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1) Suttree
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The story or Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there - a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters - he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
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Leaving her sales job behind to start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent, Genevieve finds her dreams shattered by the discovery of a body that is linked to her own secret past as a dancer at a private members' club, forcing her to recall the moment when things started to go horribly wrong.
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Unseen World of Poppy Malone volume 3
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English
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Nearly-ten-year-old Poppy Malone finds her skepticism challenged again when she must deal with troublemakers at Lake Travis who look and act suspiciously like mermaids, which she knows do not exist.
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Emily Windsnap volume 1
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For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has anxiously kept Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery -- about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water's surface. In a lovely twentieth-anniversary...
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Boxcar children volume 12
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The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.
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"Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With only stolen manikins and the river to keep him company, Rigby begins to spiral from the bizarre to the threatening. As a year of drought gives way to a season of squalls, a girl is found trembling on the side of the road, claiming her boyfriend was murdered. The nearby town of Oscar turns their suspicions toward Sellers. Local Sheriff Amos...
9) Plunder
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While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle.
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The title brings to mind a luxury vessel on the most glamorous river in the world, but readers expecting to learn about the high life in France will be in for a surprise. In this charming memoir, painter and novelist Wharton (Birdy) instead gives us literally the nuts and bolts of building a houseboat, along with generous dollops of humor and local color. As a struggling artist in Paris with his schoolteacher wife and four children, Wharton decided...
11) The Darkdeep
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Darkdeep volume 1
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Middle-schoolers Nico, Tyler, Ella, and Opal discover a hidden island in a forbidden cove that appears uninhabited, but something ancient has awakened knowing their wishes, dreams, and darkest secrets.
12) Murder alfresco
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Sunny McCoskey mysteries volume 3
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A disturbing murder scene makes a Napa Valley chef hungry for justice in this cozy mystery by the author of Death by the Glass.
Returning from a party late one night, chef Sunny McCoskey is the first to discover the body of a murdered woman left outside a local winery. Shortly before, she'd seen a truck leaving a local winery, driving without its headlights on. Was it the murderer? And, did the murderer see her as well?
Thrust into the center of...
13) Houseboat
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Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
14) The Torchbearers
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Darkdeep volume 3
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Middle-schoolers Opal, Nico, Tyler, Emma, and Logan find their friendships tested as never before when the townpeople panic, something cryptic surfaces from within the Darkdeep, and a newcomer arrives with an agenda.
15) A fuego lento
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Español
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"El descubrimiento del cuerpo de un joven asesinado brutalmente en una casa flotante de Londres desencadena sospechas sobre tres mujeres. Laura es la chica conflictiva que se encontró con la víctima la noche en que murió; Carla, aún de luto por la muerte de un familiar, es la tía del joven, y Miriam es la indiscreta vecina que oculta información sobre el caso a la policía. Tres mujeres que no se conocen, pero que tienen distintas conexiones...
16) The rose revived
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A novel on a trio of women working for London's Quality Cleaners, an establishment supplying maids with high-class accents to the well-to-do. The three are a novelist, an artist and the owner of a houseboat. The novel follows them as they wash dishes and scrub floors for the very rich, until after losing their jobs they set up a business of their own, finding fulfillment and romance.
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"Bev and Mouse are learning how to remember. On a canal boat, a floating world, they're surrounded by past lives, memories, and unfinished business. It's a journey not of discovery or recovery, but of temporariness, of various, unexpected doings, a journey inwards, a journey of the imperfect, the impermanent, the incomplete. Along the way, floating between what they've left and what they hope to find, they find new meanings in the small, often overlooked...
18) Powolne spalanie
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Polish
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"Na swojej życiowej drodze spotykamy wielu ludzi. Niekiedy są to wartościowe relacje, które utrzymujemy przez wiele lat, innym razem krótkie związki, o których szybko zapominamy. Sięgnij po książkę pod tytułem "Powolne spalanie", którą napisała Paula Hawkins, i sprawdź, jak niewiele trzeba, by ktoś zapragnął się na nas zemścić! Gdy młody mężczyzna zostaje zamordowany na barce w Londynie, rozpoczyna się śledztwo, które ma...
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Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden are spending a week on a houseboat! Throughout the journey, the children have the feeling they are being watched--and they are. Someone wants something on their boat, and he'll stop at nothing to get it. Can the boxcar children figure it out before it's too late?"--P. [4] of cover.
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