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1) Autumn
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Language
English
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Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Thats what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces,divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer.Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.
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Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
On the brink of manhood, Josh's world is filled with studies and life with Aunt Lou and the menfolk, along with an occasional fishing trip thrown in. When a new teacher arrives, Josh thrives under his encouragement--as well as from the attentions of the teacher's pretty daughter. Josh faces important questions about life and love--and about himself.
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Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Josh knows his family isn't typical, but when Grandpa and Uncle Charlie begin to make plans to find Auntie Lou a husband--and take away the only mother Josh has ever known--he knows something has to be done. How can Josh find his way in the world when his whole world is threatens to come apart?
5) The missing
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English
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"Englisher" Heather Lang has come to Amish country to relive fond memories of her mother and to contemplate a grave medical prognosis of her own. While in Bird-in-Hand, Heather meets Grace Byler and the two young women strike up a fast friendship, amazed by how well they click. Following the only clue they have, Grace and Heather travel together in hopes of finding Grace's mother and bringing her home. Will they find what they're looking for...or...
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Lexile measure
830L
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English
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With schooling behind him, Josh wonders what else life holds. Should he continue his studies and become a pastor? Is he to help his aging grandpa and uncle on the farm? With his friends moving on, Josh feels like his life has drifted to a standstill.
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English
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"The tranquil little town of Willow Ridge is facing a startling challenge. Wealthy Nora Glick Landwehr is determined to make it her home again--and put her past to rest. Cast out by her own family, Nora can't reconcile with Old Amish ways or her strict father. But she'll do anything to help her community embrace the future, and to make amends to the daughter she had to give up. So she certainly has no time for her reckless new neighbor Luke Hooley....
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"He should have thrown her out. But when club owner Alexander Lavoie catches a mysterious blonde counting cards at his vingt-et-un table, he's more intrigued than angry. He has to see more of this beauty--in his club, in his office, in his bed. But first he'll have to devise a proposition she can't turn down. Gossip said he was an assassin. Common sense told her to stay away. But Angelique Archer was desperate, and Lavoie's club offered a surefire...
9) Winter
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Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sophia Cleves is seeing things. Her son, Art, is seeing things himself. Winter makes all things visible-- history, memory, art, love.... When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?
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Series
Season in Pinecraft volume 1
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English
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"A wallflower in her Amish community, Mary Margaret hopes a trip will offer her a chance to come out of her shell. When a chance meeting brings new friends and a gentle young man into her life, she imagines a whole new life in Florida. But will it all disappear once vacation ends?" -- Provided by publisher.
11) It's fall!
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Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A child experiences the colors and textures of fall.
12) Spring
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tell the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls...
13) Summer
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Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown--and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: Where does family begin? And...
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Seasons of sugarcreek volume 4
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English
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Description
As the holidays approach, dutiful daughter Judith Graber, feeling overwhelmed, overworked and under appreciated, is attracted to her father's new employee, Ben Knox, Sugarcreek's own "bad boy", but refuses to be another one of his conquests.
15) Spring's renewal
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Series
Seasons of Sugarcreek volume 2
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English
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Description
Tim Graber arrives in Sugarcreek to help his aunt and uncle with spring planting. At first, Tim doesn't fit in with his many cousins and their crowded lifestyle. But when he meets Clara Slabaugh, the local school teacher, he understands why the Lord brought him to Sugarcreek.
16) Rachel
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Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rachel English as traveled to Springwater to take a post as the frontier teacher. Although the ramshackle schoolhouse - and her half-wild pupils - are not what she had envisioned, Rachel spiritedly makes the best of her new surroundings. But when she takes a stand against the scandalous saloon across the road from the school, she is more that surprised by her own powerful attraction to the bar's part-owner, handsome widower Trey Hargreaves. The father...
17) Miranda
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Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thrown out by her father for bearing an illegitimate child, Miranda Leebrook and her newborn are looking for a new chance at life in Springwater, Montana.
18) Savannah
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Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Savannah is a dance hall girl who, despite her profession, is a virtuous woman, but that's not how most of the world sees her. Newly arrived in Springwater, she expects the same treatment she's always received. Instead, to her surprise, she finds friendship--and love with Dr. Prescott Parrish.
19) The secret
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The loving hand of God is at work in even the most unsettling circumstances... In the seemingly ordinary Amish home of Grace Byler, secrets abound. Why does her mother weep and wander deep in the night? And why does her father refuse to admit something is dreadfully wrong? Then, in one startling moment, the quiet life Grace has known is irrevocably altered, leaving her to question all she has been taught about love, family, and commitment. "No one...
20) Spring
Author
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
350L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In Spring, early readers will explore the season of spring. Vibrant, full-color photos, and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they discover how spring weather affects the behavior of animals, the growth of plants, and the activities of people.
A labeled diagram helps readers identify the four seasons, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about the spring season online using our safe search...