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Author
Series
Candlewood trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
When tragedy befalls the village of Candlewood, Emma Garrett graciously opens the doors of her boardinghouse to those in need. But two guests prove so disagreeable, Emma wonders how she can turn the other cheek--and what will become of the rest of her guests. Adding to the turmoil are the legal problems threatening the title to her house. And when Zachary Breckenwith makes a most surprising--and troubling--announcement, Emma's once-sure foundation...
Author
Series
Candlewood trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Formats
Description
The engaging village of Candlewood in 1840s New York provides a glimpse into the past that will inspire and uplift today's readers. Fifty-one-year-old Emma Garrett runs Hill House, a boardinghouse on a hill at the edge of town. Emma ministers to her guests, both the transient and those who call Hill House home. Gifted with an uncanny ability to see the unique strengths of her guests, Emma serves and challenges them with homespun wisdom and absolute...
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
It is the autumn of 1920 and Leah Breckenridge is desperate to find a way to provide for her young daughter. After losing her husband and infant son in an accident, she is angry at God and fearful about the future. Finding refuge in a boardinghouse run by her late husband's aunt, Leah's heart begins the slow process of mending. Is it the people who surround her--or perhaps this very house--that reach into her heart with healing?
Author
Series
Candlewood trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Garrett is eagerly anticipating the arrival of spring, when her family plans to reunite in Candlewood. Together they will celebrate her birthday at Hill House, the boardinghouse she oversees. Though anxious to introduce her sons to Zachary Breckenwith, the man she's been courting, her sons' own problems--and wounds deeply hidden since childhood--soon overshadow her joy. As Zachary presses Emma for an answer to his marriage proposal, her initial...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she shouldn't. Bad dreams and night whispers...
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a Winter Ball that was a mix of fun and worry, seventeen-year-old DJ sets aside her hope for a quiet Christmas and joins Taylor in Las Vegas, although she fears she will do nothing but try to keep her roommate out of trouble.
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Mrs. Carter becomes increasingly distracted by General Harding, her boardinghouse girls find more opportunities to get into trouble, especially during a weekend getaway to a luxurious Vermont ski lodge, to which some of the girls have invited boys.
9) Last dance
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 8
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
As graduation and last good-byes approach, the Carter House girls make prom plans and find themselves in heated competion for the limelight in a Mother's Day fashion show.
10) New York debut
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 6
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life at the Carter house is in an uproar, with Taylor coming home from rehab treatment, Kriti developing a possible eating disorder, and Eliza creating competition between the girls for the New York debut at Spring Fashion Week.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
12) Spring breakdown
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 7
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The wealthy fashion students in Mrs. Carter's boardinghouse spend a quiet spring break in Florida until the boys from Crescent Cove arrive and heiress Eliza goes missing.
13) A time to bloom
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching in their booming town offers hope, not only to support her sisters financially, but...
14) Nancy and Plum
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Two orphaned sisters are sent to live at a boarding home run by the cruel and greedy Mrs. Monday, where they dream about someday having enough to eat and being able to experience a real Christmas.
15) Nightingale
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers convinces her sisters to open their seaside home to guests to provide for their ailing mother. Emily and Georgiana agree, but Viola, who wears a veil to cover a scar, detests the idea. Determined to stay together, the sisters begin the new venture. Instead of the elderly invalids they expect, however, they find themselves hosting eligible gentlemen. Sarah is torn between a growing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
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