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Hearts of Middlefield novels volume 1
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Amish newlywed Moriah's husband Levi abandons her after she becomes pregnant, forcing her to rely more on her community for support while she prepares for the birth of her child, but Moriah is unaware that Gabriel, Levi's twin brother, secretly longs to reveal his love for her.
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Hearts of Middlefield novels volume 2
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Anna moves to Middlefield, Ohio to mend her broken heart. She protects herself from further betrayal by focusing on the new gift shop she and her mother bought, until she begins falling for Lukas. Will their future be destroyed if she tells him the truth of her past?
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Hearts of Middlefield novels volume 3
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Ruth Byler, the new teacher at the Amish schoolhouse, is furious when Zach Bender interrupts her class to insist the students show her respect, but she soon learns that there is more to Zach than she thought.
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Lorien Legacies volume 1
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In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Friendships and a beautiful girl are distracting to a teenager who is hiding on Earth while he waits to develop the powers he will need to rejoin the other six...
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"Putting her rumschpringe (running around years) behind her, Grace Hostettler returns to Holmes County, Ohio, joins the Amish church, and begins a new life with a new romance. The next four years are nearly idyllic for the oldest Hostettler child--except for the hidden pain she bears from a carefully harbored secret. Her peaceful world is shattered the day she runs into Gary Walker--and English man who knows enough about her past to destroy her future....
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Three sisters juggle marriage, motherhood and murder in this saga from a USA Today bestseller whose "heartfelt paeans to love and loyalty sweeten the mix" (Publishers Weekly).
USA Today–bestselling author Emilie Richards continues the journey begun in her beloved novel Whiskey Island with this unforgettable tale of three sisters who discover a hidden legacy that will lead them home at last to Ireland.
Megan,...
USA Today–bestselling author Emilie Richards continues the journey begun in her beloved novel Whiskey Island with this unforgettable tale of three sisters who discover a hidden legacy that will lead them home at last to Ireland.
Megan,...
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Sisters of Holmes County volume 3
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Martha is the youngest of the Hostettler sisters and the most daring. While her main focus has been on her dog breeding business Martha has also been troubled about the continuing attacks against her family and home in an Ohio Amish community. When the prime suspect turns out to be Luke Friesen - the man she loves - Martha decides to play detective. Will her hope in Luke's innocence be enough to bring the real criminal to justice?
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Widowed matchmaker Millie Fisher is anything but lonely between her mischievous goats, her quilting circle--and her habit of solving the odd murder or two... Millie's decidedly not Amish best friend, Lois Henry, is outspoken, colorful, and so hopelessly romantic, she's had four husbands. Millie doesn't judge, and she also doesn't expect to run into Lois's most recent ex, gambler Gerome Moorhead, in small-town Harvest, Ohio. With him is the very young,...
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"Between minding a pair of rambunctious goats, meetings with her quilting circle, and matchmaking, Millie Fisher has plenty to keep her busy through her golden years. But the witty widow always makes time to solve the odd murder . . . Some Amish men don't know what's good for them. That's what Millie Fisher told herself when young Ben Baughman set his heart on marrying Tess Lieb. With Tess's father refusing to give his blessing and Tess's ex-boyfriend...
11) A sister's test
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The Hostettler family continues to face an unseen enemy who randomly attacks their property. Despite the unrest, Ruth, the second oldest sister, is about to realize her greatest dream--to marry and raise a family with Martin Gingerich. But in a flash, their world is shattered. Can Ruth stitch together the pieces of her life, with faith and heart intact, or will she forever question her value as a wife?
12) The bluest eye
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The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom....
13) Outsider
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"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn't seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa. Ten years ago, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy, graduating...
14) Watercress
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
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Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 3
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Rachel Morgan's back! Bestselling author Kim Harrison returns with a new supernatural adventure that fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Charlaine Harris won't want to miss.
Some days, you just can't win. Witch and former bounty hunter Rachel Morgan's managed to escape her corrupt company, survive living with a vampire, start her own runner service, and face down a vampire master. But her vampire roommate Ivy is off the wagon, her human boyfriend Nick...
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"Millie is happy that her childhood friend, Uriah Schrock, has returned to Harvest after decades away. He was sweet on Millie in their school days, but she only had eyes for her future husband. Now, there's a new spark between them, so Millie is concerned when Uriah doesn't show up at the Harvest concert series - or for his job as the village square's groundskeeper. Perhaps Millie has been involved in too many murder investigations, but she has a...
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Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 2
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It's a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night.
She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pressing the limits.
Confronting an ancient, implacable evil is more than just child's play and...
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Destiny novels volume 5
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"A book by Toni Blake is truly special."
-Lori Foster
"Her books are sexy and full of heart."
-Teresa Medeiros
No contemporary romance author combines steamy hot and heartwarming better than Toni Blake. Now she transports readers back to the small town of Destiny, Ohio, once again in Willow Springs, as a longtime friendship turns into something oh so much more when the town matchmaker provides some very special tlc for a young fireman haunted...
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Amish of Marigold volume 1
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English
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"Charity Raber is one of many single women who came to Birch Creek, Ohio, with one goal in mind: secure a husband from among the desperate bachelors a newspaper advertisement claimed inhabited the town. Even though that claim proved to be nothing more than a cruel prank, Charity is still hopeful that her happy ending might be within reach when she's set up on a date with Jesse Bontrager. That is until Jesse not-so-gently shares that he has no interest...