Catalog Search Results
1621) The ribbon weaver
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"A baby rescued from the snow. A wealthy family's tragic secret. A girl determined to make her mark. One winter's night, Molly Earnshaw rescues a newborn baby from the snow and changes two families for ever. The tiny girl grows into a beautiful and gifted young woman. Although devoted to Molly, who she believes is her grandmother, Amy has far-reaching ambitions - encouraged by her neighbour's son, Toby, she longs to move beyond ribbon-weaving to designing...
1622) The winter guest
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Winter 1920. Though the war has been over for two years, many are still struggling to pick up their lives again when so much has been lost. In Ireland too, other terrible troubles are taking hold. Then Tom Harkin, a former officer, arrives in the dead of night at a deserted railway platform. He has been summoned to Kilcolgan House, a grand old estate, to work as a tutor. When Tom reaches the house it gradually becomes clear that this is not the imposing...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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"--
1625) Awakening
Author
Series
Monstress volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, Monstress tells the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression and terrible danger, Maika is both hunter and hunted, searching for answers about her mysterious past as those who seek to use her remain just one step behind and all the while, the monster within begins to awaken....
1626) Spiteful bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Restoring his recently inherited family home is a daunting enough task for young lawyer Nigellus Cobmartin without the addition of any unwelcome discoveries. But when workmen turning the crumbling manor house into a grand home for Nigellus and his companion, John Rykener, uncover a skeleton bound, tied and hidden in the wall - and holding the precious relic that went missing from his father's estate nearly twenty years ago - Nigellus immediately...
1627) Break the surface
Author
Series
WatchingAlice volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
High school senior Tom Sinclair's journal chronicles events leading up to the disappearance of Alice, the only person he has confided in after moving from Vermont to Manhattan in an attempt to run away from his past.
Publisher
Imagicomm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Christmas in Maple Hills: To save her family's legacy, Valerie Warrick teams up with handsome veteran Walker Jennings to dig into her family's past.
Christmas in Big Sky Country: Becca teams up with the oil company's new PR rep, Logan Johnston, to get her brother-in-law safely home for the holidays.
Christmas with the Knightlys: A teacher finds herself in the spotlight when she poses as the girlfriend of a famous billionaire.
1630) The chosen
Author
Series
Monstress volume 4
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A new war between humans and arcanics is bubbling to the surface. A rift in the sky has revealed the devasting potential of the long-imprisoned Monstra. And Maika Halfwolf is at the center of it all. Maika comes closer than ever before to the answers she's long sought--but those answers carry a steep price. As her friends and allies reveal long-held secrets and shifting allegiances, Maika finds herself at the mercy of the Lord Doctor, a charismatic...
1631) The hidden palace
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise... A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-colored walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a...
1632) All we were promised
Author
Language
English
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
1634) Whose waves these are
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Its message? Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work. Decades later, Annie Sawyer...
1635) Undertow
Author
Series
Undertow trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a society of undersea warriors marches out of the ocean into modern-day Coney Island.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her twin sister's bones are discovered interred in a vault that has not been opened since the 18th century, Serena uncovers a secret family history pointing to an impossible story that connects her to the 15th century mystery of the young Duke of York.
Winter, 1483: Francis Lovell is Richard III's Lord Chamberlain and confidant, but the threat of Henry Tudor's rebels has the king entrusting to Francis and his wife, Anne, his most crucial mission:...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old Margaret is sharp and assertive. Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town. When their house is vandalized with...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sparks fly when Beatrix Adams, seventeen, who strives to be a medical illustrator, meets Jack, one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists. But even as Beatrix begins to uncover the secrets that have left Jack so wounded, her own family secrets threaten to tear them apart.
1639) The vow
Author
Series
Monstress volume 6
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"War has engulfed the Known World, and Maika Halfwolf is at its epicenter. As she and her friends grapple with the consequences of their actions, long-buried secrets and long-awaited reunions threaten to change everything. Join MARJORIE LIU and SANA TAKEDA in the newest volume of this Eisner, Hugo, Harvey, and British Fantasy Award-winning series. Plus, learn about the happier childhood days of Kippa and Maika in MONSTRESS: TALK-STORIES 1 and 2!"--Amazon.com....
1640) Hard girls
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two estranged twin sisters hunt down their elusive mother-and face down the darkness they tried to escape.