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22) Caddie Woodlawn
Pub. Date
[2003], c1989
Description
Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Description
While Olivia's simple wedding plans get wildly out of hand once Hetty takes over and alienates everyone in the family. Sara trades places with a street-smart waif that passes as her double. She lands in serious danger when she runs away from home with Gus Pike. It ends with the death of Marilla Cuthbert.
24) Archangel
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A British historian, finished with a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives, is preparing to leave Russia for good, but a surprise visit from a former Soviet officer suddenly changes his mind. The officer reveals a deadly secret, one which promises to uncover Russia's most closely guarded conspiracy.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Based on the life of Isabella Beeton, author of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and the most famous cookbook author in British history. Isabella was an accomplished business woman who died when she was only 28. Traces Isabella's transformation from young wife, to magazine journalist, to publishing phenomenon. Find out how a woman who couldn't cook ended up producing the world's most famous recipe book. Discover the dark secret that led...
28) Station Jim
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A young man working in a train station befriends a dog that can do amazing tricks. When the Queen of England is set to visit the station, an assassination attempt is put on her. Will the most unlikely of characters save the day?
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Set in Victorian London, fearless young Sally Lockhart has a mind for numbers and for sleuthing. Recently orphaned Sally is armed with a pearl-handled pistol and her keen mind, uncovers the secrets of her father's death aboard the sunken schooner Lavinia, discovers hidden cursed jewels, and faces England's deadliest villains with bold courage.
30) Trail of tears
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Annie is a tough Las Vegas blackjack dealer. Ever since her ex-husband, David left in the middle of the night with her two sons, Annie has given up on the idea of a perfect family. Cheryl is a typical suburban mother. Her unemployed husband, Kyle, said he was taking their son and daughter to the park. They never return. Through a Missing Children's network, Cheryl discovers that both men are sighted in Oregon and invites Annie on a road trip...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when the lives of the woman he loves and an innocent young...
32) Bessie
Description
Bessie Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into 'The Empress of the Blues', who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.
33) Kiss shot
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Out of cash, out of a job, and soon-to-be out on the street, single mother Sarah Collins returns to the pool rooms of her youth to hustle the money to pay her home mortgage bill, only to encounter a globe-trotting, pool-playing ladies' man.
39) The runaway
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Description
The story of the friendship of a black boy and a white boy in rural Georgia in the 1940s.