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Happy Singles Day
Par Ann Marie Walker. 2021
Author Ann Marie Walker brings you a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that'll warm your heart for Singles Day (the true anti-Valentine's…
Day!) and every day after!Single and proud of it! Oh, oops...As a Certified Professional Organizer, everything in Paige Parker's world is as it should be. Perfect apartment, perfect office, perfect life. And now, the perfect vacation planned to celebrate Singles Day. After all, what's better than celebrating her pride in being single? Because who needs a man anyway? They have zero taste in quality television, leave the toilet seat up, and sleep with your best friend. No thanks. Her life is fine just the way it is.As the owner of a now-dormant bed & breakfast, single dad Lucas Croft finally has some peace and quiet. It's only him and his five-year-old daughter, which is just the way he likes it. Because who needs a woman anyway? They nag you to clean up your stuff, want the toilet seat put down, and expect the dishes to be done the same day the meal is cooked. No thanks. His life is fine just the way it is.But when Paige books a room that Lucas' well-intentioned sister listed without his knowledge, their two worlds collide. If they can survive the week together, they just might discover exactly what they've both been missing."Adorable, romantic, funny, and sexy!"—Kirkus Reviews for Black Tie OptionalShiver: Who Is Guilty And Who Is Innocent In The Most Gripping Thriller Of The Year
Par Allie Reynolds. 2021
In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that…
someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm.When Milla accepts an off-season invitation to Le Rocher, a cozy ski resort in the French Alps, she's expecting an intimate weekend of catching up with four old friends. It might have been a decade since she saw them last, but she's never forgotten the bond they forged on this very mountain during a winter spent fiercely training for an elite snowboarding competition. Yet no sooner do Milla and the others arrive for the reunion than they realize something is horribly wrong. The resort is deserted. The cable cars that delivered them to the mountaintop have stopped working. Their cell phones--missing. And inside the hotel, detailed instructions await them: an icebreaker game, designed to draw out their secrets. A game meant to remind them of Saskia, the enigmatic sixth member of their group, who vanished the morning of the competition years before and has long been presumed dead.Stranded in the resort, Milla's not sure what's worse: the increasingly sinister things happening around her or the looming snowstorm that's making escape even more impossible. All she knows is that there's no one on the mountain she can trust. Because someone has gathered them there to find out the truth about Saskia...someone who will stop at nothing to get answers. And if Milla's not careful, she could be the next to disappear...Enjoy the View (Moose Springs, Alaska #3)
Par Sarah Morgenthaler. 2021
A grouchy mountaineer, a Hollywood starletAnd miles of untamed wilderness...What could possibly go wrong?Former Hollywood darling River Lane's acting career…
is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she agrees to film a documentary about the picturesque small town of Moose Springs, Alaska. The assignment should have been easy, but the quirky locals want nothing to do with River. Well, too bad: River's going to make this film and prove herself, no matter what it takes.Or what (literal) mountain she has to climb.Easton Lockett may be a gentle giant, but he knows a thing or two about survival. If he can keep everyone in line, he should be able to get River and her crew up and down Mount Veil in one piece. Turns out that's a big if. The wildlife's wilder than usual, the camera crew's determined to wander off a cliff, and the gorgeous actress is fearless. Falling for River only makes Easton's job tougher, but there's only so long he can hold out against her brilliant smile. When bad weather strikes, putting everyone at risk, it'll take all of Easton's skill to get them back home safely...and convince River she should stay in his arms for good."Fresh, fun and romantic."—SARAH MORGAN, USA Today bestselling author for The Tourist AttractionAt the Edge of the Haight
Par Katherine Seligman. 2021
The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver &“What a read this…
