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1) Christy
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The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and...
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Seasons of the heart volume 1-2
Keepsake volume 14
Thorndike large print Christian fiction
Keepsake volume 13
Keepsake volume 14
Thorndike large print Christian fiction
Keepsake volume 13
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Twelve-year-old Josh was being raised by his eighteen-year-old Aunt Lou. When he overheard Grandpa and Uncle Charlie talking about finding a fella for her, he knew something had to be done so his special family would not be broken up. Then, when that poor preacher came along, it really got complicated!
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Thorndike large print Christian fiction
Seasons of the heart volume 2
Seasons of the heart volume no. 2
Seasons of the heart volume 2
Seasons of the heart volume no. 2
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"I don't know who was most excited that morning when the three of us hoisted packs on our backs and started off down the trail. Just before we disappeared from view of our yard, I turned for one more wave. You woulda thought we were marching off to war or something ... They all looked glad and sad at the same time ... ". On the brink of manhood, young Josh faces important questions about life, love, and himself.
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For five years handsome JeffTaylor had wanted to apologize to Bobbie Bradford in person. But she had left town the day after the humiliating episode at the picnic and never returned. Jeff was older now. He had grown in his faith and as a man. Still the news that Bobbie was returning to Santa Rosa while considering Cleve Ramsey's proposal of marriage came as a shock.
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Everyone thought little Sunny had perished with Lady Gallagher in storm-tossed seas off the Arabian coast, but the beautiful toddler had been found, taken to the palace of Darhabar, and raised as the ruler's own child. Now the emir, Ahmad Khan, is sending her home, and Sunny's uncertain, new life is completely in God's hands.
7) Sean Donovan
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Feeling betrayed by his father and alienated from the God he once loved, Sean Donovan leaves Santa Rosa as an angry young man. Joining a gang of thieves, he is caught during his first bank robbery and sentenced to hang. But Charlotte Cooper has other ideas. By law, a woman of good standing in the community can save a man from the gallows, but she must marry him to do so. And Charlotte, who owns a livery and needs a blacksmith, is determined to make...
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A Voice in the Wind transports readers back to Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman War. Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans and Barbarians, the story centers on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner. Is it possible for their love to flourish considering not only their different stations in life, but also Hadassah's unrelenting faith and Marcus's lack of belief?...
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Victoria "Smokey" Simmons stands silently on deck as her father's body is lowered into the Atlantic, asking God for the strength she will need to command the Aramis alone. Not wanting to remain at sea forever, Smokey dreams of the time when she can trade her life aboard ship for a home and family. When she meets another captain, Dallas Knight, Smokey believes her dream will finally come true. But circumstances beyond their control and the schemes...
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"Eager to secure permanent loyalty from Bracken of Hawkings Crest, a most promising young knight, King Henry commands that Bracken marry into one of the crown's most loyal families. But Lord Vincent's oldest daughter, the beautiful yet deceitful Marigold, scorns the king's edict. She will never marry a lowly earl. Now Lord Vincent must call his beloved Megan from the abbey and send her to Hawkings Crest to wed. When Marigold discovers that Bracken...
12) By honor bound
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When an Indian attack robs Hunter Stone of his wife and his ranch, he is brought back from despair by the comfort of a young woman missionary and the pride he gains from his service to the North-West Mounted Police
13) Heart of valor
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General FictionLarge Print EditionHunter Stone of the North-West Mounted Police must maintain the law on the rugged Canadian frontier. Reena ODonnell is a missionary among the Blackfoot Nation and finds that there are many breakdowns in tribal customs due largely to the whiskey influence. Together Reena and Hunter fight a common enemy the whiskey trade and are confronted with the very heart of evil down a trail of high suspense.
15) A new day rising
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After her husband's disappearance in a winter storm, Ingeborg Bjorklund, who had dreams of a good life in the Dakota Territory, struggles to keep the farm and her family together.
16) An untamed land
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The 1880s story of a Norwegian family drawn to America by the promise of untold wealth. They go through the tenements of New York, make the dangerous journey overland to North Dakota and labor to carve out a homestead before the arrival of the dreaded winter. The Bjorklunds never dreamed they would face such hardship.
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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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"In one terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, and her doting family torn apart. Her seemingly rock-solid faith is pushed to the limits as she faces the most momentous choice of her life to embrace or to end the untimely life within her."--Publisher's promotional description.