Suzanne Toren
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 6
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swensen series has won high praise while satisfying the discerning tastes of mystery fans and food connoiseurs alike. When Hannah's mother' cherished cake knife is used to kill a beautiful out-of-towner at the town of Lake Eden's annual Christmas party, the stage is set for Hannah to once again unmask a killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt/Harvest
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A bakery owner solves a mystery.
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 5
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
While her sister-in-law prepares to deliver her baby, Minnesota bakery owner Hannah Swensen's brother-in-law runs for sheriff, but Hannah discovers the body of the local sheriff in a dumpster near her cooking class with some of her cupcake frosting on his shirt. Includes recipes.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With food rationed and money scarce, Charlotte struggles to keep her family well fed. Her teenage daughter, Kate, raises rabbits to earn money for college and dreams of becoming a writer. Her husband, Thomas, struggles to keep the farm going while their son, and most of the other local men, are fighting in Europe. When their upcoming cherry harvest is threatened, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cassie Simon is a struggling artist living in New York City. When she receives a call from a magistrate telling her she has inherited sixty acres of land in Sweetwater, Tennessee, from her grandfather, whom she never knew, she takes it as a sign: it's time for a change. She moves to the small Southern town where her mother, Ellen, grew up--and where she died tragically when Cassie was three. From the moment she arrives in Sweetwater, Cassie is overwhelmed...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who's particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he's right. What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone...
30) Eggs
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
31) Ruby Holler
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler/Harper Collins
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
32) Plain truth
Author
Publisher
Pocket/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
[c1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sam and Victoria are about to sit down to eat a plate of their mother's cookies when suddenly the doorbell rings. As visitors come in and the doorbell keeps ringing, Sam and Victoria see their six cookies apiece growing fewer and fewer - until the last ring of the doorbell. A Live Oak Media audio production.
35) Night rounds
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a nurse is murdered and another disappears during a hospital blackout, Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit struggles with a report by the crime's only witness, who claims she saw a nurse who died 60 years earlier.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
1937. Estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers agree to fulfill their grandmother's last wish: travel across Europe together and deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn't seen since traveling to Europe herself forty years earlier. Clara sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock, but also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes...