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701) Kitten around
Author
Series
Home for meow volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Every home needs a cat! Kira Parker lives above The Purrfect Cup, the cat café that her family owns and runs. But this weekend, Mama and Dad are taking a "much needed vacation," which means that Granny is coming to visit! Mama puts Granny in charge, but Kira's got so many GREAT IDEAS to make her cat friends and customers happy. So when Granny gives her the okay to take control, it's Kira's moment to make The Purrfect Cup extra purrfect. But between...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When taking cornbread to Grandma, Mahogany encounters a hungry wolf and outsmarts him by cleverly hiding in the woods and using her sewing skills to trap him"--Provided by publisher.
Mahogany is taking gumbo to Grandma's house in the woods when she encounters a hungry wolf, and uses her nerve and skill at sewing to help her trap him.
703) The memory keeper
Author
Publisher
Harpeth Road Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Hannah Townsend's life is just as she's always wanted it to be. She has the perfect job at a New York magazine, a small but elegant apartment in the upper west side, and an incredibly successful beau named Miles Monahan. This year, for her thirty-fifth birthday, she's leaving the icy city sludge for sunshine! She's got tickets for two to Barbados, and she's all packed and meeting Miles at the airport for a week of cocktails, sandy beaches, and the...
704) The fiction writer
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novel, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, was a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and she's battling a bad case of writer's block. So when her agent calls her with a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity, Olivia is all too willing to sign the NDA. At first, the write-for-hire job seems too good to be true. All she has to do is interview Henry...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Australia, sixth-grader Allegra splits herself between her grandmothers and grieving father until the tragedy that created the rift between them puts her in the hospital.
Australia, 1970s. Some days Allegra Elsom is torn between conflicting loyalties to her grandmothers, Matilde and Joy, and her father, Rick-- none of whom can stand to be in a room together since the decades-old tragedy that hit their family like a wrecking ball. Struggling...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Arriving at the honeysuckle-covered beach house inherited from her beloved grandmother, recently heartbroken Jill hopes to convince her two feuding sisters not to sell a place so full of happy childhood memories. But the envelope waiting on the driftwood table changes everything. In her elegant handwriting, Nana Rose promises a new letter will arrive each day of the summer revealing a family secret she took to her grave. Shaken, Jill anxiously awaits...
707) A table for two
Author
Series
Firefly lake volume 1
Publisher
Forever, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Software developer Gabriel Cunningham is overworked and nearing burnout, so when his sister asks him to temporarily move to Firefly Lake to watch over their grandmother, it seems the perfect-but temporary-solution to his problems. He can take some time off and the change in scenery is just what he needs to get his health on track. And it doesn't hurt that his next-door neighbor is both sexy and a fantastic cook. It's just unfortunate that their first...
708) My grandmother's inn
Author
Series
Dune Island volume 5
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Grieving and newly single Molly Anderson begs the wealthy Frost family, owners of Hydrangea House, to allow her to run the inn for one last summer before they shut it down. She vows to give the final guests a summer to remember by the sea. It's what Beverly--who worked uncomplainingly for the Frosts her whole life--would have wanted. But when an elderly woman checks in claiming to know a secret about Beverly's true connection to the Frost family,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gabriella Monroe is doing her best to pretend that everything is fine, but her life is a mess. Sales are down at her vintage dress shop, her beloved grandmother isn't her usual spunky self, and Gabby desperately misses the closeness she had with her sisters, Margaret and Emma--who were once so inseparable that their family called them "the Monroe Musketeers." When the sisters stumble across a stash of letters that reveals their grandmother's secret...
710) The words we whisper
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees - despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She's fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work cleaning out the attic. Unexpectedly, amid the tedium of sifting...
711) Esos zapatos
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Todo lo que Jeremy quiere es un par de esos zapatos, como los que llevan puestos los otros chicos de su escuela. Pero su abuela le explica que ellos no est�an para hablar de "quiero", sino de "necesito", y lo que Jeremy necesita son unas botas nuevas para el invierno.
All Jeremy wants is a pair of those shoes, the ones everyone at school seems to be wearing. Though Jeremy's grandma says they don't have room for "want," just "need," when his old...
712) Aliens on vacation
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unhappy at being sent to stay with his hippie grandmother at the Washington inn she operates, The Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, Scrub discovers that each room is actually a portal to space and the inn's visitors are aliens who are vacationing on Earth.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When her beloved grandmother passes away, Mia Broadhurst returns to the snow-covered seaside village of Winsted Cape, North Carolina, where Grandma Ruth ran the lighthouse overlooking the golden beach. This will be Mia's first Christmas without her, and she can't bear to part with the lighthouse that has been in their family for generations. As she steps into it, childhood memories rush back to her. She can almost hear them playing tag on the steps...
714) Tea & treachery
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As the proud proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a traditional English tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Roberts has her hands full, often literally. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the grand old Victorian B & B adjacent to Lily's tea shop ... for now. An aggressive real estate developer, Jack Ford, is pushing hard to rezone nearby land, with an eye...
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Is your mama a llama? Lloyd the llama is looking for his mama. "Is your mama a llama?" he asks a bat, a swan, a cow, a seal, and a kangaroo. Young children will share Lloyd's delight when the answer to his question is finally, "Yes!"
Three cheers for Catherine the Great : Sara's feisty Russian grandmother asks for "no presents" for her birthday -- and gets them -- just in time for the borscht and blintzes party!
Five creatures : Told from a small...
716) Peppermint bark
Author
Series
Dogmothers volume 9
Publisher
South Street Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Getting stood up for her high school prom turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to Colleen Kilcannon. That's when Joe Mahoney offered to fill in as her date, and magic happened. By the end of that night, Colleen was ready to give up her dreams of flying the friendly skies and seeing the world... because nothing in that world could compete with her firefighter. She and Joe married, had a family, and remained deeply in love until he died...
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother{u2019}s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family{u2019}s history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta{u2019}s narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years...
718) Sora's seashells
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Every summer, when Sora's Halmoni, or grandmother, visits from South Korea, the two of them take the bus to the beach to search for seashells. While Sora likes to take all of them back with her, Halmoni always leaves the prettiest shell for someone else to find and treasure. As summer turns to fall, Halmoni returns home and Sora starts kindergarten, where some of the kids tease her about her "weird" name. One day, Sora's parents receive a sad call...
Author
Series
Oakley Island romcoms volume 2
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"I said I'd never set foot on Oakley Island again. Not so long as he lived there. But after my life implodes, I'm reconsidering everything. Including my reasons for avoiding the first, and only, man I've ever loved. I'm a high achiever. Driven. Maybe a little too driven. So when my boyfriend confesses to cheating and steals the promotion I've been working toward for years, I do the unthinkable for someone like me. I break. But the timing couldn't...
Author
Series
Lovely lethal gardens volume 4
Publisher
Valley Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After almost a month in picturesque Kelowna, Doreen Montgomery still can't keep her notoriety to a minimum or her nose out of other people's business. Now those suffering from the loss of a loved one seek her out, wanting her help. While the last thing Doreen wants is to have the media discover she's involved in another cold case, she is already hooked on the details ... But even more is going on. News has gotten out that Nan's old house is brimming...