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21) Some luck
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, their little family will grow: from Frank, the handsome, willful first-born, to Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him; from Lillian, beloved by her mother, to Henry who craves only the world of his books; and Claire, the surprise baby, who earns a special place in her father's...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those she's looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully. Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Sam's...
26) Forever hidden
Author
Series
Treasures of Nome volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets - including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse - but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?"--Publisher description.
27) A song for Silas
Author
Series
Place called home (Lori Wick) volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy thought love would never pass her way again. She didn't know how close it was ... until she met Silas. The brotherly way Silas feels toward Amy soon turns to deeper feelings of love, but will Amy discover the truth about her own heart before it's too late?
29) Fearless
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trouble and temptation clash in a Texas town, as two people learning just what it means to trust must face the truth about each other, and decide if there's a chance for the future they both secretly desire.
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attracted to an artists' colony on a drought-stricken honey farm where residents are offered free room and board in exchange for hard labor, a wide-eyed poetry graduate falls for a fellow artist and begins to notice tensions linked to ominous events and her hostess's past.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this prequel to Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved novel Anne of Green Gables (1908), Sarah McCoy explores what life might have been like for Marilla Cuthbert when she was Anne's age. Not yet the strict but secretly soft-hearted kindred spirit who won her way into readers' hearts, this Marilla puzzles over social niceties, pursues a romance with Gilbert Blythe's father, and helps runaway slaves find sanctuary in Canada. Smart, sensible, and dedicated...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned out the way she dreamed. Even the beloved honeybees she raises in her spare time aren't helping her feel better these days. In the grip of a panic attack, she nearly collides with Jake--a troubled, paraplegic teenager with...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
First published in 1932, this classic satirical novel tells the story of sensible Flora Poste, who is orphaned at age 19. Leaving the city to go live with relatives in deepest Sussex at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the gloomy and eccentric Starkadder family, headed by reclusive Aunt Ada Doom. Flora's penchant for practicality and organization soon shakes things up.
36) A man's heart
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Not just once, but twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Now her Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling Washington State potato farm. It looks like strengthening her relationship with her sister and improving the prospects of the Blue Bayou farm will be Jules' chief concerns. But when cancer takes the life of her best friend, Jules finds herself caring...
37) Drowning Ruth
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
40) Endless mercy
Author
Series
Treasures of Nome volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Madysen Powell has always been a forgiving person, but when her supposedly dead father shows up in Nome, Alaska, her gift for forgiveness is tested. With the recent loss of her mother, she searches for answers, leaning on Granny Beaufort, a neighbor in town, who listens with a kind heart. Still, Madysen is restless and dreams of performing her music around the world. The arrival of a traveling show could prove just the chance she needs, and the manager...
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