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March 3, 1933, the day before Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Siblings Lily and Robert Brewster have agreed to help out at a nursing home next door to their own cottage, dubbed Grace & Favor. The convalescent home is full of colorful characters, including a cantankerous old man named Sean Connor. The day the Brewsters arrive, he slips into a coma and dies. No one is surprised at his passing-until it's revealed that he's been murdered. And Mr. Connor...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of There Was an Old Woman comes a novel about a professional organizer with a deadly problem she may not be able to clean up.
Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she's married to man who can't drive past a yard sale without stopping. He's filled their basement, attic, and garage with his finds. Like other professionals who make a living decluttering peoples' lives,...
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2018.
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
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A cat who lives on a cargo ship has never been on dry land, so when the ship makes one final stop and the crew members return to their families, he wonders where his own home is.
11) A house
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[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bright illustrations paired with interactive call-and-response questions tell of what makes a house a home.
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"Bear is happy at home, eating strawberry pie and spending time with his friends. But one day, the wind whispers to Bear, calling him to embark on a surprising journey to an unknown place. He isn't sure where he is going, but he knows that everything will turn out okay if he trusts his instincts"--
14) The blue house
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[2020]
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Both Leo and his father are angry and sad when their landlord says their old house will be torn down, but soon they find a way to make their new house feel like home.
17) Best family ever
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IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
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"When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never be the same. But they find that being together with the ones you love is the most important part of home"--
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[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Illustrations and text celebrate the many things--both big and small--that make a place feel like home.
Home is where you might have a special nickname or a special toy. It's where you might have a snack or a nap or a bath--or all three. Whether home is a city apartment or a country cottage, it's a place where you want to return to again and again. Celebrate all kinds of homes--and all kinds of families--in this cozy, lushly illustrated ode to the...
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1995
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497 p. ; 24 cm.
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Stories by Southern women. In Tina McElroy Ansa's Sarah, two girls pretend they are their parents making love, while Lee Smith's Tongues of Fire is a portrait of local manners, as when the narrator explains her mother's incessant chatter to fill a void in a conversation, "This was another of Mama's rules: A lady never lets a silence fall."
20) Nightwatching
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" Straddling the line between psychological thriller and domestic horror, Sierra's auspicious debut immediately plunges readers headlong into its unnamed protagonist's waking nightmare . . . tense, emotionally resonant . . . Well-timed flashbacks add context and poignancy. Fiercely feminist and viscerally terrifying. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle...
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