Charlotte Ritchie
Author
Language
English
Description
Betty McDowell, a masterful Project Manager at Flow-Soft Corporation in Albany, NY, is deeply immersed in the development and upgrade of the company's pipeline management software. Seizing the chance for change, she takes on a six-month stint in Miami, Florida, to oversee the software's implementation at Miami-Dade Pipeline Corporation – and to bask in the healing sunshine, leaving Albany's winter behind. In Miami, her professionalism shines, as...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living inhabitants and its restless dead is settling into a strange kind of daily routine. But cash-strapped Alison and Mike's plan to transform their unexpected inheritance into a bustling luxury hotel is still a distant dream. Could the exploitation of their troupe of ghostly housemates bring in the funds they need--or are they setting...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Alison and Mike are working hard to bring their new 'guest house' plans to fruition, when the peace is disrupted by an unexpected visitor who arrives with a life-changing revelation. Alison questions everything she thought she knew, and the ghosts react with varying degrees of fear, mistrust, and in some cases, delight. Meanwhile, Mike is more intent than ever to put Button House on the map while trying to hold onto his day job."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This fourth series sees resident ghosts and cash-strapped couple Mike and Alison face life changing events at Button house - their crumbling, haunted stately home. Alison and Mike are determined to get the best reviews from the guests at their luxury new B&B. However, buried secrets, booking mix-ups and open war with neighbours all collide to create a chaotic series of events which threatens to derail their dreams. --container
Author
Language
English
Description
NAOMI ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A MOTHER. But three years ago, her husband left, taking their child with him. Now, her daughter has come to stay, and Naomi knows it's her one chance to rebuild her family. But the night ends in a terrible accident. And Naomi tells a lie she can never take back: SHE REPORTS HER DAUGHTER MISSING. Within hours, her home is invaded. Journalists crowd the driveway. Police search the woods at the foot of the garden. Her ex-husband...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The residents of Button House – the living and the dead – are back as the BAFTA-nominated supernatural sitcom returns for its fifth and final series. The unlikely house share between Mike and Alison and their after-life tenants continues to cause comedy chaos. There’s April fools’ high jinks between Alison and the ghosts. Meanwhile, Mike struggles to handle the insurance claim on the gate house fire (yes, lightning really does strike thrice)....
14) Eve of man
Author
Series
Eve of man volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where no girls had been born in fifty years, Eve arrived and, having been protected from the dangers of a ruined world, is now sixteen and expected to renew the human race.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Alison and Mike are working hard to bring their new 'guest house' plans to fruition, when the peace is disrupted by an unexpected visitor who arrives with a life-changing revelation. Alison questions everything she thought she knew, and the ghosts react with varying degrees of fear, mistrust, and in some cases, delight. Meanwhile, Mike is more intent than ever to put Button House on the map while trying to hold onto his day job.
Author
Language
English
Description
As Poplar prepares for Christmas, the nuns leave for the Mother House to vote in a new mother superior and to help care for a group of Chinese orphans. Meanwhile, Trixie returns to Poplar refreshed and is shocked to discover that many mothers no longer want to give birth at home.