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Mimi and Her New Friend: A Visit to Grandma's House

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Abrefah, Gina, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Visit to Grandmaas House: Nykaas parents are from Africa and she has heard a lot of stories about the continent and most of all stories about her grandmaas garden. Nyka was surprised when her parents informed her about a visit to Ghana (West Africa). Since Nyka is afraid of acreepy crawlies, a guess what she will pack in her pink suitcase and all the stories she will brings back to Canada. Mimias New Friend: Mimi visits her auntie in Canada for the first time. She is overwhelmed by all the tall buildings and beautiful places. She meets Emma whose family doesnat want to have anything to do with Africans but both girls like each other. How can Mimi change the minds of Emmaas family? How can they remain friends after Mimi goes back to Africa?

The Longest Whale Song

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Jacqueline, PUBLISHER: Corgi Books, Ella's mother ends up in a coma after giving birth to her new baby brother and Ella is forced to make her peace with her new stepdad. At school, she loses a best friend and copes with a bully, but her new friend Joseph shares her enthusiasm for whales and becomes an unexpected source of support. "From the Hardcover edition."

Amelia Hits the Road

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moss, Marissa, PUBLISHER: San Val, Amelia's notebooks entertain readers with great stories about the ups and downs of growing up, told from the perspective of an inquisitive, insightful 10-year-old girl. What's more, her witty words and whimsical doodles encourage girls to express their creativity by drawing and writing about their own lives. Amelia and her family head off on a wild ride through the Wild West -- and visit her old best friend, Nadia.

Laura's Christmas Star

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Baumgart, Klaus, PUBLISHER: Little Tiger Press, Laura and her little brother Tommy are so excited about visiting Aunt Martha for Christmas, that they wake their parents up early and load up the car. But when the car breaks down and they must return home on Christmas Eve to a house with no Christmas tree, Laura and Tommy are sad. Will Laura and her friend, the star, be able to make Christmas merry for her family?

Dreams of Bread and Fire

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kricorian, Nancy / Dricorian, Nancy, PUBLISHER: Grove Press, Kricorian's second novel is a beautifully etched tale of romance, idealism, and the quest for self-identity by a writer praised for her "admirable economy and grace" (The Baltimore Sun). Poetic and assured, it is the story of a young American woman whose half-Jewish, half-American heritage seems a mere footnote to her own identity until the dark shadows of history propel her into a quest for her long dead father, and a search for the clues of a nearly forgotten genocide. While studying in Paris, Ani Silver receives a letter from her New England boyfriend ending their relationship. Thus begins a series of romantic misadventures, culminating in her reconnection with a childhood friend. Their shared preoccupation with their Armenian heritage provides Ani with a new facet to her own identity--even as she begins to suspect that her friend has a secret--and dangerous--identity. Funny and heartbreaking to its bold and exquisite conclusion. Dreams of Bread and Fire is an irresistible novel of passion, ideals, and the temptations of trying to outrun our origins.

Lily's Ghosts

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ruby, Laura, PUBLISHER: HarperTrophy, A sinister old house, an intriguing new friend, a fifty-year-old mystery, and a tag-team of disgruntled ghosts force thirteen-year-old Lily to unearth her family's deepest secrets in this multilayered tale that's both hilarious and harrowing, comic and creepy.

Sweet Salt Air

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Delinsky, Barbara, PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, From "New York Times" bestselling author Barbara Delinsky--a woman has a secret that may save the life of her best friend's husband--or destroy him Charlotte and Nicole were once the best of friends, spending summers together in Nicole's family's island house, but they have since grown apart. A successful travel writer, Charlotte lives on the road, while Nicole, a food blogger, lives in Philadelphia with her surgeon-husband, Julian. When Nicole returns to the island house in order to write a book about island food, she invites her old friend Charlotte for both sentimental and practical reasons. Outgoing and passionate, Charlotte has a gift for talking to people and making friends, and Nicole would like her help interviewing locals for her book. Missing a genuine connection, Charlotte agrees. But what both women don't know is that they are each holding a secret that may change their relationship forever. Are the bonds of friendship strong enough to weather past indiscretions and betrayals? Can love survive an honest mistake? Filled with real, gut-wrenching emotion as well as a strong romantic storyline, "Sweet Salt Air" is a new offering from a beloved storyteller guaranteed to make you laugh and cry.

Beyond: A Ghost Story

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McNamee, Graham, PUBLISHER: Wendy Lamb Books, Sara Cole is not your typical teen. She and her best friend Lexi call themselves the Creep Sisters. Only Lexi knows why Sara is different from anyone else: Her own shadow seems to pull her into near-fatal accidents. Sara is determined to find out why these terrifying things happen, and to overcome her shadow enemy. Her sleuthing with Lexi connects her own horrors to the secret history of a serial killer.

Dawn of Liberty

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Phillips, Michael, PUBLISHER: Tyndale House Publishers, The year is , and Matthew and Sabina return to a united Germany to attend an evangelism conference and to find a way to visit "Lebenhaus," the Dortmann estate. Meanwhile, their son, Tad, while researching a story for a world news organization, meets a young woman. He starts her thinking about the God she knew as a teenager and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to destroy the newfound freedom of the Eastern Bloc nations.

