Elizabeth Musser
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"Famous author Josephine Bourdillon is in a coma, jumping across memory as her body fights to survive. But those around her are fighting their own battles: Henry Hughes, who agreed to kill her for hire out of desperation, is uncertain how to finish the job now, and her teenage daughter Paige is overwhelmed by fear. Can grace bring them all into the light?"--
There is one story that novelist Josephine Bourdillon shirked from writing. And now she may...
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"Allie Massey's dream to use her grandparents' estate for equine therapy is crushed when she discovers the property has been sold to a contractor. With weeks until demolition, Allie unearths some of Nana Dale's best-kept secrets--including her champion filly, a handsome man, and one fateful night during WWII--and perhaps a clue to keep her own dream alive." --
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"With her oldest son taking a gap year in Europe, her aging father losing his sight and his memory, and her husband of twenty years announcing that he's leaving her, Abbie Bartholomew Jowett is surrounded by overwhelming loss. Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, she follows her son, Bobby, to walk the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey they encounter Rasa, an Iranian woman working in secret helping other refugees, and Caroline,...
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Swan house volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Mary Swan Middleton has always taken her family's wealth for granted, but when her maid urges her to help those less fortunate, Mary meets Carl, a young man who has nothing in common with Mary, but who Mary finds herself drawn to.
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The Singleton family's fortunes seem unaffected by the Great Depression, and Perri--along with the other girls at Atlanta's elite Washington Seminary--lives a carefree life of tea dances with college boys, matinees at the cinema, and debut parties. But when tragedies strike, Perri is confronted with a world far different from the one she has always known. Meanwhile, at the insistence of her parents, Mary Dillard, daughter of an itinerant preacher,...
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Secrets of the cross trilogy volume 2
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English
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"The slightest spark will ignite an explosion. And the tinderbox of broken political and racial relations in 1960s France and Algeria provides plenty of kindling. In the midst of the chaos, Gabriella Madison guards the orphans in her care while battling jealousy with Anne-Marie Duchemin, David's former flame who has recently arrived in Castelnau, France. Even more problems arise when the townspeople start expressing their discomfort with the multicultural...
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Secrets of the cross trilogy volume 1
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English
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In 1960s France, Gabriella Madison stumbles into intrigue, danger, and secrets in the shadowy underground of war. Refugees, smugglers, and operatives together reveal powerful lessons in woundedness, forgiveness, and faith.
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Secrets of the cross trilogy volume 3
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2012.
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English
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Now 1994, France faces unrest and rising poverty while neighbor Algeria is in the midst of a bloodly civil war. Risléne Namani, a French woman born to Algerian parents, converts to Christianity and falls in love with Eric Hoffmann, a Christian, committing the unpardonable sin in the eyes of her Muslim family. Eric must find a way to rescue her--from a forced marriage in Algeria, or even death.
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Swan House volume 02
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"Sprinkled with humor, heartache and history, this stand-alone sequel to The Swan House is a journey of sacrifice, forgiveness and hope that finds a daughter and mother linked by love, but separated by secrets"--Provided by publisher.
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Emily Derracott loves her childhood friend Thomas McGinnis, but she cannot marry a man who doesn't share her strong convictions about the freedmen. Besides, she harbors a secret love for someone else. But the prospect of becoming his wife is not only improbable-it is completely impossible.
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[2017]
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"When the doctor pronounces "incurable cancer" and gives Bobbie Blake one year to live, she agrees to accompany her niece, Tracie, on a trip back to Austria, back to The Oasis, a ministry center for refugees that Bobbie helped start twenty years earlier. Back to where there are so many memories of love and loss. Bobbie and Tracie are moved by the plight of the refugees and in particular, the story of the Iranian Hamid, whose young daughter was caught...
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"Four Southern women are at a turning point in history. and in their own hearts. To Mend a Dream by Tamera Alexander The Civil War cost Savannah Darby everything--her family and her home. When Aidan Bedford, an attorney from Boston, buys the Darby estate, he hires Savannah to redecorate. Can she find a mysterious treasure before her job is finished? An Outlaw's Heart by Shelley Gray When Russell Stark returns to Fort Worth, he's determined to begin...
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2015
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English
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"You don't have to be a fan of Southern fiction or historical fiction to appreciate and enjoy the fabulous storytelling in this collection." —4½ stars, RT Book Reviews
In the most turbulent decade of our nation's history, four Southern women—destinies forged by birth, hearts steeled by war—face near impossible choices on their journeys in life . . . and in love.
To Mend a Dream
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