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The cowboy's best friend's sister (Sweet Water Ranch #04)
Par Jessie Gussman. 2020
"She's his best friend's little sister. He's never noticed her. Not like that. He needs to marry to inherit his…
money, so he's hired a woman to be his fake bride. Only he's too sick to get married. Now he's confined in his small house with his fake fiancée-to-be and his best friend's little sister. The ladies don't seem to get along. And one of them isn't what he thought. Should he follow the plan, or follow his heart?" -- Provided by publisherAutumn blue
Par Karen Harter. 2007
"An authentic tale of the bonds of family, faith, and trust. As single mother Sidney Walker struggles to save her…
troubled young son, she finds she is not as alone as she thinks when help comes from the most unexpected person." -- Provided by publisherSojourner of Warren's camp
Par Joseph Dorris. 2011
It is 1871 in Idaho Territory and fourteen-year-old Samuel Chambers is, in many ways, already a man. After journeying west…
with his father in search of a golden ledge, Samuel finds himself living in the midst of a raucous mining camp filled with gold-hungry Chinese. Gold is scarce, and everyone wants it-- including Samuel, whose main goal in life is to get "lucky rich". But Samuel has no idea that the path to achieving his dream is lined with danger like he has never seen before. Samuel refuses to believe all the naysayers as he embarks on a journey from placer mining to prospecting and from peddling merchandise to running assays. But life in the wild west is unpredictable, and there are those so intent on finding riches that they will kill anyone who happens to get in their way. Even as danger lurks in the shadows, Samuel cannot keep his eyes off Miss Lilly, a beautiful dancehall lady who intrigues him more than he would like to admit. Despite his attempts to balance a courtship with achieving his dream, nothing prepares Samuel for what is about to happen next. In this compelling historical tale, a teenager on a coming-of-age journey in remote Idaho faces prejudice and peril as he struggles to carve a living from the land and build a new future. Adult. UnratedFinny: a novel
Par Justin Kramon. 2010
Lonely and defiant Finny Short is struggling to make sense of her unusual family when she meets Earl Henckel, a…
boy who comes from an even stranger place than she does. Unhappy with her budding romance, her parents ship her off to boarding school where she befriends Judith, a New York heiress with a reckless streak. Finny's relationships with Earl and Judith open her up to possibilities of love and loss and propel her into an adventure spanning twenty years and two continents. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Some violence. Strong languageTo the ends of the earth: a novel of the Byzantine Empire
Par T. Davis Bunn. 1996
A tale of political, religious, and personal conflict during the rise of Christianity. A Carthaginian merchant journeys to Contantinople to…
find riches and power, but finds a ruthless government ruling in the name of Christendom. AdultI remember grandpa: a story
Par Truman Capote. 1985
The tale of a young boy living in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia who must move with his parents…
to the city, and leave behind his beloved grandparents. For junior and senior high and older readersFinding David Dolores
Par Margaret Willey. 1986
Arly, thirteen, is at odds with her mother and with growing up. Solitary and aloof, she finds herself drawn to…
an older boy she admires from afar. David Dolores is handsome and talented, and Arly's determination to find out all that she can about him gives her life new meaning. Enter Regina, a new girl at school and a self-styled outcast. They become fast friends, and Arly shares her feelings about David. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readersBoth sides now
Par Ruth Pennebaker. 2000
High school sophomore Liza is an optimist like her physician father, and takes cues from him in dealing with her…
mother's fight against breast cancer. But as increasingly aggressive treatments fail, Liza gradually begins to feel empathy for her mother. For junior and senior high readers. 2000Fledgling (Liaden universe #11)
Par Sharon Lee. 2013
"Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the…
galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town. Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo, who has a notation in her file indicating that she is "physically challenged" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a team mate during a scavage game. With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go "home," to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be. Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professors must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls "Father," Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!" -- Provided by publisherThree years with the rat: A Novel
Par Jay Hosking. 2017
"After several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city…
