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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Escaping an abusive marriage, Ivy Peterman takes her kids and settles in historic New Bern, Connecticut and finds a job working part time in a quilt shop, but when a popular quilting TV show is taped at the store, Ivy's finds her life in jeopardy after her ex-husband sees her on television.
Author
Series
Cobbled Court volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
All seems well after Cobbled Court Quilt Shop owner Evelyn Dixon's son, Garrett, proposes to his girlfriend, Liza, until Liza gets cold feet and finds herself torn between a rare career opportunity and her love for Garrett.
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Language
English
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"Eileen Jackson was happy to set aside her own dreams to raise a family with her husband, Paul. Together they built an ordinary life in a Connecticut town, the perfect place for their kids to grow up. But when Eileen discovers that Paul's late nights in the city are hiding an affair with a younger woman, she begins to question all those years of sacrifice and compromise. On the brink of forty and wondering what she's going to do with the rest of her...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In New Bern, Connecticut, one woman's marriage is suffering and another is trying to salvage a rundown cottage. The Cobbled Court Quilt Shop will bring them together and help them discover the power of sisterhood to heal old wounds.
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Series
Cobbled Court quilts volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When tragedy threatens to tear her family apart, Margot Matthews discovers that her friendship with the new female pastor and her quilting sisterhood are the only things holding her together as she tries to piece back together her life.
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Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College...
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Language
English
Description
"Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey's friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children's book, but Beth's boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he's found murdered-and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast before they throw the book at the wrong person."--Amazon.com
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Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention--as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches. So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One. Not chosen by West Harbor's snobby elite to style them...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
"In the latest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Likely Story, a decades-overdue book puts library director Lindsey Norris hot on the trail of a cold case. When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overdue book amnesty day no fines for late returns the volume of incoming materials is more than Lindsey and her staff can handle. In a bind, Lindsey drafts the crafternoon ladies to help check in and sort...
15) Read it and weep
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 292 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings. Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful...
16) Word to the wise
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Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's no-holds-barred murder, in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Hitting the Books. Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams--but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as gardening enthusiast and town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term "book lover" a whole new meaning. Inappropriate looks and unwelcome late-night visits to Lindsey's house...
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Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
"Wedding bells are ringing in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Word to the Wise. Love is in the air in Briar Creek as library director Lindsey Norris and boat captain Mike (Sully) Sullivan are finally tying the knot. The entire town is excited for the happy day, and Lindsey and Sully's plan for a small wedding evaporates as more and more people insist upon attending the event of the year....
19) Due or die
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Series
Language
English
Description
Answering tricky reference questions is excitement enough for library director Lindsey Norris, until a murder is committed in her cozy hometown of Briar Creek, Connecticut. The question of who did it must be answered before someone else is checked out--for good.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shop owner Josie Blair is finally settling into the pace of living in Dorset Falls, Connecticut. Between running Miss Marple Knits, jumpstarting a blog, and handcrafting items with the help of her knitting pals, Josie's too preoccupied to worry about her past in New York. And thanks to Lyndon and Harry, the owners of the brand-new antique shop next door, she has another project in her midst--repurposing a box of vintage crocheted doilies adorned with...