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The Ornament Tree The Ornament Tree Jean Thesman When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there. OL114051W
Reckless revolution Reckless revolution Lynne Hansen Twentieth-century teenager Mindy Gold, seventeenth-century minister Jonathan Hartthorne, and twenty-second-century "time cop" Jasper time travel to 1775 Philadelphia, where they face rabble-rousing W… OL11751340W
Rebel Rebel Willo Davis Roberts When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she just happens to meet a teenage… OL13318W
Carrie and the boarding house Carrie and the boarding house Nelda Johnson Liebig Continues the adventures of nearly fourteen-year-old Carrie Heidenworth and her little brother Fritz, one-year survivors of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 in northeastern Wisconsin, where their moth… OL14866182W
A Springwater Christmas A Springwater Christmas Linda Lael Miller When Jack McLaughlin drifted into Springwater, he carried little more with him than his bitter memories of the Civil War and the shattering secret of a promise betrayed in the heat of battle. Wounded… OL14934324W
Homecoming queen Homecoming queen Melody Carlson At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and, as the votes roll in… OL15109789W
Viva Vermont! Viva Vermont! Melody Carlson As Mrs. Carter becomes increasingly distracted by General Harding, her boardinghouse girls find more opportunities to get into trouble, especially during a weekend getaway to a luxurious Vermont ski … OL15109890W
New York debut New York debut Melody Carlson Life at the Carter house is in an uproar, with Taylor coming home from rehab treatment, Kriti developing a possible eating disorder, and Eliza creating competition between the girls for the New York … OL15109913W
This is How This is How M. J. Hyland When his fiance breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, n… OL15190610W
The treasure of Way Down Deep The treasure of Way Down Deep Ruth White In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by… OL16699788W
Rainwater Rainwater Sandra Brown The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance. B… OL167295W
The Rana Look The Rana Look Sandra Brown The Rana Look The modeling world called it the Rana Look...the exotic, one-of-a-kind allure that only supermodel Rana Ramsey could deliver. With her green eyes, olive skin, and wildly lustrous aub… OL167322W
The essential guide to flatsharing The essential guide to flatsharing Rupert Hunt Whether you're looking for a flatshare or renting out a room, The Essential Guide to Flatsharing has everything you need to know. If you're renting out a spare room, find out all about taking in a lo… OL16950728W
The paying guests The paying guests Sarah Waters It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now ber… OL17062740W
The case of the Stolen Sixpence The case of the Stolen Sixpence Holly Webb,Anna Bentinck,Marion Lindsay Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle… OL17316871W
The Case Of The Feathered Mask The Case Of The Feathered Mask Holly Webb,Marion Lindsay Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, investigates the theft of a rare and valuable tribal mask from the Amazonian rainforest. OL17395391W
The Case of the Secret Tunnel The Case of the Secret Tunnel Holly Webb,Anna Bentinck,Marion Lindsay "Maisie sets out to uncover the true identity of the new lodger at her gran's boarding house and uncovers a more complicated--and dangerous--mystery than she could have imagined"-- OL17495491W
In the dark In the dark Deborah Moggach Set with a War in background, this is a story containing several characters who are all in the dark, with their dreams, secrets and fantasies. Electric light, new to their world, may be a boon but it… OL17734174W
The lodger The lodger Louisa Treger "Dorothy Richardson is existing just above the poverty line, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office and living in a seedy boarding house in Bloomsbury, when she is invited to spend the weekend … OL17924344W
The box of the dead The box of the dead Beatrice MacNeil Novel centers on Ivadoile Spears, aged ninety-two, who was widowed early and has run a boarding house on Cape Breton for many years in the splendid home left to her by her doctor husband. We muse wit… OL18153975W
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