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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In Sidle Creek, McIlwain skillfully interrogates the myths and stereotypes of the mining, mill, and farming towns where she grew up. With stories that take place in diners and dive bars, town halls and bait shops, McIlwain's writing explores themes of class, work, health, and trauma, and the unexpected human connections of small, close-knit communities. All the while, the wild beauty of the natural world weaves its way in, a source of the town's...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In a declining Pennsylvania coal and steel town, the actions of three people reveal their broken pasts and possibly threaten their lives. Volunteer fireman Nathan steals money he's found in a burning building, nurse Callie risks illegality when she grants a dying young patient her final wish, and Andy, who's recovering from heroin addiction, sets out to challenge a serial predator.
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Series
Amish legacy volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
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In the third installment of Amy Clipston's beloved Amish Legacy series, Korey Bontrager and Savannah Zook pretend to date, only to find themselves unexpectedly falling in love.
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English
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"In 1996, sixteen-year-old Audre is having trouble fitting into her new town, where everyone seems to believe there's a secret Satanic cult doing rituals in the woods. But when the pastor's daughter--and Audre's crush--goes missing, she starts to wonder if the town's obsession with evil isn't covering up something far worse"--
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Amish holiday volume 3
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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When vandalism around Promise Glen threatens her roadside fruit and vegetable stand, widow and single mother Rebecca King is forced to accept the help of her condescending neighbor, but as they work side by side preparing for Thanksgiving, they discover the true values of the holiday—love and gratitude.
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"When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters, living on the margins of white, Christian America closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it" -- NoveList Plus.
7) Plus one
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English
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Lahey Johnson is notorious for helping her friends and classmates find love, though she has never had a boyfriend herself. She just has not had a reason to focus on her own love life-- until her detested cousin Summer's sweet sixteen give her a reason: revenge. Now Lahey is juggling six prospective suitors. All she needs to do is figure out who they guys are looking for and become that girl. Easy. until her older sister's friend Adler starts distracting...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his...
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Series
Friendship letters volume 2
Language
English
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Life is good on their Pennsylvania Amish farm for newlyweds Vic and Eleanor Lapp - until the day Vic's youngest brother drowns in their pond and Vic turns to alcohol to numb the pain. Things get so bad that Vic loses his job and their marriage is coming apart. Eleanor is desperate to help her husband and writes letters to her friend, Doretta, living in Indiana for advice. The trust Eleanor places in her friend and the gentle words she receives in...
10) The heirloom
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Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
"Clara Bender believes a visit to Hickory Hollow may help her find direction after her father remarries. While restoring an heirloom quilt with her great-aunt Ella Mae Zook, the two form a warm bond. When Clara's life is again upended by an unexpected incident and a young Amish man, will she find where her heart belongs?"--
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Series
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The third book in the Dardan Trilogy, following The Sojourn and The Signal Flame."--
Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century. After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the...
12) The Goodbye Café
Author
Series
Hudson sisters novels volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Gallery books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 392 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her and her estranged sisters fulfill her father’s dying wish to renovate the Sugarhouse Theater in Pennsylvania, Allie Hudson Monroe must decide whether to return to her previous life on the West Coast or stay in the small town she has come to love.
13) Mercury
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and...
Author
Series
Shadow Lake volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Collette King is eager for Matthew Mueller's return to Shadow Lake. The friend she has known forever is the one she longs to spend her life with. So when Mattie shows up at her sister's wedding with another woman, Collette's hopes are shattered. Matthew's new inheritance comes with a lot of responsibilities- including his late-uncle's deathbed request that he marry the woman who was his ward. But from the moment Mattie sees Collette again, he wishes...
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