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Author
Series
Nantucket volume 2
Language
English
Description
Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and neighbors, and especially to each other. But just before the beginning of another idyllic summer, Greg and Tess are killed when their boat capsizes during an anniversary sail. As the warm weather approaches and the island mourns...
Author
Series
Kendal trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two young people confronted with the problem of making a true marriage in the midst of today's confusion. On one side is the modern lifestyle of their college friends - on the other, the pressure for a formal wedding in a church they have never attended. A novel about Quaker beliefs.
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Atria books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers -- Will and Jeff -- and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences...
Author
Series
Bob the Builder volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[c2001, c1999]
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
[24] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can they surprise Bob? Yes, they can! Poor Bob! He can't understand why nobody has remembered his birthday. Little does he know that Wendy is planning a special surprise birthday party for him."
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 88
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
134 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dawn's been missing California more than ever. Especially now that her best friend in California needs her. Dawn must face the facts : while she loves Connecticut, her heart is telling her to return to California permanently. But it sure isn't easy. It is tough to hear her friends talk about replacing her in the BSC. Even worse, Dawn can't figure out how to break the news to Mary Anne. How can she tell her best friend and stepsister that she wants...
10) The Salt Of Life
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Italiano
Description
In his warm and witty follow-up to *Mid-August Lunch,* writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedy—this time with a dash of the bittersweet. In THE SALT OF LIFE, Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic mother, a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner, a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom...
Author
Series
Publisher
Christian Alternative
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
64 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Quaker Roots and Branches explores what Quakers call their "testimonies" - the interaction of inspiration, faith and action to bring change in the world. It looks at Quaker concerns around the sustainability of the planet, peace and war, punishment, and music and the arts in the past and today. It stresses the continuity of their witness over three hundred and sixty-five years as well as their openness to change and development.
12) Never tell a lie
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ivy and David Rose, happily married high school sweethearts and expecting their first child, are plunged into a growing web of suspicion when a young, pregnant high school classmate disappears and David's past is exposed in this tale of obsession.
Author
Series
Quaker midwife mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quaker midwife Rose Carroll discovers dark secrets in 1888 Massachusetts
For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs. But as he writes,...
15) Home to harmony
Author
Series
Harmony volume 1st year
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to Harmony ...In this acclaimed inaugural volume in the Harmony series, master American storyteller Philip Gulley draws us into the charming world of minister Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown, capturing the essence of small-town life with humor and wisdom.
16) Judge thee not
Author
Series
Quaker midwife mystery volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
No stranger to judgmental attitudes in her small town of Amesbury, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is nonetheless stunned when society matron Mayme Settle publicly snubs her good friend Bertie for her nontraditional lifestyle. When Mrs. Settle is later found murdered--and a supposed witness insists Bertie was spotted near the scene of the crime--the police have no choice but to set their sights on the slighted woman as their main suspect. Rose is certain...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds to her pregnant and postpartum mothers. When Charity Skells dies from an apparent early miscarriage, Rose wonders about the symptoms that don't match the stated case of death.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker father and widower, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life. He sets out with two horses, a wagonful of belongings, his five children, a 15-year-old orphan wife, and a few land warrants for his future homestead. When Daniel suddenly trades a horse for a young slave, Onesimus, it sets in motion a struggle in his conscience that will taint his life forever, and sets in motion a chain of events...
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