is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it&’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most of us manage not to see, even if we walk past it on sidewalks every day. At a time when more Americans than ever find themselves at the edge of homelessness, this book couldn&’t be more timely.&”—Barbara Kingsolver, author of Unsheltered and The Poisonwood Bible Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco&’s Golden Gate Park. She knows whom to trust, where to eat, when to move locations, and how to take care of her dog. It&’s the only home she has. When she unwittingly witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended. Suddenly, everyone from the police to the dead boys&’ parents want to talk to Maddy about what she saw. As adults pressure her to give up her secrets and reunite with her own family before she meets a similar fate, Maddy must decide whether she wants to stay lost or be found. Against the backdrop of a radically changing San Francisco, a city which embraces a booming tech economy while struggling to maintain its culture of tolerance, At the Edge of the Haight follows the lives of those who depend on makeshift homes and communities. As judge Hillary Jordan says, &“This book pulled me deep into a world I knew little about, bringing the struggles of its young, homeless inhabitants—the kind of people we avoid eye contact with on the street—to vivid, poignant life. The novel demands that you take a close look. If you knew, could you still ignore, fear, or condemn them? And knowing, how can you ever forget?&”This series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world. Stories of Ourselves Volume 2…
is a set text for Cambridge IGCSE®, O Level and International AS & A Level Literature in English courses. The anthology contains short stories written in English by authors from many different countries and cultures, including Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Christina Rossetti, Janet Frame, Jhumpa Lahiri, Romesh Gunesekera, Segun Afolabi, Margaret Atwood and many others. Classic writers appear alongside new voices from around the world in a stimulating collection with broad appeal.The Story Snail
Par Anne Rockwell. 1974
John can't do anything well. Then he meets a snail who says that because he is kind and good, the…
snail will teach him one hundred stories. Now John knows how to do something well! But when he runs out of stories, everyone makes fun of him, and John starts on a journey to see what he really knows. With the help of a pleasant rabbit and a fire-breathing dragon, John learns that stories come from within. A classic folktale from Sicily updated with paintings in rich, sun-warmed colors.The Dog Who Cried Wolf
Par Keiko Kasza. 2005
Moka is a good dog. But when Michelle, his little girl, reads him a book about wolves, being a good…
dog suddenly seems awfully boring. Wolves get to run around doing whatever they want. No one ever makes a wolf dress up for a tea party. So Moka decides to run away to the wild. But what will happen when the real wolves show up? For any kid who's tired of being good, Moka's antics will be a vicarious treat.Spouse Trap: A Madeline Dawkins Novel (The Madeline Dawkins Series #1)
Par Cynthia Hamilton. 2012
A California socialite awakes in a luxury hotel with no memory of the night before, and finds herself caught in…
a web of mystery and deceit . . . Madeline had the picture-perfect life. A handsome, successful husband. A treasured spot near the top of Santa Barbara&’s elite social pyramid. Hers was a country-club lifestyle with every luxury money could buy. Until the morning she awoke in a five star hotel, her clothes on the floor, and no idea how she got there. The nightmare began when she arrived home. The accusal. The photos. Questions she couldn&’t answer. With her idyllic life shattered, and all of Santa Barbara relishing the show, Madeline knows that she&’s been set up. But the further she digs into the mystery, the more she becomes entrenched in a web of blackmail, sabotage, and lies. At the heart of it all remain two killer questions: Who did this to her? And how will she upend their plans?Signed, Sealed and Dead: A Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery (The Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery Series #3)
Par Carolyn Ridder Aspenson. 2020
USA Today–Bestselling Author:The clock runs out for a Georgia high school coach—and a sleuthing realtor is on the case . . .Realtor…
Lily Sprayberry hopes to have kids someday—and if she does, she&’ll refuse to let them play sports. It&’s not because she thinks sports are dangerous—it&’s the parents. God bless them, they&’re a hot mess. When her client, the high school&’s new varsity lacrosse coach, is murdered, her list of suspects looks like a PTA membership list. Someone on that list wanted him dead, and she&’ll go into overtime to find his killer—even if it means being benched . . . permanently.Bidding War Break-In: A Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery (The Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery Series #4)
Par Carolyn Ridder Aspenson. 2020
A Georgia realtor is selling a townhouse—but there are perils hidden in the property—in this witty mystery by the USA…
Today–Bestselling author. Being a realtor is a lot like being a bartender: Sometimes you get an up-close and personal view of things you&’d rather not. Lily Sprayberry has been asked to list and sell a deceased friend&’s townhouse, and a portion of the profit will go to a scholarship fund in that friend&’s name. The problem is, someone doesn&’t want the place to sell. And they&’ll do whatever&’s necessary to make sure it doesn&’t—including ruin Lily&’s reputation. That just doesn&’t sit well with this Southern gal. It&’s her job to sell the house—even if that means taking down a crook in the process . . .Hounds, Harvest, and Homicide: A Pooch Party Cozy Mystery (The Pooch Party Cozy Mystery Series #2)
