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When her dreams become a reality, will she be able to leave the family she's come to love?
Jade Smith has always dreamed of teaching abroad. While she waits for her chance, she takes a nannying position at Blackwater Ranch. It's supposed to be temporary, but she soon learns that this devoted single dad and his boisterous five-year-old won't be easy to leave when the time comes.
Aaron Harding was wrecked when his ex bailed on him and their son, leaving...
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The bonnet sisters are back!
The Baker/Bruner household has a permanent addition to their family - cousin Debbie.
Debbie has found a way to fit in with the bonnet sisters and their blended family. Although, she'd rather have a very different life and secretly hopes she won't be there forever.
Could the man she rejected be the answer to her future? Or will he only add to her long list of disappointments?
The harvest is hard work in itself, but...
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Friendship Letters Series-Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters that contain open and honest feelings and struggles helps Doretta and two of her best friends through the darkest challenges of their lives.
Letters and Prayers Between Friends Become a Balm for Healing:
Irma Miller thought having a family of her own would bring her joy...
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Ruth Defies Authority to Hold on to her Family Farm.
Full of faith, hope, and romance, this new series takes you into the Heart of Amish country.
Ruth Helmuth has never been rude in her life; trust her to choose the bishop of her Amish community for her first time!
Ruth has worked hard to keep body and soul together since her husband, Levi's, death. She tends her herd of goats, making her living from the milk and fiber she gets from them, all while...
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Has Emma Draycott Been Hoodwinked by a Cunning Charmer?
Secret Service agent Clay Timmons arrives in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, in 1876 to track purchases made with fake currency. Every trail leads back to Stephen Dee Richards-and therefore, Emma Draycott.
Emma has a soft spot for underdogs like Stephen and soon agrees to marry him.
But within a week, he leaves to "make his fame and fortune." The heartbroken Emma gives him a special fountain pen to...
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England, 1890
Vampires are alive and well in North Yorkshire, leastwise in the minds of the uneducated. Librarian Rosa Edwards intends to drive a stake through the heart of such superstitions. But gossip flies when the mysterious Sir James Morgan returns to his shadowy manor. The townsfolk say he is cursed.
James hates everything about England. The weather. The rumours. The scorn. Yet he must stay. His mother is dying of a disease for...
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World War II is over at last, and the pier amusement park at Buckeye Lake, the "Playground of Ohio," is lit up, loud, and ready to welcome a summer of better days. The energy of dance hall and roller coaster, though, is disorienting for Sgt. Drew Mathison, weary from battle and trying to track down the one man who can testify in his brother's murder trial.
He's not in the mood to celebrate when he simply cannot find that witness. Especially when...
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Tally Smucker's quiet life of reading and quilting masks her sorrow over her mother's declining health and the lack of a fulfilling future for herself. When her entire world is shaken by her free-spirited neighbor Danielle, who grew up Plain but joined the Army at eighteen, Tally's instinct is to distance herself. Yet she finds she can't turn away when Danielle's brother, Kenan, specifically asks for her help. She invites Danielle to visit Plain Patterns...
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Mary's Language Skills Could Help End the War in the Pacific
Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this new series celebrates the unsung heroes-the heroines of WWII.
Mary Wishram is desperate to hang on to her few loved ones, a brother fighting in the South Pacific and Japanese friends in a relocation camp. Determined to end the war by any means necessary, she is willing to use her language skills as Yakama tribe member to become a...
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A Shadowy Figure Swings a Dangerous Club
Denver of 1900 is still a perilous place to be following the silver crash of 1893. And of out of the dark comes a shadow intent on harming women.
Ambitious young Denver newspaper reporter Polly Blythe is searching for the big story that's going to launch her career. On Friday evening, August 24, 1900, she gets her break when two women are cracked over the head within a two-minute
walk of each other. But...
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Octogenarian sleuth Ettie Smith is back in book 25 of this lighthearted Amish mystery series.
When Ettie decides to give Elsa-May an anonymous gift of a kitten, things litter-rally go from bad to worse. Shortly after Ettie's cat-gifting accomplice leaves their house, he ends up murdered.
Feline paw-sitively responsible for his demise, Ettie vows to find the killer.
Unfurr-tunately, Ettie soon unravels the victim's hiss-tory, finding litter-rally...
12) The Gold Digger
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A Widow's Ad for a Husband Leads to Mysterious Disappearances
In 1907, shy but loyal Ingrid Storset has traveled from Norway to support her grieving sister, Belle Gunness, who owns a farm in LaPorte, Indiana. Well-to-do widow Belle, who has lost two husbands and several children, provides Ingrid with enough money to start a small business.
But Ingrid is confused by the string of men Belle claims to be interviewing for her next husband. When Nils...
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Step into True Colors -- a series of Historical Stories of Romance and True American Crime
Marvel at true but forgotten history when patients check into Linda Hazzard's Washington state spa in 1912 and soon become victim of her twisted greed.
Heiress Stella Burke is plagued by insincere suitors and nonstop headaches. Exhausting all other medical aides for her migraines, Stella reads Fasting for the Cure of Disease by Linda Hazzard and determines...
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Can True Love Weather a World of Differences? To escape marriage, Cora Taylor runs away from her home in England to join her brother in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, but not even her time as a nurse in the Great War prepares her for the hard landscape and even harder lives of the mountain people. With the help of Jeb McAdams, a quiet woodcarver, who carries his own battle scars, she fashions a place for herself among these unique people....
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An act of greed or an act of God?
Introducing a new series of 6 exciting novels featuring historic American disasters that transformed landscapes and multiple lives. Whether by nature or by man, these disasters changed history and were a day to be remembered.
Pastor Montgomery Childs has tended his flock in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, for two years. While his pews are full every Sunday, he most desires to see a reckoning between God and the kings of...
16) Capturing Hope
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One step ahead of the Nazi's... leaves Nadia little room for hope.
Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this new series celebrates the unsung heroes-the heroines of WWII.
After her father is murdered by Nazis and her mother flees to her native Germany, hope is something of which Nadia Roenne feels little-even if it is the meaning of her name. It isn't until an American photographer sacrifices his escape from Poland to save a Jewish family,...
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Will Faith Perish in the Big Top's Flames?
Introducing a new series of 6 exciting novels featuring historic disasters that transformed landscapes and multiple lives. Whether by nature or by man, these disasters changed history and were a day to be remembered.
Evelyn Halstead's husband perished in the Bataan Death March but not her faith. The World War II Gold Star widow is taken in by her brother and soothed by the love of his wife and children....
18) The Red Ribbon
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An Appalachian Feud Blows Up in 1912 Step into True Colors - a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime In Carroll County, a corn shucking is the social event of the season, until a mischievous kiss leads to one of the biggest tragedies in Virginia history. Ava Burcham isn't your typical Blue Ridge Mountain girl. She has a bad habit of courtin' trouble, and her curiosity has opened a rift in the middle of a feud between politicians...
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From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray comes a new series that follows a bookmobile driver-turned-matchmaker who learns that her Amish patrons need a whole lot more than just new books to read.
Aaron Coblentz has a secret: he's been studying to take the GED to get promoted at work. But he can't let his Amish family know, not when his older brother already left the faith just a year after getting baptized, practically crippling...
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They Waited Their Whole Lives for Their Papa to Return
Nan and Heath Duncan, siblings abandoned by their papa and abused by their guardian, have no choice but to survive on the London streets. When a kind gentleman rescues Nan from such a life, the siblings are separated and raised in two vastly different social worlds. Just when both are beginning to flourish and years have healed some of their wounds, their long-awaited papa returns and reunites...
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