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Everyman's library volume 382
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"The only hardcover edition of Jane Smiley's most famous novel--King Lear on an Iowa farm--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. With a new introduction. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously...
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"Futures are fought for and love is found afresh in the Wiltshire countryside... When Ella discovers that her husband, Miles , is secretly planning to sell the farm her family has owned for hundreds of years, it's the final straw. Her already rocky marriage is over. Determined to save Willowbrook and protect her daughter's future, Ella resolves to build the farm into a successful B&B. New arrival in the village Cameron offers to help, but can Ella...
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When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger -- and amuse himself -- he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend,...
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Leah's garden volume 4
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English
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"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep her family homestead running and to fulfill her dream of starting a seed catalog, with or without her siblings' help. With Isaac McTavish back in town, Lark finds herself at odds with her own heart and her determination to shoulder the burden of carrying her responsibilities alone. But Isaac is set on convincing her that he's here to stay and she doesn't have to carry everything by herself. When a long-feared...
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[2020]
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English
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Finding love in the Smoky Mountains
His Mountain Miss
New Orleans aristocrat Lucian Beaumont wants only to sell his estranged grandfather's property and escape the backwoods of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. But a stipulation in the will brings him head-to-head with local beauty Megan O'Malley. As Megan glimpses the man beneath the hardened veneer, she believes Lucian is here for a purpose: to heal his soul. And maybe, with Megan's...
His Mountain Miss
New Orleans aristocrat Lucian Beaumont wants only to sell his estranged grandfather's property and escape the backwoods of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. But a stipulation in the will brings him head-to-head with local beauty Megan O'Malley. As Megan glimpses the man beneath the hardened veneer, she believes Lucian is here for a purpose: to heal his soul. And maybe, with Megan's...
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[2010]
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English
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May Calendar has spent most of her life looking after her family. So she's not about to let anyone take her home or livelihood. Especially not arrogant property tycoon Jude Marshall! Jude is charming and sexy -- and he's determined to wine and dine May. Doesn't she deserve a little fun? After all, this romantic interlude can't last too long. Jude's the kind of guy to want a mistress, not a wife, and May can't let attraction take over -- she's got...
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2016.
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English
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic book you will read and reread." Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda,...
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[2010]
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English
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March Calendar: Single and determined to stay that way ... certainly while Will Davenport's around. He may be the most eligible bachelor March has ever met, but he's also the most lethal! She'll never get involved with a man who plans on destroying her family's business! Will Davenport: Single and on a mission to buy the Calendar family's farm for redevelopment. But when he meets the feisty March, he's hooked. Perhaps he can do a deal that will bring...
11) Hometown girl
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Chesapeake diaries volume 4
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English
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Life was always just about perfect for Brooke Madison Bowers. She was the prettiest, most popular girl in small-town St. Dennis, Maryland. She was prom queen, a local pageant star, and the pride and joy of her loving parents. She even married the man of her dreams. But the promise of happily ever after fell to pieces when her husband was killed while serving in Iraq. Brokenhearted and longing for the solace of better days, she returns to the idyllic...
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Chesapeake diaries volume 5
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2012.
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English
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Some of Lucy Sinclair's best days were those spent growing up in small town St. Dennis-working at the family inn and enjoying summers filled with swimming, sailing, tennis, and the company of Clay Madison, her best friend. But Lucy's darkest day, the one that shattered her innocence with violence and fear, also happened in St. Dennis. And the town she once loved became the place she gladly left behind-along with the terrible secret she's kept for...
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Families of honor volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"Shelley Shepard Gray writes with honesty, tenderness, and depth. Her characters are admirable, richly-layered, and impossible to forget." -Jillian Hart A truly beloved writer of Christian romantic fiction, Shelley Shepard Gray, author of the popular Sisters of the Heart series, once again joins the ranks of Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, and Cindy Woodsmall as she celebrates the beauty and simplicity of the Amish community. A story of faith, dedication,...
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Visiting a dying Miss Mary Bayly in 1922 Chesapeake Bay to secure his inheritance of the Retreat family estate, Edward Mason is told legacy-defining stories about his family and land, from an ancestor's brutal 1857 sale of soon-to-be-emancipated slaves to a doomed effort to cultivate a peach orchard. By the author of Mason's Retreat.
15) The fields
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Riley Fisher volume 1
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English
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"A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut-crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's...
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Return to Sugarcreek volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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A young Amish couple gets a second chance at love in New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Grays final book in her Return to Sugarcreek series. Randall Beiler is doing his best to put his family and the farms needs first, even forsaking love. But though he tries, Randall knows he needs help caring for his younger siblings and keeping the house together. When his brother offers pretty Elizabeth Nolt a job taking care of the house and cooking...
17) Joyful
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Return to Sugarcreek volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
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First edition.
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English
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Randall Beiler is angry when his brother hires Elizabeth Nolt, the woman whose heart Randall broke, as a housekeeper on their family farm, but when he learns of her hard financial situation he knows it is the right thing to do, and may even give him a second chance.
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[2005]
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English
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Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family's three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by her community to allow her former fiancé to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.
Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the...
19) The protector
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Families of honor volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Ella, after being forced to auction off most of her late father's belongings, including her family's land, must find the courage to risk her heart when Loyal Weaver, the new owner of her family's old farmhouse, asks for her hand in marriage.
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