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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety....
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One woman discovers the beauty in chaos in this poignant and heartwarming story about the threads that hold family together from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery. With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can't afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a plan for her future. She nurtured her family and neglected herself. But how's she supposed to think when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown of Heart's Harbor, Maine, to help her great-aunt run a teashop, Callie Aspen is entangled in a murder investigation when one of the guests at a party she is catering ends up dead.
Author
Series
The Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
122 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their mother's death, Olivia and Nellie go to live with their great aunt, where they slowly bring her overgrown and weedy old garden back to life, enabling them to adjust to a new life as well.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper ... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
12) Lucinda's secret
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
111 p.: ill.; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
13) Terrible times
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
145 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leaving his parents, his Mad Uncle Jack, and his Even Madder Aunt Maud at home at Awful End, Eddie Dickens, along with the color-blind Lady Constance, boards the ship the Pompous Pig on a mission to America.
14) A royal tea
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
94 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Kiki and Echo help Shelly prepare for a royal tea with her visiting great-aunt, Queen Edwina, Shelly worries that the Queen will make her leave Trident City and move to Neptune Castle.
15) Smelly Bill
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. illus. ; 26 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bill the dog manages to avoid being bathed until he goes to stay with Great Aunt Bleach, who loves to clean.
16) Circus Mirandus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Learning from his dying grandfather that a magical circus at the heart of his favorite bedtime stories is real, young Micah and his friend Jenny embark on a journey to claim a miracle from the circus's wondrous magician, the Lightbender.
17) Fort
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A middle-grade summer adventure about two boys who build an awesome fort and tangle with two older bullies"--