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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Blue Hill is celebrating its first-ever Railroad Days Festival, and the main event is an antiques appraisal and auction. Contributions come from many of the townspeople, but the most valuable item -- an ancient Chinese vase worth ten thousand dollars -- has been donated anonymously. The benefactor has asked that the proceeds from the vase go to the Blue Hill Library, but Anne barely has time to wonder who could be so generous before the vase is stolen...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 19
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Coraline Watson brings her yellow-naped Amazon parrot to the library one night for the Birders Club meeting and Liddie takes an instant liking to the beautiful bird. Anne doesn't pay much attention to Coraline's wild stories about spies from a nearby chemical company until the next morning when the parrot, Lorenzo, appears at Liddie's window. Anne tries to return the bird but Coraline's house is dark and empty, the front window is broken and no one...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Anne finds an ancient Egyptian clay pot in the attic, which Aunt Edie excavated at an archaeological dig, she decides to put it on display in the library. Mildred Farley takes one look at it, then trips and falls, suffering a badly sprained anke. "It's cursed!" she exclaims, visibly shaken by the artifact's reappearance. Soon all of Blue Hill is in an uproar, recounting various disasters brought on by the relic when Aunt Edie first brought it...
5) Finding home
Author
Publisher
Guideposts Book & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Alex Ochs recieves a bank overdraft statement on an account in his sister's name, he brings it to Anne for help. After his sister, Marla, and her husband died in a car accident four years ago, Alex made sure all of their accounts were closed. He never knew of this overdrawn account until now but quickly learns it is tied to Marla's work at Heaven's Child, an organization that provides funding to families planning to adopt. Someone is clearly...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Anne and Wendy are preparing for a new adult literacy class when Ben races inside the library to tell his mother that their dog, Hershey, has found a package on the porch. Anne chases Hershey around the yard until she is finally able to retrieve it and discovers and envelope with several thousand dollars of cash inside! Wendy is convinced the money is an answer to prayer -- the library's elevator is in severe need of repair -- but Anne doesn't feel...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a powerful storm blows through Blue Hill, Anne's children are rescued by a drifter named Jack Kendall. Anne doesn't want this stranger near her children, but they immediately grow attached to him, enthralled by stories of his adventures. Meanwhile, Ben and Ryan are determined to help raise money for their classmate Cade who has leukemia. His family needs help paying the medical bills, and the whole town rallies around them. Inspired by Jack's...
8) All sewn up
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While scouring Aunt Edie's attic for supplies to help Wendy with her latest project, Anne discovers a receipt for two dozen top-of-the-line sewing machines paid for with cash. Anne has seen only one sewing machine in Aunt Edie's house, and it's a different model than the ones listed on the receipt. Why did her aunt buy so many sewing machines and what happened to them? Meanwhile, when kindergartner Liddie notices that one of her classmates doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Anne is assisting Wendy Pyle and Maggie Sloan plan a ceremony for the opening of Blue Hill's time capsule. The capsule is stored in a statue of Lois Stover, one of the town's most famous citizens. Stover not only served as a special agent during World War I, but she was also the first female architect registered in Pennsylvania and provided inspiration for many of Aunt Edie's adventures. But mere days before the ceremony, both the statue and its...