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1) Hester
Author
Language
English
Description
Hester, a crocodile dressed too early for her own Halloween party, goes trick-or-treating while she waits for her guests to arrive.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts...
3) Hester
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hester the snake explains to her new animal friends how she sheds her skin four times a year in order to grow.
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (90 min.) : Blu-ray disc, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A young Jewish woman comes to America in the 1890s and discovers that her husband has given up the ways of the old country, gotten a new girlfriend, and started a new life"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Checkered Swan Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When strangers to each other, white Mary Kenny and "colored" Leeta Bulow run out of bus ticket money in a small Texas town and are threatened by the bigoted sheriff, they are rescued by elderly spinster sisters, Clara and Justine Hesterwine, and taken to the sisters' once opulent old mansion." -- book jacket
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from the diary of a fourteen-year-old girl tell of her family's journey along the Oregon-California Trail during 1849-1850. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to the era.
11) The twisted root
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Miriam Gardner, attending a party at the London home of her fiancé, Lucius Stourbridge, to celebrate their forthcoming marriage, it should have been one of the happiest days of her life. But, after making a sudden exit from the party, Miriam disappears without a trace. Reluctant to cause a scandal, Lucius seeks out William Monk, a detective with a reputation for excellence.
17) The silver touch
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story and romances of Hester Bateman, a distinguished silversmith in 18th century London.
18) Freeheld
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a New Jersey police lieutenant is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she and her registered domestic partner must work to secure her pension benefits.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her...
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