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61) Dear family
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In 1935, Ed Beane loses his job and he, wife Dorothy, their two children, and Ed's widowed mother are forced to take refuge with Dorothy's mother on the family farm. While not ignoring problems, Bittle carefully details the way family members support each other in this time of crisis. A series of vignettes focus on family celebrations--Thanksgiving, Christmas, graduation, weddings--as the Beanes move through the Depression years to face World War...
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Sam Levitt mysteries volume 1
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Danny Roth, a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer, is preparing to show off his impressive home and even more impressive wine collection. However, when the Los Angeles Times expresses interest in profiling Roth's liquid assets, several rare bottles are inexplicably purloined. Consequently, Sam Levitt, a wine connoisseur and part-time sleuth, is called to uncover the identity of the thief and soon finds himself in France, taking on an unconventional billionaire...
63) Sealskin
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2017.
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"What happens when magic collides with reality? Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives; not only his own, but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community in which they live. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation is violence? Based on the legend...
64) Nop's Hope
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[1998], c1994
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A grief-stricken young woman takes to the road, joining the sheepdog trial circuit with her faithful border collie in this moving follow-up novel to Donald McCaig's modern classic, Nop's Trials After her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident, Penny Burkeholder leaves her Shenandoah Valley home with her eighteen-month-old border collie, Hope, the only friend she has left in the world. Together, they make their way across the country in...
65) Montana women
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c1992
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Two Montana sisters who have suffered losses live together in their parent's home. When Pearl gets pregnant, she marries a rancher who eventually betrays her.
66) Village diary
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2007
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When Miss Read receives a magnificent diary for Christmas instead of the more customary bath salts, she decides she must make good use of it. In each chapter of her diary, Miss Read recounts a month in her life as headmistress of Fairacre School. With kindly humor, she relates all the difficulties and all the enjoyment of living in a small country community. Her jollity lasts even through staff problems, a village decision to marry her off, and a...
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[2005]
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"Fortune may be blind, but misfortune sees us all too clearly... At least that's what the townspeople of Sant'Angelo D'Asso have come to believe. The small Italian village, an hour's train ride south of Siena, has been hit with a spate of sfortuna - bad luck - that hasn't let up all season. Endless rain, debilitating influenza, and bizarre deaths have befallen this town, leaving its people with a diehard faith in the power of curses - and a deep longing...
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"Joseph Corrigan and Joseph Feehan, better known as Corrie and Fee, make the finest cheese in the entire civilized world. But Corrie still pines for his long-lost granddaughter, Abbey, whisked away from the family farm as a child by her gallivanting mother." "As it happens, Abbey, now twenty-nine and trying to cook a chicken in a primitive hut on a remote South Seas island, is soon to leave her irrigation-obsessed husband after discovering that he...
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c1994
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This story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted Characters, and other places, is intended to be a fairly true picture, at first hand, of the personages, ways, and customs which were common among such orchestral bodies in the villages of the time.
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Cold Sassy series volume 2
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[1992]
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An unforgettable story of a Georgia town at the turn of the century. This is a portrait of a grown-up Will Tweedy and of the feisty young schoolteacher who captures his heart.
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p2007
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In a rural Kentucky river town, 'Old Jack' Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as they arrive at the next century.
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