Rachel Botchan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Author
Series
The emissaries volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Three Philippians whose lives were changed by Paul--a jailer, a formerly demon-posessed enslaved girl, and the woman referred to as Lydia--find their fates intertwined. In the face of great sacrifice, will they find the strength to do all that justice demands of them?"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Grieving the death of her Amish parents and her separation from her siblings when she is sent from Michigan to Pennsylvania, Lena Rose Schwartz hopes to secure an engagement to her beau so that she can return home, before discovering other prospects and possibilities in Lancaster County.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Marlena Wenger, a young aunt from the Beachy Amish caring for her infant niece, finds comfort and hope from an Old Order Amish mother and her family who extend friendship to a homeless man, whose few possessions include a collection of love letters"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Ellen Marie Wiseman, acclaimed author of What She Left Behind and The Life She Was Given, weaves the
stories of two very different women into a page-turning novel as suspenseful as it is poignant, set amid one of
history's deadliest pandemics. In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded
streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in...
Author
Series
Amish Beginnings volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young Amish woman fends off the matchmaking efforts of her fellow passengers on the Charming Nancy--the ship that brought the first wave of Amish to America in 1737"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Bishop's family volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Abigail Stoltzfus is called to Stoney Ridge to find a match, she finds that Dane Glick is the only eligible bachelor, who happens to be a member of a family on the opposite side of an escalating church conflict.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Their lives couldn't be more different, but their goal is the same: survive King Herod's rule. Two women occupy a place in Herod's court. The first, Salome, is the king's only sister, a resentful woman who has been told she's from an inferior race, a people whom God will never accept or approve of. The second woman, Zara, is a lowly handmaid who serves Salome, but where Salome spies conspiracies and treachery, Zara sees hurting people in need of understanding...
12) Stone Angel
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In this emotionally rich story, a little girl and her family live happily in Paris until Nazi soldiers arrive druing World War II. She and her family must flee or risk being sent to a concentration camp, so they run into the woods, where they meet resistance fighters. But they're still not safe. They must cross tall mountains and sail in a rickety boat to England. Yet the whole time they're struggling to survive, the little girl thinks of the stone...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill's fifth-grade class has plans for you. They're going to speak up and work together to save their school. Laura Shovan's engaging novel is a time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. The students grow up and move on in this big-hearted debut about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
You Don't Know Her Name. The World Remembers Only Her Greatest Friend: Cleopatra. Raised together in the Alexandrian palace, Chava, the Hebrew daughter of the royal tutor, and Urbi, an Egyptian princess, become as close as sisters—and rivals with their dreams of greatness. When Urbi unexpectedly ascends the throne as Queen Cleopatra, Chava believes their bond is strong enough to survive. But absolute power has a way of changing everything. The ultimate...
Author
Series
American wonders collection volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It is 1886, and the government has given the US Cavalry control of Yellowstone. For widowed hotelier Kate Tremaine, the change is a welcome one. She knows every inch of her wilderness home like the back of her hand and wants to see it protected from poachers and vandals. Refused a guide by Congress, Lieutenant William Prescott must enlist Kate's aid to help him navigate the sprawling park and track down the troublemakers. But a secret from his past...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
To Be Silent Would Be to Deny Their God, To Defy Would Bring the Wrath of the King. Seeking quiet and safety after a hard childhood, Leah marries Judah, a strong and gentle man, and for the first time in her life Leah believes she'll have peace. But the very nation Judah was named for has been conquered by a cruel king, who decrees that all Jews are to conform to Syrian laws or risk death for following the laws of Moses. Judah's father resists the...
17) Tiffany Girl
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive "New Woman"-the girl behind Tiffany's chapel-and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 World's Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany-heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire-seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of which...
Author
Series
American wonders collection volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Meg Pero has been assisting her photographer father since she was big enough to carry his equipment, so when he dies she is determined to take over his profession—starting with fulfilling the contract he signed to serve on an Army survey of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in 1871. What she doesn't realize is that the leader of the expedition is none other than the man she once refused to marry. Captain Ben Coleridge would like nothing more than...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The American Girl brand is synonymous with wholesome, empowering tales about young women growing up in America, even as the country grows, too. Each girl's story documents with unsurpassed charm and wit the people, places, and events she witnesses. Taking place in 1854, Kirsten's stories follow the young Swedish immigrant and her family as they attempt to start a new life on a farm in frontier Minnesota. This collection includes: Meet Kirsten, Kirsten...
Author
Series
Amish Beginnings volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
As the Amish settle in America, Tessa wishes Hans would notice her. When tragedy strikes—close to home and close to her heart—she discovers the cost of true love. Beautiful and winsome, Betsy Zook never questioned her family's rigid expectations, nor those of devoted Hans, but then she never had to. Not until the night when she's taken captive in a surprise Indian raid. During her captivity, Betsy faces brutality and hardship, but also unexpected...