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When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods "The Fairy Glen," and has brochures printed with a beautiful photograph...
123) Thornyhold
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Gilly inherits a house from her mother's cousin, Geillis. Along with "the witch's house," she inherits her cousin's reputation as a witch and discovers a "power" in the house.
124) Visiting a village
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the various services, homes, specialized workers, education, and recreation offered to settlers in a pioneer village.
125) Radiance of tomorrow
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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At the center are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after a devastating civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones and drenched in deep despair. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but theyre beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation;...
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While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick spot a young, half-drowned Indian man floating in the water. Delerious and concussed, he utters a cryptic message about his family being trapped in a cave and his mother dying. The young man, unconscious and unable to help, is whisked away to a hospital while a desperate effort is mounted find the missing family in time. The local police inspector presumes that they are refugees...
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[2022]
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Learn to draw the characters of Paws of Fury with diretor Rob Minkoff!.
Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.
128) Holding: a novel
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"From Graham Norton, the BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host and author of the "sparkling and impish" (Daily Mail) memoirs The Life and Loves of a He Devil and So Me, comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama but when human remains are discovered on an old farm,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn. In Out From Boneville, volume 1 of this 9-book epic, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their...
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Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 2
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A land developer is killed in Sherebury, England, and police suspect environmentalists, but they are too busy to handle the case because of a forthcoming royal visit. So the case is taken by Dorothy Martin, an American widow working in a bookstore who is the sweetheart of the chief of police.
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As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match. 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some peace and quiet. The humdrum hamlet of Walmsley Parva in...
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[2022]
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"The Mob Squad were heroes not so long ago, but even the most heroic kid is still just a kid. The Mob Squad's leader, Mal, is still milking cows and dreaming of the next adventure. Their sharp-eyed archer Lenna is learning everything she can about the Overworld, but the horizon is still far away. Fearless warrior Chug is running a store with his brother, but his reputation for breaking stuff has some folks still calling him a bad apple. And his inventive...
134) Stones for Ibarra
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
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Richard and Sara Everton have come to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine abandoned by Richard's grandfather fifty years before. The two Americans, the only foreigners in Ibarra, live among people who both respect and misunderstand them. And gradually the villagers, at first enigmas to the Everton, come to teach them much about life and the relentless tide of fate. -- from back cover
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"On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children-especially fifteen-year -old Etty-grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan's father-and the...
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"Though war rages across mainland Europe and London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Adrift since her best friend, George, joined the Royal Air Force, twenty-two-year-old Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her beloved racing pigeons. Desperate to do her bit, Olive hopes that the National Pigeon Service will enlist...
137) Minecraft: Mob Squad
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When a mysterious mob sneaks past the village's defenses, Mal and her friends defy the rules and set out beyond Cornucopia's walls for the first time.
139) Going to Bend
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In the small coastal town of Hubbard, Oregon, Petie Coolbaugh and Rose Bundy, two women in their early thirties, make a living preparing soup for the town's new upscale café, all the while coping with the stresses of daily life.
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[2015]
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Dracula: A vampire terrorizes the countryside in his search for human blood.
Frankenstein: Tampering with life and death, Dr. Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to create a human monster.
The Mummy: An Egyptian priest who was buried alive comes back to life after an archaeological dig and searches for his lost love.
The Invisible Man: A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible but can't reverse the process. He realizes with...
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