Crider, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CRIMatthews, Carole
Summary: "Molly Baker is living her best life. Thirty-eight years old, she lives on the twenty-five-acre Hope Farm in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by (mostly) four-legged friends and rolling hills. There's Anthony the anti-social sheep, Tina Turner the alpaca with attitude, and the definitely-not-miniature pig, Teacup. Molly runs the farm as an alternative school for kids who haven't thrived in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATReid, Kathleen
Summary: "Rose Maning longs to wake up every morning in Florence, Italy, to a view of the Duomo and terra cotta rooftops dancing in the sunrise. So she flies across the pond with her best friend Zoey for a fun-filled house hunt. For the first time in her people-pleasing life, schoolteacher Rose uses her savings to do exactly what she wants to do: buy an apartment and pursue painting. Rose is passionate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehler Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIGoodman, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem "Christmas Bells," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2015Barnes, Julian
Summary: "From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMacomber, Debbie
Summary: After the death of her twin brother, teacher Hope Godwin moves to Oceanside, Washington, where she falls in love with animal shelter volunteer, and wounded ex-marine, Cade Lincoln, Jr, and a dog named Shadow, finally finding peace in her new home until Cade's past comes back with a vengeance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACSpark, Muriel.
Summary: A teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Miss Jean Brodie was a woman of ideas, wit, and charm who had a lover. The students she chose as her special friends were called the "Brodie set." One of them would betray her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPAWick, Lori.
Summary: Pretty new schoolteacher Marcail Donovan finds herself in the center of a small-town scandal when she is forced by a snowstorm to spend the night at the home of young Dr. Alexander Montgomery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WICQuick, Amanda
Summary: Believing her four young orphan charges to be in mortal danger, tutor Concordia Glade places their safety in the hands of private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells, who endeavors to protect them from a notorious crime lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIMacomber, Debbie
Summary: "When a woman alone in the world bravely chooses to open her heart, two lost souls have a new chance at belonging, in this intimate novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. A new beginning in charming Oceanside, Washington is exactly what Hope Godwin needs after the death of her twin brother. There are plenty of distractions, like her cozy cottage with the slightly nosy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MacomberMacomber, Debbie
Summary: A new beginning in charming Oceanside, Washington is exactly what Hope Godwin needs after the death of her twin brother. There are plenty of distractions, like her cozy cottage with the slightly nosy landlords next door, and a brewing drama among her students at the local high school. Despite having settled quickly into the community, something is still missing for Hope. That is, until her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MACBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: "Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard sales. Orley and his wife offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUSparks, Nicholas.
Summary: Devastated by the death of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, Miles, deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, discovers new meaning in his life when he meets Sarah Andrews, a woman struggling to rebuild her own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPABertino, Marie-Helene.
Summary: "Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn't realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day--and night--of her life. After bravely facing down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBertino, Marie-Helene.
Summary: "As three lost souls search for love, music and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia, together they will discover life's endless possibilities over the course of one magical night"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERMarshall, Catherine
Summary: "In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But her faith will be severely challenged by trial and tragedy, by the needs and unique strengths of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MARHoag, Tami.
Summary: California, 1984. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOAKingsbury, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: Hired to teach four orphaned girls at remote, ramshackle Aldwick Castle, Miss Concordia Glade is pleased to find her pupils both eager and bright. Provided for by an unseen benefactor, they are surrounded at all times by hard-eyed guards in the guise of gardeners. During an investigation into a woman's death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the castle grounds -- and in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QuickHewson, David
Summary: Detective Nic Costa trails a serial killer who stalks and kills victims according to a heavenly play book--Catholic martyrs--leaving behind a trail of clues that read like bloddy chapters from "Lives of the Saints."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEWDunn, Scarlett
Summary: "Adelaide Langtry may not be as beautiful as her sisters, but she has determination to spare. She'll need it if she's to succeed as a schoolteacher in her old hometown and care for the three abandoned siblings she brought from Boston. In Whispering Pines, Addie hopes to establish an orphanage, but she must also contend with her past, including her outlaw brother, Frank. Orphaned as a boy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUNBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: "Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRUSimonson, Helen.
Summary: Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016