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Author
Series
On Devonshire shores volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When their father's death leaves them impoverished, the Summers sisters open their home to guests to provide for their ailing mother. But instead of the elderly invalids they expect, they find themselves hosting eligible gentlemen. Sarah must confront her growing attraction to a mysterious widower, and Viola learns to heal her deeply hidden scars.
4) Rainwater
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty aroundher.
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching in their booming town offers hope, not only to support her sisters financially, but...
8) Last dance
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 8
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As graduation and last good-byes approach, the Carter House girls make prom plans and find themselves in heated competion for the limelight in a Mother's Day fashion show.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman moves to Los Angeles to escape her life and discovers she doesn't have to leave all of herself behind to make a fresh start, from USA Today bestselling author Abbi Waxman. When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, hoping to finally get away from her overprotective family, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's almost certain she didn't start that fire . . . right?) When she's rescued by a charming but eccentric bookseller...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sophie the spider makes wondrous webs, but the residents of Beekman's Boarding House do not appreciate her until at last, old and tired, she weaves her final masterpiece.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she shouldn't. Bad dreams and night whispers...
12) The Chili Queen
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Her protective instincts brought out by Emma, who was sent to New Mexico to marry a man she has never met, Addie French takes her new friend under her wing, and the pair begins unfolding secrets, hatching schemes, and questioning everything they once believed.
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
DJ's efforts to make sense of Christianity, prayer, and the Bible only seem to make it harder for her to deal with the inability of the girls in her grandmother's boardinghouse to get along, especially after Taylor begins flirting with Rhiannon's boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
15) Harvey Angell
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Harvey Angell, energy field researcher, moves into Aunt Agatha's boardinghouse, he meets and befriends Agatha's orphaned nephew, Henry, who soon believes that Harvey is something quite special and not just the everyday electrician he claims to be.
16) Nancy and Plum
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Two orphaned sisters are sent to live at a boarding home run by the cruel and greedy Mrs. Monday, where they dream about someday having enough to eat and being able to experience a real Christmas.
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 14
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an elderly boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it--except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects she's dealing with a cold-blooded killer who for some reason is copying the Cary Grant movie Arsenic and Old Lace, in which...
19) In the dark
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015, c2007.
Language
English
Description
South London, 1916. Eithne Clay runs a ramshackle boarding house while her husband is off at war. She and her young son struggle to bring the comforts of home to a cast of characters even the war effort doesn't want. Life is difficult enough when Eithne learns her husband is dead. Everything is transformed with the arrival of Neville Turk who brings some much-needed excitement to Eithne's life. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With America's entrance into the Second World War, the town of Blackberry Springs, Alabama, has exploded virtually overnight. Workers from all over are coming south for jobs in Uncle Sam's munitions plants--and they're bringing their pasts with them, right into Dolly Chandler's grand but fading family home turned boardinghouse.
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