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523) The lily vanishes
Author
Series
Victorian mansion flower shop mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Annies
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This series from Annie's Fiction features a florist living on Orcas Island in Puget Sound. Kaylee Bleu is asked to arrange flowers for a Hitchcock-style thriller being filmed on the island. She is soon embroiled in solving the mysterious deaths of the director's former wives, while trying to prevent a young actress from meeting the same fate"--Author's website.
524) Without a brew
Author
Series
Sloan Krause mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It's winter in the Bavarian village of Leavenworth, Washington, which for Sloan Krause means lots of layers, pine and citrus-flavored craft beers, and getting the new guest rooms at Nitro, the brewery where she works, into tip top shape before the next weekend's IceFest. Unfortunately, Sloan and her boss Garrett are learning that not every guest in the brewery is up for a hopping good time. While the couple staying with them, Brad and Ali, seem completely...
526) Annie's war
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Disorganized crime: a gang of would-be bank robbers have little going for them except a pair of bumbling detectives.
Another stakeout: Seattle detectives Chris Lecce and Bill Reimers team up on a stakeout, this time with female detective Gina Garrett and her mischievous dog.
Father hood: A lovable, small-time crook's latest scheme of hiting it big is only temporarily interrupted when his two kids suddenly appear to reclaim him as their dad.
Oscar:...
528) Black hole
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A chilling graphic novel set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s describes the lives of the area's teenagers, who are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that has descended on the young people of Seattle.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of an aspiring U.S. Army Ranger who inexplicably participated in an armed robbery hours before being deployed to Iraq, investigating the influence of the young man's superior and the Ranger indoctrination program.
Alex Blum was a good kid with one goal in life: endure a brutally difficult selection program, become a U.S. Army Ranger, and fight terrorists for his country. In the first hours of his final leave before deployment...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
531) The wicker man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Edward Malus is a California police officer who takes a leave of absence after witnessing a tragedy on the job. Taking pills to soothe the effects of his post-traumatic stress disorder, Edward receives a letter from his ex-fiance, Willow, requesting his assistance in finding her missing child. She asks him come to Summerisle, a small island off the coast of Puget Sound, and help her find her daughter, Rowan. When Edward starts investigating Rowan's...
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company"--
Author
Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Synopsis:In the late 1870s, twelve-year-old Hildy Bacom and her family leave Pennsylvania and head West, to New Tacoma on Commencement Bay in Washington Territory, a community that is barely four years old and with a population of approximately one hundred and fifty. Compared to Pennsylvania, everything in New Tacoma is different. The streets are muddy, there are few buildings, and some people live in hollowed-out cedar tree trunks. There are two...
Publisher
Distributed by ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A story for everybody who has ever needed to find their inner rock star. Set against the backdrop of the Seattle music scene, it is a coming-of-age story about two dysfunctional teenagers searching for something more out of their completely hopeless existence. Troy Billings is fat. His life sucks. He's about to end it all by jumping in front of a bus, when Marcus Macrae, a charismatic punk rock superstar, tackles him to the ground and changes his...
537) Clean
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012, 2011
Language
English
Description
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
Author
Series
The orphan train trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Ily Chalmers wanted only two things from life -- a farm of her own, and to find the sisters she hadn't seen since they were all little girls heading West on the orphan train ... She certainly had no desire for a husband. Yet proud, innocent Lily had no idea what desire meant until she met Major Caleb Halliday, a man who could ignite her very being with a touch ... a glance ... a whisper. Sheltered in his arms, Lily rode the crest of a wild, helpless...
539) Sleepless in Seattle
Publisher
Tri-Star Pictures
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his wife and instantly knew that she was the right one. Despite...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Molly Wizenberg married Brandon Pettit, he was a trained composer with a handful of offbeat interests: espresso machines, wooden boats, violin-building, and ice cream-making. So when Brandon decided to open a pizza restaurant, Molly was supportive--not because she wanted him to do it, but because the idea was so far-fetched that she didn't think he would. Before she knew it, he'd signed a lease on a space. The restaurant, Delancey, was going...