Although she's never met her fiancé, she's headed for New York to marry one of America's wealthiest heirs. Filled with doubts and hoping for a chance at "real life," she swaps identities with her...
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Author: Moser, NancySummary:Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Speare, Elizabeth GeorgeSummary:Miriam Willard and her family are taken captive by Indians from a New Hampshire settlement and brought to Canada as prisoners at the beginning of the French and Indian War.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Parr, DeliaSummary:
A widow with family far away, 51-year-old Emma fills her loneliness by caring for her boarding house guests and sharing her own special blend of wisdom and humor. One stormy night, a rap at her...
Genre: Religious fiction -
Author: Parr, DeliaSummary:
When tragedy strikes, Emma graciously welcomes the needy to her boardinghouse. But when two of these guests prove cantankerous, Emma wonders how she and the others will manage. Compounding the...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Peterson, TracieSummary:
An 1850s British nobleman sends his daughter to Philadelphia to conceal her past and start a new life as a seamstress. But she soon fears a young lawyer may remember who she really is and...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Peterson, TracieSummary:
When winsome socialite Mia Stanley insists on researching downtrodden seaman's wives on the docks of Philadelphia for the magazine she works for, she uncovers a scheme that puts her own life in...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
Geoffrey Garrett leaves his 17- year-old fiancée in England while he establishes his Kansas ranch and builds her a proper house. But when he sends for her five years later in 1874, it's clear her...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Nixon, Joan LowerySummary:When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Seaman, BarbaraSummary:
In America 30 million women take estrogen. Seaman shows that this powerful hormone is hardly the cure-all some claim it is. In fact, estrogen treatments may increase the risk of cancer, heart...
Genre: Medicine, health and fitness -
Author: Yerkes, Leslie, Decker, CharlesSummary:
Based on the success story of a small Seattle coffee shop, this audiobook is a tasty brew of sound principles and instructive anecdotes.
Genre: Anecdotes, Business and economics -
Author: Sidman, JoyceSummary:
The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.
Genre: Picture books, Juvenile poetry -
Author: Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Presents twenty-two short stories of American life.
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Wharton, EdithSummary:Beautiful, calculating Undine Spragg wants more than anything to be stylish. Never satisfied, she is constantly planning her next social accomplishment. In her struggle, she encounters Ralph...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Tatlock, Ann.Summary:
11-year-old Rosalind finds 70-year-old Tillie on her front porch--again. Wanting to die in the place where she lived for half a century, Tillie continues leaving her senior living complex and...
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Author: Peterson, TracieSummary:
24-yearold Cassandra works for a wealthy Philadelphia widow who treats her with grandmotherly kindness. But Cassie's 1857 life takes an unexpected turn when a Boston investigator asks her to...
Genre: Historical fiction