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1) Grimwood
Author
Series
Grimwood ; 1
Language
English
Description
"Running for their lives from Princess Buttons, the scariest street cat in the Big City, fox cub siblings Ted and Nancy flee to the supposedly peaceful town of Grimwood, which is not at all what they expected as they encounter an eccentric cast of characters."--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
Author
Series
Pine Island ; 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Fiona, Marlin, Natasha, and Charlie McCready have been adopted by their unlikely guardian, Al, and finally settled into their new home on Pine Island in British Columbia. Then they receive a letter from Mrs. Witherspoon who took care of them after their parents died telling them that she is coming to visit for three months--an inordinate amount of time for a houseguest. Accommodating a fifth person in the tiny house is hard enough, but to their horror,...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems and prejudices found in the big city, except here everyone...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in the Swiss Alps, a Japanese temple full of traps, a Parisian apartment locked and untouched since World War II, a Prohibition-era...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Jean Grainger]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A luxury stay in an Irish castle, a handsome, experienced tour guide, and a secret that has never been revealed. Life as manager of the magnificent resort of Castle Dysert on Ireland's wild Atlantic coast is never dull, and Conor O'Shea's life to date has taught him to be prepared for the unexpected. Even he however, is not ready for the gang from Bubbles O'Leary's bar in New York. A motley crew, from spinster sisters of a certain age, to exhausted...
Series
Criterion collection ; 570
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
Français
Description
"Zazie, une petite fille de dix ans, d�ebarque �a Paris. Sa m�ere qui est venue passer le week-end avec son amant, la confie �a son oncle Gabriel. Dans le taxi de Charles, Gabriel lui montre les monuments de la capitale, mais Zazie s'en moque. Ce qu'elle veut, c'est conna�itre le m�etro. H�elas ! A sa grande d�eception, le m�etro est en gr�eve...
Zazie is an energetic, saucy little girl from the suburbs who comes to Paris with...
