Mailman Luther Abernathy has a bad habit of opening everyone's mail and sharing their most intimate secrets with anyone who will listen. So it's no surprise J.R. finds him murdered one day. Time for Biggie to offer her sleuthing...
Grandmothers
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Auteur:Bell, NancySommaire: - Auteur:Bell, NancySommaire:
Shenanigans are afoot in Job's Crossing. When the three-inch heel breaks on police deputy Butch Jenkin's cowboy boot, thief Cooter McNutt escapes--until Aunt Vita straight-arms Cooter and sits on him. Meanwhile, Biggie's 12-year-old...
- Auteur:Bell, NancySommaire:
A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers' chicken restaurant dead under a table--with his gravy-covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffed mouth. Biggie and her 10-year-old...
- Auteur:Bell, NancySommaire:
Rex Barnwell's ranch is well known in Job's Crossing, Texas. Covering thousands of acres, it is the last of the big working spreads. But trouble is brewing there. Rex's young wife is turning it into a pricey resort for overweight teens...
- Auteur:Perkins, MitaliSommaire:
From award-winning author Mitali Perkins and comes Between Us and Abuela , a timely debut audiobook about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States. It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is...
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Auteur:Kerz, AnnaSommaire:In this stand-alone sequel to The Mealworm Diaries, Aaron is anxiously waiting for his father to return for the first time since Aaron's mother's death eight years earlier. Aaron works hard with a counselor at school, but he still has...
- Auteur:Baart, NicoleSommaire:
Living in a cozy Iowa farmhouse with her kindly grandmother, 24-year-old Julia Desmit struggles to support her five-year-old son and 10-year-old halfbrother. Though her boyfriend is away at medical school, Julia harbors hope for a...
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Auteur:Baker, DeirdreSommaire:When eleven-year-old Becca returns to her grandmother's rustic cottage for another summer, she finds herself seeing her beloved island in new ways. A hunting owl mistakes a bobbing ponytail for prey. A cozy sleepover on the beach...
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Auteur:Baker, DeirdreSommaire:Shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award. Becca has often gone with her parents to visit Gran at her rustic cabin by the sea. But this year Becca's mother is expecting a baby, and...
- Auteur:Michaels, BarbaraSommaire:
Julie Newcomb has been called back to the birthplace of her worst memories, to be a companion to the one person she fears most. The truth lies somewhere on her grandmother's crumbling plantation, as real and terrifying as the two...
- Auteur:Weber, CarlSommaire:
In Baby Momma Drama, sisters Jasmine and Stephanie struggle to understand the complicated relationships they have with the men in their lives. Luckily, they've got each other to turn to when the going gets tough.
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Auteur:Hunt, DallasSommaire:As young Awâsis searches for the ingredients to make Kohkum's world-famous bannock recipe, they run into a variety of other-than-human relatives that help them along in their journey. Includes a pronunciation guide and Kohkum's world-...
- Auteur:Valognes, AurélieSommaire:
1968. Jean a six ans quand il est confié du jour au lendemain à sa grand-mère. Pour l'été. Pour toujours. Il n'a pas prévu ça. Elle non plus.Mémé Lucette n'est pas commode, mais dissimule un coeur tendre. Jean,...
- Auteur:Leavitt, SarahSommaire:
Agnes, Murderess is a graphic novel about the bloody folk legend of Agnes McVee, a roadhouse owner, madam, and serial killer in the Cariboo region of British Columbia during the gold rush.
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Auteur:Hahnel, LoriSommaire:In 1935 Regina, Lita, a young woman of gypsy ancestry, develops a passion for playing the guitar. After joining a jazz combo she quickly begins a life she couldn’t have imagined. In 1983, Lita’s granddaughter Elsa has become the lead...
- Auteur:Greer, DarrenSommaire:
When Jacob is called back to Advocate, he is not only returning home again, something he knows he cannot really do; he is going to face his dying grandmother and the people of the town who turned on one of their own. Twenty years...
- Auteur:Peterson, TracieSommaire:
Abandoned by their mother while they were still small children, the Mitchell sisters have always felt the pain of rejection. Their search for love and a sense of worth drives them apart as adults. But when their mother, now a famous...
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Auteur:Gilmore, RachinaSommaire:Learning from her grandmother that her family was active in the Quit India movement of 1942, a rebellion against nearly two centuries of British occupation, gives fifteen-year-old Tara new pride in her heritage, but she still objects...
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Auteur:Compton, A. S. S.Sommaire:Lorato lives a comfortable but lonely life in her retirement years, alone in the home her husband had built in their rural village on the Kalahari in southern Africa. She becomes a grandmother when she adopts Lesedi after the death of a...
- Auteur:Porter, MichelleSommaire:
National Bestseller Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Meacute;tis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land...
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