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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Retired teacher Mary Alice Roth, while working her way back to a comfortable friendship with her neighbor, finds the careful shell she’s built around her life threatened by her sister who delivers a staggering piece of news that could send shockwaves through her small Texas town.
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English
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"When the fun-loving and spontaneous artist Willow West meets buttoned-up, retired English teacher George Emerson, it's not exactly love at first sight. Though she does find the obsessive-compulsive man intriguing. Making it her mission to get him to loosen up and embrace life, she embarks on what seems like a lost cause--and finds herself falling for him in the process. A confirmed bachelor, George vacillates between irritation and attraction whenever...
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Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 3
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English
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Community leaders from various churches in Chicago descend on a small Scottish island for an exercise in brotherhood. The exercise ends with the murder of a member of the group, and it is up to Dorothy Martin, a 60-year-old widow to find the killer.
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Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Montanans are legendary for their courage and wilingness to take on challnges as big as the Montana sky. But ht eherines in these four inspirational novels are ordinary people facing mountains of trouble. As the comforts of daily routine are threatened , they'll need to dig deep for a sustaining faith.
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Obsidian
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English
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Retired teacher and amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom has entered a Christmas cookie contest. After an annual holiday cookie exchange, she stops by the home of another contestant, Mrs. Simmons, only to find her strangled and lying in a pile of sugar cookies.
7) Olive, again
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English
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"Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever ... this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to...
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Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Language
English
Description
Ah, it's an academic conference, with all the egos, the scandals, the terrifyingly petty squabbles on display. Well….perhaps not so petty. Professor Andrew Basnett has returned to his old university for a meeting of the Botanical Association, an event that should be entirely benign, except that he can't help being just a little curious about Carl Judd, an artist who was murdered here just two years ago. And, of course, about Stephen Sharland, who's...
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Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The irresistible Andrew Basnett series may have been written in the 1980s and '90s, but its soul lies with the classic crime fiction of the 1930s. Here, for example, is A Hobby of Murder, with its setting at-wait for it-a classic country-house party, that staple of the Golden Age. Rounding out the guest list are, among others, a mystery writer, a lawyer with a reason to dislike him, a doctor, a retired teacher with a passion for photography, and the...
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Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Plans for peaceful seaside holidays rarely work out well in the world of classic British mysteries. Retired professor Andrew Basnett, for example, envisioning sandcastles and the blessings of a pale English sun on his pale English skin, is startled to meet his nephew, Peter, on the beach. He's more startled (and not entirely thrilled) when Peter gets him invited to dinner with a celebrity novelist. And he's extremely startled when the novelist's sister-in-law...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Widow and retired special education teacher Daisy Arthur takes up romance writing with a quirky group of aspiring authors. She finds herself tangled in merry mayhem that suddenly turns quite deadly. Enter Gabe Caerphilly father of one of her old students and a single police lieutenant with Littleton, Colorado's finest. Daisy sees Gabe as having definite Mr. Right potential. Unfortunately Gabe sees her as a prime murder suspect. What s a woman to do?...
13) Killing Cassidy
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Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"A retired schoolteacher--and yes, daughter of an F. Scott Fitzgerald fan--Daisy Buchanan has finally found her calling in the quaint village of Millbury, Pennsylvania. While her husband endlessly renovates their old house, Daisy happily presides over Sometimes a Great Notion, a quirky shop that sells sewing bits and bobs, antiques, and jewelry. Daisy has her eye on an antique dollhouse and a classic Singer Featherweight at the local auction--until...
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Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
When an old colleague complains of disappearing neighbors, a retired professor of botany starts digging for clues in this delightful cozy mystery.
Andrew Basnett may be retired from academia, but that doesn't seem to have stopped his former colleagues from dumping problems in his lap. This time around it's peppery Constance Camm, whose neighbors keep disappearing. Miss Camm and her sister, Mollie, would probably shrug it off if not for a frightening...
16) Something wicked
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Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
A retired botanist comes to stay in a charming English village, where murder and blackmail disturb the bucolic peace in this mystery series debut.
No longer on the sprightly side of seventy, Professor Andrew Basnett is looking forward to retirement and finally digging into the biography he plans to write about an obscure seventeenth century botanist. While his flat in town is renovated, he settles into a little village in Oxfordshire where he's borrowed...
17) Root of all evil
Author
Series
Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
A weekend holiday at a wealthy relative's country manor is a recipe that calls for mayhem in this charming cozy English mystery.
Andrew Basnett's cousin Felicity is old, rich, and the owner of a swanky Berkshire estate. If Basnett were a savvy mystery reader rather than a retired professor of botany, he would know that an invitation to spend Easter weekend at such an estate is all but guaranteed to involve at least one murder. But since Felicity...
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Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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"Now married to her constable, Alan Nesbitt, Dorothy settles in for a life of peace, quiet, and domestic bliss. Which lasts for perhaps a month."--BOOK JACKET. "Then Ada Finch calls: Bob, her gardener son who has a wee problem with the bottle, is being accused of the attempted theft of a Sevres ten set from the informal toy museum at Brocklesby Hall, and she doesn't know what to do. So, would Dorothy ... ?"--BOOK JACKET. "Of course she will, even...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and the tabloids are aflame, accusing Mr. Wolphram, the woman's former teacher and the ultimate media quarry: mysterious, friendless, and eccentric. Charged with investigating this crime is Ander, once a student of Mr. Wolphram's. As he interviews pupils who both defend and defame their oddball teacher, he must face a story from decades back that he has tried hard...