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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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Suddenly a widow, Lydia King moves with her son to Charm, Ohio, to be close to her mother and help with her grandfather. Then gifts begin appearing on her porch from a mysterious source. Menno Troyer, a local store owner, is also recently widowed and needs a mother for his four boys. Levi Stutzman is dedicated to caring for his handicapped family. Will the anonymous gifts bring Lydia hope for a new life? And will the gift giver be there when tragedy...
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Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 1
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English
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Kate Burkholder, offered the job of chief of police in Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish community where she grew up, believes she has securely put her past behind her, but the discovery of a body in a snowy field makes her realize she has to confront what happened to her as a child and expose a dark secret that could destroy her and those she loves.
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Sisters of Holmes County volume 3
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English
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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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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?
6) Redemption
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Amos Decker novels volume 5
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English
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"Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer. In fact, he's the very first killer Decker ever put behind bars. But he's innocent, he claims. Now suffering from terminal cancer, it's his dying wish that Decker clear his name. It's unthinkable. The case was open and shut, with rock solid forensic evidence. But when Hawkins turns up dead with a bullet in his head,...
7) Irish stewed
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2016
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English
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After flopping as a personal chef to a Hollywood movie star, jobless Laurel Inwood finds herself humbled in Hubbard, Ohio, helping her aunt.--[4]Cover.
8) Beloved
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Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...
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In Ohio, a school teacher accused of murdering a pregnant student appeals to lawyer Tony Lord to defend him. For Lord it will be a tricky business. As a youth he was a suspect in the murder of a local girl, a crime never solved, and the town has not forgotten. By the author of The Final Judgment.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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Eleven-year-old Larch has depended on her own rules to help her cope with the life she and her mother share in a trailer in a small Ohio town, but her rules do not help her deal with a rat-catching dog, her best friend's crush, and the truth she learns about her father's death.
13) Devil in Ohio
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Feiwel and Friends
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[2017]
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English
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Mae moves in with fifteen-year-old Jules' family and seems to be taking over her life, but Mae's past in a nearby cult soon threatens them all.