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English
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Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tired of Waiting for a Match-Made-in-Heaven, She'll Settle for One Made in Texas Whether it's riding bikes, catching snakes, or sliding down banisters, Essie Spreckelmeyer just can't quite make herself into the ideal woman her hometown--and her mother--expect her to be. It's going to take an extraordinary man to appreciate her joy and spontaneity--or so says her doting oil-man father. Unfortunately such a man doesn't appear to reside in Corsicana,...
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
In this first book of a three-book series, author Vannetta Chapman brings a fresh twist to the popular Amish fiction genre. She blends the familiar components consumers love in Amish books-faith, community, simplicity, family-with an innovative who-done-it plot that keeps readers guessing right up to the last stitch in the quilt. When two women-one Amish, one English-each with different motives, join forces to organize a successful on-line quilt auction,...
Author
Series
The courtships of Lancaster County volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Amish farmer Pete Treger moves to Paradise Township, Pennsylvania, seeking a better life, he meets sisters Cate and Betsy Miller. Both are beautiful, but older sister Cate is known more for her sharp tongue and fiery temper than her striking appearance. Betsy, on the other hand, is sweet and flirty--and seems to have attracted most of the bachelors in Lancaster County! However, the sisters' wealthy father has made one hard and fast rule: elder...
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Series
Nantucket legacy volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
When Captain Reynolds Macy returns from a six-year whaling voyage to find his plans for marriage thwarted, Daphne Coffin encourages him to return to his Quaker faith for solace.
7) Leaving
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bailey Flanagan leaves Bloomington after winning an audition for the ensemble of a Broadway musical in New York City. In order to be closer to his mother in jail, Cody takes a coaching job in a small community outside Indianapolis. But new friends, distance, and circumstances expose cracks in his relationship with Bailey.
Author
Series
Daughters of Amana volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
Although she's always longed to see the outside world, Johanna Ilg believes her future is rooted in the Amana community inhabited by devout Christians. But when she learns a troubling secret, the world she thought she knew is shattered and she is forced to make difficult choices about a new life and the man she left behind. Berta Schumacher has lived a privileged life in Chicago, and when her parents decide they want a simpler life in Amana, Iowa,...
Author
Series
Daughters of Amana volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
Gretchen Kohler, an Amana storekeeper's daughter, keeps her passion for writing a secret, but she shares her stories with a young reporter, putting her job, her reputation, and the love of her childhood beau in jeopardy.
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The Amish of Bee County volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
342 p.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes it takes a barren landscape to see the beauty of God's creation. Phineas King knows better than to expect anything but shock and pity wherever he shows his face. Horribly scarred from the tragic accident that claimed his mother's life, he chooses to keep his distance from everyone, focusing his time and energy on the bees his family raises. If no one sees him, no one can judge him. So why does he start finding excuses to seek out Deborah...
11) The bishop's son
Author
Series
The Amish of Bee County volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
355 p.
Language
English
Description
Two men offer Leila two very different futures. Will she choose with her heart or with her faith? Leila Lantz has been in love with Jesse Glick from the day she first saw him at his father's store, but she can't make sense of his intentions. One day he wants to come courting, the next he seems to be putting distance between them. Jesse may be the bishop's son, but his faith has been wavering of late. If he is so unsure, is it fair to give Leila false...
12) Phoebe's light
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Nantucket legacy volume 1
Nantucket legacy volume Book 1
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Nantucket legacy volume Book 1
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Language
English
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Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
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Series
Lone star brides volume 3
Language
English
Description
"In 1890s Texas when two very different men enter Jessica's life, will she choose to pursue her dreams of adventure or follow the gentle urgings of her heart?"--
14) Wyoming true
Author
Series
Wyoming men volume 10
Language
English
Description
"Jake McGuire has worked hard to earn his vast wealth, with holdings that include ranches and his private jet. The only threat to his peace is the last woman he should ever want. Ida Merridan could easily go through him and move on to the next rich man, but lately she's living in his mind rent-free. Falling for Ida just might be the worst thing to happen to him."--from publisher's description.
15) The forgiven
Author
Series
Keepers of the promise volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
17) Sweet boundless
Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Newly married Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to make a home for herself and her husband, Quillan, in the rugged mining town of Crystal, Colorado. Quillan, however, has turned away to confront the haunting pain of his troubled childhood. Out of her loneliness, Carina opens a restaurant, and through its success soon attains the independence and identity she has long sought. When Carina is attacked in retaliation for her kindness to the destitute families...
18) Valley of dreams
Author
Series
Wild west wind volume 1
Language
English
Description
Addy Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Addy traveled with her father's Wild West Show and became an amazingly skillful trick rider, likened by some to the famous Annie Oakley. When her father died, she continued to work with the show, having nowhere else to go.
Now Addy has discovered that "Uncle" Jason, the show's manager, has driven the show into debt, and he's absconded with what little money was left. Devastated, Addy decides to...
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cathy Terry is tired of running. Full of fear and hope, she backpacked across the country to Blessings, Georgia, not knowing if or when her abusive ex-husband would catch up to her. In Blessings she glimpses a safe haven and the closest feeling to home she's had in a long time--even more so when she meets Duke Talbot. The sweet, strong, and handsome rancher provides a shoulder to lean on. The stakes get higher as the community embraces her and her...
20) Heart in hand
Author
Series
Stitches in time volume 3
Publisher
Abingdon Fiction
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English