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Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club volume 4
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a dangerous package goes missing on Boxing Day, the Thursday Murder Club, when one of their own is murdered, take on their most deadly opponents yet.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Richard Osman is back with everyone's favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of The Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first-an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read"--
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Physical Desc
419 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate.
It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in...
5) Freewater
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing Southerland Plantation with his little sister, twelve-year-old Homer finds a secret community called Freewater, created by formerly enslaved people, but when he learns of a threat that could destroy this place, he crafts a plan to help his new home.
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case--their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.The n a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun),...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336, 8 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A spoiled, tattooed rich man reluctantly agrees to become an assistant to two casually exploitative nonagenarians before unexpectedly catching the eye of the property's serious-minded manager.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The staff and residents at Fulton, North Carolina's retirement facility, share the realities of their lives, from a prominent lawyer who feigns dementia to escape life with his son, to a woman who keeps a scrapbook of every local crime.
Author
Series
Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club volume 1
Publisher
Silky Stone Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A painting worth millions, valuables gone missing, a game that is more than a game. And that's only the beginning as an elderly widow befriends a young woman and tries to prevent her from making the same mistakes she has made."--Back cover.
13) Gather round
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this gorgeous picture book, a girl and her father build a campfire together to keep the cold at bay. But as they welcome passing travelers--from musicians to animals--they create a community, fostered by a crackling fire and its comforting warmth"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the acclaimed follow-up to the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, everyone's favorite curmudgeon is back and as funny and charming as ever with the newest adventures of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club--for fans of Frederik Backman and Graeme Simsion. Everyone's favorite octogenarian is back and, together with his pals in the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he is more determined than ever to wreak havoc and turn a twinkly eye on the...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing...
Author
Series
Babbling Brook naked poker club volume 04
Publisher
Silky Stone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A forty-year-old art heist with repercussions in the present is the catalyst for yet another adventure for the Naked Poker Club.
Newlyweds Josephine and Norman are moving into their new home in the Brookside Retirement Community when they receive a letter containing a clue to a forty-year-old heist that netted paintings worth over one hundred million dollars. Norman, who has spent a career recovering stolen art, can’t resist the appeal of the mysterious...
Author
Series
Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club volume 02
Publisher
Silky Stone Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Devi and Mac are falling in love, but a complication comes along in the form of Mac's pregnant ex-wife. As for Josephine, after unmasking the Brookside thief she's finding Brookside Retirement Community (a.k.a. Babbling Brook) as dull as she initially expected it to be. Until, that is, she gets involved with a man who suspects her of being a criminal mastermind. Finding love is something Josephine never expected, as her Edward Hopper painting plays...
18) Paletero man
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follow along with our narrator as he passes through his busy neighborhood in search of the Paletero Man. But when he finally catches up with him, our narrator's pockets are empty. Oh no! What happened to his dinero? It will take the help of the entire community to get the tasty treat now"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Babbling Brook naked poker club volume 03
Publisher
Silky Stone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josephine Bartlett is back, joined by a colorful cast of friends: her partner in mystery-solving, Lill Fitzel, flamboyant ex-beauty queen, Myrtle Grabinowitz, former attorney/current novelist, Philippa Scott Williamson, Brookside's thief, Edna Prisant, good friends Devi and Mac McElroy, and last, but not least, love-interest Norman Neumann. When new resident, Lottie Watson, loses at Naked Poker, she tells a bizarre story about her husband disappearing...
20) Trap Lane
Author
Series
An Alex Duggins Cotswolds mystery volume 6
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Although he has always kept his past carefully hidden, as the ever-reliable manager of her well-stocked pub, The Black Dog, Hugh Rhys has Alex Duggins' total trust. However the unexpected arrival of two women from his past raises the fury of the usually even-tempered Hugh, threatens his carefully-crafted reputation and sends shockwaves through the village. When a battered body is discovered in a deep pond near Hugh's estate, Alex and her partner...