Tavia Gilbert
1) Her secret
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Amish of Hart County volume 1
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English
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After a stalker went too far, Hannah Hilty and her family had no choice but to leave the bustling Amish community where she grew up. Now she's getting a fresh start in Hart County, Kentucky, if only she wasn't too scared to take it. Hannah has become afraid to trust anyone, even Isaac, the friendly Amish man who lives next door. She wonders if she'll ever return to the trusting, easy-going woman she once was. For Isaac Troyer, the beautiful girl he...
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Amish brides of Pinecraft volume 2
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English
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In the years since her sister's tragic death, Penny Troyer's parents want nothing more than to keep her safe-- even if it means never leaving the house. She goes to hear a speech by Michael Knoxx of The Knoxx Family Singers, a traveling Mennonite Evangelical family. He speaks about living life to the fullest despite his handicap, but Michael wants his life to slow down. When he gets the chance to stay a little longer in Pinecraft, Michael knows God...
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Amish brides of Pinecraft volume 4
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English
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"When the Orange Blossom Inn is broken into, Beverly Overholt calls Eric Wagler, the owner, who comes immediately. Both have fought attraction to the other because of their different backgrounds. As they work together to restore the inn, the trust and love between them grows. Will they have the courage to follow their hearts?"--
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McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.
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Longing to become a doctor in spite of the realities of 1870s Oregon, herbal healer Jennie Pickett supports herself and her challenging young son by caring for a terminally ill elderly patient, a situation that is complicated when she falls for the woman's widower.
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Amish brides of Pinecraft volume 3
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English
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Emma Keim was heartbroken when her husband Sanford passed away, leaving her to raise three young daughters alone. In the years since, her relatives have made it no secret that they expect Emma to remain a widow, mourning Sanford indefinitely. But when she meets Jay Hilty - a widower with three young sons of his own - Emma is delighted to have a new friend who understands her struggles. And it doesn't hurt that he's also handsome and kind. Still, Emma...
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Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of a local apothecary, is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside to save the family legacy at a time when women are forbidden to work as apothecaries and the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her.
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"After Annie Jacobson's older brother is deployed to Vietnam during the war, tragedy at home brings their estranged father home without welcome. As tensions heighten, Annie and her family must find a way to move forward as they try to hold both hope and grief in the same hand"--
10) The alliance
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A mysterious power outage causes Moses Hughes's small plane to crash near Leora Ebersole's Old Order Mennonite town---and cuts the electricity at the country store, leaving Englishers stranded because of dead car batteries. Now the pacifist community must partner with the outsiders to survive. But can Leora's family and neighbors protect their lifestyle from English influence?
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Plea bargains may grease the rails of justice, but for Jamie Brock, prosecuting criminals is not about cutting deals. In her three years as assistant DA, she's never plea-bargained a case and vows she never will. But when a powerful defense attorney is indicted for murder and devises a way to bring the entire justice system to a screeching halt, Jamie finds herself at a crossroads. One by one, prisoners begin rejecting deals. Prosecutors are overwhelmed,...
12) The divide
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An unexpected encounter in the woods deepens Leora's crisis, as does a terrifying new threat that brings Moses' militia into the community's shaky alliance with the few Englischers left among them. When long-held beliefs are once again put to the test, Leora wrestles with the divide between having faith and taking action. Just how much will her shifting landscape change her?
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Amish of Apple Creek volume 3
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English
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"Now that her friends are all marrying or moving away, Heart Beachy has started feeling lonely. Worse, everyone keeps asking when she's going to find a man of her own. Don't they realize Heart has her hands full at home with her widowed dad, too many chores, and a menagerie of needy, small animals? Besides, she doesn't understand the fuss about marriage. It's enough to make her consider finally becoming a pet-sitter, or moving to an English community,...
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Amish of Apple Creek volume 2
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English
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"May Schott would do anything to change the tragic moment when she stepped too close to the fire that left her best friend, Carl Hilty, devastatingly burned. After Carl left Apple Creek for extensive surgeries, May patiently prayed for one chance to ask his forgiveness. Now, six years later, Carl Hilty is coming home. The reunion goes nothing like May anticipated. Overwhelmed with emotion at seeing Carl again, she is speechless, unable to look away....
15) The outcast
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Raised in an Old Order Mennonite community, Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content living apart from mainstream society until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and name the partner in her sin, Rachel feels the wrath of the religious sect as she is shunned by those she loves most. She is eventually coerced into leaving by her brother-in-law, the bishop. But secrets run deep in this cloistered...
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"When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together next steps. Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her husband's cousin, who invites them to stay at his cranberry farm through the harvest. Sifting through fields of...
17) Mixed bags
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Carter House girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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DJ's grandmother is a former fashion model who has restored an old mansion and turned it into a boarding house for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, presenting DJ with a conflict between retaining her tomboy identity or changing her style, as she decides whether or not to try to fit in.
18) A man's heart
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Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling potato farm, with a sister excluded from his will, and with a heart wounded by what she gave up on his behalf. Then cancer takes the life of her best friend, and Jules finds herself caring for two small children. How...
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Amish of Apple Creek volume 1
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English
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"Addie Holmes is Apple Creek's resident wallflower. She is kind and giving and has a lot to be grateful for. But she is full of self-doubt because her parents did not want her and gave her to her grandmother to raise. Now her life seems to be just hard work and loneliness. Wary of romance, Addie assumes no man will look beyond her glasses and her tendency to talk to her rescue donkey, Snickers -- until the day she receives a note from a secret admirer....
20) Homecoming queen
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Carter House girls volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and, as the votes roll in, some of the girls grow smarter and closer to God, while others seem to make the same mistakes over again.