Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Beverly Lewis, the best-selling author of The Shunning, offers listeners a moving tale of love and spiritual awakening. In The Redemption of Sarah Cain, she examines the conflict between two very different cultures. Sarah Cain is a strictly modern woman living in Oregon and developing a burgeoning career in real estate. Her sister Ivy left to pursue a Plain life in Amish country 12 years ago. But when Ivy dies, Sarah is shocked to learn that she has...
Author
Series
Kiss trilogy (Jane Feather) volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
567 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
4) Fin & Lady
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.
9) Fin & Lady
Author
Formats
Description
It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned. Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s. He soon learns that Lady -- giddy, careless, and obsessed with being free -- is as much his responsibility as he is hers....
Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 5
Formats
Description
When her best friend died suddenly, Hannah became guardian to a five-year-old named Noah. Terrified she is not up to the challenge, she rents a country house in rural Colorado, so she and Noah have time to get to know each other. Arriving at the house they are greeted by the owner, Owen Abrams, who promises to stay out of their way. But his clumsy Great Dane, Romeo, has other ideas and Noah immediately bonds with the dog. Hannah learns to become a...
11) Oracle's moon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 17 cm.
Description
When tragedy strikes, Grace Andreas inherits a host of new responsibilities, none of which she is prepared for.
12) Dark tribute
Author
Series
Description
"New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history,...
13) Jilting the duke
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
When Aidan Somerville, Duke of Forster, is named the guardian to his deceased best friend's young son, he is forced to work with the boy's mother, Sophia Gardiner, to whom he was engaged before he went off to war.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
353 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Description
In the city of Corcannon, everyone has a secret. Madeleine is planning her wedding to Tivol, but she's really in love with Reese. Jayla has become the guardian of a child named Aussen, but she knows that Aussen possesses a mysterious and dangerous power. Brandon is a temple soldier keeping the enigmatic Villette a prisoner in her own home, but finds himself risking everything to keep her safe. Pietro is pretending he's surprised every time the city...
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
xii, 328 p., [14] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
In fifteenth-century England, when his father's murderer is revealed to be his guardian, seventeen-year-old Richard Shelton joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow in avenging the death, rescuing the woman he loves, and participating in the struggle between the Yorks and Lancasters in the War of the Roses.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. He loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, When Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of "Guncle Rules" Patrick has no idea what to expect. After years barely holding on after...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
"Battlefields and bar rooms hold much more interest for Edward Westover, Duke of Strathmore, than some little girl's dolls and lace. But when he takes control of his enemy's estate, everything that man held dear including his daughter, now belongs to Edward. Arrange for a governess, a dowry, give a few reassurances and be off on his way -- that's Edward's plan. But he's in for the shock of his life. For his new ward is a beautiful, impetuous, and...
18) Bleak House
Author
Description
A enthralling story about the inequalities of the 19th-century English legal system Bleak House is one of Charles Dicken's most multifaceted novels. Bleak House deals with a multiplicity of characters, plots and subplots that all weave in and around the true story of the famous case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a case of litigation in England's Court of Chancery, which starts as a problem of legacy and wills, but soon raises the question
...19) Change of plans
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"When disaster strikes and chef Bryce Weatherford is given guardianship of her three young nieces, her life goes from cooking with fire...to controlling a dumpster fire. Five year old Addison refuses to remove her fairy wings, eight year old Cecily won't bathe, and tween June is majoring in belligerence. With all this chaos, Bryce jettisons hope for a life outside of managing her family and her new job. It's been years since Ryker Matthews had his...
20) Bleak house
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
xlix, 891 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request