Heiskell, Elizabeth
Summary: This book will inspire anyone who loves to party, host, gather, cook, or eat. Included are 31 party-themed menus and guides for party planning from invitations and estimating portions to decorating and farewell favors. -- Adapted from back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House, an imprint of Time Inc. Books 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 HEIMyers, Tamar.
Summary: When eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a heart attack while in bed with another woman just days before his wedding to Priscilla Livengood, and it is revealed that there may have been foul play, Madgalena Yoder must uncover the truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYEMyers, Tamar.
Summary: This debut mystery introduces Magdalena Yoder, prim, proper, and persnickety proprietor of the PennDutch Inn, where guests luxuriate in the true "Amish experience," (read: doing Magdalena's chores and paying top dollar for the opportunity!). When one of her more reclusive guests takes a tumble down the PennDutch's picturesquely steep staircase and breaks his neck, the timing couldn't be worse....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NYLA 1993
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Byler, Linda
Summary: Gathered from interviews with real Amish grandmothers, tattered recipe boxes, and diaries; this assortment of Christmas goodies are popular in eastern Pennsylvania, particularly in the Lancaster area.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook BylerSummary: Documents an entire school year with Wilma Stephenson and those students committed enough to surrender themselves to her enlightened despotism. By the end of the year, thirteen of her students will have made it through the gauntlet. At a school where over 40% of students don't even make it to their senior year, Wilma shows her kids how to achieve the American Dream: You choose a realistic goal....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PREMeyer, Michael J.
Summary: "Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 MEYCooper, Candy J.
Summary: "Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024