Helen Plum Library

Kimber Hanson arrives home to find the locks have been changed, and a stranger living in her house. He claims to be leasing the property-- and has paperwork to prove it. Then he reveals that he has a connection to Kimber's distant past, and dark secrets she'd long ago left behind about the death of her sister. This trespasser isn't after her money or her charming Craftsman bungalow. He wants to move into her carefully orchestrated life-- and destroy...

Binx was SO excited he could sing and dance - he and his family were off to France! Wandering around the city with glee, he soon realised he'd lost his family. An unexpected adventure - oh, what a mess. Luckily, his senses were up to the test. Thankfully, he'd learned well and knew what to do. And now Binx the black cat wants you to know too! Binx Lost in France is a story to help children understand stranger danger and what to do if they ever get...

After Quentin's bike breaks down in a strange town, he and his friend become surrounded by feral cats.

Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. Now they must carry out a high-tech assassination plot of an unscrupulous artificial intelligence system

A small town lives in terror of the Outlaw, but one day, he disappears—and a mysterious stranger rides into town ...

In this spare and powerful story set in the Old West, people in a small town live in constant worry of another visit from the Outlaw. Then the Outlaw suddenly and mysteriously disappears. Time passes, and one day a stranger rides into town. He takes it upon himself to fix everything that is in disrepair

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Atemlos spannend! Ein mörderischer Thriller über Liebe und Verrat. Die achtzehnjährige Svenja findet in einer Abseite ihrer neuen Tübinger Studentenwohnung einen verwahrlosten, stummen 11-jährigen Jungen und nimmt ihn bei sich auf. Nach seinem T-Shirt-Aufdruck nennt sie ihn Nashville. Als eine Serie von Morden an Obdachlosen die Stadt in Aufruhr versetzt, wird Svenja unruhig. Hat Nashville, der immer wieder heimlich verschwindet, etwas damit...

A silly and sweet picture book about neighbors, community, and making new friends where you least expect it. A group of neighbors never talks to one another because they've all made assumptions about each other. Camila the chicken's house is too noisy, Mr. Martínez the fox seems so straightlaced, Felipe the mouse is nervous, and Pepe the ogre--well, you know about ogres. But one day, Mrs. Paquita's internet connection goes out. That starts a domino...

We talk to children about speaking to strangers but rarely do we talk to them about speaking to public authority figures such as police officers. In the United States, thousands of minors are contacted by police every day. While the police have a duty to protect civilians it is important to know what to say and what to do when talking to a police officer. Derrick Dotson is a former law enforcement officer, use of force instructor, and a father...

"A breakout from the Booker-prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle. A psychological suspense novel unlike any he's written before, about how we contend with the past, trauma, guilt and regret, and the uncertainty of memory. Who is unreliable? Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt...

From James Preller, the author of Bystander, another unflinching book about bullying and its fallout. The summer before school starts, Sam's friend and classmate Morgan Mallen kills herself. Morgan had been bullied. Maybe she kissed the wrong boy. Or said the wrong thing. What about that selfie that made the rounds? Morgan was this, and Morgan was that. But who really knows what happened? As Sam explores the events leading up to the tragedy, he...