Synopsis: Laura Ashley is the iconic name in life-style and design. The Natural Home gift book from Laura Ashley is the perfect introduction into living more in tune with nature. From furnishings and accessories that blend effortlessly, to simple ways of looking after our home, including organic cleaning techniques, caring for vintage leather, through to protecting and enhancing wood. This book celebrates a natural, effortless style and the joy of keeping…

Synopsis: Nonfiction: crafts and hobbies

Synopsis: Even with a new best friend and a new boyfriend, Samantha Russell has a hard time adjusting to life without her best friend Juliana, who died of cancer, in the sequel to A Time for Dancing.

Synopsis: Hattie McNair and her cohorts at the FairAcres Home are back! The popular novel Out to Pasture left readers begging for more, so Effie Leland Wilder approaches her second novel with the same good humor and strong faith found in her first. This time, romance is in bloom at FairAcres, as Hattie's friends Retta Gooding and Sidney Metcalf ("the unelected but undeniable Most Eligible Widower of FairAcres Home") are drawn closer together while…

Synopsis: "Second-grader Brian and his sister Penny, a kindergartner who he calls Pea Brain, [try] to discover who is undermining School Spirit Week. Readers will have a good chance of solving this mystery, which features...the lively, but fundamentally good-natured, rivalry between Brian and Penny."-H.

Synopsis: From Sharon Creech, the Newbery Medal winning author of Walk Two Moons, comes a heartwarming adventure about finding family, and a home, when you least expect it. Ruby Holler is a Carnegie Medal-winning novel, and with its quirky protagonists and exciting journey, captures the imaginations of readers of all ages.   Brother and sister Dallas and Florida are the “trouble twins.” In their short thirteen years, they’ve passed through countless…

Synopsis: International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. A Printz Honor Book!If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help…

Synopsis: "A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love." --Tommy Orange, author of There There A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM USA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * TIME * Harper's Bazaar * Buzzfeed * Washington Post * Elle * Parade * San Francisco…

Synopsis: Swan SongLike the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection--he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a…

Synopsis: An exploration of more than 70 television and movie stars' brushes with the law. From imprisonment to drug addiction and overdoses to murder and other anti-social, rebellious and indulgent behaviour, it examines the lives of these celebrity bad seeds. Celebrities discussed include Robert Downey Jr, Kirk Douglas, James Dean, Dennis Hopper, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, O.J. Simpson, Woody Harrelson and Charlie Sheen.

Synopsis: As Karyn applies lipstick in the bathroom mirror, she sees her mother's nose, her mother's eyes. She has no idea which date her mother is out with tonight, but she knows she will be with her boyfriend, T.J. She's planning on taking the next step with T.J., even though she's in love with someone else.

Synopsis: A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

Synopsis: 1998 Waterford Readable Book 19 -- Louis Braille: Light out of Darkness (P) Written by Claudia Bailey / Illustrated by Guy Francis ***ISBN-13: 9780201478426 ***Pages: 8

Synopsis: Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Nicola Yoon comes a novel about first love and secrets from Stonewall Book Award winner Brandy Colbert. Dove "Birdie" Randolph works hard to be the perfect daughter and follow the path her parents have laid out for her: She quit playing her beloved soccer, she keeps her nose buried in textbooks, and she's on track to finish high school at the top of her class. But then Birdie falls hard for Booker, a sweet boy…

Synopsis: An American teen living abroad discovers the truth about himself and his family in this thrilling novel from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review). In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and…

Synopsis: The 'Queen Bitch' at her school, Isabel likes to keep everyone very much at arms length. But when she meets the enigmatic Atticus Smith, she begins to question her very identity - maybe she wasn't born to be bad after all.

Synopsis: In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jeff and Maud build a relationship as they cope with the loss of loved ones--Maud's radical sister has disappeared "underground," while Jeff's brother has been called to duty in Southeast Asia.