Mattie & the Yellow Dress

Mattie & the Yellow Dress
Author: Scott Cuffe
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387560689

This story explains how a cop's soul can be destroyed by doing the job and how the passage of time can make some of the demons disappear. It also shows how the love of a caring person can make life better and how holding a hand and being loved can chase the nightmares away forever.

Fever 1793

Fever 1793
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442443073

It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.

The Diary of Mattie Spenser

The Diary of Mattie Spenser
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1998-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312187101

Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.

My Mountain Valley

My Mountain Valley
Author: Jo Burroughs
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490879323

Anna is a young, caring, and loving girl. One day she meets a stranger that will forever change her life. With only a promise to return and marry her when she is eighteen, he leaves. Years pass by as Anna helps out her family and works. The day she turns eighteen, she waits patiently, but will he ever return?

The Hundred Dresses

The Hundred Dresses
Author: Eleanor Estes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152052607

Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.

Coffee, Sweet Tea or Lemonade & Me?

Coffee, Sweet Tea or Lemonade & Me?
Author: Bobbie Hazelton
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480981583

Coffee, Sweet Tea or Lemonade & Me? By: Bobbie Hazelton It is New Year’s Eve in Natchez, Mississippi. Mattie and her two cousins, Anne and Abby, are trying to decide on their New Year’s resolutions. Their final decision: attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. However, while attending one of the zany Mardi Gras parades, Mattie and her cousins become separated. As prearranged Mattie goes to one of the more popular pubs to wait for the cousins to show up. There, she meets Marc LaBlanc, a handsome rancher from Lafayette. A short time lapses and the “I do’s” between Marc and Mattie are said. Thus begins this love story: one with happiness, caring, and sharing. Then along comes trouble. Big trouble! After seeing Mattie’s husband at a Fourth of July barbecue, Mattie’s ex-sister-in-law—who was a well-known stripper at Billy Rocket’s Club for Southern Gentlemen—decides she wants Marc for her own. Trouble in paradise? Most assuredly. However, Mattie isn’t ready to give Marc up just yet. Bring it on, Lilly Sue. Or should we call you… Pepper?

It's Always Three O'clock

It's Always Three O'clock
Author: Babs H. Deal
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780817304942

When this book was first published in 1961, Wyatt Blassingame, in the New York Times Book Review, said the author has a real gift for physical description, especially where used in connection with the passage of time. This is a device she uses often and extremely well.

Mattie's Call

Mattie's Call
Author: Stacy Campbell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1593096003

"Mattie Benson feels trapped in Grand Oak Acres Nursing Home. Abandoned by her adult children and missing her deceased husband, she takes matters into her own hands and leaves the facility. A Mattie's Call is issued, and soon, the siblings learn things about their mother they never knew - namely, her ability to bring them together through the conditions of her will."--

The Red Velvet Leaf

The Red Velvet Leaf
Author: Helen Breedlove
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1475921837

It is 1933, and seventeen-year-old Rhoda Bowling is filled with indignation, outrage, and fear. Th e moment she has dreaded for quite some time has finally arrived. As her train pulls away from the depot in rural Stoutland, Missouri, Rhoda tries her best not to hate her father, but deep inside, she knows he has just ruined her life. Against her will, Rhoda is heading for Springfield to meet her future husband, one of two men who answered her father's newspaper advertisement soliciting a spouse. Afraid her life will trace the same dismal pattern as Mama's forever dependent on and subservient to an unloving, unappreciative man Rhoda disembarks from the train and heads toward Nixa, where the dreaded unknown looms before her. Rhoda knows nothing about her future husband, Zachoriah Kelmsley, except that he is widowed and the father of a young daughter. Only moments after the two strangers meet, they are married in the courthouse, forever tucking away Rhoda's hopes for love and happiness or so she thinks. In this historical romance, a young woman on a coming-of-age journey during the Great Depression must dig deep to unleash the fierce independence she never knew she had in order to realize her true destiny.