Although she's never met her fiancé, she's headed for New York to marry one of America's wealthiest heirs. Filled with doubts and hoping for a chance at "real life," she swaps identities with her...
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Author: Moser, NancySummary:Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Speare, Elizabeth GeorgeSummary:Miriam Willard and her family are taken captive by Indians from a New Hampshire settlement and brought to Canada as prisoners at the beginning of the French and Indian War.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Parr, DeliaSummary:
When tragedy strikes, Emma graciously welcomes the needy to her boardinghouse. But when two of these guests prove cantankerous, Emma wonders how she and the others will manage. Compounding the...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Nixon, Joan LowerySummary:When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Seaman, BarbaraSummary:
In America 30 million women take estrogen. Seaman shows that this powerful hormone is hardly the cure-all some claim it is. In fact, estrogen treatments may increase the risk of cancer, heart...
Genre: Medicine, health and fitness -
Author: Yerkes, Leslie, Decker, CharlesSummary:
Based on the success story of a small Seattle coffee shop, this audiobook is a tasty brew of sound principles and instructive anecdotes.
Genre: Anecdotes, Business and economics -
Author: Sidman, JoyceSummary:
The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.
Genre: Picture books, Juvenile poetry -
Author: Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Presents twenty-two short stories of American life.
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Wharton, EdithSummary:Beautiful, calculating Undine Spragg wants more than anything to be stylish. Never satisfied, she is constantly planning her next social accomplishment. In her struggle, she encounters Ralph...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Tatlock, Ann.Summary:
11-year-old Rosalind finds 70-year-old Tillie on her front porch--again. Wanting to die in the place where she lived for half a century, Tillie continues leaving her senior living complex and...
Genre: Religious fiction -
Author: Tatlock, Ann.Summary:
When Eve discovers her uncle's bootlegging operation, she knows it's against Prohibition law. But can she really condemn the only thing supporting her family?
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Montgomery, L. M.Summary:Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: O'Brien, Robert C.Summary:Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Science fiction -
Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the...
Genre: Essays, Literary arts -
Author: Didion, JoanSummary:In this intensely personal, deeply moving account, the author exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events. Her daughter's serious illness and her...