Nancy Travis
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Formats
Description
A young wounded civil war solider is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet falls in love with a blind man, and a mysterious traveler comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Elv, Claire, and Meg are the Story Sisters, and each has a fate she must meet alone. One on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them, and finally redeem them--BOT website.
Series
Last man standing volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Mike Baxter, world voyager and one daredevil of a marketing director ... is about to face his greatest challenge yet-- his family. After Mike's wife, Vanessa ... , receives a promotion at work, Mike must spend more time in his female-dominated household. With years of advice and guidance from their nurturing mother, Mike's three daughters are not prepared for their old-fashioned, hotheaded father to take over"--Container
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Based on a remarkable true story, ORDINARY ANGELS centers on Sharon Steves, a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt, a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith, everyday...
Series
Last man standing volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Mike Baxter, world voyager and one daredevil of a marketing director ... is about to face his greatest challenge yet-- his family. After Mike's wife, Vanessa ... , receives a promotion at work, Mike must spend more time in his female-dominated household. With years of advice and guidance from their nurturing mother, Mike's three daughters are not prepared for their old-fashioned, hotheaded father to take over"--Container.
Series
Last Man Standing volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Follows the continuing events and developments in the family life of Mike Baxter, his wife Vanessa and their three daughters, Eve, Kristin and Mandy, including Kristin and Ryan's upcoming wedding and the opening of Mike's wild game restaurant, the Outdoor Man Grill.
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Ride is a multigenerational family ensemble following the lives of the McMurrays, part of a rodeo dynasty going back a generation, as they struggle to keep their beloved ranch afloat. After a tragic loss, each character embarks on an empowering journey of transformation and self-discovery while also uncovering a twisted web of secrets, threatening to tear the family and their small Colorado town apart at the seams.
Series
Last man standing volume 6
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Mike Baxter, the straight-talking champion of common sense in a politically correct world. Mike will need that common sense to help guide his family through the many changes in store this year at home and at work. Vanessa, who last season traded a successful corporate career for a job as a public school teacher, now finds her rewarding new position in peril, as a teachers strike looms in Denver. The home front presents its own challenges.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
The secret of my success: A mail room worker finds a new way up the corporate ladder in this crazy comedy of romantic mergers and mistaken identities.
The hard way: A pampered star teams up with a tough detective in order to change his image, but he finds that much more is at stake when they track a killer.
For love or money: In this romantic comedy, a hotel concierge falls for the mistress of a shady investor and must choose between his lifelong...
Series
Last man standing volume 9
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
After the events of the eighth season finale, during which Kristin went into labor with her baby daughter and Mandy was pregnant with her first child, the series jumps ahead into the near future, when Mike and his wife, Vanessa, will contemplate their own future, including Mike's imminent retirement from his lifelong job at Outdoor Man, and who could be his successor.
15) Fluke
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Tom Johnson had it all: a loving wife, an adorable son and a parntership in a growing company. But when a car crash takes his life, he is forced to start over again, this time as ... a dog! Tom awakens in the body of Fluke, a canine who happily romps around a junkyard until visions of his former life become too strong to ignore. Compelled to find his original family, Fluke makes every attempt to work his way back into the their lives. However, there...
Series
Last man standing volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Follows the continuing events and developments in the family life of Mike Baxter, his wife Vanessa and their three daughters, Eve, Kristin and Mandy. Returning from a fantastic two-month road trip, Mike finds a lot has happened at home and at work. Vanessa has changed careers and Kristin is now part of Mike's "work family" as the manager of Outdoor Man Grill.
Series
Last man standing volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Tim Allen returns ... as Mike Baxter in Last Man Standing, a show about everything that families in America are dealing with today - all filtered through the blunt 'man's man' comedy of an iconic American character ..."--Cover.
Pub. Date
[1991?]
Description
Three carefree bachelors are sharing the upbringing of Mary, an adorably curious 5-year-old. Mary's mother accepts a marriage proposal, which means relocation in England, and she takes Mary with her. The ex-dads quickly discover how empty life is without their little lady, and go to outrageous lengths to get her back.