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Brides of Seattle volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
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Twenty-two-year-old Militine Scott is in training at the Madison Bridal School in Seattle, yet she has no intention of pursuing marriage. What respectable man would have her? But she has found the school provides the perfect opportunity to keep her unsavory past hidden. Thane Patton, though fun-loving and fiercely loyal to his friends, hides a dark secret, as well. He finds himself drawn to Militine, sensing that she harbors a haunting pain similar...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co. in association with Oxfam
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores what five children living in South Africa, Mexico, Thailand, France, and India eat at mealtime with their families, how their families obtain and prepare food, what kinds of food may be eaten at celebrations, and what their favorite food is. Includes recipes.
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The five friends--Martin, Sally, Pedro, Nick and Yulee--are best friends, but they each have their own unique heritage. Their class is hosting a Heritage Festival, where they will celebrate the customs and traditions of people all over the world. Join the friends as they learn about many different traditional foods, music, clothing and crafts in this kid-friendly introduction to family heritage"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
The Ravenels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Falling for a dashing stranger, young widow Phoebe, the daughter of Lord St. Vincent and Evie Jenner, is horrified to discover that he is the bully responsible for her late husband's boarding-school misery.
"Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he's a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband's life a misery, and she'll never forgive him for it....
5) The gown
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English
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"London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation in spite of their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their bond, along with their nascent hopes for a brighter future, are...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Darcy's intimate diary reveals his entanglements with women, his dangerous friendship with Lord Byron, his daily life in Georgian London, his mercurial mood swings calmed only by fisticuffs at Jackson's--and, most importantly, his vain struggle to conquer his longing for Elizabeth Bennet.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Ooh la la! Nancy loves all of the fancy things in her room--like the fabulous tutu she wore at her dance recital, her exquisite tea set, and the magnifique vanity table that once belonged to her grandmother. But Nancy will soon discover that there's something extra special that Nancy's fanciest things all have in common." --
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Publisher
Plaza Janes, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"El Antropoceno es la era geologica actual, una epoca caracterizada por el profundo impacto que el ser humano esta teniendo sobre el planeta. Con su especial sensibilidad para lo extrano, lo importante y lo sorprendente, John Green reune en esta extraordinaria coleccion de textos distintas facetas de nuestro presente y las puntua en una particular escala del uno al cinco. Deteniendo su mirada en temas tan variados como el teclado QWERTY, internet,...
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English
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The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.
"A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century—now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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English
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“Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it!” Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels. A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victorias royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and The Victory Garden. Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final...
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Death Below Stairs A mystery of stolen antiquities has Kat Holloway setting aside her apron once again for the intrigues of the upper echelons of Victorian London Priceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy baronet, and his wife stands to take the blame. When Kat's employer asks for help in clearing her friend's name, Kat trades her kitchen for the homes of Mayfair's wealthiest families....
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