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1) Olive, again
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English
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Olive Kitteridge returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms with the loss of her father,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
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English
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The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet... When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among...
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Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A land developer is killed in Sherebury, England, and police suspect environmentalists, but they are too busy to handle the case because of a forthcoming royal visit. So the case is taken by Dorothy Martin, an American widow working in a bookstore wh
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Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
After she attends a Christmas service, Dorothy Martin, 60, an American widow living in England whose outrageous hats are the talk of the village, stumbles over the body of the local canon. She turns sleuth to help out the chief constable, also a wido
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Fresh baked mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Phyllis loves to spend quality time with her grandson. She'll be taking him to a festival with hopes of winning the baking contest-now that her friendly competitor, Carolyn, is judging and not competing. But when a decorative scarecrow is actually a dead body in disguise, it's Phyllis's sleuthing skills that are needed. The dead body is that of the festival's organizer- and his wife, Carolyn's friend, falls under suspicion. Carolyn turns to Phyllis...
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Fresh baked mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When the president of Oliver Loving Elementary's Parent-Teacher Organization is stabbed during a carnival, retired schoolteacher and baker Phyllis Newsome is shocked to learn that she may have used the knife that killed her.
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Series
Fresh baked mysteries volume 6
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
13) Olive Kitteridge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
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English
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A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town. Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few months into her retirement--or, district mandated exile as she calls it--Mary...
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Clementine Lakefield leads a simple life in her retirement community in Sun City, South Carolina. But while she plays cards, substitute teaches, and has learned to text with her niece and nephew, Clemmie is not who she says she is. Behind her carefree facade, she is hiding a lifetime of secrets. When Clemmie's curmudgeonly neighbor goes missing, Clemmie suddenly finds herself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy. From international bestselling...
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Fresh-baked mystery volume 15
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It's early summer in Weatherford, Texas, and retired teacher/amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom and fellow retiree Carolyn Wilbarger are taking British cooking classes at the local senior center in this suspenseful Fresh-Baked mystery.In the latest from Livia J. Washburn, the nationally bestselling author of the Fresh Baked Mystery Series, Phyllis Newsom learns to make a trifle that's to die for...While Sam Fletcher is playing dominoes with the guys, Eve...
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