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Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Passed and Present is a one-of-a-kind guide for discovering creative and meaningful ways to keep the memory of loved ones alive. Inspiring and imaginative, this bona fide "how-to" manual teaches us how to remember those we miss most, no matter how long they{u2019}ve been gone. Passed and Present is not about sadness and grieving{u2014}it is about happiness and remembering. It is possible to look forward, to live a rich and joyful life, while keeping...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mickie Lambert creates "digital scrapbooks" for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren't forgotten or lost. When her latest client Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickie honors the old woman's last wish and begins curating her peculiar objets d'art. A music box, a hair clip, a keychain-twelve mementos in all that must have meant so much to Nadia who collected them on her flea market scavenges across the country....
3) Bundle of joy!: 20+ patterns for cross stitching unique baby-themed gifts and birth announcements
Author
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
Teaches you how to create a personalized cross stitch baby announcement with patterns including mix-and-match border designs, alphabets, and color schemes to make a truly special gift for every bundle of joy.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Inheriting her great-uncle Louis's bayside souvenir shop should have been a breeze for Glory. Instead it's been one headache after another--with a lot of them generated by Bluebeard, a parrot with a mouth like a sailor and a personality a lot like her late great-uncle. But Glory's troubles pale in comparison to those of her best friend Karen, whose ex may still have the personalized key chain to her heart, but whose brother-in-law is about to get...
7) Mine
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lily moves to a creepy old house in a Florida swamp and finds out that the house isn't empty: it's packed full of the previous occupants' trash, keepsakes, and, Lily begins to suspect, maybe even their ghosts"--
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years. This book is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For thirty-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihood - it's an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year before Frankie's birth, her life begins to unravel in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's winter in Keyhole Bay, Florida, and while the tourist trade is slow, souvenir shop owner Glory Martine is busy with her best friend's wedding. But between managing preparations, the bride's in-laws, and a haunted parrot named Bluebeard, Glory makes plans to catch a killer. As her friends Karen and Riley approach their wedding day, Glory could use a break from the nuptial madness. She takes a peaceful drive to Alabama's piney woods to pick up...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Glory Martine has inherited her uncle's Florida souvenir shop, one stuffed with collectibles, mementos of times gone by--and ghosts--who, like her customers, refuse to let go of the past. But things take an even more unexpected turn when a local football hero dies far too suddenly and suspiciously. Now, Glory has to uncover the truth before someone makes her history.
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