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Author
Series
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious minister who never removes the black veil shrouding his face, an eccentric scientist who experiments with the fate of his friends, a cheerful tombstone carver who speaks the wisdom of the graveyard, these are but a few of the unusual New Englanders you'll meet in Twice-Told Tales.
2) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but...
Author
Series
Brides of Seattle volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1880s Seattle, Washington, Lenore Fulcher desires love while so many around her are finding it; when lawyer Kolbein Booth arrives searching for his sister at a finishing school for mail-order brides, he and Lenore face danger and uncertainty amidst their growing attraction"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Grahm Megyeri Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"The stories in this collection are about real, not fictional people, places and events....Part I contains reflections of a single author from Albert Lea, and Part II contains a collection of memories by seven writers from various parts of the state."--Introduction.
Author
Language
English
Description
"America's first families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, [this book] reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs of the President and first...
7) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...
Author
Publisher
Cottonwood River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From being kind to a stranger to a scary helicopter ride in the Arctic. From an accidental self-inflicted knife wound spurting blood, to the "death" of a beloved tent, to the adventures of a twelve year-old paper boy circa 1960. Stories gleaned from living half his life on both coasts and the landlocked borders of our country, to living the other half in that Heartland called Minnesota. That wide-open rolling prairie. That Big Sky. That Home. ......
Author
Series
Virtues and vices of the Old West volume 1
Language
English
Description
Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope of romance. The man she yearned to marry is dead and her dreams are gone with him. Now she is consumed with the restoration of a dilapidated boarding house in order to support herself. Despite her desire for solitude, Jedediah Jones, the local sheriff with a reputation for hanging criminals, becomes an ever-looming part of her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the Native Americans in the United States and the First Nations, Inuit, and Metis tribes in Canada to modern-day immigrants from all across the globe, the North American continent is home to some of the most diverse peoples and cultures in the world. Through evocative full-color photographs, unique fact boxes, and accessible text, your readers will explore the ways this diversity has defined and helped strengthen Canada and the United States."...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Minnesotans are a highly skilled bunch, whether pursuing traditional activities like wild ricing and pickling, or tastefully displaying taxidermy, or selecting the right fishing bait. Skills particularly appropriate to Minnesota- such as creating seed art or baking a Bundt cake-may be fully on display at the state fair, a prime opportunity to join with neighbors in celebrating our many talents.Best of all, Minnesotans are eager to share their skills...
20) Workhouse angel
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Angelina was abandoned on the doorsteps of Brownlee Workhouse when she was just a baby. The only clues to her parentage are her golden curls and the rag doll she held in her arms. Nicknamed 'Angel', she finds a friend in the little orphan girl May who protects her from the harshness of workhouse life as best she can. When Angel is adopted by the McBrides, she thinks at first that she has found a family to call her own. However, her new parents are...
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