Henry, Marguerite
Summary: With his beloved black cat Grimalkin as his constant companion, the young Quaker boy Benjamin West discovers and develops his talent as an artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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Summary: When a young Quaker woman learns her inheritance comes with strings attached, she must decide whether to remain true to family ties or follow her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FISGulley, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GULWard, Catriona
Summary: "In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire/Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARMaxwell, Edith
Summary: "Following a long betrothal, midwife Rose Carroll and her beloved David are finally celebrating their marriage with friends and relatives, when a most disturbing telegram interrupts the festivities: the young ward of Rose's aunt has suffered a mysterious death, and Rose's help is needed urgently on Cape Cod. Reluctantly agreeing to mix her honeymoon plans with murder, Rose embarks on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond the Page Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXDobson, Melanie B.
Summary: "Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the father and daughter into their peaceful society. Liesel, a young Amana woman, nurses Cassie back to health, and the Homestead elders offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summerside Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Dobson 2010Dobson, Melanie
Summary: "Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOBTurnbull, Ann.
Summary: In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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Summary: Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FISDe Hartog, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1972
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Summary: Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. "Is nothing on this island as it appears to be?" he whispers in despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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Summary: Ten years ago, Julie Portland accidentally killed her best friend, Reba. What's worse is she got away with it. Consumed by guilt, she left the small town of Lawrence Mill, Mississippi, and swore nothing would ever drag her back. Now, raising her daughter and struggling to make ends meet in Manhattan, Julie still can't forget the ghost of a girl with golden hair and a dangerous secret. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Summary: "The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds to her pregnant and postpartum mothers. When Charity Skells dies from an apparent early miscarriage, Rose wonders about the symptoms that don't match the stated cause of death. She learns that Charity's husband may be up to no good with a young woman whose mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXRemmes, Brenda Bevan.
Summary: When Liz Hoole, a free-spirited liberal from the Midwest, marries into a conservative Quaker family, she knows that raising children in compliance with Quaker value will be challenging. Twenty-five years later, she still feels like she's falling short of expectations. Fortunately, her faith and her friends in the small, rural North Carolina town of Cedar Branch keep her strong. After her best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: 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 is 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) 2014
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Yolen 2014Chevalier, Tracy.
Summary: Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC OSBSummary: Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Pr 2013
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Summary: Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. "Is nothing on this island as it appears to be?" he whispers in despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FISCarie, Jamie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. Group 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CarieChevalier, Tracy.
Summary: When English Quaker Honor Bright moves from England to Ohio, she finds life marred by the stain of human bondage. Risking all to help slaves escape to freedom, Honor forges a friendship with two women who inspire in her a perseverance she didn't know she was capable of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHEFletcher, Jessica
Summary: "When a friend's husband dies while Jessica Fletcher is in town visiting, Jessica's vacation turns into a murder investigation in this latest entry in the long-running USA Today bestselling series. After traveling to Bethesda for a mystery writers' conference, Jessica Fletcher decides she's earned a vacation and takes a train to Columbia, South Carolina, to visit her old college friend Dolores,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2021
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Summary: "Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WONMaxwell, Edith
Summary: Quaker midwife Rose Carroll hears secrets and keeps confidences as she attends births of the rich and poor alike in an 1888 Massachusetts mill town. When the town’s world-famed carriage industry is threatened by the work of an arsonist, and a carriage factory owner’s adult son is stabbed to death with Rose's own knitting needle, she is drawn into solving the mystery. Things get dicey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2016