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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Catherine Lloyd Burns's The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen>is an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her grand daughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth.Cricket Cohen is>not>a liar. She just enhances the truth. Often. Cricket is a natural-born storyteller. She is also a part-time geologist, a Greek professor, and a certified brain surgeon with a thriving private medical practice. Yes, her patients are all stuffed animals, but the work is still very demanding.Despite her busy schedule, Cricket always has time for Dodo, her equally imaginative grandmother. And one Manhattan weekend when Cricket finds herself in hot water with her teacher and thoroughly fed up with her controlling parents, she and Dodo hit the pavement. What could possibly go wrong when two people with a habit of confusing fact and fantasy take off looking for adventure? Lots, it turns out, and eleven-year-old Cricket finds herself face-to-face with some hard truths about love, family, and getting home again. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In this middle grade novel, an autobiography assignment gets truly unreal when a middle schooler and her mischievous grandma run away from home. Cricket Cohen isn't a liar, but she doesn't always tell the exact truth. She loves thinking about geology and astronomy and performing tricky brain surgery on her stuffed animals. She also loves conspiring with Dodo, her feisty grandmother who lives in the apartment right next door. One Manhattan weekend when she's in hot water with her teacher and her controlling parents over a fanciful memoir essay, Cricket goes along with Dodo's questionable decision to hit the bricks. Imagining all sorts of escapades, Cricket is happy to leave home behind. But on a crosstown adventure with an elderly woman who has her own habit of mixing truth and fantasy, some hard realities may start to get in the way of all the fun. From Catherine Lloyd Burns (The Good, the Bad & the Beagle) comes The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen, an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth. Praise for>The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen: The ending, Cricket's poignant rewritten memoir, is realistic but hopeful. May reassure readers with aging relatives facing Alzheimer's. --Kirkus Reviews>Reminiscent of a Kate Di Camillo story relocated to the big city. --School Library Journal.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Catherine Lloyd Burns's The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen>is an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her grand daughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth.Cricket Cohen is>not>a liar. She just enhances the truth. Often. Cricket is a natural-born storyteller. She is also a part-time geologist, a Greek professor, and a certified brain surgeon with a thriving private medical practice. Yes, her patients are all stuffed animals, but the work is still very demanding.Despite her busy schedule, Cricket always has time for Dodo, her equally imaginative grandmother. And one Manhattan weekend when Cricket finds herself in hot water with her teacher and thoroughly fed up with her controlling parents, she and Dodo hit the pavement. What could possibly go wrong when two people with a habit of confusing fact and fantasy take off looking for adventure? Lots, it turns out, and eleven-year-old Cricket finds herself face-to-face with some hard truths about love, family, and getting home again.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In this middle grade novel, an autobiography assignment gets truly unreal when a middle schooler and her mischievous grandma run away from home. Cricket Cohen isn't a liar, but she doesn't always tell the exact truth. She loves thinking about geology and astronomy and performing tricky brain surgery on her stuffed animals. She also loves conspiring with Dodo, her feisty grandmother who lives in the apartment right next door. One Manhattan weekend when she's in hot water with her teacher and her controlling parents over a fanciful memoir essay, Cricket goes along with Dodo's questionable decision to hit the bricks. Imagining all sorts of escapades, Cricket is happy to leave home behind. But on a crosstown adventure with an elderly woman who has her own habit of mixing truth and fantasy, some hard realities may start to get in the way of all the fun. From Catherine Lloyd Burns (The Good, the Bad & the Beagle) comes The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen, an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth. Praise for>The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen: The ending, Cricket's poignant rewritten memoir, is realistic but hopeful. May reassure readers with aging relatives facing Alzheimer's. --Kirkus Reviews>Reminiscent of a Kate Di Camillo story relocated to the big city. --School Library Journal.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A season in London promises a welcome change of pace for two friends from the village of Kurland St. Mary--until murder makes a debut. . . With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, Lucy Harrington and her sister Anna leave home for a social season in London. At the same time, Lucy's special friend Major Robert Kurland is summoned to the city to accept a baronetcy for his wartime heroism. Amidst the dizzying whirl of balls and formal dinners, the focus shifts from mixing and matchmaking to murder when the dowager Countess of Broughton, the mother of an old army friend of Robert, drops dead. When it's revealed she's been poisoned, Robert's former betrothed, Miss Chingford, is accused, and she in turn points a finger at Anna. To protect her sister, Lucy enlists Robert's aid in drawing out the true culprit. But with suspects ranging from resentful rivals and embittered family members to the toast of the ton, it will take all their sleuthing skills to unmask the poisoner before more trouble is stirred up. . . Praise for Death Comes to the Village "[A] delightful debut. . .Readers will hope death returns soon to Kurland St. Mary." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Lloyd combines a satisfying mystery with plenty of wit and character development." --Booklist.