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1) The store
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Jacob and Megan Brandeis have gotten jobs with the mega-successful, ultra-secretive Store. Seems perfect. Seems safe. But their lives are about to become anything but perfect, anything but safe. Especially since Jacob and Megan have a dark secret of their own. They're writing a book that will expose the Store--a forbidden book, a dangerous book. And if the Store finds out, there's only one thing Jacob, Megan and their kids can do--run for their bloody...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Arriving in the lakeside town of Good Hart, Michigan, Becky Thatcher--just turned forty years old with little to show for it--encounters eighty-year-old Mary Jackson, who has almost given up hope that someone will come along to carry on her legacy as the owner of The Very Cherry General Store.
Author
Series
Christmas hope volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When struggling young single mother Christine Eisley saves the life of an elderly woman working in Wilson's department store, she sets into motion a series of events that will test her strength, loyalty, and determination, all the while setting her on the path to finding true love.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Desperate to reinvigorate her career, a Detroit mergers & acquisitions executive must convince her aging parents to sell their iconic Michigan Christmas store by the start of the New Year but when she reconnects with the magic of the store, her parents and the holidays, her misguided plan backfires.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. Even so, Christina hopes there is a warm heart underneath Oscar's steely exterior. When she bonds with Wink, his sweet, young granddaughter who frequents...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it's the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he's kept his distance - until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find the courage to become the leader Wears Valley needs....
Author
Series
Third-grade detectives volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st Scholastic printing.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
68 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Someone knocked out Todd and Noelle's friend Pops Verner, the night watchman at the department store, and stole his treasured pocket watch. He's pretty sure the robber is one of the three men who work in the storeroom. But how can he figure out which one ...?
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The daughter of an Italian immigrant family in 1950 Greenwich Village, Lucia Sartori pursues a career in the fashion industry until she falls in love with a handsome stranger, who must win over her traditional family to marry her.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After moving to Sacramento to take over his grandparent's Filipino market, sixth-grader Alex seeks popularity by selling homemade slime at school, while his father insists he join a soccer team.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1899, an immigrant named Oscar opens a barbershop and a century later, after becoming a lady's clothing store, soup kitchen, bodega, and more, the building is torn down but Oscar's legacy remains. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Since his father's suicide, Will, sixteen, has mainly walked, worked at Dollar Only, and tried to replicate his father's cornbread recipe, but the rape of his childhood friend shakes things up.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Athene Forster embraced the Sixties like few others. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was spoiled, beautiful, and out of control. And within two years of her marriage, the rumours had begun again. Thirty-five years on, Suzanna Peacock finds refuge from her mother's shameful legacy in her shop, the Peacock Emporium. Within its magical walls she discovers not just friendship, and an escape from her troubled marriage, but the first real passion of her life....
14) Come from away
Author
Edition
Simon & Schuster Canada edition.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War.In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker's three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be...
15) Verona Comics
Author
Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, cellist Jubilee and anxiety-ridden Ridley meet at a comic con where both of their families have booths, and begin a relationship they must hide from their parents.
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this moving story of love, family, and the magic of Christmas, Benji, whose family has very little, stumbles upon a magnificent store on Christmas Eve where he learns that the most important gifts are the ones money can't buy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Bingo and Rolly are excited to go the the design-a-dog store, but when they get there, they are mistaken for stuffed animals.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
165 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A holiday tale set in the snow-covered town of Cobbleton ... follows eccentric toymaker Jeronicus Jangle whose fanciful inventions burst with whimsy and wonder. But when a betrayal by a former protege leaves Jeronicus withdrawn and down on his luck, it's up to his bright and adventurous granddaughter, Journey--and a singularly magical invention--to save the day"--
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (44 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the Broadway musical based on the hit Christmas movie, tells the story of Buddy the elf and his quest to reunite with the human father he never knew existed. While Buddy's sincerity and idealism are commonplace at the North Pole, these attributes are rejected in cynical New York City. But through song, dance, and relentless good cheer, Buddy rekindles the spirit of Christmas for the entire city.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
502 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After generations of existing in the human-sized world, a group of four-inch-high nomes discover their true nature and origin, with the help of a black square called the Thing.