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A storyteller of unparalleled emotional intensity, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky has created a novel that resonates far beyond its extraordinary love story. Here is a tale of courage, community, and the magical consequences of being given a second chance. What if wishes really could come true? It's the question facing waitress Bree Walker when she awakens in the hospital following a blizzard in sleepy... (more)

Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life

Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life

by Michael Lee West

Laced with delicious secret recipes passed from generation to generation, Consuming Passions is Michael Lee West's delightfully quirky memoir of an adventurous food-obsessed life.By watching a multitude of relatives cook, squabble, and carry on tradition, West went from a noncooking sytudent to a full-on gourmet of food and words. Throughout, she lends her distinctive humor and often hilarious insights to... (more)

An Accidental Woman

by Barbara Delinsky

Barbara Delinsky brings back Poppy Blake, from her stunning New York Times bestseller Lake News , in this deeply moving novel of life's second chances and the accidents of fate that can set us free.... Lake Henry, New Hampshire, is buzzing over the annual maple syrup harvestÂŠas well as the shocking revelation that longtime resident Heather Malone has been led away by the FBI, which claims the devoted... (more)

The Summer I Dared: A Novel

by Barbara Delinsky

On Big Sawyer island, life is as steady as the routine of the lobstermen who leave with the tide each morning and return with their haul each night. But for forty-year-old New Yorker Julia Bechtel, life and what's important in it are about to be forever altered when she survives a terrible boat accident en route to the island. Now, in the company of her aunt and daughter, Julia finds herself feeling strangely... (more)

The Vineyard

by Barbara Delinsky

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky has written her most complex and emotionally rewarding novel yet: a story of two women, a generation apart, each of whose dream becomes bound with the other's. To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who prizes appearances: exquisitely mannered, a supportive wife, and head of a successful wine-producing enterprise. So when she announces plans to marry a... (more)

She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

by Michael Lee West

Fulfilling all the high expectations set by her well-received Crazy Ladies, Michael Lee West's She Flew the Coop brilliantly interweaves dark calamity with comedy to depict everyday life in tiny Limoges, Louisiana, in 1952. Told through the voices of its richly eccentric characters, She Flew the Coop is an entrancing picture of Limoges's gossipmongering citizens and a beautifully rendered picture of... (more)

Chronicles of the Kings: Book 1

Gods and Kings

by Lynn N. Austin

Gods and Kings is the story of King Hezekiah, heir to the throne of King David. When his evil father plots to sacrifice him, Hezekiah’s mother, Abijah, searches frantically for a way to save him. But only two men can help her, and neither of them seems trustworthy. In a time and place engulfed by violence, treachery, and infidelity to Yahweh, Abijah and her son must discover the one true Source of strength if they... (more)

Chronicles of the Kings: Book 5

Among the Gods

by Lynn N. Austin

Fleeing King Manasseh’s tyranny, Joshua leads the Levites and their families to their new home in Egypt. There the exiles anoint a new king and forge a new life. But Joshua struggles with an obsession to return home, confront Manasseh, and avenge the deaths of his father and grandfather. In Judah, King Manasseh becomes deeply involved in pagan religions. When the dreaded Assyrians march westward, Manasseh lacks... (more)

Mad Girls In Love

by Michael Lee West

Michael Lee West's indomitable G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised in the South) are back -- enduring rough times with all the grace and outrageous flair expected of true Southern heroines. Bitsy Wentworth -- fleeing yet another relationship nightmare in a “borrowed” red Corvette, with her baby daughter and a recently acquired “demon child” -- has an APB out on her for attempted murder (she broke her ex-husband's nose... (more)

Chronicles of the Kings: Book 3

The Strength of His Hand

by Lynn N. Austin

Chronicles of the Kings Book 3- God has rewarded Hezekiah’s faithfulness with great wealth and power, but the godly king has no heir. In desperation, his beloved wife takes forbidden measures to ensure fertility.With all that is going on in his kingdom— and with the Assyrians approaching— Hezekiah does not discover his wife’s idolatry until it’s almost too late. Her betrayal cuts to the very core of his being and... (more)

Carmen Dog (Peapod Classics)

by Carol Emshwiller

In this dangerous and sharp-eyed look at men and women and the world we live in rverything is changing: women are turning into animals, and animals are turning into women. Pooch, a golden setter is turning into a beautiful woman -- although she still has some of her canine traits: she just can’t shuck that loyalty thing -- and her former owner is turning into a fierce snapping turtle. When the turtle takes a... (more)

The View from Mount Joy: A Novel

by Lorna Landvik

The View from Mount Joy, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about a man, a supermarket, the roads not taken, and the great, unexpected pleasures found in living a good life. When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader, the kind of girl... (more)

Run School Run

by Roland S. Barth

Roland Barth believes that there is a way to create a school which, instead of insisting upon uniformity, builds upon diversity among students, teachers, and teaching styles. Unlike many educational theorists, Barth has had ample opportunity to test his beliefs during his many years as an elementary school principal. Run School Run is the chronicle of his theory in action, a nuts–and–bolts study of one school's... (more)

Write on Target: Preparing Young Writers to Succeed on State Writing Achievement Tests (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library)Tommy Thomason, Carol York

Write on Target: Preparing Young Writers to Succeed on State Writing Achievement Tests (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library)

by Tommy Thomason

Mermaids in the Basement

by Michael Lee West

Reeling from the loss of her mother, plagued with a bad case of writer's block (and don't even talk about those extra twenty pounds), Renata DeChavannes feels as though everything is just plain wrong. And that was before the tabloids caught her sweetheart, filmmaker Ferg Lauderdale, sharing an intimate squeeze with Hollywood's hottest young tamale. But the granddaughter of the formidable Honora DeChavannes... (more)

Absolutely write!: Teaching the craft elements of writing (The Bill Harp professional teacher's library)Tommy Thomason

Absolutely write!: Teaching the craft elements of writing (The Bill Harp professional teacher's library)

by Tommy Thomason

When the Sergeant Came Marching Home

by Don Lemna

Donald can't believe it when his father returns after serving in World War II and decides to move the family to a middle-of-nowhere farm, where they work hard trying to make end meet. Full of wry, affectionate humor, this novel shows how one family becomes whole again.

Silver Birches: A Novel

by Adrian Plass

When David Herrick receives an invitation to a reunion from a long-forgotten acquaintance, he reluctantly visits Headly Manor. When the friends gather, they no longer resemble the fresh-faced group of twenty years ago. This poignant and moving story blends Adrian Plass's rich style of writing with his knack for addressing the issues we all face—faith, grief, love … and fear.

by Julius Lester

What was it like to be a slave? Listen to the words and learn about the lives of countless slaves and ex-slaves, telling about their forced journey from Africa to the United States, their work in the fields and houses of their owners, and their passion for freedom. You will never look at life the same way again.

Chronicles of the Kings: Book 2

Song of Redemption

by Lynn N. Austin

Chronicles of the King Book 2 When King Hezekiah discovers that God’s Law forbids him to take multiple wives, he must choose one woman to love. He must also choose to trust God’s promises when he decides to rebel against his powerful Assyrian overlords. Hezekiah seeks to strengthen his nation’s fortifications by building a tunnel in Jerusalem to hide his water supply. The tension mounts as the Assyrians march... (more)

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