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61) Opal
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Dakotah treasures volume 3
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This sparkling story about the unpredictability of love is another winning prairie romance from Lauraine Snelling. Ruby's younger sister Opal is quite taken with ranch life, and can outshoot, outride, and work as hard as any cowboy, but when a young minister from the East arrives, he finds himself falling in love with her and with God's help--to woo her away from the ranch.
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To escape the misery of a sweltering August in Aleford, Massachusetts, caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild and her family head for their cottage on Maine's peaceful Sanpere Island in Penobscot Bay. But things have changed since their last visit. An aggressive developer is moving forward on plans that will destroy the unique ambience of the island, infuriating residents
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As a preacher's daughter, Monique is expected to be an example at church although she hates its restrictive rules. When she discovers she physically cannot have sex, and after her boyfriend breaks up with her for that reason, two unexpected teens from church become her main supports as she desperately tries to break the rules against all the odds.
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"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them."With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth "in the bosom...
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Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he's served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns...
71) The gathering
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Father Koesler mysteries volume 24
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2002
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280 p. ; 24 cm.
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Dorsetville novels volume 2
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Brimming with pleasing plot twists, this heartwarming sequel to best-seller A Miracle for St. Cecilia's (K1034) demonstrates the power of prayer and the courage of compassion. Robbed by his construction partner, Barry struggles to complete a riverfront hotel and pay off menacing mobsters. But while he and dozens of other denizens of Dorsetville await God's help, a series of events helps transform the town forever. John McDonough strikes just the right...
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Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of memories she's using alcohol to wipe out. But when a fellow veteran dies in an apparent suicide, Russ and Clare's unorthodox investigation will uncover a trail of deceit running from their tiny Adirondack town to the Army's upper ranks.
77) Heartbreaker
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Bless me father, for I will sin....In the still shadows of the confessional, a madman tauntingly reveals his plan for a murder he is going to commit, pulling Father Thomas Madden into a twisted game by disclosing his next intended victim: Tom's sister, Laurant. In a frantic race to protect her, Tom calls upon his best friend, elite FBI agent Nick Buchanan, to track the predator who is closing in on Laurant. Now, as an electrifying attraction grows...
78) I shall not want
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People die. Marriages fail. In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, New York, however, life doesn't stop for heartbreak.
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Barchester Towers is the second book in Trollope's well-loved "Barsetshire Trilogy," which follows the trials and tribulations of the inhabitants of an imagined cathedral town, Barchester. The controversial and unexpected appointment of the new bishop creates rivalries and intrigue.
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