of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in psychophysics and the center of a group of friends who take "Little Brother" into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job. But it soon becomes clear that things are not well with Grace. Ever acerbic, she now veers into sudden rages that are increasingly directed at her adoring boyfriend, John, who is also her fellow researcher. When Grace disappears, and John shortly thereafter, the narrator makes an astonishing discovery in their apartment: a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note that says "This is the only way back for us". Soon he embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a pursuit that forces him to question time and space itself, and ultimately toward a perilous confrontation at the very limits of imagination. This kinetic novel catapults the classic noir plot of a woman gone missing into the twenty-first-century city, where so-called reality crashes into speculative science. Jay Hosking's Three Years with the Rat is simultaneously a mind-twisting mystery that plays with the very nature of time and the story of a young man who must face the dangerously destructive forces we all carry within ourselves." -- Dust jacketA perfect love (Heavenly Daze series #04)
Par Lori Copeland. 2002
"Despite the blustery winter chill, love is in the air in Heavenly Daze. Buddy Franklin is searching for someone to…
change his lonely life, Dana and Mike Klackenbush are trying to reestablish the friendship that led them to marriage three years before, Barbara and Russell Higgs are contemplating babies, and Cleta Lansdown is determined to keep Barbara, her married daughter, close to home. The angels who inhabit the island are surprised and overwhelmed when Buddy gets a pet, Dana toys with harmless flirtation, Barbara discovers she can't have a baby, and Cleta gives her son-in-law a pink, ruffled bedroom ensemble for his birthday! As always, the folks of Heavenly Daze triumph, learn, laugh, and love - and readers will do much of the same!" -- Provided by publisherThe brighter the light
Par Mary Ellen Taylor. 2022
"When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow. Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale's hometown of…
Nags Head, North Carolina. When Ivy inherits her family's beachfront cottage upon her grandmother's death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the best friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago. But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend-and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons in the closet than just her own. Amid the cottage's clutter are clues from her grandmother's past at the enchanting seaside resort her family once owned. One fateful summer in 1950, the arrival of a dazzling singer shook the staff and guests alike-and not everyone made it to fall. As Ivy contends with broken relationships and a burgeoning romance in the present, the past threatens to sweep her away. But as she uncovers the strength of her grandmother and the women who came before her, she realizes she is like the legendary shipwreck: the sands may shift around her, but she has found her home here by the sea." -- Provided by publisherDancing on broken glass: a novel
Par Ka Hancock. 2012
Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They're both plagued with faulty…
genes, he has bipolar disorder, and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry. Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work and they put it all in writing. Mickey promises to take his medication. Lucy promises not to blame him for what is beyond his control. He promises honesty. She promises patience. Like any marriage, they have good days and bad days, and some very bad days. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. Everything. Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is. Adult. UnratedFortified with love: A Wyoming Novel (Wyoming novel #03)
Par Jmc North. 2020
The end of the Battle Axe Ranch Trilogy reveals the Fletcher family in the '60's faced with battles against the…
wildness and the dangerous predators. of the Rockies. The family confronts real life challenges in their romances, loves, friendships, betrayals, deaths, and grief. Unexpected conflicts arise that are resolved with surprising outcomes. AdultThe Porch Down Home
Par Deborah Ronna Baker. 2010
Deborah Ronna Baker's The Porch Down Home Chronicles the life of seventeen-year-old Avie and her sister, Cassie, who live in…
the Midwest with their beloved grandparents, Bigmomma and Bigdaddy. Avie and Cassie have been taught right from worng by their young-at-heart grandparents, but that doesn't stop Avie from getting into mischief every once in a while, like the time she "borrows" a stash of Bigdaddy's healing herb to use for her science project. But Bigdaddy will soon be thankful, for a summer storm destroys seemingly all of the precious herb one night- all but Avie's stash in the meadow. The Porch Down Home offers a cast of characters as different as night and day that will becaome like part of your own family, from nosy Cora Lee and the stuttering Lester brothers to Big sally the bully and shy but sweet Chase. From the schoolhouse to the nickel and dime, join these Midwest characters in discovering that life is best lived on The Porch Down Home. AdultThe world played chess: A Novel
