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Marilla of Green Gables : a novel / by McCoy, Sarah,1980-author.; prequel to:Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of Green Gables.;
"A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down, leaving her to bear the responsibilities of a farm wife: cooking, sewing, keeping house, and overseeing the day-to-day life of Green Gables with her brother, Matthew and father, Hugh. In Avonlea, life holds few options for farm girls. Marilla's one connection to the wider world is Aunt Elizabeth "Izzy" Johnson, her mother's sister, who fled Avonlea to the bustling city of St. Catharines. An opinionated spinster, Aunt Izzy is a talented seamstress, which has allowed her to build a thriving business and make her own way in the world. Emboldened by her aunt, Marilla dares to venture beyond the safety of Green Gables. With her friend Rachel, she joins the local Ladies Aid Society in helping an orphanage run by the Sisters of Charity in nearby Nova Scotia -- a home for abandoned children that secretly serves as a way station for runaway slaves from America. Her budding romance with John Blythe, the charming son of a neighbor, offers her a possibility of future happiness -- but Marilla is in no rush to trade one farm life for another. Instead she is caught up in the dangerous work of politics and abolition -- jeopardizing all she cherishes. Now Marilla must face a reckoning between her dreams of making a difference in the wider world and the small-town reality of life at Green Gables."--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Farm life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last dreamwalker / by Woods, Rita,author.;
"From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina-and their connection toa mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation. In the wake of her mother's passing, Layla Hurley unexpectedly reconnects with her mother's sisters, women she hasn't been allowed to speak to, or of, in years. Her aunts reveal toLayla that a Gullah-Geechee island off the shore of South Carolina now belongs to her. As Layla digs deeper into her mother's past and the mysterious island's history, she discovers that the terrifying nightmares that have plagued her throughout her lifeand tainted her relationship with her mother and all of her family, is actually a power passed down through generations of her Gullah ancestors. She is a Dreamwalker, able to inhabit the dreams of others-and to manipulate them. As Layla uncovers increasingly dark secrets about her family's past, she finds herself thrust into the center of a potentially deadly, decades-old feud fought in the dark corridor of dreams. The Last Dreamwalker is a gripping, contemporary read about power and agency; family and legacy; and the ways trauma, secrets, and magic take shape across generations"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; African American women; Dreams; Family secrets; Islands;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Here's to us : a novel / by Hilderbrand, Elin,author.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Wives; Women; Loss (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Here's to us [sound recording] : a novel / by Hilderbrand, Elin,author.; Bennett, Erin,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Erin Bennett.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Wives; Women; Loss (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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On the edge of survival : a shipwreck, a raging storm and the harrowing Alaskan rescue that became a legend / by Walker, Spike.;
Subjects: United States. Coast Guard; Selendang Ayu (Cargo ship); Shipwrecks;
© c2010., St. Martin's Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A tale of two biddies / by Logan, Kylie.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.; League of Literary Ladies (Imaginary orgnization); Book clubs (Discussion groups); Murder; Bastille Day;
© c2014., Berkley Prime Crime,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Causeway : a passage from innocence / by MacIntyre, Linden;
Subjects: MacIntyre, Linden; MacIntyre family.;
© c2006., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I saw him die : a novel / by Wilson, Andrew,1967-author.;
An astonishingly beautiful setting on the island of Skye. A gathering of fascinating guests at a hunting lodge set to enjoy abundant hospitality. And a double murder. A household in chaos ... No one is allowed to leave. A tantalising new case for Agatha Christie to solve.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976; Authors; Islands; Murder;
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The fog / by Maclear, Kyo,1970-; Pak, Kenard.;
Warble is a small yellow warbler who lives on the beautiful island of Icyland, where he pursues his hobby of human watching. But on a warm day, a deep fog rolls in and obscures his view. The rest of the birds don't seem to notice the fog or the other changes Warble observes on the island.LSC
Subjects: Birds; Fog; Islands;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Spells for forgetting : a novel / by Young, Adrienne,1985-author.;
"Emery Blackwood's life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence among the community that fractured her world in two. She'd once longed to run away with August, eager to escape the misty, remote shores of Saiorse Island and chase new dreams; now, she maintains her late mother's tea shop and cares for her ailing father. But just as the island, rooted in folklore and tradition, begins to show signs of strange happenings, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that no one wants to remember. August Salt knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night that changed everything. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother's ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from the past that has never healed--Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises that span generations threatens to reveal the truth behind Lily's death once and for all"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Islands; Magic; Murder; Small cities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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