Frannie and the Charmer

Frannie and the Charmer
Author: Ann Carberry
Publisher: Avon
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1996-01-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780380778812

Infuriated when her father assigns her a partner who will help run the Four Roses Hotel, Mary Frances Donnelly is further disgusted when Sean Sullivan's family of traveling performers moves in.

Frankly, Frannie

Frankly, Frannie
Author: AJ Stern
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101433078

She’s already got her resume, business cards, and mustard packets (which are so much more grown up than ketchup) ready. So why is it taking eleventeen hundred years? Frannie’s class is visiting the local radio station and the radio host is no where to be found. Should Frannie cover for him—after all, this could be her big break! But what happens when listeners call in with questions, and Frannie doesn’t know the answers?

Frannie and Tru

Frannie and Tru
Author: Karen Hattrup
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062410210

“Absorbing, electrifying, and achingly relatable. Frannie and Tru is a book with a pulse.” —Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Perfect for fans of Prep and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Frannie and Tru is a dazzling YA debut about a transformative summer in the life of a girl whose idol is not what he seems. Frannie has always idolized her cousin Tru. At seventeen, Tru is charismatic, rich, charming—everything fifteen-year-old Frannie wants to be, and everything she’s not. So when Frannie overhears her parents saying that after a bad coming-out experience Tru will be staying with them in Baltimore for the summer, Frannie is excited and desperate to impress him. But as Frannie gets swept up in Tru’s worldly way of life, she starts to worry that it may all be a mask Tru wears to hide a dark secret. And if Tru isn’t the person Frannie thought he was, what does that mean for the new life she has built with him? Confronting issues of race, class, and sexuality, Karen Hattrup weaves a powerful coming-of-age story that’s at once timeless and immediate, sharply observed, and recognizable to anyone who has ever loved the idea of a person more than the reality.

Fighter Pilot's Daughter

Fighter Pilot's Daughter
Author: Mary Lawlor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1442222018

Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War details author and Professor Mary Lawlor’s unconventional upbringing in Cold War America. Memories of her early life—as the daughter of a Marine Corps and then Army father—reveal the personal costs of tensions that once gripped the entire world, and illustrate the ways in which bold foreign policy decisions shaped an entire generation of Americans, defining not just the ways they were raised, but who they would ultimately become. As a kid on the move she was constantly in search of something to hold on to, a longing that led her toward rebellion, to college in Paris, and to the kind of self-discovery only possible in the late 1960s. A personal narrative braided with scholarly, retrospective reflections as to what that narrative means, My Cold War zooms in on a little girl with a childhood full of instability, frustration and unanswered questions such that her struggles in growth, her struggles, her yearnings and eventual successes exemplify those of her entire generation. From California to Georgia to Germany, Lawlor’s family was stationed in parts of the world that few are able to experience at so young an age, but being a child of military parents has never been easy. She neatly outlines the unique challenges an upbringing without roots presents someone struggling to come to terms with a world at war, and a home in constant turnover and turmoil. This book is for anyone seeking a finer awareness of the tolls that war takes not just on a nation, but on that nation’s sons and daughters, in whose hearts and minds deeper battles continue to rage long after the soldiers have come home.

Charming the Prince

Charming the Prince
Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426886055

His father wanted him to find a bride. Prince Maxim preferred bachelorhood and planned to thwart the king by romancing Francesca Charming—a commoner he could never marry! However, Max found his seduction had gone awry...and his own heart was getting in the way! Practical veterinarian Francesca didn't believe in fairy tales, but Prince Maxim's fire-filled kisses were making her reconsider. Still, Fran knew that her royal romance couldn't last...unless she could figure out a way to rewrite the ending and win her own happily-ever-after with Max!

Too Tough to Tame

Too Tough to Tame
Author: Deborah Camp
Publisher: Avon Books
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780380782512

Shot by the marshal and framed for a crime he didn't commit, the Indian brave must remain in seclusion for his own safety--and he does not need a white woman doctoring him. But an attraction develops as the healer fights to save her reluctant patient's life. When she is attacked for her actions on his behalf, the brave rescues her and together they retreat into their love.

THE BABY CONSULTANT

THE BABY CONSULTANT
Author: Anne Marie Winston
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459257936

CRASH COURSE IN BABY CARE 101 When Jack Ferris became a father by default, he had an armful of infant and less than half a clue. The high-powered executive desperately needed a "baby consultant," and alluring Frannie Brooks fit the bill. She had a special touch with the child—and with him. Frannie had once loved a man who only wanted her mommy skills—and vowed never again. But Jack made her feel like a sensual, desirable woman for the first time. Yet how could she be sure he truly wanted her...and not just her maternal instincts? Butler County Brides: Three small-town friends bring three of the sexiest, most powerful men to their knees!

