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(0)Emily Thomas
1) Mud
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English
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An achingly funny, touching story for anyone who has been thrown in at the deep end.
It's 1979, and thirteen-year-old Lydia has no idea how she'll cope when her dad announces that the family has to sell up and move onto a Thames sailing barge in Essex. With his girlfriend. And her three kids.
Between trying to keep her clothes dry in a leaky cabin, disastrous hair-dye attempts, awkward encounters with local boys, and coping with her suddenly enormous...
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English
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How can we think more deeply about our travels?
This was the question that inspired Emily Thomas's journey into the philosophy of travel. Part philosophical ramble, part travelogue, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery, when philosophers first started taking travel seriously. It meanders forward to consider Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness.
On our travels with Thomas, we discover the...
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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An unmarked package arrives at the library containing an old handwritten manuscript. As Anne reads through the brittle pages, she becomes completely captivated by the fascinating story of a war-torn romance. Shes filled with questions too. Who wrote it? Is it a true story? Who sent it to Anne, and why? As she sets out to solve the riddle of the manuscript, God will challenge Anne to examine her own heart and let down the walls she has built around...
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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While cataloging books at the library, Anne stumbles on an old, yellowed map of Pennsylvania tucked inside the pages of a historical book from Aunt Edies private collection. When Anne studies the map, she sees markings that hint that it was used by Lewis and Clark! Could it really be authentic? And if it is, how did Aunt Edie come to possess a map that had been stolen from the now-defunct Blue Hill Historical Society one hundred years ago? Meanwhile,...
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Anne Gibson is alarmed when identity thefts leave elderly Blue Hill citizens with bank accounts drained and credit cards maxed out. When a mysterious young woman arrives at the library's first book club meeting and starts asking personal questions of Anne's friend Mildred Farley, Anne wonders if the stranger is behind the thefts. As Anne sets out to uncover the truth, she discovers that there is far more behind the woman's curious behavior than she...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the mayor of Blue Hill visits Anne to talk about a new tax proposal that will soon go before the town council, she's excited about the possibilities. The additional funding could provide more library resources and programs, as well as pay some of Anne's dedicated volunteers. But when popular children's books begin vanishing from the shelves, Anne discovers that it is just the tip of an iceberg of political intrigue involving the proposed levy....
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While converting the Victorian home left by her great-aunt Edie into a library, Anne Gibson stumbles upon a fascinating find. Hidden behind an old star quilt is a tiny sealed-off room with a small writing desk and a faded photograph of Edie in a wedding gown that provides the first puzzling clue to the rooms significance. Anne is certain Aunt Edie never married, so who is the handsome young man with her in the photograph? Could he still hold claim...