Par Carolyn Ridder Aspenson. 2020
USA Today–Bestselling Author: A fundraiser turns fatal, and an animal-shelter volunteer has to sniff out a killer . . . When…
Missy Kingston brought her pooch-party program to an annual gala fundraiser for the city&’s women&’s shelter, she didn&’t expect a murder. But the most prominent financial contributor to the shelter has been found dead, bringing the big night to a halt. The suspect list is long, but Missy knows one person who shouldn't be on it: her friend Max Hoover. Missy vows to prove his innocence, and that determination leads her down a path of power, politics, and money. And it&’s a path the killer doesn't want her taking . . .Decluttered and Dead: A Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery (The Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery Series #2)
Par Carolyn Ridder Aspenson. 2020
A Georgia real estate pro needs to find the key to a murder in this mystery by the USA Today–Bestselling…
author . . .Real estate agent Lily Sprayberry doesn&’t like sticking her nose in other people&’s business, but sometimes, she can&’t help herself. Especially when those people are ones she cares about.And when one of them winds up dead during Lily&’s decluttering and staging class, she has to find the killer—much to the chagrin of the county sheriff who just happens to be the man she&’s loved since she was a kid. Too bad though, because once a friend, always a friend, at least in Lily&’s book. She&’ll do whatever she can to find the killer, even if that means she might die. Because that&’s what friendship means to Lily Sprayberry . . .Realtor Rub Out: A Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery (The Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery Series #6)
Par Carolyn Ridder Aspenson. 2020
USA Today–Bestselling Author: A house on the market becomes the scene of a homicide—and one realtor is listing all the…
suspects . . . Bramblett County, Georgia realtor Lily Sprayberry&’s brand new listing is a hit, just not the kind she expected. When she stops by the staged home, she finds the dead body of another realtor lying on the living room floor. With only a week until her destination wedding, and no leads, no potential suspects, and no possibility to leave the state until the murder is solved, Lily&’s sheriff fiancé thinks they should postpone their nuptials. But that doesn't work for the soon-to-be bride. Determined to find the killer in time to say &“I do,&” she does a little investigating herself. But with knowledge of Lily's knack for solving crimes, the killer is homing in . . .Open House Heist: A Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery (The Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery Series #5)
Par Carolyn Ridder Aspenson. 2020
A realtor in small-town Georgia is dealing with a hot property—and a cold case—in this mystery from the USA Today–Bestselling…
author. You solve new murders and uncover old crimes,but can you save someone from doing hard time?To return what was lost, solve my riddle at all costs.Travel back to &’83 and the murder of a girl from Forsyth County. The note sat inside an otherwise empty lockbox on the dining room table of Bramblett County realtor Lily Sprayberry&’s open house listing—a lockbox that formerly contained an expensive coin collection she promised would remain safe. Lily knows the person that wrote the note meant it for her, and knows she needs to do what it says to get the coin collection back. Determined to solve the thirty-six-year-old murder, Lily discovers the clues lead her to a possible killer she&’d never suspect—someone near and dear to her heart.Pooches, Pumpkins, and Poison: A Pooch Party Cozy Mystery (The Pooch Party Cozy Mystery Series #1)
Par Carolyn Ridder Aspenson. 2020
USA Today–Bestselling Author: A widowed mom and animal-shelter volunteer has to put Halloween celebrations aside to hound a killer . . .It&’s…
Halloween season, and the local animal shelter&’s pooch adoption manager, Missy Kingston, is excited to show off the available dogs at her Georgia town&’s Halloween festival. But when she discovers the festival&’s organizer dead in a pile of pumpkins, Missy has strong suspicions that it wasn&’t natural causes. When Missy sets out to investigate the murder on her own, what she discovers could solve the case—if she can elude a killer who&’s gone out of their gourd . . .Sunburn (Fear Street #19)
Par R. L. Stine. 1993
The perfect suntan. Soaking up the rays. Fun on the beach. That's what Claudia Walker had in mind when she…
accepted her friend Marla's invitation to spend the weekend at her cliff side beach house. Then Claudia begins to suspect that the series of "accidents" that have occurred at the house are anything but accidental.Hannah in Between
Par Colby Rodowsky. 1994
Twelve-year-old Hannah's world is precomfordictable--her word for predictable and comfortable--and that's the way she likes it. She looks forward to…
