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21) LOVE IN TANDEM
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Language
English
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After a failed engagement and her mother's battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter's life is finally turning around now that she's landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn't see coming was the imminent closure of the school's music program. She's determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There's no way she's chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments. Zach Bryant is back in town just long enough...
Author
Series
Amish memories volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mennonite Brenna Zimmerman's life grows complicated by her feelings for a Ukrainian soldier and her friendship with an Afghanistan War vet. But she's inspired by the story of her Amish great-great aunt's experience during World War II. How will Brenna find the courage to give up the comforts she craves for the life she truly wants?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"When a betrayal tears apart three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate, their friendship may be fractured forever. Years later, one of them risks exposure as a fraud unless she can mend the relationships and solicit help to create an original woven design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding"--
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A rhyming picture book that takes readers through the colors of the rainbow and beyond to discover all the ways God's love can be displayed. The rainbow of colors God made helps us know His great love for us and helps us to see how all the colors of love can shine through you and through me! Each spread will focus on a different color and how it represents/shows an attribute of love"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
"She's been muddling his plans for years -- now he's the writer for the beloved character she plays on television, and it's time for payback"--
Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing for Neighbors, one of Hollywood's highest-rated, longest-running sitcoms. The only downside? It will put him back in proximity of the show's universally adored, optimistic, altruistic star, Lavender Rhodes, who has been inadvertently ruining...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the husband who abandoned her returns to their Amish community, new mother Rhoda Lambright, since her church forbids divorce and requires forgiveness, lets Caleb back into their home but is unsure if she can ever let him back into her heart.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Snoodle sets out to throw he perfect Valentine's Day party for her monster friends, but when nothing goes according to plan, she models the biblical definition of love from 1 Corinthians 13 and proves that love is worth celebrating.
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 10
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Vienna Price never intended to return for more than a passing visit to Oregon and all the bad memories she'd left behind. But when your career tanks, home is where you go to nurse your wounds and chart a new course. Only temporarily, of course -- because as much as she loves her quirky mom, anything more than a short stay would drive them both crazy. A trip to Oregon isn't in Matt Quinn's plans, either, until a perfectly timed appeal for help arrives...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward. Frances Mae Livingston's firm grip of her family's destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she's losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she's enough....
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Language
English
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"In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens-Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front. While Sam fights...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1910, Effie joins forces with an English newcomer to discover what lies behind the doors of the abandoned house on Predicament Avenue. In the present day, Norah reluctantly inherits the house turned bed and breakfast, where her first guest, a crime historian and podcaster, is set on uncovering the truth about what haunts this place"--
Author
Series
Amish Charm Bakery novels volume 6
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1915 Ohio, anyone entering the Amish Charm Bakery is greeted by the sweet warmth and delicious fragrance of cinnamon and vanilla wafting from freshly baked cookies and pies. And newcomers to this Amish community will find friendship on the menu, too—and perhaps for a lucky few, even lasting love . . . Rachael Schlabach’s first chance for a husband ended in a tragic accident that left her with a limp. Though happy to work in the beloved Amish...
34) Politeness
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this fun, faith-based story, Brother, Sister and Honey Bear learn that being polite is more than just saying "Please" and "Thank you" when Gramps' violin-playing isn't easy on the ears.
35) Never Fall Again
Author
Series
Gossamer Falls volume 1
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Landry Hutton, quiet artist-in-residence of The Haven, came to Gossamer Falls to build a new life and a new home for her and her daughter—with the unexpected help of a handsome former Marine. But when danger threatens them, can Callum Shaw help protect both their hearts and lives?
36) Lady of disguise
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Set in medieval England, eighteen-year-old Louisa teams up with the chivalrous knight, Sir Charles, to find hidden treasure and save her younger sister Margaret before their uncle marries her off.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
A young Amish woman is torn between the man she's pledged to marry and the man her heart desires in Shelley Shepard Gray's The Promise of Palm Grove.
Bride-to-be Leona is thrilled to be on a mini-vacation in the pretty town of Pinecraft. Her girlfriends think she's happy to be away from the stress of wedding planning; they have no idea that Leona's real joy is in being away from her fiancé.
Edmund is a good man and will make...
Bride-to-be Leona is thrilled to be on a mini-vacation in the pretty town of Pinecraft. Her girlfriends think she's happy to be away from the stress of wedding planning; they have no idea that Leona's real joy is in being away from her fiancé.
Edmund is a good man and will make...
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life she's always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--
39) A bond of briars
Author
Publisher
Ethereal Echo Press, an imprint of The Faithful Troubadour Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A Bond of Briars is a YA dark fantasy retelling of the Biblical story of Ruth, with fresh twists based on the original context and respun into a spooky cottagecore romance that is filled with dark magic and mysterious curses, sacrificial love and redemption.
Author
Series
Freddie and Grace mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Can the wrong bride lead to the right romance? An unanticipated marriage unites an unlikely pair to unravel a ghostly Christmas mystery. Mistletoe is beautiful and dangerous, much like the woman from Frederick Percy's past, so when he turns over a new leaf and arranges to marry for his estate, instead of his heart, he never expects the wrong bride to be the right choice. Gracelynn Ferguson never planned to take her elder sister's place as a Christmas...
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