Miller, Carolyn
Summary: Handsome appearance counts for naught unless matched by good character and actions. That's the firm opinion of not-so-meek minister's daughter Lavinia Ellison. So even though all the other villagers of St. Hampton Heath are swooning over the newly returned seventh Earl of Hawkesbury, she is not impressed. If a man won't take his responsibilities seriously and help those who are supposed to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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Summary: Tainted by scandal and forced to leave London for the quiet of Brighton, the Honorable Miss Clara DeLancey is a shadow of her former society self. A chance encounter brings her a healing friendship with the sisters of an injured naval captain. But Clara's mama, the Viscountess Winpoole, is appalled at the new company she's keeping. Captain Benjamin Kemsley is not looking for a wife. But his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MILMiller, Carolyn
Summary: Lady Charlotte Featherington is destined for great things on the marriage market. After all, as the beautiful daughter of a marquess, she should have her pick of the eligible nobility when she debuts. She, however, has love at the top of her list of marriageable attributes. And her romantic heart falls hard for one particularly dashing, attentive suitor. Sadly for Charlotte, her noble father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MILMiller, Carolyn
Summary: "Serena Winthrop is sure no man can be trusted--especially not a man like the too-smooth Viscount Carmichael. His reputation as a flirt and a gambler is everything she despises. And the young artist makes sure that this disreputable heir to an earldom knows of her deep disapproval whenever they encounter one another. Henry, Lord Carmichael, is perfectly aware of his charms. He's gambled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: "Years ago, the man who stole Catherine Winthrop's heart rejected her -- and she's never recovered from the grief. Now tragedy has brought him back into her life. This time it isn't her heart he's taking, it's her home and her family's good name. Jonathan Carlew's serious demeanor and connection to trade, not to mention the rumors surrounding his birth, have kept him from being a favorite of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MILSummary: About the fast-paced Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of this special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques. The team reconstructs a "Day of Disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance, following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WITSummary: American pioneers had to overcome the dangerous wilderness; Americans at rest want to return to nature-not the wilderness, but a tamed and peaceful nature. Having cut down nature to build cities, we bring back the country through parks: New York's Central Park gives us a dreamlike, idealized New York with forests, lakes, hills, meadows, foot and bridle paths, and architecture to complement the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Lewis, Beverly
Summary: In this portrait of an Amish family's struggle to overcome the effects of a baffling secret, soon-to- be-engaged Grace Byler is perplexed by her mom's nocturnal weeping and wandering--and her dad's refusal to discuss what's wrong. But when her mom runs off, Grace puts her own life on hold to pick up the pieces her mother left behind.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEWSummary: Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia—the first American campus—is like its founder in exemplifying the national capacity for self-invention. Palladio's shade hangs over the individual house-temples which line the landscaped mall—a uniquely American idea. University builders have sought to separate the campus, by locating it in the country or by erecting walls—walls of stone or of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: A person's home is his self-image, his autobiography as ghost-written by the architect. Mark Twain's house suited him so well that he became convinced he had himself designed it. A more imposing self-portrait is Fenway Court, which ignores the Colonial past and industrial present to recreate a Venetian palazzo in Boston; the American industrialist as Renaissance Italian prince is seen in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Villages may spring up but great cities are laid out by surveyors measuring out divisible grids to suit the visions of real estate entrepreneurs, designers of space or social policy. The effort to renew the aged, replace the obsolete or provide for growth, to connect business with residential centers and cities with nature, has provided a range of solutions that range from Colonial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Lewis, Beverly
Summary: In the seemingly ordinary Amish home of Grace Byler, secrets abound. Why does her mother weep and wander deep in the night? And why does her father refuse to admit something is dreadfully wrong? Then, in one startling moment, the quiet life Grace has known is irrevocably altered, leaving her to question all she has been taught about love, family, and commitment. - Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEWRivers, Francine
Contents: Tamar -- Rahab -- Ruth -- Bathsheba -- Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVShriver, Beth.
Summary: Annie Beiler learns she is adopted and sets out on a journey to find out who she really is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Realms 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHRSummary: The corridors of power, in business and government, lead to heroic interior spaces, and business has frequently appropriated the architecture of power—that is, of government. Interior spaces symbolize as well as contain function. The ambiguous relationship to nature is seen in the American desire to bring a scaled-down outdoors inside; the incorporation of the past takes different shapes. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Architecture grows out of a people's shared past. But in America, where ties to ancient cultures have been broken, we have individually and collectively invented a usable past. From the practical shelters built by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation to the classic ideals of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to the stylistic diversity of our own time, our buildings reflect the strong-willed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Americans dream of owning a single-family home—ideally in some leafy Arcadia not too far from the city workplace. There are many shapes to this dream—Gothic cottages and mini-castles surrounded by manicured wilderness, like the first planned suburban development in Llewellyn Park, N.J.; detached dwellings in sylvan surroundings, with restrictive land use and minimum cost regulations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Maxwell, Cathy
Summary: Blake Stephens, the bastard son of a duke and one of London's most sought-after bachelors, pursues his fiancée to the wilds of Scotland to persuade her not to jilt him, only to find himself drawn to her scandal-ridden sister.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MAXLewis, Beverly
Summary: In the seemingly ordinary Amish home of Grace Byler, secrets abound. Why does her mother weep and wander deep in the night? And why does her father refuse to admit something is dreadfully wrong? Then, in one startling moment, the quiet life Grace has known is irrevocably altered, leaving her to question all she has been taught about love, family, and commitment. - Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADEHatcher, Robin Lee
Summary: "Jessica was pregnant and facing divorce when her husband and daughter were killed in a car accident months ago. Left to endure the tragedy and her pregnancy alone, she pulls away from her friends and community instead of leaning on them for care and support. She feels far away from God, lost and floating without an anchor. Then at her grandmother's funeral, Jessica receives a gift--her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HATBow, Erin
Summary: The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BOWAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ADECopies Available at East Bay
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ADECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ADEAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the endof the monarchy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018