newport (r.i.)

"Ida Lewis spent a lifetime on the water, starting when her family moved the island of Lime Rock in 1857 for her father's job as lighthouse keeper. By age 15, Ida was the best swimmer in Newport, Rhode Island. And when her father suffers a stroke, Ida herself takes over as keeper of the lighthouse. But guarding the shore also means guarding the water. And when Ida spots four local boys in danger on the water, she knows she must take action, the boys' lives depend on it"--Provided by publisher.

1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darlings home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda???s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.

When twelve-year-olds Hannah and Maggie switch places, Hannah must prevent a famous art theft in 1905 and Maggie must cope with modern life until they can switch back.

Aisha Branch, her mother Camille, and her grandmother Geneva, are in the midst of planning the wedding of the century when Aisha falls for another man who brings up old feelings and hurts in all of the Branch women.

Felix tries to impress his crush Lily, who was adopted from China, by trying to take her back in time to learn about her native country, but when his twin Maisie catches him, the it is only the twins who are transported to a small village on the Yangtze River during the time just before the Boxer Rebellion, where they are chased by bandits and must flee to Shanghai.

Charlotte Hale, a secretary for a local newspaper in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900, is given the chance to prove herself as a reporter when her boss asks her to go undercover as a governess to investigate a scandal about Daniel Wilmont, a young, widowed religion professor who writes a controversial column in a rival paper, but she begins to have qualms when she discovers Daniel to be honorable, sincere, and easy to love.

A novel by Thorton Wilder that is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of his twin brother who died at birth, in which Theophilus North sets out to see the world in the summer of 1926.

After having an argument in the treasure chest room, twins Felix and Maisie are transported to China during the Boxer Rebellion, where they meet a young Pearl Buck who teaches them how to survive as Americans in China.