A season of joy. The spirit of family. **From a USA Today Bestselling author. Read as a stand-alone story or as part of the Summer Beach series.** When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay discover crates of vintage Christmas decorations at the...
City and Town life
- Auteur:Moran, JanSommaire:
- Auteur:Childs, LauraSommaire:
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is lured into attending the Heritage Society's "Pirates and Plunder" soiree. But it's an antique diamond skull ring that gets plundered by someone who murders a history intern in the process....
- Auteur:Woods, JaneSommaire:
Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted...
- Auteur:Rylant, CynthiaSommaire:
From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant comes the sweet and resonant follow-up to the critically acclaimed Rosetown, continuing the story of nine-year-old Flora Smallwood's life in quiet Rosetown, Indiana. It is August in Rosetown,...
- Auteur:Rylant, CynthiaSommaire:
From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant comes the charming story of nine-year-old Flora Smallwood and the eventful year she spends in the quiet community of Rosetown, Indiana. For nine-year-old Flora Smallwood, Rosetown, Indiana, is full...
- Auteur:Robertson, PaulSommaire:
Robertson spins gripping suspense into a mysterious whodunit as a small mountain town wrangles over a road that could change its future forever.
- Auteur:McMurtry, LarrySommaire:
Fast approaching 70, Duane Moore is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and opens a rhinoceros sanctuary.
- Auteur:Ezell, KyleSommaire:
Are you a Ruppie? More and more people are trending toward living downtown. Author Kyle Ezell demonstrates how empty nesters can live out their golden years full of fun and independence in the midst of the city. Ruppies—Retired Urban...
- Auteur:Hodgins, JackSommaire:
In this new edition of Jack Hodgins’ Governor General–winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean...
- Auteur:Duncan, Elizabeth J.Sommaire:
Artist and spa owner Penny Brannigan has been asked to organize a formal dinner to mark the centenary of the armistice that ended World War One. After dinner, the guests adjourn to the library for a private exhibition of the Black Chair...
- Auteur:Wiggin, Kate Douglas SmithSommaire:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children’s novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca’s joy for life...
- Auteur:Mavin, JohnSommaire:
When our own darkness is mirrored in multi-faceted characters, do we look away in disgust or find the humanity within them and, by extension, ourselves? In his debut short fiction collection, John Mavin has slyly exposed hidden themes...
- Auteur:Paterson, KatherineSommaire:
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
- Auteur:Malton, H. MelSommaire:
This quadruple edition of the Polly Deacon mysteries presents all four hilarious Polly Deacon novels. Includes Down in the Dumps Cue the Dead Guy Dead Cow in Aisle Three One Large Coffin to Go
- Auteur:Haruf, KentSommaire:
The interwoven lives of a community in Colorado. The characters include two cattle farmers who take in a girl, thrown out of her house for becoming pregnant. The novel describes the girl's impact on their lives, both men being bachelors...
- Auteur:Malla, PashaSommaire:
Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New...
- Auteur:Gilbert, VictoriaSommaire:
Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town's long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research...
- Auteur:Carr, RobynSommaire:
Rick Scudder joined the Marine Corps with high hopes, but left with a broken spirit and a shattered body. Pushing away everyone close to him, he forsakes the help of his surrogate father Jack and his longtime girlfriend Liz. Now Rick...
- Auteur:Bell, NancySommaire:
When local real-estate mogul Tom Delgado is found murdered in his office, the police suspect his wife, Dovie. She had plenty of motive after finding out Tom changed his will to include another woman, but Judge Jackson Crain's gut tells...
- Auteur:Karon, JanSommaire:
Father Tim Kavanagh, the beloved Episcopal priest, confronts some unsettling trends in the village as he prepares for retirement.
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