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This short, 90-day devotional for girls is written in an upbeat, lively, funny, and tween-friendly way, incorporating the graphic, fast-moving feel of a teen magazine. Illustrations.

After inheriting the Carriage House Antiques shop and Sedgwick Manor, a nineteenth-century Colonial Revival, Maggie finally understands exactly what her beloved aunt meant when she said "antiques are filled with stories - secrets just waiting to be discovered." Maggie and the lively members of the historical society set out to unravel mysteries that have been tucked away for centuries in antiques, artifacts, and heirlooms as rare and unique as the tales they hold.

To earn money for camp, Shelly opens a portable garage sale and becomes so successful that to find time for the rest of her life, she has to learn to put first things first.

Liz Eckardt, owner of the Olde Mansion Inn bed-and-breakfast in Indiana''s Amish country, is offering something new: a Shelock Holmes weekend complete with Victorian treats she baked on her own street and a mystery to solve. With all the hard work she''s put in to prepare, the affair should be a study in simple--until Liz deduces that something decidedly illogical is going on. As part of the fun, Liz has enlisted the help of an amateur magician to pickpocket the participants then give the items to Liz for safekeeping. But, when more possessions start disappearing, even though her visitors surely locked their doors, Liz can''t help but wonder if her friend has embarked on a real life of crime. Is he the mastermind behind the thefts?

"Christmas bells are ringing. Maggie and her friends are putting on a production of A Christmas Carol. Kids are running wild, the leading man and director are at odds. Who is the villain in town trying to ruin the production?" -- Amazon.com.

Rachel''s family brings Grandma home to live her final days, and everyone, including Rachel and Grandma herself, must find a path to acceptance.

"Nothing hits as close to home as having a loved one get sick, which means double trouble for Kate Stevens when her daughter, Vanessa, and her best friend, Vivi Lawrence, both become deathly ill within hours of each other. Vanessa is home for two weeks over summer break, and a shared meal between the three of them seems to be the source of the food poisoning. But why doesn''t Kate herself become ill? Is it just luck or is something more sinister afoot? Kate becomes all the more suspicious when Vivi has several recurrences of illness, and doctors cannot find the cause. Kate is sure that someone is out to harm--or worse, eliminate--her friend, but no one will listen to her protestations, not even Vivi. Could the malefactor be Vivi''s new assistant who seems to be gunning for her job? What about the woman who a year earlier filed a frivolous lawsuit against Vivi and the Fort Worth hotel where Vivi is an event planner? Or is it the lawyer, who Kate believes is angling for leverage with Vivi on an inheritance she is set to receive? Vivi and Vanessa are both sick, and Peter Matthews--the handsome Fort Worth detective who is also Kate''s friend--has been called away on a crucial case. So Kate turns to Paige Bryant, the owner of the Once Upon a Yarn needlecraft shop that is Kate''s home away from home, for help. Kate is sure that someone has deadly plans for Vivi, but she must first figure out why before she can prove who it is. Will Kate and Paige solve the mystery before those toxic designs come to pass?"--Jacket flaps.

Alex Burton, who feels invisible in her large family, enters a mural contest at the public library in the hopes the her family will realize her artistic talent and give her some attention

Anxious to prove his competence as a guide to his ranger father, fifteen-year-old Brad is appalled when, after being left in charge of a tour of Indian burial mounds, a five-year-old boy disappears, the victim of an apparent kidnapping.

June finds sharing a house with her mother and her foster grandfather requires a difficult adjustment to his forgetfulness and his crabby remarks to her junior high school friends, but she also loves him as a family member.

Jim Parker has always been a rock. On that his wife Sofia has come to rely. But when Jim is assaulted at the school where he teaches and then is suspected of grade fixing, Sofia and her Pinot Painter friends must spring into action to save his reputation. Sofia is, for once, also teaching at the Cabot Falls, Vermont, high school, a two-week stint in the home economics classroom instructing students in the fine are of cake decorating and candy making. It will provide a perfect cover as she surreptitiously hunts for clues that will help clear Jim''s name. Sofia is sure Jim is innocent, but when Jim is suspended from his job, the situation becomes desperate. Meanwhile, Sofia is researching the eleventh block from the heirloom quilt bequethed to her by her grandmother. The clues indicate that the block may be connected with Charlotte Bronte, the famous author.