spending Friday nights eating pizza with her parents and summers "moonbathing" with her friends. But lately Hannah's life isn't precomfordictable at all, because she's keeping a secret. It has to do with her mother's shaking hands and morning headaches--Hannah is afraid her mother is an alcoholic. In this moving story Colby Rodowsky describes one girl's determination to face the truth despite her family's denial of her mother's condition. Look for more books by Colby Rodowsky, who writes about the everyday lives of and the biggest problems of preteens and teenagers, in the Bookshare collection including: Not Quite A Stranger, The Fernhill Summer, What About Me and The Next Door Dogs.El afinador de pianos (Quinteto/salamandra Ser. #Vol. 131)
Par Daniel Philippe Mason. 2004
En plena época victoriana, un experto afinador de pianos llamado Edgar Drake, especializado en los delicadísimos Erard, es requerido por…
el ejército colonial británico para viajar a Birmania con el fin de reparar un ejemplar que se halla en posesión del comandante médico Anthony Carroll. Por medio de la música y la poesía, Carroll ha logrado pacificar a las tribus locales, razón por la cual el preciado instrumento es una herramienta imprescindible para continuar con su estratégica misión en el corazón de la selva. Tras despedirse de su esposa en Londres, Drake emprende el largo periplo por los mares de Europa, el Mar Rojo y el Océano Índico hasta llegar a su destino, descubriendo en su camino paisajes gloriosos y personajes de leyenda. Pero si la prolongada travesía ha despertado sus sentidos hasta el punto de transmutar su percepción del mundo y de sí mismo, lo que se encuentra es una realidad mucho más compleja y perturbadora de lo imaginable. Cautivado por una civilización tansingular, donde el ser humano vive y expresa sus sentimientos con una vehemencia inusitada, Drake tendrá que enfrentarse a las raíces de su yo más profundo y, a la postre, aceptar lo que el azar le tiene reservado.Impregnada de una creciente sensualidad y un misterioso lirismo, la narración conduce al lector a lo largo de un itinerario fascinante, cincelado por los mitos y el goce de vivir, donde la música se revela como el único medio capaz de tender un puente entre dos culturas aparentemente irreconciliables.Paseo de la Reforma (Ave Fénix Ser.)
Par Elena Poniatowska. 1999
Premio Cervantes Edición especial 25 aniversario. «Se sorprendió a sí mismo diciéndose en voz alta: "Ella realmente me ama".Amaya ¿me…
ama? No, Amaya no es de las que aman.» Ashby Egbert, joven perteneciente a la clase acomodada, sufre un accidente y es internado en un hospital público. Ahí empieza a conocer un mundo de cuya existencia no tenía idea y a entablar relaciones con personajes que le tenderán la mano como si fuera uno de ellos. Al salir, él ya será otro: tendrá una visión más crítica y social, desde la que encontrará su verdadero motor: Amaya Chacel. Ella llegará a su vida para darle un nuevo giro. La entrega absoluta, la creencia en ideologías y las ganas de cambiar la realidad harán que Egbert sea capaz de dejarlo todo y quedarse, si es necesario, sin nada. A veinticinco años de su publicación, Paseo de la Reforma no pierde vigencia y la escritura de Elena Poniatowska constata su frescura, su sentido del humor, su habilidad para jugar con nosotros como lectores y de envolvernos en un México que pareciera que fue dorado en sus letras, pero que también deja ver la frivolidad que las envuelve.El silencio de las olas
Par Ángela Banzas. 1870
Un sueño recurrente y perturbador. Un misterioso camafeo y una mujer en busca de respuestas. Un secreto silenciado durante años…
rompe el rumor de las olas Adela Roldán, casada y con un hijo, lleva una apacible vida en familia salvo por una pesadilla recurrente que la perturba desde que era solo una niña. En ella ve cómo una joven es asesinada en presencia de su hija pequeña. Cuando despierta no recuerda nada más, hasta que una noche identifica el nombre del pueblo en el que ocurre todo: Vilar de Fontao, en Galicia. Decide viajar hasta allí y comprobar si la casa donde tiene lugar el horrible crimen existe. Lo que Adela desconoce es que, en realidad, emprenderá un viaje de más de cien años que la llevará desde un pazo en la Costa da Morte hasta la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela. Un viaje en el que perseguirá descubrir la verdad sin saber que se acerca a un secreto que unos intentan desvelar y que otros quieren preservar. Haciendo gala de un estilo lleno de resonancias e imágenes evocadoras, Ángela Banzas construye con maestría una novela que conecta la historia de varias generaciones de mujeres que deberán sobreponerse a la adversidad, a la traición, al dolor y al miedo, sin dejar de luchar con pasión por aquello en lo que creen en unos tiempos marcados por el clasismo rural, el hambre y la guerra, los bandos, la desconfianza y la muerte. «Aprende a amar tu destino. Cuando otros vean lluvia y la repudien, tú sonríe a la tierra agrietada y mortecina y espera la simiente que crecerá mañana. Sé paciente y perservera, pues en la oscuridad la luz brilla con más fuerza».