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Prairie legacy volume 1
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A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny.
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Seasons of the heart volume 1-2
Keepsake volume 14
Thorndike large print Christian fiction
Keepsake volume 13
Keepsake volume 14
Thorndike large print Christian fiction
Keepsake volume 13
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Twelve-year-old Josh was being raised by his eighteen-year-old Aunt Lou. When he overheard Grandpa and Uncle Charlie talking about finding a fella for her, he knew something had to be done so his special family would not be broken up. Then, when that poor preacher came along, it really got complicated!
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Bridal Veil Island romances volume 3
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As she arrives at Bridal Veil Island with the Bridgeport family, Callie DeBoyer's just received a letter from her parents, missionaries in coastal Africa, stating they are in dire need of more personnel. Should she give up her governess job and join their important work? When she enrolls young Thomas Bridgeport in golf lessons, Callie meets Wesley Townsend, who urges her to take lessons as well. Callie comes to care for Wesley - until she discovers...
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Lady's maid Melinda Colson is forced to leave Bridal Veil Island before her beau, Evan, has had a chance to propose. Back at her employers' home, Melinda finds solace only in Evan's letters. But when news arrives that a terrible storm has struck the island, she knows she must find a way back to her love.
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In Acadia, two young mothers, one British and one French, have become good friends, despite the enmity between their peoples. The French woman's baby girl becomes critically ill. Since the British woman has access to medical care denied to the French, they exchange infants. But, suddenly, the French are expelled from Acadia, and the women are unable to meet again.
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Emmalyne Knox and Tavin MacLachlan were destined to be together ... until the tragic deaths of Emmalyne's youngest sisters. Family tradition mandates that the youngest daughter should remain single to care for her parents in their old age, and now that daughter is Emmalyne. Her father unyielding, Emmalyne surrenders to her duty and calls off the wedding less than two months away, heartbroken. Tavin leaves town, equally devastated. Years later, Emmalyne's...
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In 1860s Seattle, a man with a wife could secure himself 640 acres of timberland. But because of his wife's untimely death, Joe Denton finds himself about to lose half of his claim. Still in mourning, his best solution is to buy one of those Mercer girls arriving from the East. A woman he'll marry in name but keep around mostly as a cook. Anna Ivey's journey west with Asa Mercer's girls is an escape from the griefs of her past. She's not supposed...
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Thorndike large print Christian fiction
Seasons of the heart volume 2
Seasons of the heart volume no. 2
Seasons of the heart volume 2
Seasons of the heart volume no. 2
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"I don't know who was most excited that morning when the three of us hoisted packs on our backs and started off down the trail. Just before we disappeared from view of our yard, I turned for one more wave. You woulda thought we were marching off to war or something ... They all looked glad and sad at the same time ... ". On the brink of manhood, young Josh faces important questions about life, love, and himself.
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After the death of their father, Collette and Jean-Michel Langelier are no longer tied to post-war France. While his sister dreams of adventure, Jean-Michel is hoping to finally escape reminders of the horrors he faced in the war. When Jean-Michel receives an unexpected invitation for them to visit Alaska and the Curry Hotel, it seems an opportunity for a change he needs. Katherine Demarchis is a young widow who does not grieve the dangerous husband...
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City dweller John McCall never expected to be out in the High Sierras of 1868 on a wild-goose chase to find the Chiltons' supposedly lost grandson. But now that he's out here, things have gotten even more complicated, mostly due to wildcat Penny Scott. She's not like any woman he's ever met--comfortable in the woods, with a horse, and with a gun. When Penny and John are taken against their will by a shadowy figure looking for evidence they don't have,...
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Yukon quest volume 1
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In a dramatic new series, a host of characters is drawn to the rugged Yukon to start life anew. Fleeing an arranged marriage, Grace escapes to Alaska. Peter, a widower, must choose between parenting his young children and following his dream, while Karen chooses to strike out on her own in search of a missing family member. --
13) With you always
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Orphan train volume 1
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When a financial crisis in 1850s New York leaves three orphaned sisters nearly destitute, the oldest, Elise Neumann, knows she must take action. She's had experience as a seamstress, and the New York Children's Aid Society has established a special service: placing out seamstresses and trade girls. Even though Elise doesn't want to leave her sisters for a job in Illinois, she realizes this may be their last chance.
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When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since then, he'd finally carved out a home and started a herd--while serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail, driving off dangerous men. He'd hoped those days were over, but the latest attack shows he was wrong. Deborah Harkness saved her younger...
16) Phoebe's light
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A young Quaker woman has everything she wants until a secret in her great grandmother's journal threatens Phoebe Starbuck's future as a Nantucket captain's wife.
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Just a few short weeks into her year-long training at the Blessing Hospital, Miriam Hastings is called home to Chicago, where her mother is gravely ill. With siblings to care for, Miriam pleads to be allowed to finish her training in Chicago. Her nursing supervisor grants her a brief reprieve but extracts a promise that Miriam will return to Blessing and fulfill her one-year commitment. While in Chicago, Miriam has tried to get Trygve Knutson and...
18) Forever my own
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"In 1871, Kirstin Hallberg arrives in Duluth, Minnesota, to find the city council intent on building a canal and ensuring the city's rise to greatness. She's come to care for her elderly grandmother Lena Segerson, only to discover Lena very full of life and full of secrets. For when Kirstin opens their front door one day, she finds the brother she long thought dead on the other side. Domar begs his sister to say nothing to their parents, viewing their...
19) Embers of love
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The logging industry in eastern Texas is booming, and Deborah Vandermark plans to assist her family's business now that she's completed college. Unexpectedly, her best friend Lizzie Decker accompanies her back home - fleeing a wedding and a groom she has no interest in. Deborah, the determined matchmaker, sets her sights on uniting her brother and her friend in a true love match. Then Deborah meets Dr. Christopher Clayton and discovers an interest...