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When Adèle walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses something at every stop. Includes background note on locations used in story. Suggested level: junior.
If you’re looking for a humorous historical cozy mystery series set in a small town and featuring a smart, sassy amateur woman sleuth, look no further! Teddy Roosevelt is running for president and even Arrojo can’t deny progressive reforms are here to stay. Rebecca Gold, one of the era’s New Women, chooses just this time to set up her own law practice in Arrojo and lands the affluent Thea Marsh as her first client. When Thea dies unexpectedly, the trail of suspects leads to her own family. The beloved and favored eldest son, Theo, is accused of the crime. Could such a placid man really be guilty of matricide? The police think so. So Rebecca turns to her new friend in town: businesswoma...
The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History provides an affordable and accessible reference to over 750 outstanding individual women and women's organizations in American religious history.--From publisher description.
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
Can a forward-thinking woman help the police solve crimes in a backward-thinking town? Smart, inquisitive, and a firm believer in Progressive Era reforms, Adele Gossling seeks a new life after the devastating death of her father. She flees San Francisco for the town of Arrojo, planning a life of peace and small pleasures. But both elude her when she and her spiritual sidekick, Nin Branch, get involved in helping the local police solve the case of a dead debutante, a poisoned schoolteacher, and a family matriarch who may or may not have left a generous will. Book 1: The Carnation Murder: Adele Gossling has barely been in Arrojo for a week when she discovers her neighbor’s dead body in her g...
From the sixth century plague of Justinian, to the nineteenth century third pandemic, bacterial infection throughout the centuries has caused a huge loss of the population of Europe and beyond. This is a new tale of the discovery of a killer bacterial disease, one which is immune to antibiotics. An innocent girl discovers a secret, but there’s one that’s bigger than she knows, a secret that causes her to lose her life. After her death, portrayed by the authorities as a tragic accident at a North Derbyshire school, Adam Brant his twin sister Chloe and two close friends Adele and Jonathan are witnesses to a second horrific incident. Adam becomes obsessed and is driven by his inquisitive nature on a quest for knowledge and truth, one that will satisfy him and put to rest the spirit that is said to haunt this particular community. But what will he learn along the way – and will he wish he’d never set foot on this path?
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick “In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Where do you see yourself in five years? Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend—the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after s...
“Here is a worthy successor to Ted Hughes’ Poetry in the Making, the book that enabled me to gain the confidence to begin to find my own voice as a story teller. Children Writing Stories confirms that we all have a story to tell if we are enabled to develop enough self-belief. So much of our natural creativity is smothered during our school years. Teachers and children feel hemmed in by the strictures of a curriculum which simply does not allow room for creativity to breathe. Unlock the chains, let the light in, and this is the kind of writing that will flow, this is the kind of intellectual and emotional growing that can transform young lives.” Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Laureate ...