Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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c2007., Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the mid-1970s, Julie decides to run for student body president after being sent to detention unfairly and comes to find that many of her classmates do not like her prospective vice president, Joy, because she is deaf.
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-- City tossed & broken2013., 4.7; 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
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By Finn, A. J.©2024., Adult, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC FIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "'I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.' So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life 'detective-fever.' 'You and I might even solve an old mystery or two.' Twenty years earlier—on New Year’s Eve 1999—Sebastian’s first wife and teenage son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past? 'Life is hard. After all, it kills you.' As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian’s life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . . . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family’s koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn’t gone—it’s just waiting." --publisher's website.
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c2007., 4.7; Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Julie is dreading the holidays after her parents divorce and spends her time at her best friend Ivy's home, where she helps the family celebrate the Chinese New Year.
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c2007., Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Julie and Ivy try to come up with a unique way to educate the public on the region's endangered eagles and raise enough money to help the wildlife rescue center release two injured eagles back into the wild.
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c2007., 4.8; Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
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c2007., Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Julie and her cousins set out on an old-fashioned wagon train to celebrate the Bicentennial, and Julie is unprepared for the challenges of prairie life, but when she and her cousins have a chance to make history, Julie rises to the challenge.
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c2007., Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Julie Albright, forced to move with her mom following her parents' divorce, is excited to learn her new school has a basketball team, but when the coach says girls are not allowed on the team, she jeopardizes her chances for making new friends by deciding to fight for her right to play.
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[2021]., Adults, Berkley Call No: FIC MEI Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly beautiful. While Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, his odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear. From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity"--
