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Students can access the full-text encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, as well as the Lands and People series - an excellent source of information for country reports, and the America the Beautiful series - a great resource for state reports.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A social worker living alone in a run-down house in the woods offers shelter to a young boy and a woman fleeing an abusive relationship before their lives are threatened by dangerous secrets.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 15
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are reunited with a distant relative who wants them to cater a New Year's Eve event - and help find a guilty party... It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family - though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss,...
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Caterers and sisters Bernie and Libby, while attending the funeral for a client's mother, are plunged into a bizarre mystery when the corpse of Ted Gorman, the owner of Just Chocolate, who supposedly died in a fiery car crash weeks earlier, is found in someone else's grave.
Author
Series
Sylvan novels volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sylvan, New York. All PI Laney Bird wants is a peaceful life for herself and her son. When a neighborhood block party ends in violence and the disappearance of two women, even her colleagues question her complicity. Even her son, Alfie, is hiding something. And this summer more lives-- even theirs-- will be on the line. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Description
The author's classic vision of the dark side of American life looks at the failings of the American dream, in the story of the rise and fall of Clyde Griffiths, who sacrifices everything in his desperate quest for success.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Some are locals, trying to hide...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
♭2005
Language
English
Description
Making the acquaintances of a young widow and her German grandfather, new arrivals in the Depression-era Hudson Valley, Robert Brewster and his sister, Lily, fear for their new friends' safety when a swastika is found painted on the widow's window.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 9
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Bernie and Libby Simmons, caterers extraordinary, are hosting a televised cookie contest just in time for Christmas, but unfriendly rivalries cook up a cutthroat competition.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 10
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a re-enactor's musket blows up in his face, killing him, Bernie and Libby need to get to the bottom of his murder.
Author
Series
Grace and Favor mysteries volume 5
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
♭2004
Language
English
Description
Working at a local nursing home to help preserve Grace and Favor Cottage, former high society siblings Robert and Lily Brewster investigate the suspicious death of a patient despite a challenging number of suspects.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 13
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Darius Witherspoon hires them to cater a costume party in honor of his missing wife, Bernie and Libby arrive at the haunted Berkshire Arms only to find out that murder is on the menu when Darius is found hanging from a noose during the festivities.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 11
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a prank goes horribly wrong, ending up with her old college roommate Ellen Hadley being accused of murder, caterer Bernie Simmons, along with her sister, Libby, enlists the help of Ellen's kids to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 9
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When she agrees to help a woman escape a crazed ex-boyfriend who is friends with members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood, rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a wild chase through the Northeast from which only one party--Jane or her pursuers--will emerge alive.
75) Rosemary's baby
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband takes a special shine to them. Shortly after Guy lands...
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
When sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons cater a canine birthday celebration for Trudy, the pet pug of imperious toy company owner Annabel Colbert, the day is marred by murder when Annabel is poisoned, forcing Bernie and Libby to find a killer among many suspects.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
When Mike Sweeney is found floating in a vat of green beer and the nephew of one of their best customers is accused of the crime, Bernie and Libby Simmons, the owners of A Little Taste of Heaven, must find the real killer.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 5
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Simmons sisters, Libby and Bernie, owners of A Little Taste of Heaven, are ecstatic to cater the Halloween festivities at the Peabody School, a place rumored to be haunted. Businessman Mark Kane is going all out to include construction of a haunted house with high tech special effects that a Hollywood horror movie would envy. The event promises to be absolutely stunning--that is until the torso and severed head of Amethyst Applegate ends up on...
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 14
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Susie Katz, the crazy cat lady of Longely, New York, is stabbed in the back during an extravagant wedding ceremony for her two Russian blues, caterers and sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons must paw through the clues to catch a killer.
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 16
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons run a catering business in their upstate New York town, and they're delighted for the chance to provide tasty desserts for the local mystery lovers' book club. But when fiction spills into a reality and the sisters find themselves investigating a suspicious death, it's up to them to figure out whodunit...
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