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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Law student Jack Mullen puts his own life, and those of his friends on the line when he enlists their help in going up against the local East Hamptom authorities, as well as some of the wealthiest people in the country, in an effort to prove that his younger brother Peter, found dead at the Beach House of ultra-rich Barry Neubauer, was murdered.
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and...
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Language
English
Description
"Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find peace, she heads to the seaside resort she loved as a...
4) The sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 23
Language
English
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Description
An exclusive hotel on a tiny, picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat for the stresses of criminal detection for Hercule Poirot. But with the appearance of the beautiful Arlena Stuart, the quiet and peaceful atmosphere becomes charged with an indefinable erotic tension. And when she is found viciously strangled in a secluded cove, there are few, especially among the women, who seem to feel either surprise or regret.
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Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (6 hr.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.
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Language
English
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Description
"As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated...
8) Seeing green
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
144 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What was supposed to be a blissed-out vacation at a pristine eco-resort has turned into one of the biggest cases of my life. And just as we were getting into it, Bess, George, and I had to return to River Heights. But, it looks like the case has followed us home."--back cover.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 17
Language
English
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Description
Just as Agatha Raisin and James Lacey are about to cut their vacation at a rundown seaside resort in Snoth-on-Sea, Sussex short, another guest is found strangled to death with Agatha's scarf.
11) The floodmakers
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
176 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harry Buelle awakes confused one morning in his bathtub. His stepmother phones him, complaining that his father, a successful-and cantankerous-elderly playwright, has stopped taking his heart medicine. Harry has never heard her sound so tired, and, with his own life in shambles, agrees to join his parents-and his sister and her husband-at their Southern beach house retreat. Having the whole family together, cooped up in the same space, gives rise...
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