Marguerite Gavin
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Heritage of Lancaster County volume 2
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Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered when she found the baby dress in the attic of her parent's Amish home. After being shunned, she sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known.
2) The shunning
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Heritage of Lancaster County volume 1
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On the eve of her wedding Katie Lapp discovers she is not the birth daughter of her Amish parents but their adopted daughter. After finding out the truth she knows she must find her birth mother no matter what the cost.
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Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 1
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A boy worries that his aunt, who is raising him, will abandon him if she marries.
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Heritage of Lancaster County volume 3
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Katherine Mayfield, the new Mistress of Mayfield Manor, always dreamed of a fancy "English" life. But as the seasons pass, she finds herself grieving the loss of her Amish family and dearest friend, Mary Stolzfus. Shunned from the Plain life she once knew, Katherine finds solace in volunteer work with hospice patients--a labor of love she hopes will bring honor to the memory of her birth mother. Unknown to Katherine, her long-lost love, Daniel Fisher,...
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Prairie Legacy volume 3
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When her stetson-wearing neighbor left to seek his fortune, Virginia Simpson remained at home, sustained by hope and an expectant heart. Now that her beloved Jonathan is back, she can't wait to become Mrs. Lewis and begin the life she's always dreamed about. But married life isn't quite what she expected... When an old friend presents a surprising choice for the couple, Virginia must decide from whom to draw her strength. - Back cover.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 18
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Inheriting a homestead from her late uncle, a stunned Kate Shugak receives a cryptic letter from him imploring her to discover his father's fate, a mystery involving a priceless tribal artifact for which Kate is targeted by murderous attacks.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
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"'... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed.' It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the National Transportation Safety Board unable to reach the crash site, ex-Trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 20
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"New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow's latest finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder. One hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin's prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 12
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A cold winter in the Alaskan bush becomes even colder when a forest ranger loses his job in a politically motivated firing. Then a conservationist is murdered, and the tensions that have been swirling around the question of whether to drill for oil on the preserve erupt into local warfare. Aleutian PI Kate Shugak campaigns to save the fired ranger and, with the help of Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, attempts to solve the murder before more violence...
11) Sweet salt air
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Charlotte and Nicole were once the best of friends, spending summers together in Nicole's coastal island house off of Maine. But many years, and many secrets, have kept the women apart. A successful travel writer, single Charlotte lives on the road, while Nicole, a food blogger, keeps house in Philadelphia with her surgeon-husband, Julian. When Nicole is commissioned to write a book about island food, she invites her old friend Charlotte back to Quinnipeague,...
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Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in a fiery plane crash. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive. Among the suspects are a betrayed wife, his bullied children, and State Trooper Liam Campbell's wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With his wife under a judicial microscope, Liam asks his former mentor, Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings P.I. Kate Shugak onto the case.
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Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies ... and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns ... but Smoke didn't count on Big Max doing something as daring, desperate, and stupid as kidnapping his wife-and...
14) Fire and ice
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Stabenow, author of the Edgar-winning Kate Shugak series (Killing Grounds, 1998), masterfully traces the twisting life of Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell in this series debut. Campbell steps off a plane in the town of Newenham, his new posting, leaving behind him in Anchorage a tattered career, a dead son and a wife in a coma. His first moments in town bring him into close contact with pilot Wy Chouinard, the woman he really loves, and the headless...
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Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 2
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"A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden's home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms-from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive. Five years ago, State's Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars. But when Paige Holden shares the flash drive with him, its contents cast doubts on the conviction-and lead him and...
17) So Sure of Death
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Trooper Liam Campbell, living on a leaky gillnetter in Newenham, is brooding on how to rekindle his relationship with bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard when he is called to the site of a fatal shipboard fire; while Wyanet, on a routine run to a dig near Chinook Air Force Base, discovers a young archaeological worker, gruesomely murdered.
18) You belong to me
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Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 1
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Years ago, a young woman was beaten and raped while onlookers did nothing. Now those witnesses are becoming victims themselves. Baltimore homicide detective J.D. Fitzpatrick has seen a lot of horrific violence, both as a cop and during his deployment in Afghanistan. But nothing like the trail of tortured bodies that are turning up throughout the city. He's up against a brutal killer with a very personal vendetta, and now J.D. is beginning to suspect...
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Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 1
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Rachel Morgan, a witch and bounty hunter, works in "the Hallows" of Cincinnati where vampires rule the darkness.
20) Did you miss me?
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Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 3
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New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose is back with her fourteenth pulse-pounding thriller.
Best be nimble, best be quick, I'm right here and you're my pick...
Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery pulled herself out of a damaged past to build a solid life for herself and her son. But after she helps convict a killer, her confidence is shattered once again by the news that her son has been kidnapped.
Daphne believes it's connected
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