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Dakota series (Debbie Macomber) volume 4
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
It's a time of change for a small prairie town
Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, has a will to survive, to prosper. And the outside world has discovered Buffalo Valley. A large retail conglomerate plans to move in, which would surely destroy the independent businesses...and maybe the town.
It's a season of change for Vaughn Kyle
Just out of the army, he's looking for a life to live--and waits for his reluctant fiancée to make up her mind. Vaughn decides...
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When modest Quaker Honor Bright sails from Bristol with her sister, she is fleeing heartache for a new life in America, far from home. But tragedy leaves her alone and vulnerable, torn between two worlds and dependent on the kindness of strangers. Life in 1850s Ohio is precarious and unsentimental. The sun is too hot, the thunderstorms too violent, the snow too deep. The roads are spattered with mud and spit. The woods are home to skunks and porcupines...
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English
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Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and neighbors, and especially to each other. But just before the beginning of another idyllic summer, Greg and Tess are killed when their boat capsizes during an anniversary sail. As the warm weather approaches and the island mourns...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 88
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Dawn's been missing California more than ever. Especially now that her best friend in California needs her. Dawn must face the facts : while she loves Connecticut, her heart is telling her to return to California permanently. But it sure isn't easy. It is tough to hear her friends talk about replacing her in the BSC. Even worse, Dawn can't figure out how to break the news to Mary Anne. How can she tell her best friend and stepsister that she wants...
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Harmony series (Philip Gulley) volume 1
Language
English
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Welcome to Harmony ...In this acclaimed inaugural volume in the Harmony series, master American storyteller Philip Gulley draws us into the charming world of minister Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown, capturing the essence of small-town life with humor and wisdom.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 87
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
This is a different kind of summer for Stacey. Since her fight with the BSC, Stacey's not baby-sitting much, and she doesn't have her best friend Claudia to do things with. So Stacey gets a part-time job at the department store downtown, and she finds a new group of friends. Stacey enjoys hanging out with Jacqui, Sheila, and the other girls. They're serious shoppers, and they're really into music. These girls are fun. A little wild even. But Stacey's...
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Quaker midwife mystery volume 1
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English
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Quaker midwife Rose Carroll discovers dark secrets in 1888 Massachusetts
For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders
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John dies at the end volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the activities of a shapeshifting entity that is snatching local kids, the friends from This Book Is Full of Spiders are challenged to navigate an uproariously convoluted maze of illusions, incompetence and lies.
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Series
John dies at the end volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P....
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Quaker midwife mystery volume 2
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English
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"Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is enjoying the 1888 Independence Day evening fireworks with her beau when a teenaged Quaker mill girl is found shot dead. After a former slave and fellow Quaker is accused of the murder, Rose delves into the crime, convinced of the man's innocence. An ill-mannered mill manager, an Irish immigrant, and the victim's young boyfriend come under suspicion even as Rose's future with her handsome doctor suitor becomes unsure....
12) Henry and Beezus
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English
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When Henry decides to sell bubble gum to all the kids at school to earn money to buy his own bicycle, he gets plenty of trouble, but very little money.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 93
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
After a fun winter break, Mary Anne is glad to be back at SMS. She's excited about her English project, and optimistic about the weeks ahead. Nothing could have prepared Mary Anne for the awful news that Amelia Freeman, a friend and a partner on her English project, has suddenly died. Everyone at school is shocked and saddened. Gradually the other kids recover. But Mary Anne only feels worse. If only she could do something for Amelia ...
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English
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"Spanning seventy years and several continents--from a refugee's shattered dreams in 1938 Berlin, to a discontented American couple in the 1950s, to a young woman's life in modern-day Jerusalem--this epic, enthralling novel tells the braided love story of three unforgettable characters."--Publisher's website.
19) Shy Willow
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English
Description
Willow, a very shy rabbit, lives in an abandoned mailbox, but when a young boy drops a letter in Willow's mailbox, she knows she will have to brave the outside world to deliver the letter.
20) The Quakers
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, notable individuals, beliefs, way of life, and current status of this longstanding Christian group.
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