Mildred Mistletoe Adjusts to a COVID Christmas
Mildred Mistletoe Adjusts to a COVID Christmas

Author: Elaine L. Orr

Publisher: Lifelong Dreams

Published: 2021-12-21

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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Third Mildred Mistletoe Holiday Story This Christmas season is different. For one thing, Mildred's humans have two unexpected house guests. Cyndi, good friends with Mildred's owners Frank and Fergie, and her socially awkward cat, Mittens, can't stay at their home. Cyndi's dad has COVID. She wants to be home to help, but her parents don't want her to get sick. Mildred has her hands full keeping an eye on Mittens, getting her own puppy, Goofball, to avoid eating bubbles, and making sure Cyndi doesn't do anything foolish. On Christmas Eve, Mildred awakes to suspicious noises. She needs to get her humans out of bed and on a mission to help a friend who doesn't seem to know what's best for her.

Appraisal for Murder
Appraisal for Murder

Author: Elaine Orr

Publisher: Elaine Orr

Published: 2011-09-25

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 0964599791

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Jolie Gentil moves to Great Aunt Madge's bed and breakfast at the Jersey shore, taking her cat Jazz, and joining Madge's pair of prune-eating dogs. Jolie does not view this as a retreat from her embezzling ex-husband, just a smart change. She had no idea her life was about to get even more complicated. Jolie finds work as a real estate appraiser, but a low-life named Joe Pedone demands that Jolie repay some of her husband's gambling debts and she runs into Michael Riordan, her high school crush. She's not sure which one is more trouble. Jolie appraises his mother's house and finds his mother dead in bed. Soon the mundane work of appraising real estate and dodging suggestions that she go to the ten-year high school reunion are mixed with calls from reporters, scary suggestions from Pedone, and requests that she help the local busybody with First Presbyterian's social services work. Jolie balances her fear of Pedone, conviction that Michael is innocent, and sometimes uneasy friendship with long-ago friend Scoobie.

Saving Remnants
Saving Remnants

Author: Dianne Evans

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781608806720

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Dianne Threatt Evans is a Professor Emerita of Psychology, having retired from the University of South Carolina, Lancaster campus. During her career as a teacher, professor, counselor, and school psychologist, she has received numerous awards for distinguished teaching and writing. Saving Remnants is her second book. Through a series of short, real-life stories, Evans has written this book to pay homage to emotionally-disturbed and socially-maladjusted children and to those who seek to help them. It contains remnants of real children in public schools (K-12). You will meet some of the children she had the responsible privilege of serving in her role as a state certified (SC) teacher for the emotionally-handicapped and as a nationally certified school psychologist. This book tells stories of children who are victims of sexual abuse, physical abuse, bullying, and negligence as well as children who suffer from ADHD, minor to severe learning disabilities, and other mental disorders. Evans takes readers with her to meet children with broken wings-those who cannot fly-as she shares her attempts to help them "hold fast to dreams." She lives in Lancaster, SC, with her husband Donnie.

Remember Love
Remember Love

Author: Mary Balogh

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0593438132

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“One of the best.” – Julia Quinn The beloved queen of Regency romance is back with a brand-new story perfect for fans of Bridgerton. The handsome and charismatic Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairs—by his own son. As a child, Devlin Ware thought his family stood for all that was right and good in the world. They were kind, gracious, and shared the beauty of Ravenswood, their grand country estate, by hosting lavish parties for the entire countryside. But at twenty-two, he discovered his whole world was an elaborate illusion, and when Devlin publicly called his family to account for it, he was exiled as a traitor. So be it. He enlisted in the fight against Napoleon and didn’t look back for six years. But now his father is dead, the Ware family is broken, and as the heir he is being called home. It’s only when Gwyneth Rhys—the woman he loved and then lost after his family banished him—holds out her hand to help him that he is able make the difficult journey and try to piece together his fractured family. It is Gwyneth’s loyalty, patience, and love that he needs. But is Devlin’s war-hardened heart even capable of offering her love in return?

