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Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall volume 4
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 24
Description
The exciting finale to the Heathersleigh Hall series finds Amanda Rutherford's homecoming complicated by thoughts of her future. As she and her family struggle with their new life, God reveals his plan for them in an unexpected way.
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Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 150
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Danger begins for Nancy with a stolen road sign sending her down a dark road to nowhere and a statue almost dropped on her, and now she must find the culprit of these and many other pranks at Moorsea Manor
24) The sea garden
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"Marcia Willett delivers another powerful and touching tale of the importance of friendship and family in The Sea Garden. Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate, who gladly welcomes her into her home. Jess's own family fell apart several years ago, so she is grateful for Kate's friendliness --and her close unit of extended family and friends, who embrace Jess just as warmly....
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"Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives. At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, armaments manufacturer Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons, both of whom died at the front. Among the guests, two have been secretly dispatched from the intelligence service: Kate Cartwright,...
26) The bone garden
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Series
Wesley Peterson mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discovered under a three-hundred-year-old stone plinth, a corpse that seems to have been buried alive. But Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson has little time to indulge in his hobby of archaeology. He has a more recent murder case to solve. A man has been found stabbed to death in a caravan at a popular holiday park and the only clue to his identity is a newspaper...
27) A rustle of silk
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Surgeon Gabriel Taverner finds it difficult to gain the locals' trust as he attempts to reestablish himself as a country physician in rural Devon, England. A series of disturbing incidents convinces him that at least one person does not welcome his presence. Called out to examine a partially decomposed body found beside the river, Gabriel discovers that he has a personal connection to the dead man. Teaming up with Coroner Theophilus Davey to find...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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Father Tom Christmas, the recently widowed vicar adjusting to life in the English village of Thornford Regis, would do almost anything to avoid attending the annual Robert Burns Supper at the local hotel. But as chaplain to a traditional Scottish pipe band, Father Tom must deliver the grace--and contend with wailing bagpipes, whiskey- laced parishioners reciting poetry, and the culinary abomination that is haggis. As snow falls to unprecedented depths,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Description
While war escalates on every side, twenty-one-year-old Amanda wages her own internal battles. Betrayed by those who masqueraded behind claims of love, she takes flight from the sinister world that had held her in its grip. None but her pursuers apprehend the value of the secrets she possesses. The success of England's war effort lies in the balance. As the European powers descend into open warfare, unprecedented peril lurks at every hand. For the...