Ruth Ann Phimister
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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A deep yearning for home had led Eliza to Wyatt Orchards ten years ago. Now widowed with three young children, she faces mounting debts and the realization it is all up to her. But she has no idea how to run an orchard alone. When a stranger appears at her doorstep, Eliza guesses he is no different than the other out-of-luck characters searching for work during the Depression. But the familiarity with which Gabe tends to the farm raises unanswered...
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Language
English
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Life in Sweden feels like an endless winter to Elin Carlson after the deaths of her parents. When circumstances become unbearable, she determines to find a safe haven for her sisters. So begins their journey to America . . . the land of dreams and second chances. But as hardship becomes their constant companion, Elin, Kirsten, and Sofia question their decision to immigrate to Chicago. Will their hopes for the future ever be realized? ONLY IN CROSSING...
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Series
Love comes softly series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Love Comes Softly introduced the characters of Marty and Clark Davis, whose tragic circumstances brought them to a "marriage of convenience" on the frontier prairies during the mid 1800s. The story of how Clark's patient, caring love mirrored that of the heavenly Father, drawing Marty to faith and to love, has captured the hearts and imaginations of over one million readers on Book One alone!
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Series
Love comes softly series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Their family growing, Clark and Marty look to bind each other together with love and faith. Over 800,000 sold!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Intimate and illuminating and, as is true of most anything Quindlen writes, well worth the read.”—People
“A compelling and suspenseful [novel] that goes straight to the gut.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with...
“A compelling and suspenseful [novel] that goes straight to the gut.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with...
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Series
Heirs of Montana volume 1
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Dianne Chadwick's adventurous move to Montana Territory with her family is soon challenged by the realities of the unforgiving wilderness.
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Series
Heirs of Montana volume 4
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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"1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down in this conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Montana saga. Through the twists and turns of life and nature, Dianne comes to realize that the hope within Jesus Christ is the only hope that lasts"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Heirs of Montana volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Heirs of Montana book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Land of My Heart. With the love of her life missing in the Montana wilderness, a young woman must manage a ranch on her own. 1870 Montana ranching proves to be a hard life for Dianne Chadwick. Her &supl;ancé, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. Unbeknownst to her, he has been captured by Indians, and Takes-Many-Horses, who also loves Dianne, must decide whether or not to let...
10) To dream anew
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 3
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Heirs of Montana book 3. Though the Diamond V ranch is nourishing and their own family growing, Dianne and Cole Selby find their hard-earned success threatened as a band of Indians on the warpath inch closer to the valley they call home. When a new family settles in the area with ambitions to establish an empire in Montana, it quickly becomes apparent that they will stop at nothing to uproot Dianne's family from the land they've nourished and come...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
The classic work on female bullying now revised and updated to include new material on cyberbullying and the dangers of life online.
When Odd Girl Out was first published, it became an instant bestseller and ignited a long-overdue conversation about the hidden culture of female bullying. Today the dirty looks, taunting notes, and social exclusion that plague girls’ friendships have gained new momentum...
When Odd Girl Out was first published, it became an instant bestseller and ignited a long-overdue conversation about the hidden culture of female bullying. Today the dirty looks, taunting notes, and social exclusion that plague girls’ friendships have gained new momentum...
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Series
Ellen Foster duology volume 1
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy."
-Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." With that opening sentence we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction. Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight. An Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful...
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Publisher
Harvest House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A Former detective, Callie now works for the JOSHUA foundation, distributing grant money to worthy charities. But when she goes to present Wendall Smythe, afffable chairman of Feed The Need, with a check for $250,000, she finds him dead on the floor. A the request of her mysterious employer, Callie launches a murder investigation. As she inverviews the various members of the Smythe family, she is flooded with memories of her own husband, who was...
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece—and "one of [Christian fiction's] most honored and talented writers" (Library Journal)—comes a heart-wrenching but uplifting story about a highly controversial topic.
Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child of God—she has it all. Then the unthinkable...
Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child of God—she has it all. Then the unthinkable...
15) A dime a dozen
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Publisher
Harvest House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Callie Webber, who has returned home to the Smoky Mountains to award a million-dollar grant to a charity set up in her late husbands honor, finds herself searching for the killer of a missing migrant worker after his body is discovered.
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Series
Southern Sisters mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Anne George's best-selling Southern Sisters mysteries offer delightful mixtures of offbeat characters, charming humor, and intriguing crimes. In Murder Gets a Life, middle-aged sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Ann are sleuthing their way through a mystery that is hotter than Alabama in August. Mary Alice's son has married Sunshine, a petite blond who is cute as a button. Her family, however, lives in a junk-filled trailer compound dotted with rusty...
17) Comanche moon
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Series
Comanche moon series volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Loretta Simpson, a prisoner of the Comanches since the brutal murder of her parents at their hands, fights her attraction to Hunter, a Comanche warrior who believes she is the golden-haired maiden who is to fulfill his tribe's sacred prophecy.
18) A Virtuous Woman
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Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer. A LITERARY GUILD AND DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB selection. Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina and attended Rocky Mount Senior High School,...
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Series
Pine Ridge portraits volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
"Historical novel set in Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during WWII. Romance is in the air on the prairie and it latches onto the hearts of a bitter sergeant, a lonely widow, and a broken POW. What seems to be a typical U.S. Army post proves to be anything but regimented daily routine"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Bantam Dell Pub Group
Language
English
Description
Mildred Armstrong Kalish's Little Heathens is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.