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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After the dramatic conclusion to his discovery of a long-lost postcard, journalist Philip Bradley simply cannot forget the Amish people he met while on assignment in Pennsylvania--particularly Rachel Yoder and her young daughter, Annie. Drawn back to Lancaster County over the Christmas holidays, Philip struggles with the vast gulf separating him from the beautiful plain woman.
2) Fair peril
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English
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The art of storytelling and the power of a mother's love imbue this feminist fantasy novel - a contemporary riff on the tale of the frog prince. Once upon a time there was a middle-aged woman whose husband dumped her the month after their twentieth anniversary... Divorced, overweight Buffy Murphy is not a happy camper. One April afternoon, she walks into the woods... and meets a talking bullfrog. He asks her to kiss him so he can transform back into...
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"Midwife Martha Cade has decided. When he returns in February, she is going to marry Mayor Thomas Dillon. That is the only decision in life in which she feels confident these days. Everything else around her feels like it's changing too fast, from her daughter's obvious affection for the town's young doctor to Martha realizing she's ready to pass on her role as midwife to someone younger. Even her beloved town of Trinity is changing. The 1830s Pennsylvania...
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Tangled, anxious thoughts relaxed when she felt the fabric beneath her fingers and remembered that she was creating something beautiful enough to delight the eyes as well as the heart, something strong enough to defeat the cold of a Pennsylvania winter night. She could do these things. She, Sarah, had the power to do these things
5) Key of light
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Key series volume 1
The Key volume Book 1
Key trilogy volume 1st
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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The Key volume Book 1
Key trilogy volume 1st
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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English
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Malory Price’s life plan has hit a snag. She’s in danger of losing her job managing an art gallery in Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania. A welcome distraction comes in the form of an invitation to a cocktail party at Warrior’s Peak, an infamous estate overlooking the town. But no one else she knows has been invited . . . There are only two other guests: Dana Steele, a librarian, and Zoe McCourt, a single mother. On the surface, it seems the women...
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Recently reunited with her estranged seventeen-year old daughter, midwife Martha Cade tries to balance her life's calling with the demands of her family while deciding if she'll risk reopening her heart to love. But faith has a way of making the impossible possible.
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English
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Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death. As she reconstructs their tumultuous freshman year at the college in race-torn 1960s Philadelphia, Genna is led also to reconstruct...
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Forty-year-old Miriam agrees to a pretend romance with Nate in order to make his girlfriend Hannah jealous enough to make a commitment to him. When Hannah decides she wants Nate, Miriam must put aside the love she feels and seek solace in her Amish community.
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Miriam's journal volume 3
Language
English
Description
Miriam struggles to cope with her grief and worries about two friends straying from the lifestyle approved by their Amish church.
10) A winding path
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Priscilla comes to stay with Amish married couple Miriam and Nate, a man outside of the Amish falls in love with her. Miriam helps Priscilla with all the wedding plans when suddenly her groom-to-be disappears and she must learn that the Lord's grace is there for her in the midst of trials.
11) Home to Trinity
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Series
At home in Trinity volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As Martha struggles with the conflicts of being a mother, a midwife, and a woman, she learns the greatest lesson of all-that hope can shine even in the darkest hours, and that faith has a way of making the impossible possible.
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