Elaine: 1438 books

One snowy day an elderly woman, Sarah, watches children gathering at the bus stop. While they never seem to notice her, she notices them, especially one little boy who has no mittens. That night, Sarah knits the boy a pair of cozy mittens and places them on the blue spruce tree for him to discover....

Preparations are underway for the Rosehill summer fête. Every year prizes are awarded for the best home-made produce, and on the farm Mrs Evans has been busy with her speciality jams and marmalades, cheeses and chutneys, cakes and pies and pickles. The Evanses are also hoping to win a prize in the...

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! James Bond may be one of the good guys, but the spies in this book definitely aren't—nor are the traitors and assassins! Crack open this book to uncover more secrets about history's most terrible assassins, traitors, and spies.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What is the executive branch? It's the part of government that's led by our president. But who else is part of the executive branch? And just what does this branch do? Read this book to find out.

Astrological guide to love, life and relationships for teenager girls. Each chapter presents information on one of the 12 signs including personality, finance, compatibility with other signs and passions.

Five women sit around the table in a neighborhood coffee shop. Their cups have bold black, a variety of lattes and a dirty chai. All are grandmothers. Their conversation is about the delights of being a grandma. They are a diverse group. They have come to grandma-hood from different places -- different...

"An en****dlessly endearing story of three girls’ pursuit of friendship and the beauty and challenge of what it means to be 10.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Like Magic is truly a treasure.” —Liz Garton Scanlon, author of The Great Good Summer “Debut novelist...

Professionals working in a range of clinical settings are regularly called upon to work with angry clients, and they may find their skills and resources for working with this powerful emotion limited. Art Therapy and Anger demonstrates how the non-verbal medium of art therapy provides an ideal outlet...

I See an Elephant tells the tale of a gentle elephant who wishes he was bird. He starts to build a nest, but when the birds laugh at his attempts and try to chase him away, Elephant takes a stand, declaring that he should be able to live as he chooses. Realising that he is right, the birds accept him as one of them, and help him transform into an ‘ele-bird’.

Do you believe in dragons? Neither did the mayor of San Francisco until Rusty the Red-Bearded Pirate found the one who stole the calendar dates of all the holidays. Rusty is aided by First Mate who is rather short in courage and never has a good idea, Mrs. Crowe, a big black bird who stays in the crow's...

Blondes may have more fun, but not at the hands of these mistresses of mystery... They’re beautiful blondes with style, money, and men falling at their feet. But now these perfect women are becoming perfect victims. In Drop-Dead Blonde, four of today’s top mystery authors spin four all-new tales of fair-haired sirens, secrets, and seduction.

Before mystery shopper Josie Marcus can say “I do” she must solve a matrimonial murder to keep her in-law from becoming an inmate... As a bride-to-be, Josie’s latest assignment is a gift—mystery shopping flower and cake vendors for a popular St. Louis wedding website. She even meets...

Shhh...in the newest hardcover in the national bestselling Dead-End Job Mystery series, Helen Hawthorne quietly goes undercover at a local library to search for a missing masterpiece. Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting,...

Though she never liked the idea of sitting on the plank above the dunk tank for the food pantry's fundraiser at the carnival, Jolie never dreamed what Scoobie saw that day would leave him battling for his life. Scoobie's ex-con mother shows up and there's a murder to add to the mix. Soon Jolie is...