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Juggling motherhood and her job as a real-estate agent, Elizabeth Jordan wishes her husband could help more around the house. But Tony's rising career as a pharmaceutical salesman demands more and more of his time. With a nice home in the suburbs and a lovely young daughter, they appear to have it all, yet they can't seem to spend time together without fighting.
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The Anthony family, on the run from their alcoholic husband and father, leaves Minneapolis for the small town of Mills River, Ill. But they've barely begun to acclimate when sassy old lady Tillie Monroe shows up at their doorstep explaining that the house once belonged to her and her late husband.
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Kelly sets this domestic drama in the farm country of downstate Illinois during the Depression. A virtuous family, Samuel and Julia Wortham and their children, are struggling to feed themselves. Their lives are complicated when Samuel's brother, Edward, shows up with a little girl named Kelly, whom he claims is Samuel's illegitimate daughter. The reader doesn't believe this for a moment, and Edward is portrayed as a snake just out of the penitentiary....
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Second chances volume 01
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Having initially left the folds of the Christian church to pursue a life of crime and sin, Mary Bridget 'Bridie' Washburn finds herself rekindling her faith and once again seeking a quiet and pious life. It is during this endeavor that she meets Reverend Alastair MacPherson and quickly becomes nanny to his motherless children. As they grow closer, Mary and Alastair form an undeniable bond that will soon be tested.
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Troublesome Creek volume 1
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Raised in the Kentucky mountains, Laura "Copper" Grace is faced with the prospects of losing everything she loves when her stepmother threatens to send her away to boarding school to become a lady, in a heartwarming historical novel set in the 1880s.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Hannah Roberts is the golden only-child with a perfectly scheduled life, raised in a prominent political family. Living with her wealthy, unaffectionate grandmother while her parents work abroad, Hannah prepares to spend a lonely Christmas when she learns a shocking truth: the man she believed was her father is not her parent after all. In an effort to find answers, she begins a desperate search for her real father, Army helicopter pilot Mike Conner,...
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When she discovers her son has designs to sell her home out from under her, Miss Amethyst-ninety-three years old and as sharp as ever-isn't about to let her legacy go. She pins her hopes on her granddaughter, Little Am, a good-natured child who has mutated in her teenage years into something else altogether. Whatever it takes, Little Am will know that the Noble family heritage is worth fighting for.
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Ex-convict John Sheldon returns home to his wife Andrea and their three children. While incarcerated, he committed his life to Christ and wants to hold fast to his newfound faith. Andrea is wary of his conversion, son Billy is delighted, and daughter Rebekah is skeptical. Six-year-old Phoebe doesn't remember her father and is withdrawn. Can John and Andrea mend the rifts that have torn their family apart?
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Heart of Hollyhill novels volume 2
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When a black family moves into the neighborhood in 1964 Kentucky, a fourteen-year-old girl befriends him during an unforgettable summer.
12) House of secrets
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Bailee Cooper, offered a great job in New York, debates making the move from Boston which would take her away from her sisters and put her too much in the company of Mark Delahunt, a man who tempts her to forget the reasons why she has decided she can never marry.
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New York Times bestselling author Macomber started out with a list of 30 people she wanted to meet: but she was often disappointed when she met them. That's when God prompted her to make a blank list of people he'd send into her life. She records her encounters here, along with stories of others' encounters, tales of historical figures, and more.
14) An untamed heart
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Norway, 1878. Twenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined to be an old maid. She's had several suitors but none she deemed worthy of spending her life with. That is, until she meets a university student from Oslo, and feelings stronger than friendship begin to develop between them. But tragedy strikes, and the future begins to look bleaker than ever. Grief settles heavily over Ingeborg, and her mother suggests that she leave Norway...
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Goddesses Anonymous volume 4
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For more than a decade, minister Analiese Wagner has felt privileged to lead her parishioners along a well-lit path. Her commitment has never been seriously tested until the frigid night she encounters a homeless family huddling in the churchyard. Offering them shelter in a vacant parish house apartment and taking teenage Shiloh Fowler-a girl desperate to rescue her parents-under her wing, she tests the loyalty and faith of her congregation. Isaiah...
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2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped out of her life. And her heart is broken. Shadi devours her own pain,...
18) Tomorrow's dream
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Kyle Adams novels volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Kyle's life seemed perfect until a medical diagnosis shattered her world. Utterly isolated from the emotional and spiritual anchors of her life, Kyle discovers that her homeoming was only the beginning of the story.
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House of Winslow volume 14
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Dan Winslow has always dreamed of going West and becoming a cowboy, but when he finally stakes his claim in the vast Wyoming prairie, he, and other small ranchers like young widow Hope Rogers, are forced to fight powerful cattle baron Silas Head, who wants to keep all the land for himself.
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