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Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard sales....
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The Life and Travels of Saint Cuthwin is a story of deep love and desperate survival in 11th Century England, a story told by a man named Cuthwin, born a peasant, who faced horror after horror in order to live for 85 years, at which time he told his story to a young monk who wrote it down. He wanted to tell his story, warts and all, since he had been informed that the Church was considering naming him as a Saint, an honor, which Cuthwin absolutely...
3) Buy A Cowboy
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Could God actually want a woman to buy a cowboy? The only way Bonnie Gibbs can escape her devious ex-husband is to remarry and provide a better future for her children. With the promise of half ownership in a ranch, she takes a chance on a broken rodeo cowboy and transplants her family from Florida to Wyoming. Baya McKnight agrees to marry the prissy woman who owns the land he wants, but he's overwhelmed when faced with children and a stubborn wife's...
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Sharon Hinck, CBA best-selling author of Renovating Becky Miller, populates her humorous faith-based stories with authentic characters who struggle with everyday life. After teaching for 15 years, Amy earns an open flute chair in the Minneapolis Symphony. But a rash of mysterious mishaps jeopardizes the single mom's dream job-and her promising new relationship with the conductor.
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One of Christian fiction's premier novelists, Christy Award winner Ann Tatlock has garnered MIPA Book of the Year honors for her compelling novels All the Way Home and I'll Watch the Moon. Returning to her high school alma mater two decades after her graduation fills English teacher Beth Gunner with both nostalgia and trepidation. Soon she must confront a haunting secret from her past.
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Detective Jackson Forge can hardly wait to marry the street-sly swindler who's turned his life upside down. Kit Turner is equally excited to wed the handsome detective, and what better way to show her love than providing him with a gift any man of the law would love? She determines to bring to justice the men who years ago maimed his brother--despite Jackson's warning to leave the past in the past. As she digs into the mystery of what happened, she...
7) Insight
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A shocking revelation could tear them apart ... or open their eyes to a whole new world.
Olivia Cline has followed her husband to a new town, hoping for a fresh start after Derek's affair with a coworker. But even before they move into their new home, tragedy strikes, and Derek is gone. With no job and precious little money, how will she cope? Going back to Chicago isn't an option. Especially not after Olivia's shocking discovery only weeks after...
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Three best-selling authors. Three possible brides. Three separate tales. They come together for an Amish wedding.
Priscilla King has dreamed of being married to Chester Lapp since she was sixteen. With the help of her sister Naomi's matchmaking skills, Chester proposes to Priscilla on her nineteenth birthday. As the wedding day approaches, problems emerge: an attendant with poison ivy, a failed celery crop, and a torn wedding dress.
At the same...
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What would happen if you found out someone has been impersonating you? Sara Murray had never met her mother's parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Sara can't understand how quickly her grandparents are willing to forgive the imposter. Secrets and...
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Even in the shadows of the Blue Ridge, war will find them.
Widowed by the Civil War, Ruth Grant insists on accompanying her grieving mother-in-law Noemie back to her roots in the beautiful but isolated foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This escape to a place barely touched by war will prove to be anything but peaceful for the two strong-willed women.
Montgomery Boaze is the wealthiest farmer in the upstate. He also happens to be a handsome...
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De la autora de éxito de mayor venta internacional Amor redentor llega una historia nueva y animada de romance occidental
Francine Rivers regresa a la frontera de California con esta nueva historia romántica de una sufragista desplazada de Nueva Inglaterra, un ex soldado de la Unión desheredado por su familia y la ciudad que juntos planean salvar.
1875. Cuando Kathryn Walsh llega al pequeño pueblo minero de Calvada en Sierra Nevada, enamorarse...
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Legado de amor Lo que menos esperaba Sarah Gooding era que, al devolverle un camafeo a una anciana señora eso la llevara a conseguir un empleo... y a conocer al nieto de la dama, alguien que, socialmente, está muy por encima de ella. En busca de refugio Margaretta Fortescue necesita desaparecer de Londres y de la vida social cuanto antes. La única que tal vez podría ayudarla es una joven que hizo lo propio antes que ella, pero que no sabe dónde...
13) Topaz Heat
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The very moment Derrick meets Sarah, he realizes he has a reason to live. Sarah sees only an unshaven tough kid covered with tattoos and shuts down every advance. Sarah Thomas has no memory of her broken young life leading up to the tragic murder of her mother. Her memory begins the morning she wakes in the home of her loving adoptive parents. She doesn't even know her sisters exist until her 15th year. She learns to love her siblings, but always...
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The third and final book in the Amish of Summer Grove series, from The New York Times and CBA best-selling novelist Cindy Woodsmall, brings an Old Order Amish young woman and an English woman who were switched at birth full circle, as they decide where their futures will lie. After several months living out in the world with her birth family, Ariana Brenneman is back living in the Old Amish community that she grew up in. The shock of discovering she...
15) Country Romance
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Two lonely strangers, a fatherless child, and a snow storm.
Recipe for romance?
If Adele Marten's troubled childhood taught her anything, it was that family is everything. So when the time comes to keep a promise she made to her dying friend, she knew she would do whatever it takes to reunite a father and son...who have never met. Even risk her fragile heart.
Hard-working single dad, Wyatt Sutton had his hands full raising twin girls and running...
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In 1893, on the eve of the great race for land, Benjamin David prays for God to guide him to his Promised Land. Finding property and preaching to the lost are his only ways of honoring his deceased fiancée. He hasn't counted on Elmer (Elsie) Smith claiming the same plot and refusing to leave. Not only is she a burr in his side, but she is full of the homesteading know-how he is sadly lacking.
Obtaining a claim in the Cherokee Strip Land Run is...
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There is a new boss in the house. The Amish Baker sisters have a new stepfather and a new stepsister. What will the girls do when they learn of their new rules? When the sisters show their displeasure in their new living arrangements, is the pressure too much for their mother? In the midst of the upheavals, what becomes of the apple orchard? Is the orchard lost to Florence forever? The Amish Stepfather is lively, heart-warming, filled with love, and...
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Two killers, two detectives, and a menace called "The Black Midnight" may be the death of both of them. Three years before Jack the Ripper began his murderous spree on the streets of London, women were dying in their beds as The Midnight Assassin terrorized the citizens of Austin, Texas. Now, with suspicion falling on Her Majesty's family and Scotland Yard at a loss as to who the Ripper might be, Queen Victoria summons her great-granddaughter Alice...
19) Pressed Together
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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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Lumberjacks and Ladies Work Together to Build America
Struggling to remain independent in the 1800s, four women reluctantly open up to help from lumberjacks - and love.
All That Glitters by Candice Sue Patterson
1851 - Maine
Winifred finds herself running the family lobstering business when her father and brothers join the California gold rush. Will she stubbornly reject help from a local lumberjack?
Winter Roses by Pegg Thomas
1865 - Michigan
Elizabeth...
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