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After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows. It's life as usual in Mitford. A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who is still running for office? All this, of course,...
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
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322 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Charming Southern Fiction to Delight Contemporary Readers After returning home from teaching English at a refugee camp in the Philippines, Samantha Bravencourt enjoys her quiet life working at her mother's clothing boutique in Falls Church, Virginia. When she receives an invitation to a wedding in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she looks forward to reconnecting with her college friend. Instead her life collides with Carson, a fellow teacher and the...
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Lydia can't believe she is Mrs. Samuel Bontrager, or that she has a six month old daughter at the age of 16. As baby Mattie grows fussy by the day, Lydia wonders how she will survive a lifetime of marriage to a man she doesn't love, at least not in the way she wants. Samuel knows that he and Lydia did the right thing by marrying when Lydia became pregnant. He has even grown to love Lydia, though he never seems able to say the words out loud. What...
4) Honor
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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375 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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English
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New York Times best-selling author Francine Rivers has won such prestigious honors as the Christy Award for Inspirational Historical Fiction and the ECPA Gold Medallion. In The Scarlet Thread, a woman learns to cope with life's challenges by looking to the past. Sierra and her family move to Los Angeles when her husband lands a new job -- but big-city life brings many problems. Soon, Sierra finds herself watching helplessly as her family disintegrates....
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Sunrise at Normandy volume 3
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
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371 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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When an Army Ranger and a librarian are bound together by a marriage of convenience, neither suspects it might lead to love. Will D-day--and a foreboding dream--tear them apart?
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Charlie and Esther Moore have been married nearly fifty years when the contented life they've built together begins to crumble. Esther has been forgetful recently, but it's rarely a problem until the day she puts her car in drive instead of reverse, flying off the end of the carport and into the backyard. Esther's accident and declining health shatter their reverie, and the couple must come to terms with all the paths their lives have not taken if...
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2021.
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English
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She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both of their lives forever.
Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring undercover agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She&;s an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a...
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The heart of Cheyenne volume 1
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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295 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Marybeth and Edward are compelled by their circumstances to marry as they trek west to the newly formed railroad town of Cheyenne. But life in Cheyenne is fraught with danger, and they find that they need each other more than ever. Despite the trials they face, will happiness await them in this arrangement of convenience?"--
11) Sunburst
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Sky King Ranch volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"When former Navy Seal Ranger Kingston rescues his kidnapped brother, he discovers among the hostages a woman he once promised to protect. But protecting Noemi Oyoma Sutton this time will require a marriage of convenience--which is decidedly inconvenient if she is to protect him from a deadly secret"--
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
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345 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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In 1862, Mercy joins a bride ship to escape a bleak future in London and becomes the assistant to ship's surgeon Joseph, but despite their forbidden feelings for each other, Joseph has no intention of settling down.
13) Desert gift
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Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
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xi, 388 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Jillian Galloway is an expert on marriage with a successful radio talk show, but when her husband of twenty-five years asks for a divorce she doesn't know how to cope with the upheaval in her life and she flees to her parents' desert home.
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One big happy family volume 1
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English
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Amanda, a widowed mother of three, struggles to unite her newly blended family after marrying a widower father of five, an effort that is compromised by sibling squabbles and her new husband's reluctance to make changes.
15) Harvest of gold
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Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
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356 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When Jewish scribe Sarah is forced to marry Persian aristocrat Darius, they find themseleves growing to love one another as Sarah is accused of conspiring with her cousin Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
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viii, 312 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Ryan McKinley has tried to move on from his ex-wife Abby. He's sulked, he's gotten angry, and ultimately he bought her dream house. Big mistake. Living alone in the massive 2-story has only made him miss her more. When her parents call him out of the blue about their anniversary party in Summer Harbor, Maine, Ryan believes God has dropped a golden opportunity straight in his lap"--
17) The healing jar
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"Lenore Lapp is an Amish schoolteacher in her late twenties still living at home with her parents and grandparents. She thought love had passed her by until she meets Jesse Smucker, a widower with a baby daughter. She quickly falls in love with them both and accepts Jesse's proposal of marriage, but Jesse breaks off their engagement when he realizes he can't marry only for convenience. Resigned to living single, Lenore throws herself into caring...
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Gulf Coast chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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A fesity young Frenchwoman gets more than she bargained for when she flees to the New World as a mail-order bride.
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Cities of refuge volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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English
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In 1380 BC, Rivkah flees Kedesh, refusing to marry her late husband's brother, Malakhi. Malakhi has loved Rivkah for years, but after her disappearance, he throws himself into the war against the Canaanites and must confront both of their wounds--including the secret that has kept her from returning.
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The matchmakers volume 1
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English
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"When Gwendolyn Brinley accepted a paid companion position for the Newport season, she never imagined she'd be expected to take over responsibilities as an assistant matchmaker. Tasked with finding the season's catch, Walter Townsend, a wife, her assignment becomes increasingly difficult when she realizes his perfect match might be . . . her"--