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Author
Series
Whistle Stop Café mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
What happened to Eleanor? Through a miraculous turn of events, Debbie buys a fixer-upper craftsman-style home near the historic train depot. When she uncovers an old Victrola and a crate filled with WWII-era memorabilia, she pays a visit to Raymond, the longtime former homeowner. Among the items is a recording of a woman singing, "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" with a handwritten label that says To Ray, With Love, Eleanor. Seeing it brings tears...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Pr
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums, her introduction explains, especially albums featuring animal artists. The bouncing harmonies of the Barbershop Beagles, the elegant crooning of the elephant Ella Fontaine, the hilarious rhymes of the Hip-Hop Hedgehogs--all are represented in this quirky ABC book that draws on the creator's personal collection of albums, memorabilia, and lyrics dating between 1944 and 1984, the heyday of album...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young people descend on sunny Southern California to redefine...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in metalworking. Included are the history and cultural significance of metalworking, metalworking tools and techniques, metalworking career paths, and highlights of successful metalworkers. Step-by-step projects help readers practice metalworking skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Forty years ago, aspiring writer Ann Fawkes left the United States for a Mediterranean adventure that opened her heart to travel and love. After a chance encounter propelled her into the publishing world, she released her first novel, an instant bestseller-and the last book she ever wrote. Now, Ann lives a reclusive life in the San Juan Islands, hiding from the public and its probing questions. But when podcaster Maggie Whitaker convinces Ann to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a car accident victim is brought to Mercy Hospital, Evelyn is charged with safeguarding the unconscious woman's belongings. Among the patient's items is a beautiful ruby and diamond ring with a unique inscription. Evelyn discovers the ring is one of eight that were given to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina in 1663 by King Charles II - and is the only one that has not been purchased by one of the king's descendants. As soon as the woman wakes...
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Become an eyewitness to the world's most incredible nature, science, and historical events, all in one tremendous picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of everything. Like the hugely successful Eyewitness series itself, Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Everything includes every topic children want to read about. The world's greatest record-breakers, most amazing animals, inspiring history-makers, and cutting-edge technology are...
Author
Series
Ordinary Women of the Bible volume 13
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Priscilla has big plans for her future. As a pampered daughter of Rome, educated and ambitious, she has one goal: to serve as Emperor Claudius's historian. But all that changes when she is betrayed by her jealous brother. Instead of a life of wealth and history, she is forced to marry Aquila, a tentmaker, who had served her family for years before he bought his freedom. Stripped of her name and ambitions, Priscilla must adjust to her new life as a...
Publisher
Farshore
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Whether you're playing in Survival or Creative mode, redstone is an amazing substance that will transform your gameplay. Since its arrival a huge redstone community has developed, building and sharing creations as diverse as arcade-style games, intricate traps, calculators, and even computers. The first section of this handbook gets you up to speed on the basics of redstone. The second section pushes you to use your new redstone knowledge to complete...
13) Boundless
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everything seemed set against Chaunte Lowe. Growing up with a single mother in Paso Robles, California, where she experienced food insecurity, homelessness, and domestic abuse, Chaunte couldn't imagine a future that offered a different sort of life. But then, one day, she turned on the TV and there was Flo Jo, competing in the Olympics and shattering records in track and field. Almost immediately, Chaunte knew what she wanted to do. She started running....
Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A parents' guide to homeschooling"--
When you homeschool your children, you can shape their education according to your own standards, values, and ideas. In this book, homeschooler Sherri Linsenbach provides you with all the information, inspiration, and encouragement you need to easily and successfully homeschool your children from grades K-12. This complete guide contains information on: the Common Core standards and how they impact families;...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A recounting of the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who arranged for the transport of nearly 700 children who would otherwise have been sent by the Nazis to concentration camps in the late 1930s. From the 2022 Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Christmas concert"--
"The inspiring, true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, who ingeniously rescued hundreds of children before Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. The shadow of war was spreading...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
As author Cheryl Harness points out, no one could have thought up a more amazing character than the living, breathing Benjamin Franklin. He was everything from a "soap maker, candle dipper, and printer" to a "postmaster, political activist, community reformer, revolutionary, statesman, international diplomat, and first great citizen of a nation which he, as much or more than anyone, helped to create." Readers quickly learn that the story of this Founding...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international...
18) Epic
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Transported to a magical world, a teenager ... is recruited by a nature spirit, Queen Tara ..., to help the "Leafmen" save their existence--and ours--from evil warriors"--Container.