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Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"One spring evening, the town of Covenly gains three new residents, whose strangeness makes some of the other citizens uneasy. Hildegurp, Yuckmina, and Glubbifer set up shop, hoping for a fresh start and a new business: a pet store. Their first customer is nine-year-old Jessica Nibley, who has lost her pet goat and hopes the sisters can help track it down. But as they exit the shop, they discover a mangled note with missing pieces that suggests the...
Author
Series
Detective Gordon volume 5
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A Case with a Bang is the final book in the series of funny detective stories for early readers set in a friendly forest in which two determinedly fair police-retired-toad Gordon and the indefatigable mouse Buffy-solve the mystery and stop regularly to eat cake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ancient Crete, 1450 BC. When her sister Arge drops to the floor in convulsions and then dies at her wedding, fifteen-year-old Martis, a young poet and bull leaper in training, is certain she was murdered. The prime suspect is the groom, Saurus, a barbarian from the Greek mainland, but when Arge?s Shade visits Martis, swearing Saurus is not her murderer, Martis vows to uncover the truth. As Martis begins asking questions, she discovers that while her...
4) Torn asunder
Author
Series
Maine clambake mystery volume 12
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Julia's best friend and business partner, Zoey, is about to marry her policeman boyfriend. Of course, a gorgeous white wedding dress shouldn't be within fifty yards of a plate of buttery lobster--so that treat is reserved for the rehearsal dinner. Julia is a little worried about the timing, though, as she works around a predicted storm. When a guest falls to the floor dead, it turns out that no one seems to know who he is, despite the fact that he's...
5) The vaquita
Author
Series
Wildes volume 2
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Ring and Asia Wilde's wild life is anything but ordinary. Instead of attending school, they travel the world with their tutor and parents (scientists who work to protect endangered species). On their last adventure, they swung through the Amazon rainforest to save their mom from vile kidnappers--while defending the forest's population of golden lion tamarins. Now they're in Baja, Mexico--the Sea of Cortez to be exact--searching for the endangered...
6) Sheine Lende
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can't afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood and the loss of Shane's father and her grandparents. They don't think they'll ever get their home back. Then Shane's mother and a local boy go missing, after a strange interaction with a fairy ring. Shane, her brother, her friends,...
Author
Series
Myrtlewood mystery volume 3
Publisher
Iris Beaglehole
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As the festival of Beltane draws near, mysterious fires are springing up around the magical village of Myrtlewood, and Rosemary Thorn can't help but try to solve the case. Rosemary already has too much on her plate with a hoard of foundling children to house and her own teenager to raise. On top of all this, she has run out of excuses. There's nothing standing between Rosemary and her dream of becoming a magical chocolatier. Well, nothing except...
Author
Series
Myrtlewood mysteries volume 4
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Rosemary and Athena's lives are thrown as the big Summer Solstice festival brings a series of mysterious events. Rosemary's chocolate shop plans are being waylaid by strange disappearances and uninvited visitors. Meanwhile, Athena is sure the astrological lessons at Myrtlewood Academy hold the key to unlocking the town's latest mystery, even if her mother doesn't want to hear about it. Can Rosemary and Athena manage to work together and cast aside...
Author
Series
Myrtlewood mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Te Ra Aroha Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the lead-up to the Lughnasa festival, trouble is brewing in Bermuda. Rosemary has her hands full with the launch of her much anticipated magical chocolate shop. She's enjoying the peace and quiet of Myrtlewood and the last thing she wants to do is get involved in Bermuda witching politics. Athena, on the other hand, is dying for a tropical escape, especially when things take a turn for the strange and unusual where her powers are concerned leading...
Author
Series
A Joe Grey mystery volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When antiques and valuables begin to disappear from residents' homes, tomcat and feline sleuth extraordinaire Joe Grey knows that something is very wrong in sleepy Molena Point, California.