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When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor, her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and offers a job helping to salvage the condemned Stagecoach Inn, what does Agnes have to lose? But work at the inn has barely begun when the unlikely duo find the body of manipulative...
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"With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can't afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a plan. But how's she supposed to think when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son won't even consider college, her best friend is on the brink of marital disaster and her ex is making a bad decision that could bring everything crashing down on Robyn's head? When her great-aunt Lillian invites her to Santa Barbara for the summer,...
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"Smarting from her recently canceled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety-three. Alongside boxes of Polaroids and pottery, a mysterious wooden duck shows up at the bottom of a cedar chest. Laurie's curiosity is piqued, especially after she finds a love letter to the never-married Dot that ends with the line...
10) Miss Rumphius
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As a child, Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful; she does them all, the last being the hardest of all.
13) Monster blood
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Soon after he purchases a dusty can of monster blood at the funky old toy store near his great-aunt's house, Evan begins to notice some strange things happening to the people around him.
15) Dog days
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Gavin is a new kid at Carver Elementary, where the kids do not know how good he is at skateboarding and soccer. Before he has a chance to prove his coolness, Gavin gets in trouble with his great-aunt Myrtle. As punishment he is made to take care of her Pomeranian dog, Carlotta, pretty much ensuring that he will never be seen as cool.
16) Miss Rumphius
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Great-aunt Alice Rumphius was once a little girl who loved the sea, longed to visit faraway places, and wished to do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
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Living with her Great-aunt Louise on the shores of Cape Cod, Stella finds that Louise likes routine just as much as she does. Stella's mother lacks reliability, so she is off finding herself while Stella hopes she will be able to settle back at Cape Cod. The only hitch in a perfect life so far is Angel, Louise's less-than-angelic foster kid. When Stella and Angel are forced into a situation where Louise cannot help them, they find that they have come...
18) Lucky Christmas
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When Great-Aunt Octavia's visit banishes his dog Lucky from the house, George tries to get him reinstated in time for Christmas.
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Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.