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Burning Cove, California volume 4
Burning Cove California volume 4
Burning Cove California volume (Book 4)
Burning Cove California volume 4
Burning Cove California volume (Book 4)
Language
English
Formats
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"Welcome to Burning Cove, California, where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer.... Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. Although she is set on making a career of transforming her photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what's paying the bills. After shooting crime scene...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Photographer Jeremy Bishop travels back to a Louisiana for his father's funeral. He finds himself in ways he never imagined in the graveyard, in a stranger's appearance at the wake, in a suicide and a murder, and, finally, inside a cardboard box that had belonged to his father. Slowly he weaves the past and the present, exploring the covenants made between parents and children, husbands and wives, sisters and brothers--Cover.
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Language
English
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"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the...