Early Candlelight
10 best books like Early Candlelight (Maud Hart Lovelace): Mother Carey's Chickens, Pirate of My Heart, Welcome to Tranquility, Vol. 1, Betsy and Billy, Meet the Malones, Breaking Up (Fashion High Graphic Novel), Cuba: My Revolution, The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace, Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury, Wild Rose
Author | Kate Douglas Wiggin |
ISBN | 1417911433 |
1911. Another heartwarming tale from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In this story the reader follows a strong-willed widow, Nancy Carey, as she struggles for the future of her beautiful daughters Nancy and Kitty and her beloved son Peter. Good humor and folksy grit help Mother Carey keep...
Author | Jamie Carie |
ISBN | 0805448152 |
When her doting father dies, Lady Kendra Townsend is given a choice: marry the horrid man of her cold, money-grubbing uncle's choosing or leave England to risk a new life in America with unknown relatives. Armed with the faith that God has a plan for her, Kendra boards a cargo ship and meets American sea...
Author | Gail Simone |
ISBN | 1401215165 |
Tranquility is like any other small town in America, except for one fundamental difference--it's the town where super-powered beings go in order to retire and raise families. From the Golden Age to the Modern Age, heroes and villains alike reside in Tranquility and it creates a unique blend of personalities...
Author | Carolyn Haywood |
ISBN | 0152051007 |
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.
Second grade holds lots...
Author | Lenora Mattingly Weber |
ISBN | 0425014584 |
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When...
Author | Aimee Friedman |
ISBN | 0439748674 |
BREAKING UP is something different for the Gossip Girls set: all the drama, all the romance, all the style -- illustrated in juicy graphic novel format.
"There's a fine line between a friend and an enemy. One minute there's all this trust, and laughter, and love. And the next minute . . . there's...
Seventeen-year-old Sonia, a medical student with dreams of becoming a modernist painter, is caught up in Fidel Castro’s revolution from the moment it captures Havana on New Year’s Eve 1958. While her eccentric mother hatches an increasingly desperate series of plans to flee Cuba, Sonia joins...
Author | Sharla Scannell Whalen |
ISBN | 0963078305 |
Well. I'm certainly not surprised that I LOVED this book. It was five hundred pages of details and visits about "old friends" of mine, about whom I read in the Betsy-Tacy books. Since the books so closely paralleled MHL's own life, author Sharla Scannell Whalen pointed out the similarities and differences...
Author | Louisa May Alcott |
ISBN | 1589199502 |
A publishing first - the first and only complete collection of all Louisa May Alcott's Christmas short stories and novellas. Louisa May Alcott has been loved by generations of readers for her timeless stories like Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys. Few authors have equaled her ability to bring...
Author | Ruth Axtell Morren |
ISBN | 0373786093 |
All her life, Geneva Patterson was an outcast in Haven's End. Plain, awkward, thought to be unmarriageable, she endured the townspeople's cruel taunts in solitude. But then she encountered a man who made her dream of more.... Once a respected sea captain, Caleb Phelps had been accused of a shameful...
Author | Sandi Rog |
ISBN | 0983455651 |
A Cheyenne warrior bent on vengeance.
A pioneer woman bent on fulfilling a dream.
Until their paths collide.
After fleeing her abusive uncle, Anna is determined to reach the city of her dreams. But White Eagle and his fierce warriors take her prisoner. Anna attempts a harrowing escape,...
Mabel is done with high school and ready to teach her first year of school at a little country one-room schoolhouse. Her boyfriend, Russ, is pressuring her to make plans for their future wedding, but Mabel isn't ready to commit to a formal engagement. Meanwhile, Mabel has trouble with her country students...
Author | Mary Sharratt |
ISBN | 1566890977 |
How can you weave a life from fairy tales? Set in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul during the First World War, Mary Sharratt's debut novel is the story of a young German immigrant experiencing her spiritual and sexual awakening.
When Kathrin's mother dies, Kathrin immigrates to America where...
Author | Gene Stratton-Porter |
1921. Stratton-Porter was an American feminist, environmentalist, photographer and one of Indiana's most famous female authors. Many of her writings were moralistic and romantic novels. The popular author seems to have gone awry with this particular novel, which tells the story of two orphaned...
Author | Robin Lee Hatcher |
ISBN | 0310259282 |
From the moment Gavin Blake set eyes on Emily Harris he knew she would never make it in the rugged high country where backbreaking work and constant hardship were commonplace. She would wilt there like a rose without water. He'd be sending her back to Boise before the first snows. He'd be willing to bet...
Author | Betty Crocker |
ISBN | 0764526340 |
Betty Crocker's classic cookbook for children is back-in an authentic reproduction of the original 1957 edition
A whole generation of Baby Boomers grew up with Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls, and they have helped to make it the one of the most requested titles in the Betty Crocker...
Boku wa Kiss de Uso wo Tsuku, Vol. 1
Kitazono Meiko falls asleep in the library one day, only to be awakened by a kiss! She is unsure of who it was that kissed her, however, since there are multiple boys still in the library. Could it be the popular boy Shinoda-senpai? Or the super-cool Mikoshiba-senpai? The boy-next-door type Mogami? Or...
Author | Kathleen Thompson Norris |
ISBN | 1929241178 |
This is a difficult age to be a woman. The woman who aspires to raise children for the glory of God, to develop the ministry of the home, or to co-labor with her husband is deemed “old-fashioned” or “unfulfilled.” The modern lure of independence and career has bewitched an entire generation to...
Author | Grace Walton |
ISBN | 1492965472 |
Determined to support his clan without compromising his new found faith, Titus the Norseman becomes the premier mercenary knight of Medieval Scotland. The world weary warrior has never backed down from a just fight. Providing sufficient coin for the clan seems finally within his grasp. Until, in...
Author | Amanda Grange |
ISBN | 0425217728 |
A delightful tale of romance and intrigue from the acclaimed author of Mr. Knightley's Diary.
Arriving in Brighton, Cassandra Paxton had one important task-to uncover the meaning of a letter she'd found amidst her late brother's belongings. She knew of only one man who could help her: Lord...
Author | James Cowan |
ISBN | 0446673382 |
Very unusual read. And do NOT let the length fool you. This is not a short skip across the brain pond. It holds layers. Philosophers amongst you, as much as those who have minutia interest in the natural world, may appreciate these ponderings of Fra Mauro. He has made it his life's work to chart a picture...
The death of Snow White's father has left her at the mercy of her stepmother Katarina. Katarina cares for one thing, and one thing only: herself.
Vain and arrogant, she sends Snow into the forest to be killed. Snow manages to escape and hide herself from the murderous Hugo. After wandering for...