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1) Emma
Author
Language
English
Description
Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persuades the latter to reject good-natured farmer Robert Martin, despite a mutual attraction. Harriet must set her sights higher, she exhorts, fixing on...
2) Me & Emma
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times–bestselling novel "deftly capturing the hidden thoughts" of a child in an abusive home is "haunting" and "not soon forgotten." (Booklist)
In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old girl-playing make-believe, going to school, dreaming of faraway places. But even in her imagination, she can't pretend away the hardships of her impoverished North Carolina home or protect her younger sister, Emma.
As the big...
Author
Series
Little Britches volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes...
Author
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This filmed performance of renowned historian Howard Zinn's stage play Emma dramatizes the life of Emma Goldman, the famed anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the United States because of her outspoken views, including her opposition to World War I. The play draws on Goldman's influential autobiography, speeches, and political writings to trace her emergence as one of the foremost radical intellectuals and dissident...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself. Happily, this summer brings many new faces to Highbury and into the sphere of Emma's not always perfectly...
6) Saving Emma
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...
Author
Series
Candlewood trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
When tragedy befalls the village of Candlewood, Emma Garrett graciously opens the doors of her boardinghouse to those in need. But two guests prove so disagreeable, Emma wonders how she can turn the other cheek--and what will become of the rest of her guests. Adding to the turmoil are the legal problems threatening the title to her house. And when Zachary Breckenwith makes a most surprising--and troubling--announcement, Emma's once-sure foundation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Lord is back and better than ever! This time around, the amateur detective partners up with a rookie sleuth to investigate a string of murders in her beloved Alpine, Washington.
For a small town nestled in the Cascade Mountains’ foothills, picturesque Alpine provides more than enough headlines to fill the pages of editor and publisher Emma Lord’s Alpine Advocate. The Labor Day edition’s lead story features...
For a small town nestled in the Cascade Mountains’ foothills, picturesque Alpine provides more than enough headlines to fill the pages of editor and publisher Emma Lord’s Alpine Advocate. The Labor Day edition’s lead story features...
Author
Series
Alias Emma volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city's security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed? Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A newly-minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment. Eager to serve her country and prove her worth,...
11) Emma's secret
Author
Series
Harte Family volume 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns in Emma's Secret, an audio book that showcases the storytelling power of Barbara Taylor Bradford. Paula O'Neill, beloved granddaughter of Emma Harte and the guardian of her vast business empire, believes that everything Emma left to the family is secure. However, beneath the surface, sibling rivalry and discontent flare. Linnet and Tessa, her daughters, are as different as two women...
Author
Series
Wortham family volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Leisha Kelly's well-received novel, Julia's Hope, Samuel and Julia Wortham and their two children charmed readers as they found shelter in the home-and heart-of a grandmotherly woman named Emma Graham. Now, in Emma's Gift, the Wortham family is struck down by the deaths of two close friends, including their neighbor Wilametta Hammond, just days before Christmas 1931. Wila is the mother of ten children and the glue that holds the family together....
13) Emma's question
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Emma's grandmother, who takes care of her after school and takes her out for bagels on Wednesdays, gets sick and has to go to the hospital, Emma is afraid that she will die--but she is also afraid to talk about her fear.
14) Emma Kate
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emma Kate and her best friend, a toy elephant, share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time!
15) Jane and Emma
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1844, after travelling hundreds of miles on foot, a black woman finds friendship with the wife of the founder of the Mormon Church.
16) Emma's turtle
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is having adventures in Africa, India, and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.
18) Only Emma
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Emma's peaceful life as an only child is disrupted when she has to temporarily share her tidy bedroom with four-year-old Anthony Scarpetto, a bona fide "pain in the patootie."
19) Super Emma
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Emma becomes a reluctant heroine when she defends a friend from the class bully.
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