If you like The Devil Wears Prada

Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "a million girls would die for." Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish…
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If you like I Am Number Four

In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien. I Am Number Four I Am Number…
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If you like Graceling

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. Graceling There are two other books in the Graceling trilogy: Fire and…
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If you like Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew: The Palace of Wisdom by Kelly Thompson Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything, especially solving crimes. But her totally-in-control-and-obviously-running-perfectly-smooth-(but-not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. There she'll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which…
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Overwharton Parish, Stafford County

From: Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia In Two Volumes By Bishop Meade Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1894. From volume II pp. 197-206 ARTICLE LXIV. Overwharton Parish, Stafford County. I come now to Overwharton parish in Stafford county. The county and parish take their names from the corresponding ones in England. Stafford county once…
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A Visit to Aquia Church

Travelers who take a turn off of busy Route 1 near Aquia Harbor find themselves viewing a living monument to colonial Virginia's past. Protected from the surrounding sprawl by its location, nestled on a hilltop surrounded by trees, this beautiful church dates to the decades before the Revolutionary War. Its long and sometimes difficult history—preserved…
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A Discussion of Black History in the Development of Fredericksburg

From the Central Rappahannock Regional Library Black Laws of Virginia: A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes from Earliest Times to the Present by June Purcell Guild. A fascinating and disturbing volume originally published in 1936. Civil Rights: Fredericksburg's Story. In this forum sponsored by the Young Adult Department of the Central Rappahannock…
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