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1) The hope jar
Author
Series
Prayer jars volume 1
Language
English
Description
"What happens when making an elderly Amish couple very happy means going along with a lie that gets bigger by the day? Michelle Taylor is not who her new family in Lancaster County believes her to be. The Lapps were looking for their long-lost granddaughter when they met Michelle and she assumed the identity of Sara Murray. Once homeless and hopeless, Michelle has come to love her new Amish friends and even considers the idea of romance among them....
Author
Series
Prayer jars volume 2
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death Sara Murray learns that her maternal grandparents are Amish, living in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Making the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been pretending to be Sara. Tired of the secrets and deceit that seem to follow her, Sara has trouble building new relationships. She meets Brad Fuller who is visiting her grandparents during Christmas, and likes him a lot, but even he seems to pull away...
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Language
English
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"At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she is--a swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders don't agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywood's latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isn't amused. Instead, she's determined to make sure he doesn't bother her again. Only she's not sure exactly who he is. The swim meet isn't the first event the imposter has interrupted,...
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted 21 years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy - his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Sophie Breeze is a brilliant bridesmaid. So brilliant, in fact, that she's made it her full-time job. As a professional bridesmaid, Sophie is hired by London brides to be their right-hand woman, posing as a friend but working behind the scenes to help plan the perfect wedding and ensure their big day goes off without a hitch. When she's hired by Lady Victoria Swann - a former model and "It Girl" of 1970's London; now the Marchioness of Meade - for...
6) First Lady
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Series
Language
English
Description
How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady. Not for long, however, because she's made up her mind to escape — if only for a few days — so she can live the life of an ordinary person. All she needs is the perfect disguise . . . and she's just
...7) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
8) The strange case of Dr. Couney: how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on historical documents, original reportage, and interviews with surviving patients, acclaimed journalist and magazine editor Dawn Raffel tells the marvelously eccentric story of Couney's mysterious carnival career, his larger-than-life personality, and his unprecedented success as the savior of tiny babies.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Rev. Harry Powell is a religious fanatic and serial killer who targets women who use their sexuality to attract men. Serving time in prison for car theft, he meets condemned murderer Ben Harper, who confesses to hiding $10,000 in stolen loot. Released from jail, Powell is obsessed with finding the money, and he tracks down Harper's widow, Willa, and her two children, John and Pearl.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
The year is 1402. Margrete has achieved what no man has managed before. She has gathered Denmark, Norway, and Sweden into a peace-oriented union, which she single-handedly rules through her young, adopted son, Erik. The union is beset by enemies, however, and Margrete is therefore planning a marriage between Erik and an English princess. An alliance with England should secure the union's status as an emerging European power but a breathtaking conspiracy...
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