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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At sixty-eight, Sarah Miller has settled into life in Cunningham Village. She had been reluctant to move to a senior community, but has made friends, learned to quilt, and joined community activities. But then a young girl goes missing. Sarah and her feisty cohort, Sophie, promise to find her, but that promise may have been premature.
82) Hidden Falls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Quinn is a dedicated teacher and reliable presence in the close-knit community of Hidden Falls, Illinois - and he's such a mainstay that he literally never leaves town. Ever. On a night planned to honor his many years of compassionate service, former students, friends, and loved ones gather in Hidden Falls, the town they all call - or once called - home. But when the big night comes, Quinn is gone. Chaos sets in, betrayal threatens hope, and long-held...
Author
Series
Alex Duggins novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"Six weeks after a battered body is found in the grounds of the village cricket club, DCI Dan O'Reilly and his team are no further forward in the investigation. No witnesses, no leads, no clues whatsoever. Then a second body is discovered in the nearby tithe barn used by the local amateur dramatics society, artfully posed just like the first. Could there be a serial killer on the loose? When evidence leads O'Reilly to visit the Black Dog pub, owner...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Seventy-year old Sarah Miller, along with her friends and family, piece together their relationships to create renewed and lasting bonds. Sarah's daughter, Martha, begins to play a larger role in her mother's life, but she brings a trouble past and impending danger. Charles pulls his cop hat out of storage, hoping to solve a mystery close to Sarah's heart. Sophie, while building new bonds with her son, continues to keep her cohorts from getting too...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The Bunco Babes are not your average retirees. When they're not throwing the dice, they like to throw themselves into juicy mysteries. But murder itself is a dicey business, and in this game, luck can run out for good. The sixty set at Serenity Cove Estates in South Carolina certainly knows how to keep active. When not playing bunco or putting the greens, they are gossiping--and where there's gossip, there's a party. So it's no surprise that when...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Sarah and Charles face many joys and challenges as they combine their lifestyles and households. Both in their seventies, they discover they each have a lifetime of preferences, priorities and issues which make compromise sometimes difficult and sometimes rewarding. Sophie reluctantly considers a new love interest herself as family and friends pull together to save one of their own who has been charged with murder.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Sixty-seven year old Sarah Miller sat among her unpacked boxes reliving the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and now the place that had been home for forty two years. Everything she unpacked carried a memory, some warm and some painful. But, Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become 'home', she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and possibly a love interest. When one of her new friends is...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
"A touching story about sharing, building community, and a tall beautiful tree that opens its large, welcoming branches to all. For a long time, Bird has been looking for the perfect tree. And finally, there it is! Big and beautiful, with large branches to build her nest on. And with fragrant blossoms welcoming her. But as other animals want to live there too, she soon realizes that trees are not just for birds, and life is better when we have others...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Innkeeper and irrepressible sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn and cousin Renie face off against a cold-blooded killer in a beach community in this delightfully charming Bed-and-Breakfast mystery from USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Mary Daheim.With the holidays gone and Hillside Manor almost empty, Innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn has a bad case of the blues. A housesitting stint at her aunt and uncle's retirement home on Whoopee Island...
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.
Language
English
Description
On the banks of the scenic Truxton River, nestled in rolling woodlands just minutes from the nation's capital lies Gryphon Gate. Drawn to its breathtaking view of the Chesapeake Bay, Henry Drysdale selected this waterfront location to create a premier gated community where the rich and privileged residents live, work, and play. Tempers flare when Vanessa, Henry's ex, decides to build Forest Glen, a 300-unit condominium development on an adjoining...
91) The mere wife
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress...
Author
Series
Lavender Ladies Detective Agency volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Irma and Siiri are relieved when they can finally return home, but things have changed in the retirement home . . . Sunset Grove is under new management, a sinister organisation that promises spiritual enlightenment in return for donations from its residents. And the staff seem to have disappeared, replaced by technology that remotely takes care of all of their needs, if only they could work out how to use it . . . The Lavender Ladies...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side... without destroying one another. There are ghost towns in the world--places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others. One of those places is Bennett, a town at the northern end of the Elder Hills--a town surrounded by the wild country. Now...
94) The neighbour
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
FOR SALE: A lovely family home with good-sized garden and treehouse occupying a plot close to woodland. Quiet, leafy road, good schools, close to the sea and commutable to London. Perfect for kids, fitness enthusiasts, dog walkers . . . and, it seems, the perfect hunting ground for a serial killer. On a hot July day, Garrick and Olivia Lockwood and their two children move into 25 The Avenue looking for a fresh start. They arrive in the midst of a...
95) The just city
Author
Series
Just city novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First bilingual edition.
Language
Español
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 community to get the tasty treat now"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Written by first-generation Latinx teens, this bilingual book - told in Spanish and English - follows Belinda, a young girl of Mexican and Salvadoran heritage who once loved to sing. But ever since her aunt's death, Belinda has been afraid to use her voice. When a new owner decides to paint over the mural that was created to honor her aunt, Belinda rallies the entire community together to stop it. Can Belinda lead her community and lift her voice...
98) The colonels
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 4
Pub. Date
[1983]
Edition
Jove edition.
Language
English
Description
They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come.
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