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Society in England is most unforgiving of a reversal of fortune, as Miss Caroline Morton, left penniless after her father's suspicious death, knows all too well. Once a lady, now a lady's companion, she is still enmeshed in the settling of the earl's estate-and soon murder as well-in this "charming cross between a Regency romance and a well-constructed detective story" (Kirkus Reviews) for of Victoria Thompson, C.S. Harris, and Deanna Raybourn. Distraught over her younger sister Susan's decision to leave for America and weary of shepherding her employer Mrs. Frogerton's daughter in her relentless pursuit of marrying a peer, Caroline is dealt another blow when her family solicitors indicate they may have found the lost heir to the Morton earldom. Possible heir Thomas, his mother Mrs. Scutton, and her widowed daughter Mary all descend on Mrs. Frogerton's home on Half Moon Street. The air inside the house is soon thick with family tension and the near palpable presence of avarice. But things go from tense to tragic following the appearance of Mary's dead husband-very much alive and recently released from debtors' prison. Unseen by Caroline and Mrs. Frogerton, a fight breaks out upstairs, leaving Mary fatally stabbed and her mother wounded. The manhunt is on for Mary's husband, led by Inspector Ross. But both Caroline and Mrs. Frogerton begin to suspect that all is not as it seems The Scuttons have brought more than trouble into the home-they may be harboring secrets that could put Caroline and Mrs. Frogerton's very lives at risk . . .…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo. However injured his body may be, his mind is as active as ever. Too active, perhaps. When he glimpses a shadowy figure from his bedroom window struggling with a heavy load, the tranquil facade of the village begins to loom sinister. Unable to forget the incident, Robert confides in his childhood friend, Miss Lucy Harrington.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo. However injured his body may be, his mind is as active as ever. Too active, perhaps. When he glimpses a shadowy figure from his bedroom window struggling with a heavy load, the tranquil facade of the village begins to loom sinister. Unable to forget the incident, Robert confides in his childhood friend, Miss Lucy Harrington.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo. However injured his body may be, his mind is as active as ever. Too active, perhaps. When he glimpses a shadowy figure from his bedroom window struggling with a heavy load, the tranquil facade of the village begins to loom sinister. Unable to forget the incident, Robert confides in his childhood friend, Miss Lucy Harrington.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Set against the timelessly intriguing backdrop of 1830s high-society London, this delightful historical mystery series features Miss Caroline Morton, daughter of a disgraced earl, now gainfully employed as a lady's companion-along with a sideline in sleuthing . . . Lady Caroline is happy to be back amid the swirl of London society, guiding her employer's daughter, Dorothy Frogerton, through her first Season. Dorothy has been declared "an original" by a patron of the exclusive social club, Almack's, and is sifting through potential suitors. Mrs. Frogerton, meanwhile, finds her own diversions, including spiritualist gatherings at the home of Madam Lavinia, and begs Caroline to come along. Caroline is skeptical of Madam's antics and faux French accent-until she slips a note into Caroline's hand, which contains intimate family knowledge. Even as Caroline tries to discern whether the spiritualist's powers are real, a much darker mystery presents itself. Madam Lavinia is found lifeless in her chair, a half-empty glass of port at her elbow. In her desk is a note addressed to Caroline, entreating her to find her murderer. Caroline needs no psychic abilities to determine a motive, for it seems that Madam was blackmailing some of her clients and has left a trail of aggrieved aristocrats behind. But as Caroline and Mrs. Frogerton investigate further, they find other suspects, and a litany of deceptions, some very close to home. Now Caroline will need to keep all her wits about her if she is to stop others from joining Madam Lavinia in the afterlife . . .…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In The Good, The Bad & the Beagle, Catherine Lloyd Burns delivers a heartfelt middle-grade novel readers won't soon forget. Set in Manhattan, The Good, the Bad & the Beagle is the story of feisty eleven-year-old Veronica Morgan, who believes that a furry lemon beagle from the neighborhood pet store will be the solution to the endless worries she has about life in general and friendship in particular. This is a problem, since her bumbling psychiatrist parents won't buy her the puppy she wants or stop meddling in her life at her challenging new school. But things never turn out the way you plan, particularly if you never stop expecting the worst to happen, and haven't taken a chance on being a true friend yourself. Praise for The Good, the Bad & the Beagle: "Offers a warmhearted and realistic take on love, grief, and the difficulties and rewards of making human friends." --Publishers Weekly "Readers will find [Veronica's] journey back to contentment both fully believable and emotionally resonant." --Kirkus Reviews "Animal lovers and insecure middle-schoolers alike will connect with this realistic portrayal of tween life." --Booklist "Burns approaches serious (and less serious) topics with empathy and humor, making Veronica's mistakes and recoveries as fun to read about as the boldest of adventures." --VOYA "Burns's visually descriptive writing brings Manhattan and Veronica's inner thoughts to life." --School Library Journal.