a warning to...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heartfelt, funny, and all-together human novel about the best mistakes a person can make Jonathan and Rosie have been together so long they finish each other's sentences--so when he (finally) proposes and asks her to move across the country with him, everyone is happily surprised. But when things suddenly unravel, Rosie sends Jonathan packing and moves back home with Soapie, the irascible, opinionated grandmother who raised her. Only now she has...