Looking for Cassandra Jane

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carlson, Melody, PUBLISHER: Tyndale House Publishers, Written in first-person, memoir style, this is the heart-touching story of Cass Maxwell, a girl struggling to find her identity during the turbulent sixties and seventies. Forced to make her own way from childhood, Cass's strength of spirit lifts her above her circumstances as God calls her to a life of hope and freedom.

A New Beginning

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Anders, Toni, PUBLISHER: Ulverscroft Large Print, Rowena had only met her godmother once, so why had Leonora Lawton left Cherry Cottage to her in her will? Should Rowena sell her bequest and continue to run her successful children's nursery, or make a new beginning in the chocolate box cottage two hundred miles away? The antagonism of Kavan Reagan, her attractive neighbor, who had hoped to inherit the cottage himself, only strengthens her resolve to make a new life for herself.

Birds of a Feather

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Calhoun, Jackie, PUBLISHER: Naiad Pr, Joan McKenzie is beginning to question her life's choices. Living alone and juggling two jobs to pay her mortgage aren't what she would have planned for herself. And that's exactly the problem. Because she never took charge of her life, her life took charge of her. Rather than finishing her education, she put all her energy into training dogs and showing horses. After she was dumped by the woman for whom she left her marriage, Joan just couldn't get into the dating scene. At times, she thought, the only things that kept her going were her dog, her love of the outdoors, and her long term relationship with her best friend, Diane. But just when she least expects it, not one, but two exciting new women walk into her life...and a dramatic change in Diane's situation will soon give Joan a chance for a brand new start.

Coping with Miscarriage: A Simple, Reassuring Guide to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Luebbermann, Mimi, PUBLISHER: Prima Lifestyles, Most women who miscarry feel grief-stricken, and few understand how deeply their sorrow runs. Often these women receive little comfort from doctors, relatives, friends, and even spouses. Mimi Luebbermann draws upon her years as a counselor to show mourning women -- and men -- how to ease their sorrow.

Sisters Keeper

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lordon, Randye, PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Griffin, After a life-long family freind is killed in a traffic accident, P.I. Sydney Sloane begins to uncover her friend's death was accidental, Sloane starts to investigate and finds herself following a trail of deceit and murder that threatens Sloane's family, her girlfriend, and her life.

The Missing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewis, Beverly, PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers, Readers anxiously await the second book in this moving series filled with mystery and family secrets, love and loss, heartbreak and healing. Twenty-one-year-old Grace Byler longs to find her missing mother and to uncover the secret that drove her to leave them three weeks before. Grace suspects the reason has to do with her father and his reserved, uncommunicative ways. This conviction led Grace to break off her betrothal to her quiet, staid beau, and she is now resigned to remain single. But when the young Amishman she thought was courting her best friend takes a sudden interest in her, Grace is befuddled and wonders if he can be trusted. "Englisher" Heather Lang has come to Amish country to relive fond memories of her mother and to contemplate a grave medical prognosis of her own. While in Bird-in-Hand, Heather meets Grace Byler and the two young women strike up a fast friendship, amazed by how well they click. Following the only clue they have, Grace and Heather travel together in hopes of finding Grace's mother and bringing her home. Will they find what they're looking for...or something much more?

My Book of Life by Angel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Leavitt, Martine, PUBLISHER: Farrar Straus Giroux, When sixteen-year-old Angel meets Call at the mall, he buys her meals and says he loves her, and he gives her some candy that makes her feel like she can fly. Pretty soon she's addicted to his candy, and she moves in with him. As a favor, he asks her to hook up with a couple of friends of his, and then a couple more. Now Angel is stuck working the streets at Hastings and Main, a notorious spot in Vancouver, Canada, where the girls turn tricks until they disappear without a trace, and the authorities don't care. But after her friend Serena disappears, and when Call brings home a girl who is even younger and more vulnerable than her to learn the trade, Angel knows that she and the new girl have got to find a way out.

Dancing with the Cranes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Armstrong, Jeannette / Hall, Ron, PUBLISHER: Theytus Books, This Book Subtly Presents an understanding of birth, life and death. Chi's mother is soon to have a baby, but Chi's is having a hard time being enthusiastic about her new sibling. Chi' misses her Temma (Grandmother), who has passed away. Chi's mother and father help her to bear the grief of her lost Temma and help her to understand life and death as part of nature. Chi' soon finds herself feeling comforted, knowing her Temma will always be a part of her and looking forward to the new child who will be a part of their lives.

Sister Peters in Amsterdam

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Neels, Betty, PUBLISHER: Harlequin Books, Sister Adelaide Peters was surprised, but also very proud and excited, to have been chosen to represent her hospital in a new exchange scheme. It meant she'd be spending a year in Holland. Adelaide was determined to do her best, and she more than succeeded She adored Holland, liked her colleagues and even mastered some of the language. She also unexpectedly -- and disastrously -- fell in love with her new boss. But Professor Coenraad van Essen was clearly out of her league.

