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"Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious boyfriend, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle's farm in a small Missouri hamlet. She'll spend the summer there, picking up the pieces of her shattered present so she can plan a better future. But what awaits her at the ancestral farm is a past she barely knows. Among her late grandmother's belongings, Nikki finds an old notebook filled with handwritten...
62) James: a novel
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"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Torie O'Shea mysteries volume 11
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Genealogist Torie O'Shea, participating in the first-ever bird watching Olympics in New Kassell, Mo.'s history has to duck for cover when someone starts shooting. That's how she discovered the badly beaten body of a man. Not long afterward, a musicologist shows up in town claiming to have proof that Torie's grandfather wrote some of the Morgan Family Players' songs. Being a genealogist, Torie can't stand someone shaking up her family tree and begins...
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Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone. But now she's at a loss as to how to handle the defiant teenager he has become, even as she struggles to keep her family financially afloat. She's fresh out of ways to turn her luck around-until a daring stranger's unexpected kindness sparks hope she hasn't felt in a long time...
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Orphan Train adventures volume 5
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In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
66) Death rattle
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Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 1
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In 1863, a teenaged boy fled his home in Atherton, Missouri, to escape the power-hungry men who murdered his father and stole his family's land. He joined the Confederacy under an assumed name and led guerilla raids in the Civil War. Then came a decade as a Texas Ranger. Now, after ten blood-soaked years, he is finally coming home and finally using his real name and finally getting revenge against the cold-hearted devils who destroyed his family and...
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Chicory Inn novels volume 1
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Now that their five kids are grown, Audrey and Grant Whitman are turning their beloved family home into a cozy bed and breakfast, just a mile outside of Langhorne, Missouri. Opening weekend makes Audrey anxious, with family and friends coming from all over to help celebrate the occasion. But when Audrey's daughter, Landyn, arrives, the U-Haul she's pulling makes it clear she's not just here for a few days. What happened in New York that sent Landyn...
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"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older...
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Paradise Valley volume 2
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"While most women her age are searching for husbands, Astrid Kauffman has chosen a different path--writing romance novels and donating her profits to her beloved Amish community. But when Astrid struggles with writer's block, she agrees to play matchmaker for Imogene Yoder, a widowed mother of rambunctious twin boys. Perhaps the diversion--and the entrée it gives Astrid to the stories among the Widows' Club--will spark her creativity . . . Fortunately,...
70) Autumn winds
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In Willow Ridge, Missouri, widowed Miriam Lanz is relentlessly pursued by Amish Bishop Knepp in courtship, while running her beloved cafe. When a handsome but rootless blacksmith comes to town, she must listen to God and her heart to find the happiness she longs for.
71) Gone girl
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'What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary,...
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"With powerful writing and memorable characters, Kelly Irvin follows the lives of four Amish widows in the Every Amish Season series. In Through the Autumn Air, Mary Katherine learns that falling in love again doesn't diminish the strong love she had for her first husband"--
The mother of ten and a widow of seven years, Mary Katherine is always willing to step in and help her friends around her Amish community. Now that her last child is married,...
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Promise Lodge volume 8
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"A season of change has blessed the Amish of Missouri's Promise Lodge, as mothers-to-be anticipate the arrival of their little miracles and one young man's life is about to take an unexpected turn as he sheds his bad boy reputation and embraces the value of faith and hard work. Long-time residents of Promise Lodge welcome a wave of newcomers that includes a pretty potter who's come to help an expectant couple, and a hard-working dairy expert ready...
74) Breath of spring
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"As a bright season brings a fresh start to Willow Ridge, Annie Mae Knepp feels she can never make peace with the past. Her disgraced ex-bishop father is furious she has taken her five siblings to live with her. She's never been truly at home in her faith...or believed in herself. Annie Mae fears no man will want to take on the responsibilities she's gladly shouldered. True, her quiet neighbor Adam Wagler has been steadfast helping her through her...
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In 1870s Missouri, Margaret "Peggy" Thomas and her husband, James, lead a simple and peaceful life, then one day Margaret watches helplessly as James is gunned down on the sidewalk in front of her. Days of mourning turn into weeks and then years. News of the upcoming trial in Arizona of one of the men responsible for James's death rouses the widow from her misery. Neither inexperience nor the prospect of a long and difficult journey will stop Margaret...
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When Della Mae Wagner's train arrives in Missouri, she's shocked to find that the couple who hired her don't just want a teacher for their grandsons but a wife for their son! After a broken engagement, marriage is not in Della's plans. And Hank Lamson isn't pleased, with his parents, with his unexpected guest or with Della's unfairly appealing smile. But his plans to send her packing are foiled as his family comes to love her, and he feels the walls...
77) For the record
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"Betsy Huckabee has big-city dreams, but nobody outside of tiny Pine Gap, Missouri, seems interested in the articles she writes for her uncle's newspaper. Her hopes for independence may be crushed, until the best idea she's ever had comes riding into town. Deputy Joel Puckett didn't want to leave Texas, but unfair circumstances have made moving to Pine Gap his only shot at keeping a badge. Worse, this small town has big problems, and masked marauders...
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Cold River novels volume 2
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"The Hemingway Sisters of Cold River, Missouri are local legends. Raised by a mother obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, they were named after the author's four wives--Hadley, Pfeiffer, Martha, and Mary. The sisters couldn't be more different--or more alike. Now they're back in town, reunited to repair their fractured relationships ... Together, they must stay in their childhood home, faced with a puzzle that may affect all their futures. As they learn...
80) Eye of the storm
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"After one of her patients is murdered, Dr. Megan Bradley has to get away. Away from the crime she saw but couldn't prevent, and away from missionary Gerard Vance, who almost made her trust in love again. Shaken and scared, Megan flees to the one place she can heal--her small Missouri hometown. She never expected Gerard to follow her ... or for danger to find her again. When they discover a murderer lurks in town, Megan will need strength from Gerard--and...
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