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1) The carousel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1982
Description
Prue, a young woman close to succumbing to the temptation of a comfortable, yet unexciting marriage, falls for an artist on a hastily arranged visit to her Aunt Phoebe.
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Description
"Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away. But as Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter, and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a new life begins to blossom"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Caring for her three elderly aunts and their farmhouse inn near Sugarcreek, Ohio, policewoman Rachel Troyer reluctantly takes in Joe Matthews and his young son. Will she be able to uncover Joe's secrets despite her aunts'--and her own--growing affection for him?
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When her father goes away, eleven-year-old California "Callie" Poppy winds up with her eccentric Great-Aunt Monica and their ancestor - the once-famous etiquette expert Eleanor Fontaine, now a hypersensitive ghost.
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Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Description
Stunned by news of her sister's and her brother-in-law's deaths Sarah Cain journeys to Lancaster County to claim her five orphaned nieces and nephews, who have been brought up as member of the Amish community, and finds her life irrevocably altered by her encounter with the Plain people of the region.
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor, her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and offers a job helping to salvage the condemned Stagecoach Inn, what does Agnes have to lose? But work at the inn has barely begun when the unlikely duo find the body of manipulative...
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Series
Judy Moody volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun.
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"When her brother dies suddenly, Damaris Baxter moves to Texas to take custody of her nephew. Luke Davenport winds up gravely injured when he rescues Damaris's nephew from a group of rustlers. As suspicions grow regarding the death of her brother, more danger appears, threatening the family Luke may be unable to live without"--
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"Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sisters Silla, seventeen, and Nori, four, are trapped in their aunt's cursed manor and can only escape with the help of a mysterious boy.
When Silla, seventeen, and Nori, four, arrive at their aunt's home, it's immediately clear that the manor is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets that Silla can't ignore. Who is the beautiful boy that's appeared from the...
18) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
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.
19) Lean on me
Author
Series
Family is forever volume 1
Formats
Description
"Tabitha Knicely loves her career as a pharmaceutical rep, but even her health care knowledge isn't much help with the daily challenges she now faces caring for her aunt with Alzheimer's. Her once organized lifestyle is in disarray and her patience is tested. On Sunday mornings, when Aunt Tweet drags her to church, though Tabitha isn't a believer, the peaceful presence of faith is a welcome relief. Marcus Whittington believes in second chances, so...
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Series
Whistle Stop AL volume 2
Description
"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
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