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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 5
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English
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The captivating story of Cassandra Belle Winston, a young self-centered girl who takes great pride in being called a socialite. When she falls in love with one of her doctor father's young interns, Cassandra finds that marriage takes her to a community in the uncultured western frontier-where she must adapt or return home alone.
2) First light
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A.D. chronicles volume 1
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English
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Venture back to the holy city of Jerusalem where a blind pauper craves salvation from his suffering, two people are separated by overpowering odds, and a strange healer who unleashes controversy and betrayal.
3) The witness
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English
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After witnessing a murder eight years ago, Amy Griffin chose to accept a life in the shadows in order to protect her sisters' lives, but now that the man who wants Amy dead sees the sisters as the only way to locate her. Facing the future will take a faith deeper than any of them currently knows.
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WestBow Press
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English
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Have you ever wondered what happened between the lines in those wonderful Old Testament Bible Stories? What were the characters like? What did they think? What were their expectations, their fears, their dreams? The history of what happened in the scriptures, but one can only imagine the missing pieces. Reading Between the Lines fills in those gaps fictionally. The characters are presented as ordinary people, experiencing the same ups and downs that...
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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English
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The day before her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary Sylvia Miller stumbles across the key to the old brass tinderbox her father, Earnest, keeps in his Lancaster County watch repair shop. Inside is a secret from his life as an Englisher; when she confronts him, Earnest admits that he is not fit to be a member of the Hickory Hollow Amish church. He confesses his secret to Rhoda, his wife, and Sylvia, but when word of Earnest's deceit reaches others...
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English
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" On the night before her wedding, 17-year-old Sorel leaps from a window and runs away from her life. To keep from being discovered, she takes on the male identity of Isser Jacobs — but it soon becomes clear that there is a real Isser Jacobs, and people want him dead. Her mistaken identity takes Sorel into the dark underworld of her small city in the Pale of Settlement, where smugglers, forgers, and wicked angels fight for control of the Jewish...
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English
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"The Screwtape Letters" is an epistolary satire by C.S. Lewis, wherein the whole plot of temptation and moral conflict in a series of letters is written between the senior demon Screwtape to his novice nephew Wormwood. In their correspondence, Lewis exposes not only the nature of human faith but even the subtleties of human sin and spiritual battles that besiege men. Hilarious and profound all at once, it shows just how easily one can be derailed...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First American edition.
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English
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"The latest novel from #1 internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho is a classic of inspiration and reflection, a meditation on life, love, and the significance of change. A novel of philosophical reflection set in Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades. Here a community of Christians, Arabs, and Jews who have long lived together harmoniously have been warned of an imminent attack and certain destruction. Contemplating their demise, the...
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Amish legacy volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
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English
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"In the second installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Legacy series, Tyler Bontrager is surprised when he finds himself falling in love with the one person he can't have-his brother's girlfriend"-- Provided by publisher.
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Songs of the seraphim volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome--the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition--to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk.
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Nelson Doubleday
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English
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Regarded by many as the most luminous example of Mark Twain's work, this fictional biography of Joan of Arc was purportedly written by Joan's page and secretary — Sieur Louis de Conté. (Twain's alter ego even shared the author's same initials — S. L. C.) Told from the viewpoint of this lifelong friend, the historical novel is a panorama of stirring scenes and marvel of pageantry — from Joan's early childhood in Domremy and her touching story...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own" -Provided by publisher
14) Unsheltered
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English
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Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is...
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Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea as a tale set against the romantic backdrop of the California Gold Rush. Readers have purchased more than 500,000 volumes of this timeless love story--now with a Bible study included.
17) Woman of god
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English
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"St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor on...
19) The shack
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English
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back...
20) The golden braid
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Series
Hagenheim volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter, and warns her that no man can be trusted. After a young village...
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