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1) Prairie fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Jack Cornwall has lost everything he's everything he's ever fought for, everything he's ever loved. He's lost his home, the Confederacy and its goal for a new and vital nation, and now his little nephew, Chipper.
2) Prairie rose
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Rosenbloom Cotton Mills, known as Rosie, has spent her entire 19 years in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri. Then, in May of 1865, Rosie saves Seth Hunter from an attack by his brother-in-law. Seeing a chance to escape the orphanage, Rosie accompanies Seth and his son, Chipper, out west to act as their housekeeper. Rosie soon falls in love with Seth but feels she can never marry because she was an illegitimate child. Eventually, her Bible reading...
3) Inescapable
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Lizzie Engel is used to running away. At eighteen, she left her Mennonite hometown, her family and her faith with plans never to return. Five years later, Lizzie finds she'll have to run again. False accusations at her job, a stalker, and a string of anonymous threatening letters have left her with no other options. This time, however, her escape is back to Kingdom, her hometown. There, with the support of old friend Noah Housler, Lizzie hides out...
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Amish blessings volume 1
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English
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Yoder loves her job as a housekeeper for elderly couple Job and Dinah Keim. Their only children, a son and daughter, left the Haven, Kansas, district and their faith more than twenty years earlier with no contact. When Child Protective Services shows up on the Keims' doorstep with their five grandchildren, their quiet lives-- and Cassie's-- are turned upside down. Mason, the oldest grandson at twenty-two, believes his siblings should be his responsibility...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Kansas, 1881. On a trip to visit relatives, Emma's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them destitute and stranded on the prairie. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down at him and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. Luke Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, is not planning on being the answer to anyone's...
8) Taming Julia
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In 1875, Kansas bachelor Drew Montgomery's sole desire is to serve God, but his congregation's ultimatum that he marry or leave, forces him to advertise for a wife by proxy. Jules Walker strides into Drew's life wearing breeches and toting a gun and saddle--more cowboy than bride. After years on the trail, she's not exactly wife material, but she longs for home and family, and will do anything to ensure Drew never discovers what she really is --
9) Entangled
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Professional, attractive, and dedicated to the youth of today, Cara Kessler seems to incorporate the ideal attributes of a political candidate. But as a young widow, running for office is the last thing Cara wants for herself or the daughter she is raising alone.Cruelly manipulated into a heated election race, Cara's only hope is to stay one step ahead of her power-hungry running mate. As the truth of the would-be governor's political and personal...
10) Unbreakable
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"As her Mennonite town is shaken by strange incidents and outright attacks on its residents, Hope Kaufmann is forced to question all she knows and believes"--Provided by publisher.
11) Unforeseeable
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English
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Callie Hoffman is engaged to Levi Housler, the new pastor of the Kingdom, Kansas, Mennonite Church. She spends her days working with Lizzie Housler, her friend and soon-to-be sister-in-law, at the town café. But when a body is discovered on the road outside Kingdom, and the new sheriff begins questioning Kingdom residents, Callie is desperate to find answers for herself -- especially when her own fiancé seems to know more than he's telling.
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The Bliss Creek Amish volume 1
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English
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"It's been four years since Carl left. Four years since he left the safety of the small Amish community for the English world. And in four years, Emma's heart has only begun to heal. Now, with the unexpected death of her parents, Emma is plunged back into a world of despair and confusion. It's a confusion only compounded by Carl's return. She's supposed to be in love with him...so why can't she keep her mind off Thomas, the strong, quiet widower who...
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When the railroad pushes to buy her land, orphaned Cameron Sims will do anything to keep the only home she and her sisters have ever known. Even if she must marry a stranger. But she's determined her agreement with the mysterious, dashing man-who's unlike anything the Kansas railroad town has ever seen-will remain simply business. Duncan Murray doesn't want a wife. He wants Sims Creek, a sanctuary that can help him forget a troubled childhood. But...
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Though she came west in her wedding dress, Deborah Frazier isn't looking for a groom. She fled St. Louis to escape marrying a man she didn't love. In Cowboy Creek, she's found shelter, friends and a job. All that's now in jeopardy, thanks to a handsome newcomer. Undercover Pinkerton agent Adam Halloway is hunting for his family's greatest enemy. The pretty baker at the boardinghouse is certainly hiding something ; but is she an accomplice to a criminal?...
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Brides of assurance volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Book two of the Windswept Promise series Pampered town belle Sophie Charlton has always secretly enjoyed the attention of cowboy Dusty Sterling, a hired worker on her family's farm, even though she'd never tell him so. But can she go against the will of her family, who insist that she make a good match in Assurance's most eligible bachelor? Series Description In the 1870s Kansas was a place of new beginnings and hope as people from many classes and...
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When Texas Ranger Jack Elder stormed the isolated Kansas homestead, he expected to find a band of outlaws. Instead, the only occupant is a heavily pregnant woman--and she's just gone into labor. A loner uneasy with emotion, Jack helps deliver widow Elizabeth Cole's baby girl and can't get back on the trail fast enough. The robber and murderer he's after killed one of Jack's own, and he vows to catch the man. But when he returns to check on Elizabeth...
17) The river
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Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River, a ribbon of frothy white water carving its way through steep canyons high in the Colorado Rockies. The rushing waters beckon him to experience freedom and adventure. But something holds him back-the memory of the terrible event he witnessed on The River when he was just five years old-something no child should ever see. Chains of fear and resentment imprison Gabriel, keeping him from discovering the...
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Gentlemen don't court feisty straight shooters like JoBeth, but a misunderstanding places the spunky telegraph operator into a marriage of convenience. Garrett needs to marry to care for his niece, and JoBeth gets a chance to mother the orphaned little girl she's come to love. Then unexpected danger threatens to expose his long-buried secret, and only a leap of faith can turn a makeshift union into a real family.
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Seasons of the tallgrass volume 1
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English
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Mattie Evans, a skilled young veterinarian struggling to gain the confidence of local ranchers in the Flint Hills of Kansas, finds herself caught in the middle of a family conflict when she is called to save an injured horse at the Lightning M Ranch, the home of her friend John McCray, who is longing to reconcile with his estranged son, Gil, a professional football player.
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Brides of Assurance volume 01
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English
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During the hot, windy summer of 1870 in the burgeoning railroad town of Assurance, Kansas, Marissa Pierce is fed up with her abusive boss. Her longing to expose the saloon's illegal practices and start a new life is all she thinks about, and she is growing weary of convincing townsfolk that she is most certainly not a prostitute. Civil War veteran and preacher Rowe Winford arrives in town intent on leaving the tragic memories of his deceased family...
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