Katy Duck and the Tip-Top Tap Shoes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Capucilli, Alyssa Satin / Cole, Henry, PUBLISHER: Simon Spotlight, Katy Duck meets a new friend AND learns a new dance in this encouraging tale for beginning readers. "Tra la la Quack Quack " When Mr. Tutu announces that his dance class will be trying out a new type of dance, dancing diva Katy Duck has her doubts about tapping. After all, ballet has always been her favorite type of dance. But thanks to the example set by a new friend, Katy Duck soon realizes that trying something different can be fun With sweet text from bestselling author Alyssa Satin Capucilli and bright, friendly illustrations from Henry Cole, this encouraging Level 1 Ready-to-Read story is sure to be a favorite for beginning readers

44 Charles Street

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Steel, Danielle, PUBLISHER: Corgi Books, First time in paperback "A magical transformation takes place in Danielle Steel's luminous novel: Strangers become roommates, roommates become friends, and friends become a family in a turn-of-the-century house in Manhattan's West Village." The plumbing was prone to leaks, the furniture rescued from garage sales. And every square inch was being devotedly restored to its original splendor--even as a relationship fell to pieces. Now Francesca Thayer, newly separated from her boyfriend, is suddenly the sole mortgage payer on her Greenwich Village townhouse. The struggling art gallery owner does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders, and soon her home becomes a whole new world. First comes Eileen, a fresh, pretty L.A. transplant, now a New York City schoolteacher. Then there's Chris, a young father fighting for custody of his seven-year-old son. The final tenant is Marya, a celebrated cookbook author hoping to start a new chapter in life after the death of her husband. Over the course of one amazing, unforgettable, ultimately life-changing year, Francesca discovers that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. The house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, heartbreak, and hope--and in the hands of master storyteller Danielle Steel, it's a place those who visit will never want to leave.

The House of Mirth

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wharton, Edith, PUBLISHER: Createspace, Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton's most popular novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by them. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her drive and her spark of independent character prevent her from conforming sucessfully. Her desire for a comfortable life means that she will not marry for love without money, but her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals and leads to a dramatic downward spiral into debt and dishonor. One of Edith Wharton's most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile, highly ordered world, "The House of Mirth" unfolds with the force of classical tragedy.

Lawn Mower Magic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jonell, Lynne, PUBLISHER: Random House, With a "POP " and a puff of smoke, the Willows' lawn mower calls it quits. A new mower will cost their parents a lot of money, money Derek had hoped to borrow for a train ticket to visit a friend. Luckily Derek and his brother and sisters find a rusty push mower tucked away in the shed. It doesn't look like much, but it turns out that it's been soaking up magic for years. And it's hungry for grass Can Derek "earn" his ticket? Maybe... if he, Abner, Tate, and Celia can keep the magic mower under control Lynne Jonell follows up her Junior Library Guild selection, "Hamster Magic, " with a second story of the Willow family's rowdy run-ins with mixed-up magic.

No Place Like Home

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clark, Mary Higgins, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, In a riveting thriller from the #1 bestselling Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to the childhood home she wanted to leave behind forever -- and where her hidden past emerges with a new and deadly twist. Ten-year-old Liza Barton shoots her mother while trying to protect her from her violent husband -- Liza's stepfather. While the death is ruled accidental, the tabloids still compare Liza to the child murderess Lizzie Borden. Liza's adoptive parents change her name to Celia and try to erase all traces of her past. Widowed after a brief marriage in which she had a son, Jack, she remarries a young lawyer. Celia is happy until, on her birthday, he presents her with a gift -- the house where she killed her mother. On moving in, they find the words LITTLE LIZZIE'S PLACE - BEWARE painted in red letters on the lawn. When the real estate agent who sold the house to her husband is murdered, she becomes a suspect. As she struggles to prove her innocence, Celia and her little son are being stalked by the killer.

The Stars Compel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Roessner, Michaela, PUBLISHER: Tor Books, Tommaso Arista is the son of two of the most prestigious families of chefs to the household of Cosimo Ruggerio, noble astrologer to the Pope, and a powerful political figure in Florence and Rome. His mother is a Befanini -- the hereditary cooks of the de' Medici family, bound to the Dukes of Florence by centuries of both service and blood, family in all but the name. Catherine de' Medici is the only legitimate heir to the de' Medici fortune and titles. She is the Duchessina, but the title, and the incredible wealth, will go to the man who marries her. When her uncle and guardian, Pope Clement, recalls her to Rome to use her and her dowry as a precious pawn in his political maneuverings with the crowns of Europe, Catherine chooses Tommaso as her personal chef and head of her household -- he will go with her to serve and protect her, and to be her friend in a dangerous place. Catherine has plans for her future, plans that do not include being sold as part of the Pope's treaty with France.

Masquerade

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hoff, B. J., PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers, Returning to her hometown to investigate a cult leader, journalist Danni St. John joins forces with the appealing yet mysterious sheriff. Must she risk her life to uncover the truth about her hometown and the pursuant lawman? A Portrait book.

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