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1) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
A Yoto Original adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. The perfect introduction to this heartwarming story for young listeners. Narrated by Nerissa Bradley and brought to life with music, sound effects, and a full cast.
When their father is away serving as a chaplain in the American Civil War, the March sisters are faced with the trials and tribulations of life, forcing them all to grow up in more ways than one. Follow Meg, Jo, Beth...
Author
Series
Dream Harbor novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town that's too cute for its own good. Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor taking a break from his life in California. And most importantly, taking a break from his latest run of disastrous dates. After a run in with Kira in her fields, Ben has no intention of offering to help the grumpy owner set up her tree farm, despite the fact she's clearly...
Author
Series
Little Women series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years on, the Plumfield boys have all grown up. Each has taken up a new career in life and set off to different corners of the earth to earn their fortune and hone their trade. They nevertheless return to their home in Plumfield to tell their tales, to rekindle old flames of love and to mourn sad news that strikes their small community. Over all this presides Mother Bhaer, flanked by her ever faithful sisters and family.
4) Ethan Frome
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fictional New England town of Starkfield, an unnamed narrator is forced to stay at the home of Ethan Frome during a winter storm. He relates his encounter with Frome, "the most striking figure in Starkfield, he was but the ruin of a man, with a careless powerful look - in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain". When the beautiful cousin of Frome's bitter wife comes to help with housekeeping, Frome's attraction to
...6) Little men
Author
Series
Little Women series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sick and soaked to the skin, Nat Blake has a stroke of luck when he stumbles across Plumfield, a school run by Jo Bhaer and her husband, a haven for lost boys. Immediately taken in by his new chaperone, Nat discovers a life he never knew could exist: one where education runs side by side with fun, in a school propelled by sound guidance and filled with camaraderie and love.
7) Snowblind
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"SNOWBLIND is a thrilling contemporary ghost story with both horror and heart. The small New England town of Coventry is haunted by its memories of a deadly winter... in which loved ones were lost, families torn apart, and a town buried in a terrible blizzard. Now, twelve years later, the people plagued by their memories of that storm are haunted once again as a new storm approaches, promising to wreak new havoc. Old ghosts trickle back, and this...
Author
Series
Decoupage mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"For Brenna Miller, teaching the town's popular decoupage class is the only way to gloss over her painful past. But it hasn't been easy making friends in a town that doesn't warm up to outsiders. And it doesn't help when the pushy mayor asks her to convince her enigmatic landlord, Nate Williams, to sell his lakefront property to land developers. But just when Brenna thinks the mayor's given up, his body is found stuffed in a trunk at Morse Point Lake....
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can you fall in love like they do in the movies? It's Evie Summers's job to find out. Because if she can't convince her film agency's biggest client, Ezra Chester, to write the romantic-comedy screenplay he owes producers, her career will be over. The catch? He thinks rom-coms are unrealistic and he'll only put pen to paper if Evie shows him that it's possible to meet a man in real life the way it happens on the big screen. Cynical Evie might not...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents.
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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father. His wife insists he must solve this mystery to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother{u2019}s former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There, in the midst of a fierce blizzard, Kit and Jasper...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed. Dropping out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school in Hartford, Connecticut, from which she recently graduated,...
16) Due or die
Author
Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Carrie Rushton, president of the Friends of the Library, has been accused of murdering her husband. Lindsey Norris, director of the Briar Creek Public Library, with help from the women of the crafternoon club, work to solve the crime before the killer closes the book on Carrie. Includes crochet pattern and recipes.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"...sixteen-year-old Lucy Kane hates the uber-popular PSL. She finds it overrated -- especially when you consider the fact that there isn't even pumpkin in it! -- which is bad because she works at Cup o' Jo, the local coffee shop her mom owns. Business at Cup o' Jo hasn't been great in the off-season, but that's okay because it always picks up during the fall... Until Java Junction, a multinational coffee chain, opens across the street and makes things...
18) Marmee: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. With her husband serving as an army chaplain, the comfort and security of Margaret's four daughters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, now rest on her shoulders alone. Money is tight and every month, her husband sends less and less of his salary with no explanation. Worst of all, Margaret harbors the secret that these financial hardships are largely...
20) All girls
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel for fans of Sally Rooney, Curtis Sittenfeld, and J. Courtney Sullivan, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England prep school, as nine young women navigate their ambitions, friendships, and fears against the backdrop of a scandal the administration wants silenced. But as the months unfold, and the school's efforts to control the ensuing crisis fall short, these extraordinary girls are forced to...
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