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Author
Publisher
Dawnland Publications
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xii, 275 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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History books tell almost nothing about the "People of the Dawnland", but that does not mean they never were. Aunt Sarah was one of these and she was also a basket maker and a healing woman who lived to see 108 winters. She was a St. Francis Abenaki, gentle and proud. Her hands always smelled of sweetgrass and they reached out to help and heal many human and animal friends along the good trail that she walked.
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Alice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a seed of an idea is planted and blossoms into a beautiful plan. This beloved classic and celebration of nature—written by a beloved Caldecott winner—is lovelier than ever!
Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new...
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, her aunts find her to be more of a handful than they bargained for. But even more surprising than the transition of Rebecca into a well-mannered young lady are the effects that Rebecca has on her aunts' humdrum lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
8) Housekeeping
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Series
Language
English
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Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death....
11) The lace reader
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Towner Whitney, a dazed young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers, has survived numerous traumas and returned to her hometown of Salem, Mass., to recover. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived when her beloved great-aunt Eva drowns under circumstances suggesting foul play. Towner's suspicions are taken with a grain of salt given her history of hallucinatory visions and self-harm. The mystery enmeshes local cop...
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
13) Keeping the moon
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2004, c1999
Physical Desc
228 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma Porter, a computer analyst and amateur gardener, takes a vacation in England after her lover dumps her, and she ends up at Penford Hall, a Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where the owner, Duke Grayson Alexander, convinces her to restore his garden, and she investigates the mystery of the death of a rock star and an attack on the duke's cousin, and finds love in the process.
15) How I live now
Author
Language
English
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Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
16) The Thief Lord
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
349 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.
17) Practical magic
Author
Series
Practical magic novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted...
18) Lucinda's secret
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
111 p. ill. 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
19) Bloomability
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lori Shepherd, having just returned to her idyllic English cottage after a visit to America, agrees to investigate when the police come up short in their inquiry into the murder of local gossip Prunella Hooper, knowing she can count on the supernatural help of her long-dead Aunt Dimity.
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