Crimes of the Heart
Crimes of the Heart

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780822202509

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THE STORY: The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried

Fearless Gardening
Fearless Gardening

Author: Loree Bohl

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1604699620

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“Fearless Gardening encourages you—exhorts you—to boldly go forth and claim your garden as a space of joy and creativity.” —Jennifer Jewell, creator and host of public radio’s Cultivating Place Embrace your inner rebel and create the garden you want—even if it breaks the rules. Loree Bohl, the voice behind the popular blog The Danger Garden, shows how it’s done in Fearless Gardening, with zone-busting ideas and success stories. Bohl’s own gorgeous home garden inspires, with agaves that shrug off ice storms, palms that thrive in the rain, and planting risks that are beautifully rewarded.

His Lessons on Love
His Lessons on Love

Author: Cathy Maxwell

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0062896873

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New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell’s delicious Logical Man’s Guide to Dangerous Women series continues with this provocative romance between a reprobate earl and a sensible spinster who agree to marry under scandalous circumstances. Perfect for fans of Sophie Jordan and Sabrina Jeffries. Lesson #1: A man, even titled and handsome, cannot be careless forever. The Earl of Marsden—better known as Mars to all—has lived his life by his own rules…until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny package—a baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress. Mars won’t let his child be cast adrift, except he doesn’t know the first thing about babies. Panicking, he turns to a woman for help. Not just any woman, but Clarissa Taylor, village spinster, matron-in-training, and Mars’s greatest critic. Still, who better to tend a motherless child than a woman who was abandoned as a babe herself? Lesson #2: Life always plays the upper hand—especially when it comes to love. Clarissa desperately wishes to not to be beholden to anyone. She has spent a lifetime being pitied by the village. Her plan is simple—to use what the intolerable earl will pay her to become her own woman. It all sounds so straightforward until the threat of scandal sends her and the one man she can’t abide toward . . . marriage? Mars and Clarissa are about to learn the greatest lesson of all—that sparks always fly when the iron is hot.

Earthed
Earthed

Author: Rebecca Schiller

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781783965496

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In 2017, Rebecca Schiller turned fantasy to reality and moved her family to a countryside smallholding for a life of sowing and growing. But as the first few years go by, and the ever-expanding list of tasks builds to a cacophony, it becomes clear that this is not going to be simple. Another January comes in, and with it the threat of a mental health crisis, and so Rebecca turns to the garden where she has made her home, and to the women of this place's past. Here, she stumbles on a wild space of imaginative leaps, where she begins to uncover the hidden layers of her plot's history - and of herself. The ground under Rebecca's boots offers hard lessons as the seasons shift, delivering unflinching glimpses of damage done to peoples and the planet and regular defeats in her battle with the slugs. Yet as the New Year returns, carrying a life-changing diagnosis and then a global pandemic, Rebecca begins to move forwards with hope: the smallholding has become her anchor, her teacher and her family's shelter. Because when we find ourselves in an unknown land, we all need something small to hold on to and a way to keep ourselves earthed.

Fashion Is Spinach
Fashion Is Spinach

Author: Elizabeth Hawes

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0486805182

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After working as a stylist in Paris, Elizabeth Hawes (1903–71) launched one of the first American design houses in Depression-era New York. Hawes was an outspoken critic of the fashion industry and a champion of ready-to-wear styles. Fashion Is Spinach, her witty and astute memoir, offers an insider's critique of the fashion scene during the 1920s and '30s. "I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day," Hawes declares. Style, she maintains, reflects an era's mood, altering only with changes in attitude and taste. Fashion, conversely, exists only to perpetuate sales. Hawes denounces the industry's predatory practices, advising readers to reject ever-changing fads in favor of comfortable, durable, flattering attire. Decades ahead of her time, she offers a fascinating and tartly observed behind-the-scenes look at the fashion industry's economics, culture, and ethics.