Barbara Caruso
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English
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"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect...
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English
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"From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and...
3) The postcard
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Language
English
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Rachel Yoder, a young Amish widow, struggles to come to terms with the tragic loss of her husband, her son, her sight. Though painfully shy, Rachel and her precocious daughter help her parents run a bed-and-breakfast in Lancaster County. Philip Bradley, a New York journalist on assignment, comes to stay at the family's B & B. When he finds an old postcard written in Pennsylvania Dutch, he enlists Rachel's help in uncovering its mysteries. Soon Philip...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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After following his father's footsteps to become a Canadian Mountie, Henry discovers that his job comes at a high emotional cost, while his sister, Christine, leaves their family home to seek a new life in Edmonton.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A thoroughly modern woman, Sarah Cain has long disdained her sister's Plain lifestyle. But when news comes of her sister's death, Sarah is stunned to learn she has been named guardian of her children. How can Sarah sacrifice her successful career and a life she enjoys to raise five Amish orphans she barely knows? Besides, Sarah is harboring a secret grief of her own...Will the sorrow that divides them ultimately unite the new family?
Author
Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 3
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Powerful Conclusion to The Shunning and The Confession! Shunned from the Plain life of her youth, Katie Lapp (now known as Katherine) delights in the modern world, yet she longs for the peace that reigned in her mother's heart. Though her life is far removed from Lancaster County, she must come to terms with her Amish heritage...and the man she once loved.
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Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
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Description
After years of separation, English-born Emmaline Bradford is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch and wishes to return to England immediately. But Geoffrey offers a compromise: If Emmaline promises to stay until spring, he'll pay her return fare if she decides to go back to her home country. When spring arrives, will Emmaline return to England, or will she marry Geoffrey and carve out a life with him in Kansas?
Author
Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Dramatic Sequel to The Shunning... Katie Lapp is torn from her close-knit Plain community in the painful ordeal called the shunning. But as she strikes out alone into the strange and sometimes dangerous "English" world, she is unaware that the man she loves is planning to return to his Amish family...and to her.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter Karen Kingsbury has enriched the lives of countless readers with her spiritually uplifting tales. When Joy Came to Stay illustrates the miraculous power of faith to overcome even the most debilitating suffering. Maggie Stovall has a successful career and a happy marriage, but she also bears the crippling weight of a secret from her past. As she slips farther and farther into depression, her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[c1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
256p
Language
English
Description
Running Fawn, a young Blackfoot woman living in southern Alberta, finds herself torn between the old ways and the new as white settlers continue to encroach on her tribal lands, a disease devastates her family, and her father discovers a new faith in Christianity
11) Fallen women
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1885, wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen investigates the brutal murder of her estranged sister Lillie, entering a dangerous world of prostitution where she discovers the truth about the sister she could not save.
12) The copper beech
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Physical Desc
345p
Language
English
Description
While unmarried Maddy dreams of the man she loved and lost, Eddie yearns for the father who abandoned him, in a work that depicts the dreams and desires of the residents of Shancarrig
13) The shunning
Author
Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
All her life she has longed for the forbidden things, but will her dreams come at a price too dear to pay? Why would Katie Lapp's mother, a plain and simple Amishwoman who embraces the Old Ways, hide a beautiful satin baby dress in the attic? The staggering answer comes on the eve of Katie's wedding to widower Bishop John, throwing her life--present and future--into confusion.
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Kim Vogel Sawyer pens an inspiring debut novel whose unforgettable characters resonate with emotional intensity and compelling authenticity. Suddenly all alone in 1894 Kansas, Summer Steadman can't find the employment she needs to settle near the fresh graves of her husband and four children. Bitter against the Lord and refusing to eat, she collapses in despair. Remembering his own painful loss, godly widower Peter Ollenbuger offers her food and shelter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When winsome socialite Mia Stanley insists on researching downtrodden seaman's wives on the docks of Philadelphia for the magazine she works for, she uncovers a scheme that puts her own life in danger.
16) Fancy pants
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
"Big Tim" Creighton is determined to turn foppish "Fancy Pants" Hathwell into a man before the boss--Hathwell's uncle--returns home, unaware that Sydney is actually a woman in disguise, running away from an arranged marriage.
17) Whirlwind
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When disaster strikes on a voyage to America, widower Daniel Clark seizes the chance to rescue nanny Millicent Fairweather and her sister, and after a convenient marriage ensues, it becomes evident that Daniel and Millicent wedded for very different reasons.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Potent and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. His hand is growing cold, still she holds it is how this novel that tells the story of a marriage begins. The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Still...
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Series
Publisher
Multnomah Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
368 p.
Language
English
Description
There are more than two million copies of her works in print. Waiting for Morning is the poignant tale of a woman who, in the face of tremendous personal tragedy, hardens her heart and turns from God. Now two kind people are struggling to rescue her faith.
Author
Series
Publisher
Multnomah Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
With more than a score of heartwarming novels to her credit, Karen Kingsbury is a best-selling inspirational author who captivates fans with her tales of triumph over personal tragedy. Halfway to Forever continues the story of Hannah Ryan, the grieving widow who found her way back to God in Waiting for Morning. As Hannah and her new husband Matthew confront obstacles while waiting to adopt a child, their best friends must cope with a devastating illness....