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Adrian Monk novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Obsessive.
Compulsive.
Detective.
The husband of Monk's former assistant, Sharona, has been arrested for murder. Now back in San Francisco, she's ready to reclaim her place in Monk's life-much to the chagrin of his current assistant, Natalie. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few unsettling snags in the case against Sharona's husband, and may be up against a killer who not only understands...
Compulsive.
Detective.
The husband of Monk's former assistant, Sharona, has been arrested for murder. Now back in San Francisco, she's ready to reclaim her place in Monk's life-much to the chagrin of his current assistant, Natalie. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few unsettling snags in the case against Sharona's husband, and may be up against a killer who not only understands...
2) Housekeeping
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Newly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novel
Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
103 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Polly wants to join the soccer team to have some normal fun, away from her weird new stepfamily. But her witchy stepmonther, Veronica Kreep, is determined to be Polly's biggest fan.
Author
Series
Monk volume 5
Language
English
Description
Obsessive compulsive detective Adrian Monk returns to once again take on the crooked, in a new mystery based on the popular television series.
Author
Series
Knight and Moon novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Brilliant and boyishly charming, Emerson Knight likes nothing better than solving an unsolvable, improbable mystery. And finding a missing island is better than Christmas morning in the Knight household. When clues lead to a dark and sinister secret that is being guarded by the National Park Service, Emerson will need to assemble a crack team for help. Since a crack team isn't available, he enlists Riley Moon and his cousin Vernon. Riley Moon has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
95 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Polly Winkler's life will never go back to normal after her father marries Veronica Kreep (who thinks roasted snake makes an excellent hot dinner), making her weird neighbors, the Kreeps, part of her family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
94 p., [11] p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Polly's mad-scientist stepbrother, Damon, spends hours in his creepy basement laboratory, preparing to enter the school science fair. Polly doesn't know what's worse--that Damon is clearly up to no good with his 'experiment,' or that he might actually win first place at the fair!"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
97 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Polly brags to her snooty classmate, Denise, that she and her new stepfamily live in a castle, she doesn't expect Denise to invite herself over--and she doesn't know how to hide the fact that the castle is more like a haunted mansion! If Denise discovers how strange the Kreeps are, Polly's life at school is sure to be ruined!
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autonomy and fate. 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...
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
11) Counting by 7s
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Read Beth Hoffman's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom
Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of
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English
Description
"Sebastian Becker, a former policeman and Pinkerton agent who now works as the special investigator to the Masters of Lunacy, looking into cases involving any man of property whose sanity is under question. His latest assignment takes him to the small town of Arnmouth to determine whether Sir Owain Lancaster has gone around the bend."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, people have flocked to the town of Trouble in California's gold country, searching for the booty that train robbers supposedly dumped off the Golden Rail Express in a botched heist. When the town's museum's watchman is murdered, Adrian Monk and his assistant, Natalie, are sent to investigate. But if Monk isn't careful, he'll learn that the town of Trouble can live up to its name.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the unexplored Wild West of the 1830s, at that point in time when Lewis and Clark are still a living memory, and when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching white Americans is about to turn into full-blown tragedy. Amidst all this, the Berrybender family -- English, eccentric, wealthy, and fiercely out of place...
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Language
English
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Description
"Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, and unceremoniously delivered directly to Nick's doorstep. Inside the package lay one hundred evocatively absurd stories, one hundred humorous drawings of strangely familiar, quirkish glyphs, plus a cryptically poetic note signed only as "HH." (Possibly the well-known, eccentric...
Author
Series
Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
18) Shoot the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1970s, thirty years after a baby's disappearance from the community of DeClare, Oklahoma, a grown Nicky Jack Harjo mysteriously returns.
19) Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts creates an extraordinary car called Chitty chitty bang bang. It not only drives--but also flies and floats--as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious into a magical world of pirates, castles and adventure. There, the group encounter a host of unforgettable characters, including Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria, his persnickety wife, a lovable village toymaker and an evil child...
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