Kuhns, Eleanor
Summary: "Will Rees is back home on his farm in 1796 Maine with his teenage son, his pregnant wife, their five adopted children, and endless farm work under the blistering summer sun. But for all that, Rees is happy to have returned to Dugard, Maine, the town where he was born and raised, and where he's always felt at home. Until now. When a man is found dead - murdered - after getting into a public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHSummary: They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. Through diaries, archival photographs, music and stunning cinematography, Ken Burns creates a moving portrait of this group.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHAShea, John G
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Publisher / Publication Date: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 SHEAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: China's friends and family are urging her to get some rest-and a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist with some herbal workshops-while absorbing all things Shaker, from their furniture to their peaceful ways. But the restored modern version of the village, striving to become a popular tourist attraction, is plagued with misfortune and strife-...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AlbBuchanan, Rita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.08 BUCDonaldson, Stephanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square Publishing 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.08 DONGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: When Elizabeth Duncan feels a strong attachment to a handsome young believer named Ethan, life gets complicated. Will Elizabeth be forced to leave the Shaker community to keep Ethan from stumbling? Or will Ethan's love for her change their lives forever?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GABUrquhart, Rachel
Summary: An enthralling debut novel about a teenage girl who finds refuge--but perhaps not--in an 1840s Shaker community. In this exquisite, transporting debut, 15-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father. She and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called The City of Hope. It is the Era of Manifestations, when young girls in Shaker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Urquhart 2014Albert, Susan Wittig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: "Carlyn Kearney has spent two lonely years not knowing whether to mourn or to hope after she receives word from the Union Army that her husband is missing. The war ends without further word. Now penniless, in debt, and forced from her home, Carlyn seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill ... [and] is just settling into life as a sister in the Shaker village when she receives a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABKuhns, Eleanor
Summary: "1790s, Maine. In the depths of winter Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. During the search Will Rees finds her struggling through the snow and woods without shoes or a coat. Hortense claims to have been kidnapped, but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. After two young men begin stalking the community in search of her - including targeting Rees's own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHKuhns, Eleanor.
Summary: "Will Rees is adjusting to life on his Maine farm in 1797, but he's already hungering for the freedom of the road, and his chance to travel comes sooner than he expects. Lydia has just received a letter from her old friend Mouse, a soft-spoken and gentlewoman who now lives in the Shaker community in Mount Unity, New York. To Lydia and Rees's astonishment, she's in trouble with the law. She's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHKuhns, Eleanor.
Summary: Former soldier-turned-traveling weaver Will Rees tracks down his mistreated son to a Shaker settlement in late-eighteenth-century Maine, where his efforts to reconcile are challenged by the murder of a young woman and dark community secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M KUHBanks, Russell
Summary: "In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early 20th century, Harley recounts that after his father's sudden death, his family migrated down to Florida-mere miles away from what would become Disney World-to join a community of Shakers. Led by Elder John, a generous man with a mysterious past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: Jessamine Brady loves her Shaker sisters and brothers, but can't stop imagining life and love in the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: With the country--and her own household--on the brink of civil war, pampered gentlewoman Charlotte Vance hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her man by joining the Shaker community at Harmony Hill. Little does she know that this decision will lead her down a road toward unforeseen peace--and a very unexpected love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GABRand, Johnathan.
Summary: "Danny loves shopping at the dollar store with his mom. This time, Danny finds an ordinary salt shaker ... and sets off for an adventure that is out of this world!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Rand 2018Beale, Galen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.7 BEABoston Camerata
Contents: I. Followers of the Lamb : Come life, Shaker life (0:42) -- In yonder valley (1:40) -- Virgins clothed in a clean white garment (1:21) -- Mother (4:28) -- Father James' song (1:36) -- Followers of the Lamb (1:26) II. Bearing the Cross : Mother Ann's song (2:19) -- I have a soul to be saved or lost (1:50) -- Heavenly comfort (2:26) -- A companion to stiff (0:59) -- Pinch'd up, nip'd up (0:34)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Erato Disques 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL COHGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: Gabrielle Hope has a special gift of "knowing" the future. When she and her mother join the Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1807, the members embrace her ability, although it sometimes frightens quiet Gabrielle. But when one vision comes true, a chain of events and an unlikely love challenge her loyalty to this chaste community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic, but when Walter dies, Darcie is left alone--and lonely. Can love live again for this widow in a community that doesn't believe in marriage?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABWest, Chris
Summary: Please pass the salt! And pepper! This first ever book dedicated to turning salt and pepper shakers and mills will guide turners in creating small projects that are practical and beautiful, perfect for yourself or to give as a handmade gift. The 30 step-by-step projects, rated by level of difficulty, are fairly easy to finish and use only small amounts of expensive materials. While turning wood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 736 WESDowning, Michael
Summary: The story of the Shakers, a religious sect in New England whose members believed in Christ's second coming. It is presented in the form of stories which a father tells his son, the father having spent years photographing the surviving members.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: An expectant young woman turned away by her family at Christmas is taken in by the Shakers at Harmony Hill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013