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Sister Mary Helen is in luck, depending on how you look at it. She and Sister Eileen are in Ireland to attend the weeklong Oyster Festival in the little village of Ballyclarin. They make their first stop at a central oasis of food and drink called the Monks' Table. Mary Helen overhears a woman saying to the man with her, "I am surprised someone hasn't killed you already." But Eileen assures her that it's only a way of speaking, and Mary Helen is relieved--until...
2) Caraval
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Caraval volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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"Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their ruthless father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the legendary, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor who she has just met, Tella whisks...
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Sweet magnolias series volume 4
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English
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"Although she feels that the holidays are a season of misery, Jeanette Brioche is pushed into working on the town's annual Christmas festival with the sexy new town manager, Tom McDonald. But with romance in the air, Jeanette and Tom take a fresh look at their painful pasts and a hopeful look into the future."--Provided by publisher
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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The annual Corn Maze Festival is coming and everyday the chickens, cows, and Duck help Farmer Brown--with a few bribes--to create a special Statue of Liberty corn maze, and every night Duck works hard recreating his own surprise
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Heidi Heckelbeck volume 12
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Heidi is excited about Brewster's fall festival, but she catches a cold and her magic may not be enough to make her well in time
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Attending the world-renowned Texas Rose Festival to support her bestie Gilley and Gilley's new boyfriend, creative director Stuart Jacobs, life coach Cat Cooper finds things getting thorny when a member of Stuart's staff is accused of murder and she must weed through the cutthroat pageantry to catch a blossoming killer
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
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[2015]
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English
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Snuggleford Cuddlebun, the sleepiest sloth in all of Snoozeville, attends the annual Snoozefest, where she gets free pajamas and other gifts, listens to bands and haiku, and, mostly, sleeps
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Chocoholic mysteries volume 8
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Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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As treasurer of WinterFest, Lee McKinney Woodyard is getting tired of the egos, arguments, and last-minute mix-ups, especially when the guest juror of the art show shows up drunk, a situation that gets worse when her husband discovers that the visiting dignitary has been murdered, in a mystery set in the luscious if deadly world of chocolate
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Little Bridge Island volume 3
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Jo Wright always swore she'd never step foot on Little Bridge Island - not as long as her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is living there. Then Jo is offered an all-expense paid trip to speak and sign at the island's first ever book festival. When she arrives on Little Bridge, Will seems genuinely sorry for his past actions - and more than willing not only to make amends, but prove to Jo that he's a changed man. Things seem to be looking up...
12) Gingerdead Man
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When a man playing Santa is poisoned by one of her cookies at the Dickens of a Holiday festival, Val Deniston's reputation is on the line and she and her granddad must race against time to catch a cookie-cutter killer
13) A wicked yarn
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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When she gets tangled up in the murder of her best friend Belinda's ex-husband, knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger must unravel the clues to prove Belinda's innocence, with the help of the Ninth Street Knitters
14) Murder on tour
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"While Sam wraps up her first book tour, Nana Jo has kept Market Street Mysteries running smoothly. The last stop is a prestigious book festival in Sam's hometown of North Harbor, Michigan. But not everyone thinks the guest of honor, bestselling author Judith Hunter, deserves stellar reviews. Sam witnesses nasty arguments between Judith and two different authors--who accuse her of plagiarism and sabotage. When a publicist is poisoned during a cocktail...
15) Fudge and jury
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"A world-renowned chocolatier has just turned up dead...right after sampling a slice of Jules' decadent four-layer chocolate cake. Now all eyes are on Jules as she tries to find the mysterious ingredient in her own recipe."--Provided by the publisher
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It's the end of the summer and Prodigal Daughter Maggie Crozat has returned home to her family's plantation-turned-bed-and-breakfast in Louisiana. The Crozats have an inn full of guests for the local food festival--elderly honeymooners, the Cajun Cuties, a mysterious stranger from Texas, a couple of hipster lovebirds, and a trio of Georgia frat boys. But when the elderly couple keels over dead within minutes of each other--one from very unnatural...
17) Spider Web
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Best-selling author Earlene Fowler has garnered critical acclaim for her Agatha Award-winning Benni Harper series. In this 15th entry, Benni and the ladies of her Coffin Star Quilt Guild are enjoying San Celina, California's first-ever Memory Festival-when a sniper guns down a local cop. Fearing for the safety of her community-and for her family-Benni determines to root out the sniper before the once peaceful streets become a killer's free-fire zone....
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"Living in a lighthouse with her dog, Lindsey Bakewell is lulled to sleep at night by the sound of Lake Michigan's waves--and gets up at the crack of dawn to start the day at her bakery café. But someone in Beacon Harbor is about to rock the boat with murder... After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village, and the upcoming blueberry festival--including the pie-eating contest her bakery is...
19) TACOS FOR TWO
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[2021]
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"Rory Perez, a food truck owner who can't cook, is struggling to keep the business she inherited from her aunt out of the red--and an upcoming contest during Modest's annual food truck festival seems the best way to do it. The prize money could finally give her a solid financial footing and keep her cousin with special needs paid up at her beloved assisted living home. Then maybe Rory will have enough time to meet the man she's been talking to via...
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Artist Celeste Cabot welcomes the chance to show her paintings at a craft fair in her hometown of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where she and her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, can park her vintage Shasta trailer and sell her creations, too. Unfortunately, her sales take a hit when a customer returns a painting, claiming it's haunted. When a fellow vendor discovers images hidden in Celeste's artwork--and a ghost pays her a late-night visit--she's shocked to realize...
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