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2101) Sisters of the fire
Author
Series
Blood and Gold volume Bk 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four years have passed since the five sisters-- daughters of the ruling king-- worked together to restore their father to health and to the throne, while fracturing the bonds between themselves almost irreparably. Only Bluebell is still at home, dutifully serving as heir to her father's kingdom. Rose has been cast aside by her former husband and hides in exile with her aunt, separated forever from her beloved daughter, Rowan. Ash wanders the distant...
2102) St. Ivo: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of a weekend, two couples reckon with the long-hidden secrets that have shaped their families in Joanna Hershon's charged, poignant novel of motherhood and friendship. It's the end of summer when we meet Sarah, the end of summer and the middle of her life, the middle of her career (she hopes it's not the end), the middle of her marriage (recently repaired). And despite the years that have passed since she last saw her daughter, she...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...
2104) Rule
Author
Series
Rule volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The king is dying, his heir has been murdered, and rebellion brews in the east. But the kingdom of Kolonya and the outer Reaches has one last option: the king has three illegitimate daughters, and one must become his new heir. Zofi is a Traveler from the outer Reaches; she would do anything to protect the band, her family. Akeylah was raised in the Eastern Reach, surrounded by whispers of rebellion and abused by her father. Ren grew up serving as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In [this book], with refreshing honesty and vulnerability, Janet shares the darkest moments in the aftermath of her husband's death and takes us on a journey toward healing and wholeness. She doesn't offer simple formula; instead, she shows us the reality of healing--that it can be messy and slow. But making the effort, as Janet discovered, can bring strength and purpose in amazing new ways."--Page 4 of cover.
2106) Una nota falsa
Author
Series
39 clues volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
EspaƱol
Description
A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. There's a car and speedboat chase and an angry mob! When there's a Clue on the line, anything can happen.
"La carrera contrarreloj para encontrar las 39 pistas ha empezado, y los hermanos huĆ©rfanos Amy y Dan Cahill no pueden creer que estĆ©n a la cabeza de la bĆŗsqueda, que los lleva a Viena y Venecia. Pero, ĀælograrĆ”n...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Med school dropout Lena is desperate for a job, any job, to help her parents, who are approaching bankruptcy after her father was injured and laid off nearly simultaneously. So, when she is offered a position, against all odds, working for one of Boston's most elite families, the illustrious and secretive Verdeaus, she knows she must accept it-no matter how bizarre the interview or how vague the job description. By day, she is assistant to the family...
2108) And she was
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.
2109) The mask that sang
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Cass and her mom have always stood on their own against the world. Then Cass learns she had a grandmother, one who was never part of her life, one who has just died and left her and her mother the first house they could call their own. But with it comes more questions than answers: Why is her Mom so determined not to live there? Why was this relative kept so secret? And what is the unusual mask, forgotten in a drawer, trying to tell her? Strange dreams,...
2110) Escape from Aleppo
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Nadia is separated from her family while fleeing the civil war, she spends the next four days with a mysterious old man who helps her navigate the checkpoints and snipers of the rebel, ISIS, and Syrian armies that are littering Aleppo on her way to meeting her father at the Turkish border.
2111) Crossing the river
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The women of the Wayferer Inn investigate the thefts of a framed "Eliza" print from the Inn and a first-edition copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin from the local Underground Railroad Museum. Meanwhile, Brad Grimes, LuAnn's friend-turned-boyfriend, seems like he's really getting serious about their relationship.
2112) What I promise you
Author
Series
Echoes of the past volume 2
Language
English
Description
1942 - NoƩmie Treves, a young, pregnant Jewish woman, had her entire world shattered when she is arrested and taken to the Camp de Rivesaltes transit camp in Southwest France. No sooner does she arrive, though, than she assists in helping two young girls scheduled for transport escape to a nearby maternity hospital. The matron there befriends her and changes her name to help hide her. But nothing goes according to plan, and Hannah finds herself doing...
2113) The ghostly photos
Author
Series
Mysteries of trash and treasure volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends--even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led them to unravel mysteries about kids from the 1970s. But when they started Mystery Solvers Inc., they didn't expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series of old, spooky photos left behind in her family's new...
2114) You brought me the ocean
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Jake Hyde yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown in New Mexico for a college on the coast, and while his family and friends encourage him to stay, he must deal with his secrets of being gay and some strange new blue markings on his skin giving him a glow when he touches water.
2115) The rock
Author
Series
Sisters of the porcelain doll volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
414 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The one thing she wants is the thing most out of reach -- a place to call home. After a whiskey still explosion destroys her home and nearly her life, Rebecca Packwood and her father must leave Missouri and her dear friends behind. Crossing the Oregon Trail, she sets out to discover her family's secret history and to forge a home and community out of the raw farm land of Eagle Creek, Oregon Country, never suspecting a ruthless enemy is seeking to...
2116) Cinders & sapphires
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light"--
2117) The dragon's blood
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The dense, steamy rainforests of northern Borneo are some of the oldest and most magical in the world. Under the shade of the towering tree canopies, majestic elephants and orangutans roam. However, Cruz Coronado is more focused on a tiny leech with a surprisingly painful, slow-healing bite. As he inches closer and closer, he wonders if what he discovered at the top secret Archive is true... In this sixth installment in the Explorer Academy series,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912--written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men; all of them innocent....
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Esther's family has always believed they were descended from a great, though scandalously underappreciated Impressionist-era artist. But when questions arise about her ancestor's greatest work--The Lady with the Dark Hair--her once-solid family history rests on shaky ground as a search for the truth begins"--
2120) Centaur rising
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur's born, and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
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