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Catherine Lloyd Burns's The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen>is an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her grand daughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth.Cricket Cohen is>not>a liar. She just enhances the truth. Often. Cricket is a natural-born storyteller. She is also a part-time geologist, a Greek professor, and a certified brain surgeon with a thriving private medical practice. Yes, her patients are all stuffed animals, but the work is still very demanding.Despite her busy schedule, Cricket always has time for Dodo, her equally imaginative grandmother. And one Manhattan weekend when Cricket finds herself in hot water with her teacher and thoroughly fed up with her controlling parents, she and Dodo hit the pavement. What could possibly go wrong when two people with a habit of confusing fact and fantasy take off looking for adventure? Lots, it turns out, and eleven-year-old Cricket finds herself face-to-face with some hard truths about love, family, and getting home again.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Catherine Lloyd Burns's The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen>is an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her grand daughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth.Cricket Cohen is>not>a liar. She just enhances the truth. Often. Cricket is a natural-born storyteller. She is also a part-time geologist, a Greek professor, and a certified brain surgeon with a thriving private medical practice. Yes, her patients are all stuffed animals, but the work is still very demanding.Despite her busy schedule, Cricket always has time for Dodo, her equally imaginative grandmother. And one Manhattan weekend when Cricket finds herself in hot water with her teacher and thoroughly fed up with her controlling parents, she and Dodo hit the pavement. What could possibly go wrong when two people with a habit of confusing fact and fantasy take off looking for adventure? Lots, it turns out, and eleven-year-old Cricket finds herself face-to-face with some hard truths about love, family, and getting home again. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In this middle grade novel, an autobiography assignment gets truly unreal when a middle schooler and her mischievous grandma run away from home. Cricket Cohen isn't a liar, but she doesn't always tell the exact truth. She loves thinking about geology and astronomy and performing tricky brain surgery on her stuffed animals. She also loves conspiring with Dodo, her feisty grandmother who lives in the apartment right next door. One Manhattan weekend when she's in hot water with her teacher and her controlling parents over a fanciful memoir essay, Cricket goes along with Dodo's questionable decision to hit the bricks. Imagining all sorts of escapades, Cricket is happy to leave home behind. But on a crosstown adventure with an elderly woman who has her own habit of mixing truth and fantasy, some hard realities may start to get in the way of all the fun. From Catherine Lloyd Burns (The Good, the Bad & the Beagle) comes The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen, an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth. Praise for>The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen: The ending, Cricket's poignant rewritten memoir, is realistic but hopeful. May reassure readers with aging relatives facing Alzheimer's. --Kirkus Reviews>Reminiscent of a Kate Di Camillo story relocated to the big city. --School Library Journal.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In this middle grade novel, an autobiography assignment gets truly unreal when a middle schooler and her mischievous grandma run away from home. Cricket Cohen isn't a liar, but she doesn't always tell the exact truth. She loves thinking about geology and astronomy and performing tricky brain surgery on her stuffed animals. She also loves conspiring with Dodo, her feisty grandmother who lives in the apartment right next door. One Manhattan weekend when she's in hot water with her teacher and her controlling parents over a fanciful memoir essay, Cricket goes along with Dodo's questionable decision to hit the bricks. Imagining all sorts of escapades, Cricket is happy to leave home behind. But on a crosstown adventure with an elderly woman who has her own habit of mixing truth and fantasy, some hard realities may start to get in the way of all the fun. From Catherine Lloyd Burns (The Good, the Bad & the Beagle) comes The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen, an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth. Praise for>The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen: The ending, Cricket's poignant rewritten memoir, is realistic but hopeful. May reassure readers with aging relatives facing Alzheimer's. --Kirkus Reviews>Reminiscent of a Kate Di Camillo story relocated to the big city. --School Library Journal.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Social standing is everything in Regency England-and no one knows better than Miss Caroline Morton, a lady's companion from a disgraced line. But when she has a chance to claim what's rightfully hers, the one obstacle in her way is a dangerous murder mystery . . . Miss Caroline has doubts when she receives an urgent invitation from a London law firm to discuss her late father's estate. After all, the dishonoured Earl of Morton died without a pound sterling to pass on to his two daughters. But while immersing herself in helping Mrs. Frogerton's capricious daughter navigate the high social season, Caroline meets with a cagey lawyer, Mr. Smith, who shares life-altering news-the earl composed a second will, leaving behind an undisclosed fortune. Mrs. Frogerton, however, is thoroughly unimpressed with the firm's conduct and suspicious of their true motives. Her instinct proves right when the two ladies find the office ransacked, staff in turmoil, and Mr. Smith missing. The full weight of the situation doesn't sink in until Mr. Smith dies following a brutal attack on the street-discovered with an empty envelope bearing Caroline's name in his pocket. With a connection forming between two deaths at the firm, Caroline can't imagine why anyone would kill twice over the contents of a will. Further complicating matters is the amorous Mr. DeBloom-who claims his mother goaded the earl into making bad investments and promises to link Caroline to her inheritance-and the disappearance of Susan, her younger sister. As Caroline unwittingly becomes the centre of both a criminal case and a sordid love triangle, she must tread with caution while seeking the truth . . . because someone is waiting to reduce her to nothing more than a signature on a dotted line.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good.