In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek , a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You , a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. When twelve-year-old Esther disappears...
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Auteur:Swanson, DeniseSommaire:Foul play is afoot again in Scumble River, and Skye can't help but do a bit of her own sleuthing. But the clues come fast and furious, and this may be the puzzle that stumps her for good.
- Auteur:Delany, Samuel R.Sommaire:
Bellona is a city at the center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a...
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Auteur:Moore, LisaSommaire:In Degrees of Nakedness, Lisa Moore's first story collection, the joys and distresses of love course through modern-day Newfoundland like an electric current. Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks...
- Auteur:Carr, RobynSommaire:
June Hudson grows up in Grace Valley, California as the town doctor's daughter. She eventually moves away, only to return later to carry on her father's work--placing her career above everything. But then she meets an undercover DEA...
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Auteur:Beaton, M. C.Sommaire:Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle--everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps...
- Auteur:Harris, CharlaineSommaire:
Driving home from work, barmaid and telepath Sookie Stackhouse discovers vampire and area sheriff Eric on the side of the road missing his shirt, his shoes and his memories.
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Auteur:Bradbury, RaySommaire:For twelve-year-old Douglas, summer means new tennis shoes, dandelions for Grandfather's intoxicant, and the clang of a trolley on a hazy afternoon. But for Douglas, this summer will have more than just pleasant rituals that hold time...
- Auteur:Cash, DixieSommaire:
Hey, baby, Debbie and Edwina aren't likely to thank anybody very much when a despicable sneak thief pilfers Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes--the main exhibit at a Salt Lick, Texas, festival for the King. But with everyone's favorite...
- Auteur:Warren, DianneSommaire:
Juliet, Saskatchewan sits at the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. The heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people, and their stories bring the prairie desert and the town to vivid and enduring life....
- Auteur:Swanson, DeniseSommaire:
As school psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd returns to work from maternity leave, an elderly woman disappears and a disgruntled parent threatens to sue the school, but is later found dead.
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Auteur:Parker, SamuelSommaire:Having forfeited his youth to the state prison system, Michael moved back to the only home he'd ever known. An empty shell of a man who now lived-if it could be called living-in the still vacant house of his parents in a town with one...
- Auteur:Danticat, EdwidgeSommaire:
In a seaside town in Haiti, widower Nozias finally makes the gut-wrenching decision to give up his daughter Claire so she can have a better life. But when the girl goes missing, the resulting search unearths long-hidden secrets that...
- Auteur:Rechy, JohnSommaire:
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac,...
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Auteur:Hall, PeterSommaire:Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and...
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Auteur:Hollis, LeoSommaire:Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our...
- Auteur:Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Myles, EileenSommaire:
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.
In this...
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Auteur:Walters, EricSommaire:Taylor and his mother have moved from a small northern town to the heart of Toronto. The differences are dramatic as Taylor becomes part of a classroom of kids as diverse as the city itself. While taking a shortcut across a junkyard...
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Auteur:McKenzie, C. B.Sommaire:Bob Reynolds doesn't recognize the body in the creek, but he does recognize the danger of it. He's a newcomer to town but not entirely welcome. He would rather pretend he never saw the body, but when it disappears he begins to doubt...
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