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[2023]
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English
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"New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters-Ezra and Cinthy-grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But as the...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This film about the Maryknoll Sisters spans 100 years and several continents to relate the intelligence, tenacity and compassion of these early feminists. It weaves together the nuns' own affecting accounts of imprisonment and personal struggle with never before seen archival footage and poignant reminiscences from the beneficiaries of their work.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"How did sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne write literary landmarks Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey? What in their lives and circumstances, in the choices they made, and in their close but complex relationships with one another made such greatness possible? In her new novel, Rachel Cantor melds biographical fact with unruly invention to illuminate their genius, their bonds of love and duty, periods of furious creativity, and the ongoing...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family's ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England's Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn't alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and familiar. Most beloved is Bree, the mischievous ghost girl who has been Francine's companion since childhood. When Francine's estranged sister, Madeleine, returns to the manor after years away, she...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The seven sisters are gathered together for the first time, on board the Titan to say a final goodbye to the enigmatic father they loved so dearly. To the surprise of everyone, it is the missing sister who Pa Salt has chosen to entrust with the clue to their pasts. But for every truth revealed, another question emerges. The sisters must confront the idea that their adored father was someone they barely knew--and even more shockingly, that these long-buried...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity...
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Series
Crown of coral and pearl volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: For generations, the princes of Ilara have married the most beautiful maidens from the ocean village of Varenia. But though every girl longs to be chosen as the next princess, the cost of becoming royalty is higher than any of them could ever imagine.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A family is split when their father leaves the inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would call a living. With the proceeds from the farm Helen builds one of the most successful light breweries in the country. Edith's granddaughter, Diana, grows up knowing that the real world requires a tougher constitution than her...
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Series
Sisters ever after volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The fourth book in the Sisters Ever After series of fairy tale retellings, this is the wild story of Mera, the only one who can save her beautiful older sister when she is kidnapped by the Beast who viciously rules over their small village"--
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A twisty thriller from the beloved author of The Familiar Dark, where a woman returns to the town where her sister was murdered and finds a copycat on the loose. It's been fourteen years since Greer Dunning's older sister, Eliza, was murdered, and Greer's family has never be the same. But after the execution of the killer convicted, there's now been a similar killing back in Greer's small Kansas hometown, Ludlow. A copycat, according to the authorities,...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Angelina Ballerina and her friends put on a welcome ballet for Angelina's little sister and other new students in this sweet chapter book featuring an all-new, original Angelina Ballerina story and black-and-white illustrations throughout!
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After a shocking phone call from her mother, Reeva Mehta's life starts to sound like the plot of a Bollywood drama. From the outlandishly funny author of 30 Things I Love About Myself comes a hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, family, and new beginnings. Thirty-four-year-old Reeva thought her life couldn't possibly get more complicated, until her semi-famous Bollywood mother calls to tell her that she's been lying to her daughters for decades-the...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A beautifully illustrated jacketed hardcover picture book retelling the complete story of Frozen and Frozen 2 for the first time! The complete retellings of Frozen and Frozen 2 are combined and retold for the first time in this deluxe jacketed hardcover storybook! From their childhood full of stories and magic, to the disastrous events of first opening up Arendelle's gates, and years later journeying into the Enchanted Forest in search of the truth...
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Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe--she...
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Series
Silver sisters volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In the third and final book in the middle grade trilogy, Marigold, Zinnia, and Lily Silver return to Cape Cod for another unforgettable summer.
18) The guest room
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings . . . When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie. After her newest lodger, Arran,...
Author
Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father--the elusive billionaire, affectionately called Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted from across the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to her true heritage, and Star nervously decides to follow hers, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world. A hundred years earlier, headstrong and...
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