Lesa Lockford
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Series
Wednesday novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
It is early evening when Hope Tantry arrives at the small cottage in England's pastoral Lake District where her mother, Ally, spent the last years of her life. Ally - one of a close-knit group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters - had used the cottage as a writer's retreat while she worked on her unpublished biography of Beatrix Potter, yet Hope knows little about her mother's time there. Traveling with Hope are friends Anna Page...
2) Time flies
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English
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A recently separated woman faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school reunion.
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English
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Evangeline Shaw is the key to the conspiracy that threatens Robert Cannon's company. Classified software developed by Cannon's group is being sold to a foreign government without his approval. It isn't just theft or a case of corporate espionage--it's treason. And the trail leads straight to Shaw--who by all accounts has both the means and the motives. Determined to handle his own investigation, Cannon tracks her to a small town in Alabama. But as...
4) Nightstar
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Language
English
Description
Caren Ainsley is living out a Cinderella story--plucked from obscurity to be the face of Nightstar, the hot, new perfume from Rayven Cosmetics. More than that, she's fallen for Marc Rayven. A man whose kisses promise the love she never thought she'd find. But this new world is ruthless and competitive--the glamour fleeting and the friends false. Can Caren hold on to everything or will it vanish when the clock strikes midnight?
5) Witchcraft
Author
Series
Harlequin intrigue volume 74
Language
English
Description
Mystery writer Kimberly Sawyer lives alone and likes it that way. But when she is threatened by a hooded figure, and a blood-red rose with a needle thrust into its heart is left on her doorstep, she knows she needs protection. So it seems like perfect timing when Napa Valley vineyard owner Darius Cavenaugh returns to Kimberly's life, offering help and a place to stay. But how did he know she needed him? Was it the deep, intuitive intimacy of a soulmate...
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"After a hiking accident, Blake Remington is paralysed by a back injury and begins to lose faith in himself. Slowly, but surely, Dione Kelley's therapy helps him rebuild all that the accident took from him, giving him back the strength he needs to be a man. But is she robbing him of the chance to see her as a woman in the process? She might have fallen for Blake, but how can Dione be sure his words of love are genuine, and aren't just spoken out of...
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English
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When Cathryn Ashe was seventeen, she ran away to the anonymity of the city after a romantic encounter with Rule Jackson, the manager of her father's ranch. Now, eight years later, her father has passed away, leaving her the ranch, and Cathryn returns to claim what's hers...and to challenge Rule like never before.
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"In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America's celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children. In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Mister Rogers is one of the most beloved television personalities ever, but before he was the man who brought us "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", he was just little Freddie Rogers. You Are My Friend tells how Fred was a sickly and lonely child. At school, he was bullied and had trouble making friends and expressing his feelings. His parents and grandparents encouraged Fred to ask for help and explore his world. When Fred grew up he became a champion...
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English
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"Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives. In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse...
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Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched, this historical and scientific book tells the epic saga of the life of an island-its birth in fire, its rise to greatness, its decline, and, finally, the emergence of life on new islands....
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English
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""The Snow Man" by Diana Palmer: Meadow Dawson needs Santa to deliver a solution to her management of the Colorado ranch she's inherited. Cattleman Dal Blake just wants his pretty neighbor's dog to quit digging under his fence. This Christmas, the unexpected gift of love will surprise them both."--
""Kassie's Cowboy" by Lindsay McKenna: A brutal blue norther is battering Wyoming just in time for Christmas when solitary former Marine Travis Grant...
14) Thank you, Omu!
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Omu shares her stew with everyone in the neighborhood until there's nothing left in this incredibly heartwarming story where a generous woman is rewarded by her community.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Clara arrived in America, she didn't know that young women had to go to work and grow up fast. But that didn't stop Clara. She went to night school and helped her family by sewing in a factory. She never accepted that girls should be treated poorly with low pay, so she led the largest walkout of women workers the country had seen. She learned that everyone deserved a fair chance, to stand and fight for what she wanted, and, most importantly,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dancing hands: how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln (2019) (15 min.): "This empowering, lyrical story of a young girl who fled Venezuela and later became known as the Piano Girl shows the journey that led to her playing for Abraham Lincoln"--Container insert.
Muslim girls rise: inspirational champions of our time (2019) (27 min.): "These eloquent biographies introduce young audiences to the diverse and important contributions...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The spacesuit: how a seamstress helped put man on the moon (2019) (14 min.): "When Ellie, an ordinary woman, is asked to lead a team of seamstresses to design the very first spacesuit, no one believes they can win, but they're determined to try!"--Container insert.
Anna Strong: a spy during the American Revolution (2020) (29 min.): "This biography of Anna Strong, one of George Washington's personal spies, tells the story of a brave woman who helped...