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"Starring in a cult TV show was a blessing for Marnie Davante, especially now that her former fame could support her future dream of starting a children's theater. So she'll work the convention circuit. But then a costar is brazenly murdered in front of her. With a killer who vanishes into thin air with seemingly inhuman skill, and strange events plaguing Marnie, she feels she can't even trust her own senses. Although his dear departed parents were...
2) Rivals
Author
Series
American royals ; 3
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate America, Beatrice, now queen, and her sibilings Samatha and Jefferson struggle to untangle their personal lives and settle into their new political roles while the country hosts the world's monarchs at the League of Kings conference." --
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth in this enchanting Welsh series which has been likened to the work of Dorothy Cannell and M. C. Beaton Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone façade of this most respectable of Victorian buildings,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Short-shorts bedecked Lt. Dangle and company head to Miami for the American Police Convention. No sooner can you say "bio-terrorism" than the hotel is quarantined. The Wahoe County's hapless misfits get shut out when their credentials can't be found. But the crew must step in and save the city from "complete chaos." Complete chaos ensues. The cops, with an early "814" call that does not, as the officers believe, decode as armed intruder, but actually...
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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It's November and Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, is in South Florida at an annual crime-writers' conference with her beau, local sheriff Jake Pavlik, who is due to speak as a 'forensics expert'.
Maggy's pledge to behave solely as a tourist becomes trickier than she anticipated when the conference's opening night event turns out to be a re-enactment of Agatha Christie's classic, Murder on the Orient...
Maggy's pledge to behave solely as a tourist becomes trickier than she anticipated when the conference's opening night event turns out to be a re-enactment of Agatha Christie's classic, Murder on the Orient...
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Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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When a woman turns up drowned on the grounds of a royal estate, Sergeant Keen Dunliffe of Leeds, West Yorkshire, is hoping it's just an accident. But when the woman turns out to be a historian, whose specialty is 18th century English royalty and politics and who was attending a conference at a local university, it's too much of a public relations nightmare to take lightly.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Join Buddy, the Pteranodon family, and all their Theropod friends in a four-part adventure as they travel on the Dinosaur Train to Laramidia for the Theropod Convention. Once they arrive at the convention, the kids reunite with Annie Tyrannosaurus and her parents, Delores and Boris. They all meet the multi-horned, Mayor Kosmoceratops, and then Buddy and Tiny help King Cryolophosaurus overcome his fear of performing in front of his biggest audience...
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Night Shade Books
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English
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"For fans of legendary pulp author H.P. Lovecraft, there is nothing bigger than the annual Providence-based convention the Summer Tentacular. Horror writer Colleen Danzig doesn't know what to expect when she arrives, but is unsettled to find that among the hobnobbing between scholars and literary critics are a group of real freaks: book collectors looking for volumes bound in human skin, and true believers claiming the power to summon the Elder God...
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Buddy travels to Rexville on the Dinosaur Train and meets Delores Tyrannosaurus and her daughter Annie. When he sees that he shares all the same features, Buddy learns that he is a Tyrannosaurus rex! Additional fun adventures are also included, plus a dinosaur reference guide for parents, Dr. Scott's segments, and more. .
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
America's favorite witch is back. The Stephens family treks to the witches' capital so that Samantha can attend a convention. While in Salem, Samantha gets chased by an amorous bedwarmer. Darrin lands in jail after he's accused of stealing the bedwarmer. Serena has a fling with a live statue, and Paul Revere (accidentally zapped into the 20th century) tries to re-create his famous midnight ride.
14) The pros of cons
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe Byrd, Vanessa Montoya-O'Callaghan, and Callie Buchannan are three teenagers with very different interests and somewhat different problems, but today they are all in Orlando to attend different conventions/competitions--and when a crazy mix-up in the hotel lobby brings the three girls together, they form an unlikely friendship against the chaotic background of the Orlando convention scene." --
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Try out they/them pronouns to see how it feels. Kiss a girl for the first time.It's a lot. Especially when her bully, Miss North Carolina, shows up in the very same hotel. But there's this con-sponsored publishing contest, and the chance to meet her idols and then, there's Teagan. When Teagan and Kay bump into one another the first night, sparks fly. Their connection is intense--as is their shared enemy. If they're spotted, the safe space of the...
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"Krissy Hancock and her pals are taking a coffee break--leaving their bookstore-caf? in Pine Hills, Ohio, and heading to a convention. But this road trip will be more dangerous than they expected... Coffee lovers are gathering from far and wide at the hotel, and Krissy, Rita, and Vicki are excited. But some of the attendees may need to switch to decaf, as a public argument breaks out soon after they check in and then a flavor competition leads to...
17) Necropolis
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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An author attends a conference featuring a series of extraordinary life stories, where the story of formerly troubled evangelical pastor José Maturana captures his imagination and causes him to seek answers when Maturana is later found dead.
20) Alpha night
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn't exist.... Alpha wolf Selenka Durev's devotion to her pack is equaled only by her anger at anyone who would harm those in her care. That currently includes the empaths who've flowed into her city for a symposium that is a security nightmare--a powder keg just waiting for a match. Ethan Night is an Arrow who isn't an...