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1) Little women
Author
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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Description
"Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832?1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters?Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March?detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Little Women was an immediate commercial and...
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 2nd
Language
English
Description
"Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them--which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: She has special powers that both frighten and confuse her--and though she tries hard to hide them, she can't get them under control. Distraction soon arrives in the handsome form of MacAllister...
3) Safe harbor
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Series
Language
English
Description
Dana Underhill's artistic gift has led her all over the world in search of new oceanscapes. Her breathtaking underwater canvases evoke all the beauty and romance of the seas she and her beloved sister, Lily, have sailed since childhood. But when a shattering event takes Lily from her forever, Dana must leave her nomadic artist's life for the salt marshes and tidal creeks of their childhood home at Hubbard's Point, Connecticut, to become a mother to...
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Series
Language
English
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"At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate. To succeed, she will have to unravel its secrets" --
6) Dark rooms
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and fast--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide-note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister Grace to accept the case as closed. Dropped out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school from which she recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly...
Author
Series
Main Street volume 5
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Someone is leaving books on their doorsteps. Each comes with a mysterious message asking them to read the book and do something new. The four friends now have a secret girls -only book club. Who's sending these packages? And what will the next book be? The girls can't wait to find out.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spanning the years 1916 to 1987, the lives of sisters Idella and Avis Hillock are described in a series of vignettes, opening with an account of their mother's death in childbirth and closing with Idella's husband, Eddie, now an old man, reminiscing about his life with Idella. Set in the rough landscape of New Brunswick, Canada.
10) No such person
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A murder mystery in a small town raises suspicions when a member of a well-regarded family in the community is implicated"--
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
365, 4 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, and Granite Point is consumed by a long-buried fear, healer Patience Sparrow must find a way to turn the tide and return life to this seaside New England hamlet with the help of the town's women.
12) Little women
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in the nineteenth-century, New England.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.
15) Little women
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
During one year, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, aged nine to thirteen, get to know their neighbors the Lawrences, attend school dances and sleepovers, have first crushes, and grow closer despite their differences.
19) Little women
Author
Publisher
Sandy Creek
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.