Taken Too Soon

Taken Too Soon
Author: Edith Maxwell
Publisher: Beyond The Page
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 195046153X

A new book in the Agatha Award-winning series by Edith Maxwell! Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must turn her investigative skills on her own family when a young woman’s murder stuns a New England community . . . Following a long betrothal, midwife Rose Carroll and her beloved David are finally celebrating their marriage with friends and relatives, when a most disturbing telegram interrupts the festivities: the young ward of Rose’s aunt has suffered a mysterious death, and Rose’s help is needed urgently on Cape Cod. Reluctantly agreeing to mix her honeymoon plans with murder, Rose embarks on an investigation that will expose family secrets and a community’s bigotry. As Rose does her best to comfort her aunt in her loss and also learn as much as possible about the poor young victim’s death, she discovers that each new clue points to a confounding list of suspects: a close friend of the victim who may have harbored secret resentments, an estranged brother of David’s with an unsavory reputation, and the son of a Native American midwife who supposedly led the young woman astray. And as Rose grows closer to identifying the perpetrator, the solution will rattle her assumptions about her own family and faith . . . Praise for the Quaker Midwife Mysteries: “Through Quaker Rose Carroll’s resourceful sleuthing—and her midwifery—we are immediately immersed in the fascinating peculiarities, tensions and secrets of small-town life in late-19th-century Amesbury.” —Susanna Calkins, author of the award-winning Lucy Campion Mysteries and the Speakeasy Mysteries “Edith Maxwell’s latest Quaker midwife mystery teems with authentic period detail that fascinates as it transports the reader back to a not-so-simple time. A complex, subtle, and finely told tale, Judge Thee Not ’s sensitive portraits and vivid descriptions, along with Rose Carroll’s humanity, intelligence, and—yes—snooping, make this a sparkling addition to a wonderful series. A sublimely delightful read.” —James W. Ziskin, author of the award-winning Ellie Stone Mysteries “The historical setting is redolent and delicious, the townspeople engaging, and the plot a proper puzzle, but it’s Rose Carroll—midwife, Quaker, sleuth—who captivates in this irresistible series . . .” —Catriona McPherson, Agatha-, Anthony- and Macavity-winning author of the Dandy Gilver series “Not only is it a well-plotted, intelligent mystery, it also shines light on how women were treated—and, in many cases, mistreated—by people they trusted for help in desperate situations. Highly recommended.” —Suspense Magazine “Clever and stimulating novel . . . masterfully weaves a complex mystery.” —Open Book Society “Riveting historical mystery . . . [a] fascinating look at nineteenth-century American faith, culture, and small-town life.” —William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Cape Cod and The Lincoln Letter “Elegant and well-crafted, rich in period detail, Edith Maxwell’s latest foray is a stunner!” —Susanna Calkins, author of the award-winning Lucy Campion Mysteries and the Speakeasy Mysteries, on Judge Thee Not

Courting Rebecca

Courting Rebecca
Author: Susan Sawyer
Publisher: Avon Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1995-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780380778928

Refusing scores of unsuccessful suitors in her desire to live an uncomplicated, scandal-free life with her young daughter, lovely Rebecca Summers finds a challenge in infamous Grady Cunningham, who courts Rebecca to win a bet. Original.

Kitty Cornered

Kitty Cornered
Author: Bob Tarte
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1616201495

Kitty Cornered is raucous and witty and as heartwarming as a basket of kittens. I’m a bone-i-fied dog lover, but this book settles it: I’m getting a cat, or six.” —Dan Dye, author of Amazing Gracie Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, “I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble.” In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including a hard-to-manage stray named Frannie—Tarte confesses to allowing these interlopers to shape his and his wife’s life, from their dining habits to their sleeping arrangements to the placement and furriness of their furniture. But more than that, Bob begins seeing Frannie and the other cats as unlikely instructors in the art of achieving contentment, even in the face of illness and injury. Bewitched by the unknowable nature of domesticated cats, he realizes that sometimes wildness and mystery are exactly what he needs. With the winning humor and uncanny ability to capture the soul of the animal world that made Enslaved by Ducks a success, Tarte shows us that life with animals gives us a way out of our narrow human perspective to glimpse something larger, more enduring, and more grounded in the simplicities of love—and catnip.