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1) Nicotine
Author
Language
English
Description
The conventional one in a non-conventional family, Penny Baker inherits her father's childhood home in New Jersey. She finds the property not overgrown and abandoned, but occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming, and who have renamed the property Nicotine House. The residents are defenders of smokers' rights, and they possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she's desperately lacking. As her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Crafted by the creator of the beloved Mrs. Pollifax series, this little gem of a novel sparkles with romance and intrigue. The story whisks you to the enchanting rural abode known as "Thale's Folly," whose occupants are anything but fools. As you get to know these charming people and their magical home, a delicious scent of mystery infuses the fresh country air. Andrew Thale is not exactly thrilled when his overbearing father sends him on an errand...
3) Damnificados
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Series
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela: the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred damnificados--vagabonds and misfits--take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a ragtag defensive militia. And so begins an epic siege ..."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"After she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Katherine abandons her successful advertising firm and seeks refuge in the solitude of her wilderness cabin. Living off the land in complete isolation brings Katherine peace - until the day she realizes she is not alone, and never was. Katherine's sudden and unanticipated arrival at the cabin unsettles Danny, a Vietnam veteran tormented by the demons of his past, who has been squatting in the previously...
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Language
English
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Description
"Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives--or before they are found out. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers--bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's funeral that she and her sister, Yanne, have lived their entire...
7) Gut shot
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at 2.00 dollars an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour. So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping...
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