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481) The perfume garden
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Emma is London's leading perfumier, but her blessed life has taken a difficult turn ... Guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed to her in [a] will, [she] decides...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: When Jyoti visits her grandmother halfway around the world, she is overwhelmed by the differences between India and home. At first she feels lonely and out of place, but soon, despite a language barrier, she and Sita Pati are able to understand each other. They form a bond-looking at books together, making designs with colored sand, shopping at the market, playing games, eating chapatis, and sipping warm milk with saffron to...
483) The new girl
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settling into their new home.
485) Beauty, her basket
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
While visiting her grandmother in the Sea Islands, a young girl hears about her African heritage and learns to weave a sea grass basket.
486) Hair oil magic
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
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Description
Abuelita ha muerto y Felipa se siente muy triste. Para consolarla, sus padres le explican que las almas de las personas muertas viven para siempre ... Cuando toda la aldea se prepara para celebrar el Día de los Muertos y honrar a los seres queridos que han fallecido, Felipa también participa en las celebraciones y finalmente encuentra el alma de Abuelita.
In the Andes Mountains, Felipa misses her grandmother Abuelita, and goes in search of her...
Author
Series
Moonglow Cove volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It’s Jill Shalvis meets Susan Mallery in this gorgeous novel by New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde about three sisters, one small town, a wedding, and the summer that changes everything. Welcome to Moonglow Cove, Texas, a place where your neighbors know your name and the gentle waves of the Gulf of Mexico lap lazily against the sands. It’s a magical spot, especially in the summertime… Once the town was the home of the Clark sisters-brought...
489) No filter
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Emerald's seemingly perfect life is shattered and she is sent to spend a summer with her grandmother in an isolated beach town, where she connects with Liam, who has secrets of his own.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
En la película Coco de Disney y Pixar, Miguel ama la música pero su abuela se rehúsa a dejarlo tocar la guitarra. Sigue a Miguel en su viaje a la Tierra de los muertos y cómo logra llevar su pasión por la música de vuelta a su familia en casa. ¡Level Up! Readers ofrece oportunidades de lectura independiente para todos los niveles! Con una historia emocionante, una mezcla de enunciados complejos y vocabulario interesante, este libro Nivel...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Zeke's school is having a fund-raiser and the student who sell the most cake mix will get four tickets to Thrillsville Amusement Park, but Zeke is not having much luck until his great-grandmother gives him a lesson in salesmanship--and he takes his little sister with him.
492) Code name Kingfisher
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
Author
Series
Blue stars volume mission 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
496) Mango, Abuela y yo
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
La abuela de Mia viene a vivir con Mia y sus padres. Cuando Mia eomparte con ella su cuento favorito a la hora de dormir, descubre que la abuela no entiende inglés. Mia la ayuda con el inglés y a la vez ella aprende algunas palabras en español. Pero la abuela no conoce suficientes palabras en inglés para compartir las historias de familia con su nieta. Un dia, Mia ve un loro en una tienda de mascotas y descubre la manera de ayudar a su abuela....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce--the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother's estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He's just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she'll be damned if the good-looking...
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Series
Anna Hibiscus (Early chapter books) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She can't wait to fly across the world and visit her granny in Canada. But can she find enough warm clothes for the cold winter weather? And will her family miss her?
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When taking cornbread to Grandma, Mahogany encounters a hungry wolf and outsmarts him by cleverly hiding in the woods and using her sewing skills to trap him"--Provided by publisher.
Mahogany is taking gumbo to Grandma's house in the woods when she encounters a hungry wolf, and uses her nerve and skill at sewing to help her trap him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
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