Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce--the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother's estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He's just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she'll be damned if the good-looking...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina's tiny rural village, its...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined. But Nora is the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane, who now...
7) Alida's song
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
88 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice's doorstep...
10) The witches
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
vi, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma's stories—but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself!
11) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Series
Language
English
Description
Your basic Cinderella makeover story with a fresh and affectionate twist. Mia is a frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing 15-year-old girl whose two highest ambitions are to become invisible and to get a few kisses from an attractive school heartthrob. She is stunned and horrified when her coolly continental grandmother shows up and informs her that she's the crown princess of the European principality Genovia. Soon enough, Mia has to undertake "princess...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Describes different things grandmothers might do, from working to caring for their grandchildren. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
Author
Publisher
Parragon Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Bear is curious and asks lots of questions. Luckily for him, wise Grandma Bear seems to have all the answers. And as they set off to look for food, Grandma Bear can show Little Bear a trick or two.
16) Reeling
Author
Series
RayAnne Dahl volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"RayAnne's adventure takes our intrepid heroine, haunted by her beloved grandmother's death, to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show"-- Provided by publisher.
17) Big Mama
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 v (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billy Boyd likes living with his grandmother, Big Mama, because she can make a space capsule out of junk, joins in all kinds of games, and turns a trip for ice cream into an adventure.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request