At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their...
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Author: Schlitz, Laura AmySummary:Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Soto, GarySummary:Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Rivers, FrancineSummary:When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds that their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation...
Genre: Religious fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Sill, CathrynSummary:
In this delightful book, teacher and birder Cathryn Sill explains to children what birds are, what they do, and how they live. About Birds is a first thoughtful glimpse into the world of birds,...
Genre: Juvenile nonfiction, Math and science -
Author: Sill, CathrynSummary:
Elementary school teacher and author Cathryn Sill accurately answers the first questions of young naturalists by explaining what mammals are, how they live, and what they do.
Genre: Juvenile nonfiction, Math and science -
Author: Gunn, Robin JonesSummary:
Carolyn takes a break from her widowed San Francisco existence to celebrate her mother's 70th birthday in the Canary Islands. As her mother's gentle affection and the islands' soothing allure...
Genre: Religious fiction, Domestic fiction -
Author: Bear, ElizabethSummary:
The generation ship Jacob's Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship remains a war...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Bennett, Robert JacksonSummary:
An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young fantasy writers. The city of Bulikov once...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Science fiction -
Author: Bennett, Robert JacksonSummary:
"Where your shadow falls there shall be night everlasting. And all shall dwell within the night, and the night shall swallow all." Sigrud je Harkvaldsson has nothing left to live for. He is a...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Spy fiction -
Author: Bennett, Robert JacksonSummary:
The city of Voortyashtan was once the home of the goddess of death, war and destruction, but now it's little more than a ruin. General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Alvarez, JuliaSummary:The author of In the Time of the Butterflies, with more than one million copies in print, is back with a tour de force. Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the...
Genre: Domestic fiction, Literary fiction -
Author: Mochkofsky, GracielaSummary:
The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Christians to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave of emerging Latin American Jewish...
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Author: Alvarez, JuliaSummary:
It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican...
Genre: Literary fiction -
Author: Bear, ElizabethSummary:
After her wings are shorn in battle, the angel Perceval is held captive in an aging spaceship, served by her lost sister and servant girl Rien, and the two must escape together if they are to stop...
Genre: Science fiction