Sandra Byrd
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Victorian ladies volume 1
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"Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone. The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when Eleanor is appointed the temporary trustee of the baron's...
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Answering a woman's desperate call for help, young Navy widow Helen Devries opens her Whidbey Island home as a refuge to Choi Eunhee. As they bond over common losses and a delicate, potentially devastating secret, their friendship spans the remainder of their lives. After losing her mother, Cassidy Quinn spent her childhood summers with her gran, Helen, at her farmhouse. Nourished by her grandmother's love and encouragement, Cassidy discovers a passion...
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Ladies in waiting (Sandra Byrd) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
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The story of Meg Wyatt, pledged forever as the best friend to Anne Boleyn since their childhoods on neighboring manors in Kent. When Anneś star begins to ascend, of course she takes her best friend Meg along for the ride. Life in the court of Henry VIII is thrilling at first, but as Anneś favor rises and falls, so does Megś. And though sheś pledged her loyalty to Anne no matter what the test, Meg just might lose her greatest loveánd her own lifeb́ecause...
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Daughters of Hampshire volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
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"After the mysterious death of her father, Miss Gillian Young takes a new job as the principal costume designer at the renowned Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. But while she remembers her father as a kind, well-respected man of the Police Force, clues she uncovers indicate he'd been living a double life: a haunting photograph of a young woman; train stubs for secret trips just before his death; and a receipt for a large sum of money. Are these items evidence...
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Ladies in waiting (Sandra Byrd) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
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In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von Snakenborg leaves Sweden on a treacherous journey to England. Her fiance has fallen in love with her sister and her dowry money has been gambled away, but ahead of her lies an adventure that will take her to the dizzying heights of Tudor power. Transformed through marriage into Helena, the Marchioness of Northampton, she becomes the highest-ranking woman in Elizabeth's circle. But in a court that is surrounded...
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Ladies in waiting (Sandra Byrd) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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Christy Award finalist Sandra Byrd has drawn favorable comparisons to New York Times best-selling author Philippa Gregory for her Ladies in Waiting novels. The second installment in the series transports listeners to King Henry VIII's court for a tale of intrigue featuring Henry's last wife, Kateryn Parr.
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Daughters of Hampshire volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands"--
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Daughters of Hampshire volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
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"In Victorian England, Annabel Ashton fights to save her family home and her mother's honor while trying to figure out if the man she loves wants her--or just wants to use her to achieve his own ambitions"--
9) Island girl
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Friends for a season volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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During her annual summer visit to the berry fields of her grandparents' farm on Sauvie's Island, Oregon, thirteen-year-old Meg deepens her understanding of her unique characteristics and God's plan for her life.
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Friends for a season volume 4
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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"Two girls, cousins of a bride and groom---one Jewish, one not---learn that friendship reaches beyond religion. And they discover they have a lot to learn about faith, too"--Provided by publisher.
12) Red velvet
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Friends for a season volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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While comforting her mother after chemotherapy treatments, fourteen-year-old Quinn reads her parent's teen-years diary and determines to help her mother accomplish some forgotten goals.
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Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Lexi Stuart earned a master's degree in French Studies---but can't find employment. So she moves back in with her parents, takes a job at a Seattle cafe, and becomes attracted to the owner, Luc---until disaster strikes! Will Lexi let God replace her dreams with the plans he has for her?
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Pub. Date
2008
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"Lexi Stuart is risking it all. Saying au revoir to the security of home, her job, and could-be boyfriend Dan, Lexi embarks on a culinary adventure in France to fulfill her life dream of becoming a pastry chef. As she settles into her new home in the village of Presque le Chateau to study and work in a local bakery, her twenty-something optimism meets resistance in the seemingly crusty nature of the people and culture around her. Determined to gain...
16) Chopstick
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Friends for a season volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Thirteen-year-olds Paige and Kate find themselves competing for the same worship-music contest and the same $500 prize. Each girl is so sure she will win that each has already promised the prize money to a favorite worthy cause. Via the contest's Web site, Paige and Kate meet and begin a friendship that will make both girls examine their ideas about their faith and what worship really is. They realize that, like a single chopstick, the body of Christ...