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Ballantyne legacy volume 1
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On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania, determined to finish his apprenticeship and move west. But Silas is a prodigious worker and craftsman, and Liege endeavors to keep him. Silas has become interested in Liege's daughters, the gentle and faith-filled Eden and the clever and high-spirited Elspeth. If he chooses one, will the other's jealousy destroy their love?
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Ballantyne legacy volume 3
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Sheltered since birth at her Kentucky home, Rowena Ballantyne has heard only whispered rumors of her grandfather Silas's vast fortune. When her father receives a rare letter summoning him to New Hope, Pa., Rowena makes the journey with him and quickly finds herself in a world filled with family members she's never met, dances she's never learned, and a new side to the father she thought she knew. As she struggles to fit in, she finds a friend in James...
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Ballantyne legacy volume 2
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Ellie Ballantyne has left finishing school, and returns home to Pittsburgh. When she opens a day school for young ladies, she begins tutoring the incorrigible daughter of the enemy Turlock clan. The Turlocks are slaveholders and whiskey magnates, envious of the powerful Ballantynes and suspicious of their abolitionist leanings. As Ellie becomes increasingly tangled with the Turlocks, she finds herself falling in love with an impossible future-- and...
4) Mercury
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and...
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A gripping novel full of suspense and pathos that Dennis Lehane calls an "electrifying, tomahawk missile of a thriller."
Patrick Cusimano’s father killed a boy while driving drunk. Now Patrick is working at a grubby convenience store, and he and his brother, Mike, are the town pariahs. Caro, Mike’s girlfriend, is running from her own painful past, with no idea what she’s running toward. Layla Elshere is a goth teenager
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It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times. Keep an insanely low profile. Make mediocre films with the one person who is even sort of his friend, Earl. This plan works for exactly eight hours. Then...
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Hester's hunt for home volume 3
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Hester, the Native American who was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, now lives in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She shares a house with Bappie King, another Amish woman, living their independent lives in the fast-growing mid-18th-century city. Bappie runs a highly successful stand at the downtown farmers market; Hester is Bappie's assistant when she isn't out in the city nursing desperately sick children and their impoverished parents...
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Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Wilma's Wish by Wanda E. Brunstetter: Wilma Hostetler has been courted by Israel Zook for the last year, and he's recently proposed marriage. But when his sister dies, leaving him to care for five young nephews who openly dislike Wilma, she has second thoughts of starting with a ready-made family and decides to call off the wedding. Can anything be done to restore the relationship, or will Israel seek another wife?" -- Back cover.
"Martha's Miracle...
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Journey back to an area of Pennsylvania that is home to three distinct Amish communities and meet three young women who face heartfelt disappointments in romance. Wilma's Wish by Wanda E. Brunstetter Wilma Hostetler has been courted by Israel Zook for the last year, and he's recently proposed marriage. But when his sister dies, leaving him to care for five young nephews who openly dislike Wilma, she has second thoughts of starting with a ready-made...
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Publisher
Forster Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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In this gripping psychological thriller, Svetlana Peterman has met her soul mate in Andrew Jovian, a young astronomer who works for Starbright International, the aerospace company his wealthy parents own. Once married, they make a home in Kirksberg, Pennsylvania, a small town famous for a UFO sighting that occurred in the 1960s. Svetlana is, for once, truly happy, except that Andrew?s family is strange, and not in a normal-strange kind of way. Preoccupied...
11) Jovian son
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Publisher
Forster Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
It has been ten years since Svetlana sought refuge for herself and her son in an obscure town in Russia. Ten years since she fought to keep Evander from the Jovians, her ruthless in-laws who harbor secret plans for both Earth and the human race. Like any good mother, Sveta has carefully watched over her son while trying to provide a normal life amid extraordinary circumstances. There is nothing normal about Evander. In just ten years he has grown...
12) Send me a sign
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Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Superstitious before being diagnosed with leukemia, high school senior Mia becomes irrationally dependent on horoscopes, good luck charms, and the like when her life shifts from cheerleading and parties to chemotherapy and platelets, while her parents obsess and lifelong friend Gyver worries.
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Grand Master
Pub. Date
2019.
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"A series of murders take place in the rust belt town of Baronville, a town with a poor economy and rampant opioid addiction. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex's sister and her family. Another murder takes place that hits sickeningly close to home. Decker may be the only one who can crack this bizarre case." -- Abridgment of a summary from goodreads.com
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