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121) Morning star
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For Regina Miller, the new Morning Star Marketplace is a chance to share her secret work with the world -- without revealing herself. Old Order Amish forbid the creation of art without purpose, but without a husband, Regina has been free to explore the joy of painting in her attic. Yet when Gabe Flaud's curiosity leads him to speculate that Regina herself is the painter, the full weight of their community's judgment falls on her shoulders. When Gabe...
122) Love still stands
Author
Series
New Hope Amish ; 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A group of dedicated families leaves Bliss Creek to establish a new community in Missouri. Among them is Bethel Graber, a beautiful young woman with a passion for teaching. But after being disabled in a terrible accident, overseeing a classroom is out of the question...and romance seems a long-lost dream."--
123) The bad boy's wife
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Told in reverse, the love story of ne'er-do-well horse trainer Cole and wealthy southern belle Hannah follows the dissolution of their relationship, the secret passions that drive them apart, the fateful influence of a hired debutante, the childhood of their beloved daughter, and their unexpected courtship.
124) A place to belong
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York toa foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots toget his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
125) Now in November
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1934.
Language
English
Description
A long drought brings hardship to the Haldemarnes as they struggle to wrest a living from their small farm
126) Quilted lilies
Author
Series
Publisher
American Quilter's Society
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As the owner of Brown's Botanical Flower Shop, Anne encounters a serious challenge in her life while also seeing a big dream fulfilled on the Dickson properties. Grandmother Davis's trademark lilies show up in a patterned wholecloth quilt. This quilt gives much comfort to Anne until she is forced to give it up to its intended owner. --
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a disgraced resident of Chouteau Forest-home of the one percenters-survives one car crash only to be killed in another, Death Investigator Angela Richman must confirm he is really dead this time and if whether both crashes were really accidents or if someone was doubly determined to kill him."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dev's five-and-dime may be doing well, but her love life is in turmoil. She's torn between Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Del Vecchio, who is on an undercover assignment, and her ex-beau Noah Underwood, the local doctor from a high-society family. So she welcomes the distraction when Elise Whitmore offers her a great deal on antique chocolate molds that would be perfect for her Easter gift baskets. But do the molds actually belong to Elise's soon-to-be...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
Roxana, a light-skinned slave nurse on a large Southern plantation, is desperate to give her son a better chance at life than she had ever enjoyed, and so she switches him with the master's son. Years later, when Roxana's real son has turned to gambling, murder, and theft, it is the country lawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson, who unmasks the true identity of the two. Considered Twain's most courageous work, this short novel is one of the most sensitive treatments...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district--and in their lives. When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge: Camille Gray--the...
134) Eye of the storm
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"After one of her patients is murdered, Dr. Megan Bradley has to get away. Away from the crime she saw but couldn't prevent, and away from missionary Gerard Vance, who almost made her trust in love again. Shaken and scared, Megan flees to the one place she can heal--her small Missouri hometown. She never expected Gerard to follow her ... or for danger to find her again. When they discover a murderer lurks in town, Megan will need strength from Gerard--and...
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 44
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
136) Kings Row
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
The novel exposes the hypocrisy of small-town life in the midwest, addressing many social taboos. Research suggested that Bellamann was working off resentment of his upbringing in Fulton, Missouri, where he had been ostracised for his German extraction and rumoured illegitimacy.
Author
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Prosecutor Elsie Arnold loves her small-town home in the Ozark hills, but she's been waiting for a murder to come along and make her career. So when a body is found under a bridge, throat cut, Elsie jumps at the chance to work on the case, even if it's alongside the brash new chief assistant, Chuck Harris--and her latest flame, Detective Bob Ashlock. But when the investigation reveals that the deceased woman was driving a school bus, and the police...
138) For the record
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Betsy Huckabee has big-city dreams, but nobody outside of tiny Pine Gap, Missouri, seems interested in the articles she writes for her uncle's newspaper. Her hopes for independence may be crushed, until the best idea she's ever had comes riding into town. Deputy Joel Puckett didn't want to leave Texas, but unfair circumstances have made moving to Pine Gap his only shot at keeping a badge. Worse, this small town has big problems, and masked marauders...
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