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1) Ruth
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Orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy young Henry Bellingham in this novel addressing the nature and sensibility of a "fallen woman."
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"After many failed matchmaking schemes, Lauren is committed to one goal -- becoming a mother. But to satisfy the adoption agency's requirements, she must remain single, which proves to be a problem when Joshua appears. With an impossible decision looming, she will have to choose between two deep desires"--Provided by publisher.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 42
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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-- not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that...
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After her husband, Jack, dies in a climbing incident, Shauna has only her five-year-old son and her helicopter charter business to live for. Every day is a struggle to make ends meet and she lives in constant fear of losing even more than she already has. When her business partner is murdered, his final words convince Shauna that she?s in danger too. But where can she turn? Zach Bannister was her husband?s best friend and is the person she blames...
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"In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They're driving to Florida for Ruth's 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would like to reconnect with Royce, the love of her teenage life. She's heard he's alone, too. Bethanne needs time to reflect on a decision she has to make - whether or not to reconcile with her ex-husband, Grant...
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Rumors in Ross County volume 2
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There's a lot going on in Joy Howard's life, from an ex-husband who doesn't seem to want to be an ex anymore to a daughter in need of a guiding hand. What she doesn't have is time for a new relationship. When Joy starts getting mysterious texts and phone calls from unknown numbers, she goes on alert. When the danger escalates, she realizes she needs to trust someone with both her heart and her daughter's safety. All she has to do is figure out who...
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"Sometimes what your life is missing is an eccentric group of older ladies to take you under their wing . . . When Raeley Ann Sutton's mama passes away and leaves her the house where she grew up, Rae can't imagine how the little old place might restore her broken life. Mourning the recent loss of her marriage, she takes the house and settles back in tiny, "one-horse Whitten" with her fourteen-year-old daughter, Molly Margaret, and their overweight...
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Amelia North needs a safe haven, and finds it---in Refuge, Illinois! Stranded there after a car accident, the single mother expects to be cold-shouldered. Instead she finds a town full of people with generous hands and open hearts, including pararescue jumper Ben Dillinger. Is he about to take another leap . . . into love?
10) Forgiving Paris
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"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying abroad for the semester. Alice's life is so good now, totally...
11) Every good gift
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"An Amish girl faces an impossible choice as the consequences from her Rumspringa become all too real"--
"During the most difficult season of her life, how could she know whether their meeting was a gift from God-or another temptation? Maisy never expected that a Plain girl like her could have her heart stolen by an Englisch boy. But when her rumspringa ends and Maisy realizes she's pregnant, the reality of their choices-and their differences-sets...
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"A woman, guided by a book of letters left behind after her mother died, inherits her childhood summer cottage on the island of Nantucket. She has one goal--to renovate it, sell it, and get on with her life; but a chance meeting with the boy next door leads her down a path of discovering her purpose, piecing together what really happened to her mother the night she died, and the realization that maybe her mother's letters weren't the source of wisdom...
13) Amish redemption
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"Joshua Bowman is ready to go home. After spending time in prison for a crime he didn't commit, he's putting everything behind him and reconciling with his fractured family. When a devastating tornado throws him unexpectedly into the path of Mary Kaufman and her daughter, Hannah, he feels the first spark of life after months. But Mary's adoptive dad is the Englisch sheriff-and he'd never trust her care to a man with Joshua's past. Plus the lovely...
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When Clara Vesper's husband, Adolph, dies suddenly, Clara is stunned, but not grief-stricken. Her marriage to Adolph had been arranged, their primary interaction revolving around the sapphire jewelry Clara designed and Adolph produced and sold. Widowed and penniless, with two small children, Clara decides to return to her aunt and uncle's ranch in Montana, the only place she has ever been happy. When secrets from Adolph's past threaten everyone she...
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"Gemma Butler has a grand vision to transform the fledgling Christmas celebrations in Dover, Mississippi, and bring visitors to the town. It's also the single mom's last chance to provide for her son and revive her event planning business. But Gemma's not the only one with something to prove. Line Montgomery has the weight of the family business on his shoulders. And he'll go down swinging before he'll let anyone disrupt the traditions he holds dear....
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Amish homestead novels volume 3
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"In the third installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Homestead series, Priscilla Allgyer returns to the Amish community she'd dreamt of escaping and learns the hard lessons of love and forgiveness from a surprising source"--
17) Killer Harvest
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Biologist and single mom Sassa Nilsson just witnessed her mentor's brutal murder by environmental extremists. Now she's the last link to a deadly pathogen they plan on unleashing - and their number one target! But can handsome border patrol agent Jared De Luca shield Sassa and her baby long enough to find a cure...before the entire world faces the unthinkable consequences.
18) Before I saw you
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"Folks are dying fast as the ash trees in the southern Indiana town ravaged by the heroin epidemic, where Jaycee Givens lives with nothing more than a thread of hope and a quirky neighbor, Sudie, who rescues injured wildlife. After a tragedy leaves her mother in prison, Jaycee is carrying grief and an unplanned pregnancy she conceals because she trusts no one, including the kind and handsome Gabe, who is new to town and to the local diner where she...
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His Christmas family : "Home is where the heart is when Laurel Adams comes home and discovers a foster kid and a seriously charming horse trainer living on her grandmother's ranch."--pg.4 of cover.
A merry Wyoming Christmas : "Single mom Leann Bowden is starting over when she and her daughter are rescued from a snowstorm. Might the dashing cowboy be the Christmas gift they're dreaming of?"--pg. 4 of cover.
20) Her fear
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Amish of Hart County volume 5
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Sadie Detweiler never imagined she'd move to Kentucky, yet here she is: a pregnant, unmarried Amish girl banished by unforgiving parents to live with kin she barely knows. The men are gruff and her cousins are secretive. Worst of all, elderly matriarch Verba becomes mysteriously ill shortly after Sadie moves in. When EMT Noah Freeman arrives, Sadie immediately notices he's unlike any other Amish man she's met. Noah is warm, confident, and has an easy...
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