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1) Lost luggage
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For almost fifty years, sisters Dolly and Greta have lived together - getting each other through the good times and the bad. Except this year, Greta isn't there and Dolly is feeling lost and alone. In memory of her sister, Dolly heads to the lost luggage auction where she and Greta go each Christmas. But her bid reveals a gift she never imagined. Amongst the clothes is the notebook of a reclusive woman who has hardly been outside for an entire year,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years later, Frances's son, Harry, opens the door of his late mother's home, never expecting to see Tabitha the lost love of his life on the other side. Their angry parting had broken his heart, but now she holds a letter, sent by his mother just before her death, begging the pair to searchtogetherfor a priceless jewelry box, hidden somewhere in her her little Cotswold cottage. Harry quickly dismisses the search, but as an art historian, Tabitha...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"CWhen Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of potentially hearing a response from the unknown...
Author
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Novelist Henry "Coop" Cooper is contemplating a new book between sipping rum and lounging on a Baja beach with hotel owner Grady Doyle. When Grady tries to save a drunk from two thugs, Coop tags along for the sake of a good story. The drunk is Ebbie Milch, a small-time thief on the run in Mexico because he has stolen the never-before-seen first draft of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast from a wealthy rare book dealer. The stolen manuscript is more...
Author
Publisher
Friday Project, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Mrs Featherby had been having pleasant dreams until she woke to discover the front of her house had vanished overnight ...On a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their house, their piano keys, their sense of direction, their place of work. Meanwhile, Jake, a young boy whose father brings him to London following his mother's sudden death in an earthquake,...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Each disparate object described in this book--a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific--shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W.G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, and Rebecca Solnit, [this book] is [an] ... evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and that, taken as a whole,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ezekiel Blast has a superpower, or a micropower, if you will. He can find lost things. The problem is most people think he steals them. When the police ask for help, though, he may have a chance to redeem himself.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo’s parents’ conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside and from her school dinners. Soon the local dentist and the neighbor’s dalmatian are missing, and even the Donkey Derby has been called off. Though she doesn’t know why, Dhikilo is summoned to the home of her old history teacher Professor Dodderfield and his faithful Labrador,...
Author
Series
Secrets from grandma's attic volume 20
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Amy Allen is a few short weeks away from marrying her high school sweetheart, and she has so much left to do. When her house sells sooner than she anticipated, she and the kids have to move out in a matter of days and stay temporarily with her sister, Tracy. To make matters worse, as Amy tries to wrap up last- minute wedding details, she discovers that someone has called all her vendors, claiming to be her, and canceled her orders. Who would try...
11) Jamaica's find
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.
12) A novel proposal
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When western novelist Sadie Goodwin must pen a romance novel to rescue her lackluster sales, there's only one tiny problem: she's never been in love. Desperate to salvage her career, Sadie accepts an invitation to hole up at her friend's beach duplex for the summer and devote herself to this confounding genre. After all, where better to witness love than on the beautiful South Carolina shore? But Sadie soon finds many ways to procrastinate the dreaded...
13) Aggie gets lost
Author
Series
Aggie and Ben stories volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ben and Aggie are playing in the park when she chases a ball and does not return, but after looking for her and worrying about her, Ben speaks with his blind friend, Mr. Thomas, who suggests a different approach.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Featuring all three series along with the Christmas Special, Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones are Andy and Lance, two friends who find common ground as part of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club. Their dream is to find a buried treasure that will change their lives. But while they search for the past, they must also deal with the present. Series One finds Andy trying to keep his head above water with his partner Becky, while Lance tries to win back his...
15) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
16) Deception cove
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magician Alice North and business mogul Drake Sebastian go to Rainshadow Island to recover two missing Old World crystals which are igniting a paranormal storm.
17) Chasing Augustus
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
During a rough year in which she was placed in the care of her prickly grandfather after her father suffered a stroke, Rosie embarks on a search for her missing dog after he is given away by her estranged mother.
Series
Murilla Gorilla volume 2
Publisher
Simply Read Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Detective Murilla Gorilla helps Parrot search for a parasol that has gone missing from his parasol stand.
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 9
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children. When the school’s (literally irresistible) mean girl realizes that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, Antsy is forced to flee in the company of a small group of friends, looking for a way back to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go to be sure that Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise. Along the way, they will...
20) If the boot fits
Author
Series
Texas ever after volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Convinced that his stepmother and half brothers have been wrongfully evicted by cattle king Eli Dearing, Asher Ellis uses the cover of an extravagant ball to break into the Three Cedars' ranch house to search for proof. On the verge of discovery, he flees, but a boy's cry compels him to make a daring rescue. Spunky and independent Samantha Dearing balks when she learns the ball her father is hosting is nothing more than a matrimonial ambush. Taking...