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Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Peanut Big Top has a really big surprise to share with all her Lalaloopsy friends, but Pillow Featherbed has gone missing. So the Lalaloopsy girls set out on an adventure, along with their pets, to find their friend. With lots of unexpected surprises and challenges, including an impending thunderstorm, the girls use creativity and their special talents, but nothing seems to work. Will they be able to find Pillow in time to see Peanut's exciting surprise?...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Four Quaker women journey through the trials of faith and love: Ruth Payne's bridegroom has cold feet. . .for the second time; things get complicated for Underground Railroad worker Deborah Wall when she meets a bounty hunter head-on; Leah hopes to turn a marriage of convenience into a marriage of love; and Christian Jaidon Taylor wants to win the heart of Quaker Catherine Wall.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In 1954 Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community and travel to the small Tibetan town of Shigatse where they soon find companionship with their neighbors, Dorje and Rinchen, and their sons Dawa and Chumpa. But the arrival of Maoist soldiers into their quiet life shatters everything.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twins to move to Stahekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned for the solitude of this community of eighty-five residents accessible only by boat, float plane, or hiking. "Hiking Naked" chronicles Graville's journey through questions about...
88) Faith
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"The Civil War battlefield is the last place Quakeress Faith Cathwell thought she'd find herself. But with a gift for nursing, Faith seizes this opportunity to join the fight for abolition--and to search for Shiloh, a freeborn childhood friend who was kidnapped and sold south by unscrupulous slave catchers.Knowing it's much too dangerous for her to search enemy territory alone, Faith enlists the help of Colonel Devlin Knight, who is indebted to her...
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 17
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1817 a teenage brother and sister are relieved from the abuses of Newgate Prison in London by the prison reform efforts of Quaker minister Elizabeth Fry.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
September has longed to return to Fairyland after her first adventure there. And when she finally does, she learns that its inhabitants have been losing their shadows - and their magic - to the world of Fairyland Below. This underworld has a new ruler: Halloween, the Hollow Queen, who is September's shadow. And Halloween does not want to give Fairyland's shadows back. Fans of Valente's bestselling, first Fairyland book will revel in the lush setting,...
Author
Series
America a cultural history volume 1
Description
This book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created...
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Pearl Eddy, a young, blind, Quaker widow in a small 1890s Kansas town, who is struggling to care for her four sons and make ends meet, infuriates her narrow-minded neighbors when she takes in a poor Japanese family who has lost their land to taxes and an African-American thief who is fleeing a mob.
100) You know how to love
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"With warm, gentle rhymes and soft, sweet art, this book celebrates the power we all have to love, and to use that love to make the whole world a better, kinder, more welcoming place." --