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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions—a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.
Because Troy Phelan’s new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a...
Because Troy Phelan’s new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 83
Language
English
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European explorers imagined the Pacific islands might be home to Rousseau's "noble savage." But all disappointed, save one ... Hawaii. It was the Polynesians who gave Hawaii its special flavor. Their ethos, alive and well two centuries after coming to terms with an invasion of Anglos and Asians, sets the tone in our 50th state.
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Language
English
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"With her penchant for seeing the best in everyone, Hope Irvine sees a world full of good people in hard places. When her father accepts a position traveling in a chapel car as an on-the-rail missionary, she is determined to join him in his efforts and put her musical skills to good use by serving the mining families of West Virginia, saving their souls, and bettering their lives. Luke Hughes shares Hope's love of music and her love of God, but as...
Author
Series
Reluctant prophet (Nancy N. Rue) volume 1
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In obedience to a divine nudge, Allison Chamberlain buys a Harley and waits for further instructions, which eventually lead her into prophecy and into the darkest parts of her city.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2011
Language
English
Description
In 1941, newlywed Nerys Watkins accompanies her husband to a missionary posting in the exotic lakeside city of Srinagar, where she is swept up in a liaison that completely changes her life, a transformation that is explored by a descendant generations later.
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Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a hilarious novel set on an overland journey across Turkey, the narrator encounters sorcerers, cops, and southern evangelists as she and her companion travel from Istanbul to Trebizond on a tourist adventure that quickly runs afoul of an ancient and sometimes unbendable culture.
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Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie lives alone in the mountains of Alaska. Clay is totally focused on his goal of being a missionary like his father-- until he meets a young, independent Indian woman with the most striking blue eyes he's ever seen. Will he be forced to choose between ministering to the natives, and the quiet nudging of his heart?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young Emily Evans had felt God's call to start a church in a pioneer settlement, she never dreamed it would mean going alone. With over 7 million Oke books sold, this book is another memorable story in the Oke tradition.
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Series
Willamette brides volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Accompanied by her best friend, Thomas Lowell, Constance Browning returns from studying in the East to catalog the native peoples of Oregon - and to prove that her missionary parents aren't involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed tribes to war. As tensions rise amid shocking revelations, Constance may also have a revelation of the heart."--Publisher.
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Series
Lumber Baron's Daughters volume 1
Language
English
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"After learning their stepfather's plans marry off Laura Stiles and her sisters, they disappear to find matches and claim their father's lumber dynasty. On their expedition they volunteer on a settlement, and Laura sees potential in the local minister. But when secrets buried in his past and the land surface, it will take all they have to keep trouble at bay"--
Laura Stiles and her two sisters discover their stepfather's plans to marry each of them...
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
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Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Priscilla White knows she'll never be a wife or mother and feels God's call to the mission field in India. Dr. Eli Ernest is back from Oregon Country only long enough to raise awareness of missions to the natives before heading out West once more. But then Priscilla and Eli both receive news from the mission board: No longer will they send unmarried men and women into the field. Left scrambling for options, the two realize the other might be the...
15) Honor bound
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Language
English
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"It may seem odd to seek peace by moving to a war-torn African country, but for medical missionary Dr. Cynthia Myers, it provided a way to escape a shallow life of unearned wealth, a philandering fiancé, and a father now square in the public eye as vice president of the United States. At least here she knows her work and life have meaning. But all that is thrown into chaos when she fails to save the life of a local warlord's mortally wounded son....
16) Scandalous
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Straight-laced missionary Sarah Fisher has never met a man like Captain Martin Bouchard. He is the most beautiful person--male or female--she's ever seen. Overwhelmingly masculine, elegantly attired despite months at sea, he is in complete command of everyone and everything around him: everyone, that is, except Sarah. But that's about to change because Sarah has bought Bouchard's mercy with the only thing she has to sell: her body. In spite of her...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...
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