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Series
Tufa novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the mountains of East Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations. . . . Private Bronwyn Hyatt, a true daughter of the Tufa,...
2) Home
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Language
English
Description
An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, one which he's hated all his life.
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English
Description
"Haven't Got A Clue bookshop owner Tricia Miles's relationship is on the rocks. After a not-so-fun vacation with her on-again-off-again lover, Marshall Cambridge, Tricia's hoping for smooth sailing back in Stoneham. Unfortunately, Booktown greets her not with blue skies but with another body. When Tricia's assistant manager, Pixie, finds homeless veteran Susan Morris's body behind the store, Pixie's checkered past makes her the prime suspect. Tricia...
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English
Description
"The Great War has ended. The Armistice has been signed. But the suffering continues, as soldiers come home physically and mentally scarred. Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is working in a clinic for recuperating amputees, where she becomes involved in the efforts of the captain of a group of Welsh soldiers who is desperate to keep his men from falling into depression and suicide. After the soldiers are sent home, the captain writes to Bess, telling...
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Series
Men of valor novels (Irene Hannon) volume 3
Language
English
Description
After a disastrous Middle East mission ends his six-year Army Ranger career, Finn McGregor needs some downtime. A peaceful month in the woods sounds like the perfect way to decompress. But peace isn't on the agenda once he crosses paths with publishing executive Dana Lewis, a neighbor who is nursing wounds of her own. Someone seems bent on disrupting her stay in the lakeside cabin she inherited from her grandfather. As Finn and Dana work together...
6) Trust no one
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Language
English
Description
Retreating to her hometown after her motivational speaker boss dies from alcohol poisoning, a traumatized Grace Elland shares a dreadful blind date with a venture capitalist who uses his skills as a former Marine to help her outmaneuver a stalker.
10) Veterans Day
Author
Series
Publisher
AV² by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Veterans Day and describes some of the ways that this holiday is celebrated.
Author
Series
Van Shaw novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Searching for a fortune in hidden gold revealed to him by a terminally ill ex-con, Van Shaw is compelled to rescue the man's innocent daughter from a mysterious predator with ties to an illegal bare-knuckle fighting ring and darker underworld operations.
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 4
Language
English
Description
After inheriting a crumbling lighthouse, Dr. Ben Garrison is more than ready to get rid of it until he meets the determined Marci Weber, who wants to save the landmark. Can she make him see her point of view?
14) Annual report
Author
Publisher
The Department
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
volumes ; 28 cm
Language
English
15) The drifter
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his "white static," the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man's widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the...
16) Angel's peak
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 10
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, Air Force sweethearts Franci Duncan and Sean Riordan had reached an impasse: she wanted marriage and a family; he didn't. But now a chance meeting proves that their bitter breakup hasn't cooled their sizzling chemistry.
17) Back home
Author
Publisher
W. Sloane Associates
Pub. Date
[1947]
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
19) Sea Glass Island
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Series
Language
English
Description
"With her two younger sisters heading for the altar, will Samantha Castle exchange old dreams for new ones? Lately she'd rather be on the North Carolina coast with family than in New York with agents and actors. Though she vows not to let her teenage crush on Ethan Cole influence her decision, it's hard to ignore her feelings for the local war hero. Ethan lost more than his leg in Afghanistan. He lost his belief in love. Even being surrounded by couples...
20) Shelter Mountain
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Series
Language
English
Description
"John 'Preacher' Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one - the woman is covered in bruises. He wants to protect them, and to punish whoever did this, but he knows immediately that this is more than just instinct. Paige Lassiter has stirred up emotions in this gentle giant of a man - emotions...
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