Par Robert Dugoni. 2021
"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his…
final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now, forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer--Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life--dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one's own destiny." -- Provided by publisherThe Christmas visitor: an Amish romance
Par Linda Byler. 2013
"One moment, Ben Miller was high up in the rafters at his neighbor's barn raising. The next, his foot slipped…
and he plunged to his death, leaving behind a young wife and six children, the youngest born four months after his death. Ruth Miller is not alone. Her Amish neighbors help her to make the difficult transition from wife to widow. But while the community has been generous, raising six growing children, each grieving their father's death, is overwhelming. Devastated by her loss, Ruth isn't sure how she'll make ends meet or restore order to a house full of rambunctious kids. With help from her mother and her energetic, but untidy neighbor, Mamie, Ruth finds a way to start over. Preoccupied with the effort to create a new life and manage her shrinking bank account, Ruth barely notices John King, the handsome newcomer to her community. Besides, how could she, if she had a chance, replace Ben? Does one ever replace a husband? As Christmas approaches, Ruth knows that she can't afford gifts for her children this year. It's hard enough to find money for groceries each week. But then banana boxes full of food, treats for the children, and even money begin to appear on her front porch. Who is leaving her these generous gifts? Is it a neighbor or a friend? Or, Ruth wonders, could it be John, who keeps unexpectedly appearing when Ruth most needs help?" -- Provided by publisherLeeway cottage: A Novel
Par Beth Richardson Gutcheon. 2005
A beautiful written novel combining an American twentieth-century marriage and one of the most stirring stories of World War II.…
In April 1940, Danish pianist, Laurus Moss marries wealthy Sydney Brant. Laurus's family is playing an active role in Denmark's rescue of the country's Jews, while Sydney is in America knitting for the war effort after having a babyKiller words (Mystery Bookshop mystery #07)
Par V. M Burns. 2021
"Sam and Nana Jo are back in sleepy North Harbor, Michigan, where Sam is eagerly awaiting the publication of her…
first book. In search of more immediate excitement, Nana Jo hits the casino with her fellow Shady Acres Retirement Village gal pals but they get more than they bargained for when they witness Detective Bradley Pitt decking mayoral candidate John Cloverton. As Sam well knows, mystery novels are full of brilliant detectives, genius sleuths, and hero cops. Detective Bradley Pitt aka "Stinky Pitt" is another story. In the past, the dull-witted detective has mistakenly accused members of Sam's family for crimes they didn't commit. Now, it's his turn: when Cloverton turns up dead, he's arrested. With his predilection for polyester, Pitt has been wanted by the fashion police for years, but Nana Jo knows her former elementary school math student would never commit murder it doesn't add up. Somebody's framed the flatfoot to take a fall, and Sam and Nana Jo must step in to restore the reputation and good name of Detective Pitt." -- Provided by publisherCry for help (Detective Madison Harper #02)
Par Wendy Dranfield. 2021
"Shivering in the early morning chill, the caretaker flips the switch on the Ferris wheel and stumbles back in shock.…
The teenage girl's body is slumped in a halo of pretty colored lights, long red hair spilling over her tear-stained cheeks, her eyes fixed forever on her dangling feet. When teenager Nikki Jackson's body is found at an amusement park, just hours after Fourth of July fireworks lit up the night sky, the Lost Creek police rule her death as suicide-a devastating final act from a girl who had lost all hope. But the absence of the knife used to make the wounds on her delicate wrists makes Detective Madison Harper think otherwise. And the partial fingerprint found on the girl's face proves her right. Someone else was with Nikki in her final moments... Back home in Colorado for the first time in seven years to investigate the murder of a woman with ties to the son she lost to the care system, the pressure is on for Madison to work both cases at once. Fearing the team has missed a vital clue, Madison searches the crime scene alone and finds the last thing she ever expected: a note proving the victims knew each other, and that the cases are linked. Is this a coincidence, proof a dangerous murderer is on the loose, or a trap set to lead Madison off the trail? It's only when Madison finally finds the knife used to harm Nikki, tucked in an almost impossible to find hiding place, that she knows she is closing-in on a twisted killer. But the last person she expects to see dragged into the department in handcuffs is her own missing son..." -- Provided by publisher