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21) The retreat
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Series
Language
English
Description
"An eco-wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation--but the island itself, once the playground of a serial killer, is rumored to be cursed. Detective Elin Warner is called to the retreat when a young woman's body is found on the rocks below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But the victim wasn't a guest--she wasn't meant to be on the island at all. When a guest drowns in a diving...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
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English
Description
Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs was published in 1896, and it quickly garnered a reputation for its truthfulness and the quality of its writing. Rudyard Kipling described it as 'immense--it is the very life, ' and Henry James praised it for being 'absolutely true--not a word overdone--such elegance and exactness.' The Country of the Pointed Firs, is a concisely written and beautifully wrought episodic novel of a young woman writer's...
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Series
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English
Description
When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, resort manager Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill. As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. They're everywhere, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins in the reading rooms or seeking inspiration strolling the Poet's Walk,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started....
30) The lighthouse
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Series
Language
English
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham.
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Series
Seaside café mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a customer of Everly Swan's new iced tea shop and café--and former town councilman of Charm--is discovered poisoned on the boardwalk, Everly begins her own investigation of the crime to save her business and bring the guilty to justice.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 18
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Trapped in a beautiful Montana ski resort with someone bent on destruction, can sleuth Nancy Drew, wearing a leg cast, solve the crime in time to save the holiday season?
33) Drug of choice
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC6
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers a dark secret.
35) Piranha
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Mutant piranha escape from a secret research station and head downriver towards a summer camp and a small town's lakeside tourist attraction. A gruff loner and a daffy private eye race against time to try to stop the creatures.
37) Frozen
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As a ski resort is closing down for a week, three snowboarders become stranded on a lift high above the ground and find themselves in a struggle to survive.
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 17
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Nelsons are heading for a winter vacation on a great new planet with Zack's best friend, Drake, and the boys can't wait to dive into the winter games, but at the resort, Zack realizes there are a bunch of hurdles he wasn't prepared for.
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Series
Dog's day volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
After avalanche rescue dog Ava, a chocolate Labrador retriever, finally gets to help her handler, Nate, with a real rescue, she realizes that her job at the ski resort includes other important tasks, too.
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