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"In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course. Here he meets Alma Hadžić, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks--a...
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English
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"For fifteen years August Sitwell has worked for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family who plucked him from an orphan asylum and gave him a job. The groundskeeper is part of the household's all-black staff, along with "Miss Mamie," the talented cook, pretty new maid Jennie Williams, and three young kitchen apprentices - the latest orphan boys Mr. Barclay has taken in to "civilize" - boys like August. But the Barclays' fortunes have fallen, and their...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life in Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people but to so he must let...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets-and her own.
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Series
Osborn Brothers volume 2
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Demanding a job at the Triple Creek campground in the Colorado Rockies, Jedidiah Stephens is determined to find the truth behind the fire that killed her family but isn't prepared for her attraction to Memphis Osborn, the ruggedly handsome groundskeeper"--
Publisher
Perennial Currents
Pub. Date
©2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
154 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A hilarious new compilation of comics featuring the irrepressible Simpson family follows their misadventures as Homer runs for mayor against Diamond Joe Quimby, Bart rats out the school bullies and discovers the true meaning of yellow journalism, Smithers moves in leaving Marge out in the cold, and more.
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Series
Gravekeeper volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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345 pages : 25 cm.
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English
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"USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after the final page. Keira is ready for a normal life. Hunted and haunted, all she wants is to put her mysterious past behind her and move forward with her new friends as Blighty Graveyard's groundskeeper. But then she receives an invitation to dinner at the local recluse's crumbling ancestral estate. The mansion is steeped...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Ava Morgyn's The Witches of Bone Hill is a spellbinding, romantic novel about family secrets and two young women who discover they're Nordic witches. Cordelia Bone's meticulously crafted life and career in Dallas are crashing down around her thanks to a philandering husband with criminal debts. When her older, carefree sister, Eustace - a cannabis grower in Boulder - calls to inform her that the great aunt they never met has died and they must travel...
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Publisher
St Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
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309 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Iain Connors is the poster boy for the strong and silent type. Growing up a loner at Cairndow Castle in Scotland with only the cliffs and moors for company, it's understood Iain will assume the mantle of Cairndow groundskeeper when his father is ready to relinquish it. But his stint in Her Majesty's Armed Forces has opened up a whole new world--and now, rather than settle down, he accepts an invitation to travel to the States to take charge of the...
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
124 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of Halloween tales from the Simpsons, including terrifying treehouse antics, ghoulish groundskeepers, weird wizards, drooling aliens, parallel worlds, and defective duplicates.
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Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the co-owner of destination inn Carrigan's All Year. But her thoughts keep coming back to Levi "Blue" Matthews: her first love, worst heartbreak, and now, thanks to her great-aunt's meddling will, absentee business partner. When Levi left Carrigan's, he had good intentions. As the queer son of the inn's cook and groundskeeper, he...
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