What Pickax, the town "400 miles north of everywhere," needs is a new bookstore. But just as Pickax prepares to celebrate the ground breaking for a new one, a body is discovered in a nearby wooded arie. Turning their...
Country life
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
A former reporter solves crimes with the help of his cats. They believe the death of a leading Junktown citizen is no accident.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
October finds Moose Country, 400 miles north of everywhere, in the grips of a record-breadking drought. With the danger of a wildfire threatening the village of Pickax, the locals pray for the annual fall blizzard. But trouble comes...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Journalist Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a backpacker near Lake Superior. By the author of The Cat Who Sang for the Birds.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
"Times are changing in Pickax, and it all makes for some newsworthy notes for the "Qwill Pen." A new senior center is in the works, and a frisky production of Cats is set to delight Moose County residents, human and...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
With his companion Polly in Paris, Qwill keeps himself occupied by writing an absurdist play called "The Cat Who Got Elected Dog Catcher." Meanwhile, things are spicing up in Pickax. Huge inheritances from old families are...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
"The residents of Pickax eagerly await the start of Pickax Now, a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town's founding. In the midst of preparations for parades and performances, newspaper columnist James...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Pickax is preparing for its sesquicentennial celebration, and in the midst of all the family reunions, the Siamese super-sleuth Koko smells trouble. One evening Koko pounces down on the head of the wealthy Ledfields' obnoxious...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
"The denizens of Pickax are starstruck: Thelma Thackeray, a native of Moose County, has returned to spend her declining years 400 miles north of everywhere, after a nearly six-decade-long career in Hollywood! And she doesn't...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Thelma Thackeray, a native of Moose County, has achieved fame and fortune in Hollywood. Now 82, she has returned to Pickax to have some fun before she dies. Purchasing the old opera house, Thelma reopens it as a film club. But when the...
- Author:HILL, AnthonySummary:
An entertaining mixture of fact and fiction about experiences in a small N.S.W. town, prompted by the decision of a family to escape the tensions of life in Canberra.
- Author:Harry, LilianSummary:
When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career, she is alone in the world. This book begins with the story of life in a Devonshire village in the 1950s and shows us a picture of Britain...
- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
When the gang discover that a flood has turned the creek into a lake with an island, they set about building canoes and a fort; but unknown to them, they are being watched. The third book in the Seddon Street Gang series. Suggested...
- Author:Peck, Robert NewtonSummary:
The adventures of two boys growing up in rural Vermont in the 1920's.
- Author:Dupont, ÉricSummary:
A big fat whopper of a tall tale that bounces around from provincial Rivière-du-Loup in 1919 to Nagasaki, 1990s Berlin, Rome, and beyond.
- Author:Edwards, IsabelSummary:
Biographical account of pioneer life in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia, near Lonesome Lake in the 1930s and 1940s, including trapping and fishing.
- Author:Nixon, Allan M.Summary:
The Murray River holds a special place in the hearts of Australians. We've heard from every politician and expert ever to draw breath about what's happened to the mighty river and the best ways to fix it. Here are the views of...
- Author:McGregor, JonSummary:
A peaceful English village is thrust into chaos when a teenage girl goes missing. As the search unfolds over a span of thirteen years, the village changes in ways no one could have predicted.
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
The seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new...
- Author:Malton, H. MelSummary:
This quadruple edition of the Polly Deacon mysteries presents all four hilarious Polly Deacon novels. Includes: Down in the Dumps Cue the Dead Guy Dead Cow in Aisle Three One Large Coffin to Go