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Running Press
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[2014]
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English
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Based on the popular blog of the same name, this guide focuses on creating a homemade atmosphere that reflects your family, without spending a fortune. Instead of throwing away old shirts and boring dishes, or passing up thrift store finds that aren't quite right, author Blair Stocker teaches how to remake, adding special touches to make them work for her home--and yours.
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"Dolly Alderton Gwen is coasting through life. She's in her mid-thirties, perpetually single, her friends are busy procreating in the countryside and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around the council's wheelie-bin timetable. And she's lonely. But then, isn't everyone? When she's made redundant from a job she hardly cares about, she takes herself out for a fancy dinner. There she has the best sticky toffee pudding of her life...
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A constant worrier, Franklin Endicott earns a fresh cause for alarm when he accompanies Eugenia Lincoln to her favorite thrift shop and leaves with a mystery to solve.
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English
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In the Nakano Thrift Shop, the young woman who works the register falls for her reserved co-worker and asks her employers sister for advice in attracting him and soon comes to realize that love requires acceptance of idiosyncrasies and secrets.
In the Nakano Thrift Shop, the objects hold many secrets-- as do the staff and the customers. Hitomi, the young woman who works the register, falls for her reserved co-worker Takeo. She seeks advice from Masayo,...
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"Local squabbles about property development have the town of North Harbor, Maine, in quite a state of drama--and it seems like someone may even be upset enough to kill. When a local man involved in the real estate quagmire falls over dead at a reception to celebrate the harbor front's redevelopment, Sarah Grayson gets roped in to investigate by her own IT expert, who has long known the victim's stepfather. Between Sarah, her rescue cat, Elvis, and...
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"Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, can always be found at a charming secondhand shop in the village of North Harbor, Maine. Despite the small-town setting, the daring duo often find themselves wrapped up in murder, but luckily they have help--a quirky group of senior citizens runs an amateur detective agency called Charlotte's Angels out of the store. The Angels are hired to look into who is sabotaging cat shows in the state, and they decide...
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Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 9
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a famous television chef and her husband drive by the old Victorian home and the barn that contains Secondhand Blessings, they are not only smitten with the place but also insistent on filming a secret episode of the chef's Dining and Décor Network cooking show there. With Mary and Martha still reeling from the news that their families are unable to travel to be with them during the holidays, and Elizabeth struggling to adapt to all the changes...
9) The rummager's handbook: finding, buying, cleaning, fixing, using, and selling secondhand treasures
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Publisher
Storey Communications
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 13
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Classen's curiosity is aroused when she notices an unfamiliar teenage girl hiding pieces of fruit in her pockets from the refreshment table during the church's social hour. No one seems to know the girl, few other people observed her, and when Elizabeth tries to speak with her, the girl bolts. Who is the fruit thief? Why is she sneaking food? And how can Elizabeth help her? At home, the sisters find evidence that a thief of a different...
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When Lauren Collier sells a vintage camera from her late grandfather's estate to Secondhand Blessings, Elizabeth opens the back and is surprised to discover an undeveloped roll of film inside. After Elizabeth tells Mary about the film, with Lauren's permission, Mary offers to get the roll processed, and the prints she had made reveal a mystery involving a local Amish man who mysteriously disappeared decades earlier. Can Elizabeth help Lauren discover...
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Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 8
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dean Flynn arrives in Bird-in-Hand to search for the Amish family of his birth mother, who gave him up for adoption more than fifty years earlier. Dean's search leads him to Secondhand Blessings, where a newly discovered relative had consigned his mother's carved keepsake box to sell. Touched by his story, Mary shows him the box, and they are both surprised to uncover an old deed hidden in the box's secret compartment. Unfortunately, the appearance...
13) Mixed signals
Author
Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 4
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Elizabeth and her friend John, a local police officer, return home after attending a concert, they spot a strange light flashing by the side of the road. When they investigate, they discover a cell phone -- blinking SOS. But whose phone is it? Was the owner in danger?" -- Publisher.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Rosie finds a beautiful dress at the local thrift shop and discovers a name handwritten on the label: Mila, who must have loved the sparkly dress as much as Rosie--and when Rosie outgrows the dress, she adds her name to the label and returns it to the thrift shop for another girl to find and love.
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Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 12
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"When Adam Fischer--Rachel's eldest son--faces arrest for a hit-and-run and other serious crimes, the Classen sisters are sure the authorities are targeting the wrong man. Adam doesn't even drive, let alone have a credit card, such as the one used for fraud. But someone claiming to be Adam has been involved in a number of crimes, and all the evidence points to him. As Martha and her sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, learn more about Adam's past, they start...
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Series
Mehl Nancy volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Nestled among Pennsylvania's rolling hills is Bird-in-Hand, a tiny village where Amish, Mennonites, and Englishers live side by side. It's here where the close-knit Classen sisters reunite after inheriting their family home-a beautiful Victorian farmhouse-with hopes of reopening their grandmother's incredibly popular gift and thrift store, Secondhand Blessings, housed in the centuries-old barn next to the house. Soon life in this quiet community...
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Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 5
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As summer arrives, Mary and her sisters, Elizabeth and Martha, investigate the mystery of a valuable stamp that vanishes. Meanwhile, they also prepare for a family reunion, and try to create a milkweed preserve for the monarch butterflies.
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
While her mother builds a clinic in Syria and her best friend abandons her for a boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Phoebe lives with her godmother and discovers her own sexuality and vulnerability.
When Phoebe's mother ditches her to work as a doctor for an international human rights organization, she is stuck living with her mom's best friend, Kate, and helping out at Kate's thrift shop. There she meet Emma. Phoebe tries to shield her head and her heart...
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