Karen Harper
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She surfaced from the depths of the sea...and was terrifyingly, inexplicably alone
Briana Devon knows her twin sister would never deliberately leave her--but when she emerges from underwater, Daria and their boat have vanished. Fighting rough waves and a fast-approaching storm, Bree doesn't have time to question: if she wants to survive, she has to swim. Exhausted and terrified, Bree barely makes it to a tiny barrier island, where Cole
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Elizabeth I mysteries volume 4
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English
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Karen Harper’s crowd-pleasing Elizabeth I Mystery series, hailed as “extraordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, continues with this marvelous, majestic novel. The Queene’s Cure transports us into the shadowy world of sixteenth-century medicine, as an enlightened young queen seeks the cures that could heal a realm and transform a land....
In late summer of 1562, within a bedchamber at Whitehall Palace,...
In late summer of 1562, within a bedchamber at Whitehall Palace,...
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Elizabeth I mysteries volume 3
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English
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It is May 1560. As sinister storm clouds gather overhead, twenty-six-year-old Queen Elizabeth dispatches William Cecil, her most trusted adviser, to Scotland for crucial negotiations. Handsome, ambitious Lord Robert Dudley is at her side. But their leisurely midsummer idyll is cut short when the court’s master lutenist plunges to his death from a parapet beneath the queen’s window. The loyal retainers of Elizabeth’s privy council...
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She survived her own innocence, and the treachery of Europe’s royal courts; The Last Boleyn is the story of the rise and fall of the Boleyns, one of England’s most powerful families, through the eyes of the eldest daughter, Mary.
Although her sister, Anne, the queen; her brother, George, executed alongside Anne; and her father, Thomas, are most remembered by history, Mary was the Boleyn who set into motion the chain of...
Although her sister, Anne, the queen; her brother, George, executed alongside Anne; and her father, Thomas, are most remembered by history, Mary was the Boleyn who set into motion the chain of...
26) Fall from pride
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Sarah Kauffman sought permission from her church elders to paint murals on a few of the Amish community's barns. Each was designed like an old-fashioned quilt square, representing a piece of the Amish traditions Sarah loved. The works of art were intended to draw more tourists to the Home Valley in the struggling economy. But instead, they invited a menace. One by one, each barn is set ablaze and destroyed. Now Sarah wonders if she's being punished...
27) Return to grace
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Having fled her Amish community to pursue her dreams of a singing career, Hannah Esh returns with four friends to the Amish graveyard near her family home for a Halloween party. But when shots are fired and one of her friends is killed, Hannah is pulled back into the world of her past. Caught between her former betrothed Seth Lantz and FBI agent Linc Armstrong, between old and new, between Amish and worldly, Hannah must choose her future. Unless a...
28) Deep down
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As a child, Jessie Lockwood spent many hours helping her mother count the endangered ginseng plants in the woods of Deep Down, Kentucky. Now a PhD, she makes her home in Lexington, even though that meant leaving her beloved mother and Sheriff Drew Webb, the man she secretly loved. When Jessie is notified that her mother never returned home from her last walk in the woods, she comes home to Deep Down - and to Drew - to find her.
29) Finding mercy
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Thorndike Press
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2012.
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Large print edition.
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483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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When Alex Caldwell, a Wall Street whistle-blower under witness protection, arrives in their close-knit Amish community, Ella Lantz, who spends her days tending her lavender fields, finds her life forever changed by this man who brings violence--and love--to Home Valley.
30) The royal nanny
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April, 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York. She is excited, exhausted and about to meet royalty. So begins the story of Charlotte Bill, who would care for a generation of royals as their parents never could. Neither Charlotte LaLa, as her charges dub her nor anyone else can predict that eldest sons David and Bertie will each one day be king. LaLa knows only that these children, and the four...
31) The baby farm
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Severn House
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2013.
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First world hardcover edition.
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400 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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A midwife suspects an illegal adoption ring has infiltrated her small Appalachian community and must turn for help to the town doctor--a man who strongly disagrees with her ideas of medicine.
32) Hurricane
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MIRA
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[2006]
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392 pages ; 18-22 cm
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English
33) Shaker run
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English
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Kate Marburn thought her recovery from her former husband's betrayel was a new beginning. A quiet and controlled life as the rose gardener on the estate of Sarah Denbigh, a wealthy widow, seemed the perfect escape. But when Sarah dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving Kate the unexpected heir to Sarah's vast fortune in Shaker furniture, the police suspect Kate might have had something to do with Sarah's death. Looking for a refuge again, Kate...
35) Dark angel
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Maplecreek Amish trilogy volume 3
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MIRA
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Large print edition.
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543 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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Desperate for help when she becomes convinced that her baby has been switched with another child, Leah Kurtz turns to Dr. Mark Morelli, who has come to Maplecreek to study the genetic diseases plaguing Leah's Amish community, to uncover the truth, a search that could reveal a dark conspiracy that could change Maplecreek forever.
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Series
Elizabeth I mysteries volume 9
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
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272 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Leaving London for a journey around the country, Queen Elizabeth I and her court, accompanied by a young Francis Drake, are confronted by someone shooting arrows at the queen and the captain, both of whom have cousins who may want them dead.
38) Dark harvest
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Maplecreek Amish trilogy volume 2
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MIRA
Pub. Date
[2004]
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392 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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Elizabeth I mysteries volume 5
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St. Martin's Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
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290 pages : map, geneological table ; 22 cm.
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English