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Author
Series
Pig trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
What the pig did -- in Joseph Caldwell's charmingly Romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland -- is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance, utter pandemonium ... and finally the mystery of a possible criminal transgression that the beast roots up from a vegetable garden.
Author
Series
Barco de vapor. Serie oro/azul volume 7
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community,...
10) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. At first it seems to be his grandson, who cruelly murders one of Walter's pigs in an act of seemingly senseless violence. But then the rumors begin—people in town whisper that Walter's grandson heard a voice that commanded him to kill. And that the voice belongs to a most peculiar creature: Walter's pig, Pearl. Walter is not sure what to believe. He knows that he's always been afraid of the strangely...
Author
Publisher
John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Jane is haunted. Since she was a child, she has carried a ghost girl that feeds on the secrets and fears of everyone around her, whispering to Jane what they are thinking and feeling, even when she doesn't want to know. Henry, Jane's brother, is ridden by a genius ghost that forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. Their mother is possessed by a lonely spirit that burns anyone she touches. In Swine Hill, a place of defeat and depletion,...
12) Fifty-four pigs
Author
Series
Dr. Bannerman vet mysteries volume 1
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A swine barn explodes near a lakeside Manitoba town, putting veterinarian Dr. Peter Bannerman on a collision course with murder and a startling conspiracy. Peter is an odd duck, obsessed with logic and measurable facts, an obsession he puts to good use in his veterinary practice. When a murder is connected to the swine barn explosion and his friend Tom becomes the prime suspect, Peter feels compelled to put his reasoning skills, and his dog Pippin's...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
In a few months Romania will join the European Union. Meanwhile, the northern Italian town of Turin has been rocked by a series of deadly crimes involving Albanians and Romanians. Is this the latest eruption of a clan feud dating back centuries, or is the trouble being incited by local organized crime syndicates who routinely "infect" neighborhoods and then "cleanse" them in order to earn big on property developments? Enzo Laganà, born in Turin to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Elle B. White's delightful second Finn Family Farm mystery, farmer Charlotte Finn and her sleuthing baby pig are neck-deep in strawberries and crime. Things are finally growing smoothly on the Finn Family Farm. With the help of caretakers Joe and Alice Wong and farmer Samuel Brown, Charlotte Finn is starting to feel at home at the Santa Barbara County produce farm she inherited. But all is not strawberries and cream: A blight is destroying young...
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