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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 93
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After a fun winter break, Mary Anne is glad to be back at SMS. She's excited about her English project, and optimistic about the weeks ahead. Nothing could have prepared Mary Anne for the awful news that Amelia Freeman, a friend and a partner on her English project, has suddenly died. Everyone at school is shocked and saddened. Gradually the other kids recover. But Mary Anne only feels worse. If only she could do something for Amelia...
82) Quaker summer
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Heather Curridge has a good life with her family but she still feels unfulfilled. Then she spends a life-changing summer with two Quaker sisters and a nun in a downtown homeless shelter.
83) Best friends!
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The hugely popular Sleepover Club series is back with a brand new story and a gorgeous new look. Meet Frankie, Kenny, Fliss, Rosie and Lyndz – five best friends who just want to have fun! In this new introductory story from series originator Rose Impey the five girls have their first ever sleepover together and become the best of friends. When their school rivals, the horrible M&Ms, steal their club mascot, the girls are determined to get revenge…...
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Quaker Roots and Branches explores what Quakers call their "testimonies" - the interaction of inspiration, faith and action to bring change in the world. It looks at Quaker concerns around the sustainability of the planet, peace and war, punishment, and music and the arts in the past and today. It stresses the continuity of their witness over three hundred and sixty-five years as well as their openness to change and development.
87) Dawn's big move
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 67
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Dawn's moving back to California. But she'll be back, right?
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Perhaps no religious group enjoys such wholehearted esteem as the Society of Friends. Ever since their founding, the Quakers have proved a stimulating and inspiriting force in the Christian Church. Standing for Jesus' program for world peace, practicing non-resistance, and performing miracles of mercy and relief in a world of hatred, they have achieved a position almost unique in Christendom. Their astonishing history is here told by one who is of...
90) Woman of courage
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A Quaker woman dares the unknown to be a missionary in the western wilderness of the United States in 1837.
91) Turning the tide
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"Quaker midwife Rose Carroll finds the body of a local suffrage organizer during the presidential election of 1888"--
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Wilderness brides volume 3
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"When Quaker Rachel Woolsey nurses a former Civil war soldier back to health, he agrees to help her achieve her dream of having her own bakery and a homestead in Pepin, Wisconsin"--
95) The outsider
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Rebecca, a beautiful young Quaker widow, forges an unexpected relationship with a mysterious gunslinger.
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As in her splendid adult debut, Waltzing in Ragtime, Eileen Charbonneau has written a rich and powerful historical novel of a family torn apart both by loss and by reunion.
In 1815 the Windover Plantation sits in triumph on the banks of the James River in southern Virginia, a symbol for the wealth and power of the vast Randolph empire. But for ten years a pall has hung over this magnificent house, cast the day young Ethan Randolph went down on the...
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Gulley explores the terrain of faith and doubt as shaped by family, church, and young love. As they question their faith, many are faced with a choice: retreat to spiritual security and the community that comes with it, or strike out into the unknown. Himself raised by a Catholic mother and a Baptist father, Gulley found his way to a less convenient but fully formed adult spirituality: he became a Quaker and a pastor. Here he offers conversations...
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