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Lakeshore chronicles volume 4
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English
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After surviving a hostage situation, lawyer Sophie Bellamy returns home to the peaceful Catskills village of Avalon where she, while repairing the bonds with her family, falls in love with the local veterinarian.
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Rocky Mountain memories volume 2
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Harvest House Publishers
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English
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In the second book of the "Rocky Mountain Memories" series, Lori Wick has crafted a romance with a few different twists than "Where The Wild Rose Blooms" (the first book in her series). "Whispers of Moonlight" is the story of Rebecca, a 19-year-old who goes out West in 1870 to live with her father after being separated from him for most of her childhood. When she arrives at her father's ranch, she meets his foreman, Travis, with whom she quickly falls...
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In Zeke and Ned, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have created an American masterpiece: funny, exuberant, compelling, violent, and tragic. Set in the Cherokee Nation not Jong after the Civil War, Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors, living men whose story is not merely legend, but history -- their fates a consequence of the brutal policies which produced the Trail of Tears. As a child, Zeke Proctor...
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Rocky Mountain memories volume 4
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English
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Wonderful with children, but unaccustomed to traveling alone, Rusty is accompanied by widower Chase McCandles on her first orphanage placement trip. Later, when Chase offers Rusty the job of companion for his young son, she accepts. There's no doubt that she's falling in love with the kind but reserved man, but when she sees how little time he has for his own son, she wonders if their love can ever flourish.
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"Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science,...
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Tyndale House Publishers
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English
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In Appalachia in the 1850s, ten-year-old Cadi is intrigued by the "sin eater", who appears at the graveside of her grandmother. She goes in search of the elusive figure to have her sins absolved now--rather than waiting until her death.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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First edition.
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English
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"A girl vanishes 'on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning' and thus begins a 'family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?'"--
10) The target
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"Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in the Rockies. But his isolation is shattered when he finds a small girl unconscious and hurt in the forest. When strangers suddenly come into his private meadow, their intent to kill, she can't help him. She's mute. Molly Santera, the little girl's mother, catches up with Ramsey and her daughter, mistaking him for the kidnapper....
11) The Devil Colony
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Sigma Force novels volume 7
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English
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After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
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English
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Hailey Ashton projects an image that she's on top of everything, but no one realizes that she lives a life of quiet emptiness -- not ready to have a relationship, not willing to give herself body and soul to a man. Never able to compete with her younger sister, the thoughtless beauty of the family, Hailey opted to be the "good girl." But when she meets Tyler Scott -- her rich, attractive new boss -- she longs to be anything but good. She wants to...
13) Illusions
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HarperCollins
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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Delaney Westcott is a beautiful career woman in a man's world. Owner and chief asset of a personal security business -- where she guards the rich and famous from the unwanted attention of friends and enemies -- she can take care of herself. Except for the one time she didn't: when she fell headlong for handsome cowboy Jared McCallister, a man she couldn't have.
After it ended suddenly, Delaney threw herself into her work with a fury and intensity...
14) The edge
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Peak volume 2
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
17) Dark promises
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"Gabrielle Sanders has had enough of battles, of wars, of seeing the man she's engaged to nearly lose his life when it isn't even his fight. All she wants is to be away from the Carpathian Mountains, far from vampires and the shadows cast by the crumbling monastery that hides so many terrible secrets. But she isn't the only one in search of answers in the corners of the unknown ... Trixie Joanes has come to the Carpathian Mountains in search of her...
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In the high mountains of Colorado, Clayton Taggart dreams of the day when he can leave the rough life of a mine surveyor to become a teacher. In the midst of his plans, he meets Jackie Fontaine, a newcomer from the East whose strongwilled spirit causes friction from the start. At first Clay gains more pleasure out of teasing Jackie than wooing her. Just as the spark of love ignites, tragedy strikes, leaving Jackie with a secret so terrible she would...
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