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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist. Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene's recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret--but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who...
Author
Publisher
Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lavender, an opossum, explains why she lives in a house and not in the wild. Rescued as a tiny joey and ultimately becoming an Educational Ambassador, Lavender takes us on her life journey, filled with lessons, challenges, and celebrations."--Back cover
Author
Publisher
Vintage, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A warmhearted, hilarious queer rom-com about what happens when a group of friends are actually brave enough to live the dream and give up their dreary city apartments to buy a house in the country together. El is in a rut. She's been hiding in the photocopier room at the same dead-end job for longer than she cares to remember, she's sharing a flat with a girl who leaves passive-aggressive smiley face notes on the fridge about milk consumption and,...
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Jocelyn Minton all her worldly possessions, including an eighteenth-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941. In an attempt to understand the legacy that has been left to her, Jocelyn digs into Miss Edi's mystery and soon discovers some shocking surprises about her family's history and a man with his own mysterious past.
Author
Series
Lavender tides volume 2
Language
English
Description
The dangerous beauty of Lavender Tides is harboring secrets that reach around the world. Ellie Blackmore is making a name for herself as a house flipper. But when her sister Mackenzie disappears, Ellie can't focus on anything but uncovering what happened. Her only clue is the bloodstain on the deck of Mackenzie's boat. Ellie knows her sister isn't on the best of terms with her ex-husband, Jason, but he wouldn't kill her--would he? Coast Guard intelligence...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Aimie Runyan makes her contemporary women's fiction debut with this charming escape into the lavender fields of Southern France and a young woman who discovers her family's secrets and the hope for her own future"--
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Tea-Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede. But as gunshots...
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit a new grandchild in Hawaii, nine-year-old Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely and boring summer in Halleluia, Mississippi. After all, what other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a hoise shellshock pink? Instead, Ruby makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...
Author
Series
Lavender tides volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Her mother lied about her identity, and her husband wasn't who she thought he was - can Bailey even trust herself anymore? Running for her life in the wake of her mother's murder, Bailey Fleming escapes to the only place she can think of - a remote, dilapidated cabin in Lavender Tides. Intending to finally get to the truth behind the lies of her past, Bailey only finds more questions when bodies are discovered near her cabin hideout along with traces...
10) Lavender
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lavender is a taut psychological thriller that bends the line between memory and madness, past and present, like a splinter in the brain struggling to escape. Jane (Abbie Cornish) has always photographed old and abandoned farmhouses for as long as she can remember. It's a hobby bordering on obsession that has bloomed into a successful career. Until one day she photographs a particular house...and everything changes. A tragic car accident leaves her...
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawn to an older man, Eve embarks on a whirlwind romance that soon offers a new life and a new home--Les Genevriers, an old house in a charming hamlet amid the fragrant lavender fields of Provence. Their relationship becomes strained, however, as Dom grows quiet and distant and Eve feels a haunting presence. The more reluctant Dom is to tell her about his past, the more Eve is drawn to it--and to the mysterious disappearance of his beautiful ex-wife....
Author
Series
Magic books (Andre Norton) volume 5
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
An old pillow, found in an attic trunk, guides three children through a maze to a house with an unusual occupant.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, creating the group's deep bond. But why this sudden invitation? Amid winery tours, market visits, and fancy dinners overlooking olive groves and lavender fields, it becomes...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A lavender rat that has escaped from a laboratory, and a lonely boy whose parents are scientists, meet on an orbiting space station, communicate by email, and ultimately find themselves in need of each other's help and friendship. A literate lavender rat, fleeing from an experiment, accidentally stows away on a space station. In addition to the scientists, technicians, and astronauts on board, there is a lonely young boy who attracts the rat's attention,...
15) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is the story of Fuller's mother, Nicola. Born on the Scottish...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together"--
Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river; the terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls; the scent of lavender at the end of a hot day. As...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to grow beautiful medicinal plants in your home or office!
"What if the beautiful plants in your home could also become a part of your health routine? Houseplants add vibrancy to any home or office, but many also have significant health benefits you may not even know about. That aloe plant sitting on your window sill can be used as an ointment for scrapes, bruises, and sunburns. A chamomile plant--with its pretty display of white flowers--might...
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