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2) 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...
Author
Series
Pigeon private detectives volume 2
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a thief steals the prized painting from the Museum of Food Art in the middle of the night, the Pigeon Private Detectives take on the case and break down clues, while still taking time to indulge in a sweet treat from Mama Pigeon.
Author
Series
Great Peach experiment volume 04
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When a massive Festival of Ships sails into their town, the Peaches dive into the action, including a search for the missing World's Largest Rubber Duck"--
Author
Series
Mandie book volume 20
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Mandy, Celia, and Jonathan arrive in Holland wondering why Uncle Ned warned them that the tranquil land of windmills harbors a dangerous mystery.
Author
Series
A Mandie book volume 21
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Scarborough, 2010. Un adolescente obeso, Alvin Malory, es víctima de una agresión terrible que lo deja postrado en coma vegetativo. Un caso sin resolver en la carrera de Caleb Hale. Casi diez años después, Anna Carter ve cómo un desconocido detiene el vehículo que conduce una mujer y se monta en él. A Anna la escena le parece extraña e intenta, sin éxito, llamar la atención de la conductora. Anna está cansada y hace frío, así que finalmente...
8) S.O.S
Author
Series
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Detective duo John Boarhog and Inspector Toadius McGee embark on a luxury airship to intercept an old adversary, but when the Society of Sleuths decides it is time for John's trial to gain full membership, there are no clear skies ahead.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Although thirteen-year-old aspiring actor Zevi would like to keep his psychic abilities a secret, he may be forced to use them when a famous actor's life is endagered on a movie set.
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, thirteen-year-old Zevi uses his psychic abilities to save a famous actor's life on a movie set."--
Author
Series
Rip Through Time novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Longtime Charleston resident Benjamin Christmas loved the holidays and spent his entire life spreading the kind of joy and cheer that's synonymous with his name. He also loved puzzles, games, and mysteries. So it was no surprise that when Mr. Christmas passed away he left behind one last puzzle--a scavenger hunt! At the end of the hunt is a very generous donation to Mercy Hospital--if it is completed by Christmas Eve. And there is another very important...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, involving a French artist and her baby, Nick Burns, with only months left to live, enlists Jenny, a college dropout, to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they've left behind.
14) The 24th hour
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married. Before they can raise their glasses, there's a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal...
Author
Publisher
[CJ Loughty]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Archie Wiggins is intrigued when a new family moves into the big, spooky house next door. The young girl and her parents seem to be strange and secretive and able to do things which shouldn’t be possible. Archie witnesses the girl, dressed all in black, performing a magic trick in her garden. Except that he doesn’t believe that it’s a trick; he convinces himself that what she is doing is real magic – and that she must be a...
Author
Series
Secrets from Grandma's attic volume 23
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Doyle hosts a welcoming dinner at Faith Church, only for it to be ruined by a thief. As she races to uncover the culprit, her cousin Tom's visit takes a suspicious turn with a fake antique watch and hidden motives."--provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The brand-new Shimmering Sands retirement community is a beachfront paradise-until realtor Jessie Beckton plunges to her death from the penthouse suite she's selling. When the cops rule out foul play, the Retired Detectives agree to step in. They're certain Jessie was murdered-but how can they prove it when the apartment was locked from the inside? As the gang pursue their investigation, a host of potential suspects emerge who all have secrets to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Working alongside lawyer Moxie Castin to prove the innocence of a woman accused of abducting and possibly murdering of her child, P.I. Charlie Parker, to solve this heart-wrenching case, follows its twists and turns to an old house deep in the Maine woods-house that should have never been built.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Middle-aged Englishman and B&B owner Richard Ainsworth is living a quiet life in the Val de Follet--and that's the way he likes it. His quiet routine is suddenly disrrupted when scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver by way of its famous restaurant being downgraded from three 'Michelin' stars to two. The restaurant is shamed, the town is in shock and the leading goat's cheese supplier drowns himself in one of his own pasteurisation tanks....
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Almost-eleven-year-old Josephine is NOT pleased to be moving into the Happy World trailer park over the summer of 1974. She misses her beautiful bedroom with ballerinas on the wall and her pretty, well-dressed friends. Happy World isn't happy. It's dingy and depressing! Nothing like the world that headstrong Josephine wants for herself. But when Josephine learns that her would-be next door neighbor in Happy World was kidnapped months ago, she develops...