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3161) Amish Christmas twins
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the foster parents they've cautiously grown to love discover they're expecting, orphaned Roy and Jemima Fisher, ages six and seven, are secretly devastated by the certainty they'll be given up. With Christmas around the corner, their only wish is for new foster parents as nice as Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz. Meanwhile, the Kurtzes have wishes of their own-and with faith, they all may be gifted with twice the blessings.
Still grieving the loss of her...
3162) Redwood court: fiction
Author
Series
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"'Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are.' So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling. Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone's been acting very strangely. The...
Author
Series
Katama Bay volume 8
Publisher
Katie Winters
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Elsa's middle child, Mallory, is often described as the quietest and sweetest of all the Remington Women--just as happy go lucky as Elsa, agreeable as Janine, and punctual as Nancy. Needless to say, it never pleased Mallory to be overlooked. But after her accidental pregnancy with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Lucas, plus the death of her father and grandfather in the span of a year, she's had very little time to ask herself that pivotal question:...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Little Women meets My Little Pony in this new graphic novel interpretation of the literary classic about love, life, and sisterhood. Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Rarity appear as the March sisters, who harbor dreams of life beyond Broncord, Massahoofetts"--
3166) Picking up the pieces
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As Nora and her British Army officer husband, Gordy, pack up yet another home and leave the sun of Cyprus for the drizzle of England, she can't shake a feeling of regret--at her failure to follow her own dreams, but also, if she's honest, at having ended up an officer's wife at all, drifting through a life of temporary homes and temporary relationships. Since losing her parents at a young age, Nora's life has been lacking an anchor: someone or something...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other. With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of our country. "JB & FD" reimagines conversations between...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Wendell Combs is as local as they come. Born and raised in the small town of Saybrook, Connecticut, his venture into the larger world was met with heartbreak. Now, middle-aged and a confirmed bachelor, he seeks solitude from his tour of duty as a soldier back in his hometown, working as head caretaker for wealthy Alan Lancaster's forty-acre estate, White Pines, a place he has come to love for its beauty, peace, and quiet. Alan's eldest daughter,...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Rainbow Dash yearns for something to write about, so when Applejack, the Marches' neighbor, arrives home with tales of eel-wrangling and apple-eating, Rainbow Dash and her sisters dare to hope for more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Death may silence your voice, but your spirit lives on in the ones still here, the ones you left behind. These people now must piece together all the tasks you've left unfinished and all the words you've left unsaid. With your abrupt departure, they find that you didn't quite take care of everything. Thankfully, you left a note. It's just too bad you weren't more specific... When literary and film legend JL McMichael dies suddenly of a heart attack,...
Author
Publisher
Valcal Software Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A little girl disappears from Belzec Camp without a trace. Will she survive the war on her own? Poland, 1942. At the very height of World War II, little Ruthie and her mother are forced to leave their home and transported to the forbidding Belzec Extermination Camp, from whence no one has ever returned. Ruthie's mother knows that her daughter's life is in grave danger. By a stroke of luck, she catches the eye of the camp commander and he makes her...
Author
Series
Spirit riding free volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lucky Prescott craves adventure, but as a young lady of society she's only been allowed to experience adventure through books. That is, until one fateful day when Lucky, her father, and her aunt leave their neat-and-tidy city life and travel to their new home out west -- the Wild West. At first Lucky is excited, but during the long train ride to her new hometown of Miradero, she begins to worry. What if she doesn't make any new friends?...
3174) Me an' gus
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Comanches killed their fathers, young Sutter Lowery and August Bell became the primary supporters of their families until their mothers married again. One night, Gus's mother is beaten again by her husband. Gus kills Ben and dumps the body in a sinkhole. That night, Sut an' Gus hit out for tall cane. And thus begins the odyssey of Sut and Gus into the world of cattle drives, rustlers, Indians, horses, and manhood. Sut discovers he has inherited...
3175) Color me in
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
"Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de Chicago, resulta en la muerte de Olga, dejando atrás...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maine, 1969. After losing her parents in a car accident, aspiring artist Annalisa Mancuso lives with her grandmother and their large Italian family in the stifling factory town of Payton Mills. Inspired by her mother, whose own artistic dreams disappeared in a damaged marriage, Annalisa is dedicated only to painting. Closed off to love, and driven as much by her innate talent as she is the disillusionment of her past, Annalisa just wants to come into...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Five cousins must band together to decide the future of their shared inheritance--the family's sprawling property in Stowe, Vermont--but with each at a different place in life, reaching a unanimous decision seems unlikely. Penny struggles with depression and craves stability in an unstable world. Halsey is divorced, raising her child, and contending with an unexpected realization about herself. William can be counted on only to fall in love as capriciously...
3179) Lies come easy
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One blizzardy New Mexico night, Posadas County Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler scooting his Scamper along the shoulder of State 56. Yes, it's horrifying - a child apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is what unrolls while Christmas approaches after dad Darrell Fisher's arrest: a request arrives from the US Forest Service to locate a missing range tech and his unit last reported headed for nearby Stinkin' Springs,...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Little Women meets My Little Pony in this new graphic novel interpretation of the literary classic about love, life, and sisterhood. Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Rarity appear as the March sisters, who harbor dreams of life beyond Broncord, Massahoofetts"--
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