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Author
Series
Cold River novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Hemingway Sisters of Cold River, Missouri are local legends. Raised by a mother obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, they were named after the author's four wives--Hadley, Pfeiffer, Martha, and Mary. The sisters couldn't be more different--or more alike. Now they're back in town, reunited to repair their fractured relationships. Hadley is the poised, polished wife of a senator. Pfeiffer is a successful New York book editor. Martha has skyrocketed to...
Author
Series
Home at Cedar Creek volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Rosemary Yutzy's father-in-law wants to merge his business with Matt Lambright's--which will require the Yutzys to relocate to Cedar Creek, and bring widowed Rosemary into constant contact with Matt, who makes no secret of his romantic interest in her.
Author
Series
Mason novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the "Confession Club" decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities.When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them needs. Iris hasn't yet told anyone about the unlikely man...
44) A simple wish
Author
Series
Simple Gifts volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Amish residents of Willow Ridge share their talents at the Simple Gifts crafts shop and share the blessings of faith, hard work, and love with their community, even when family secrets bring unexpected challenges.
Author
Series
Change and cherish historical volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Stella Hardesty novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Blackmailed by a powerful businesswoman to help dispose of a dead body, Stella Hardesty is implicated in the woman's subsequent disappearance and travels to Kansas City for answers, only to discover a series of killings tied to a corrupt judge.
Author
Series
New beginnings (Mary Ellis) volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Nora King believes she is a woman in love. When Elam Detweiler leaves the ultraconservative Amish district of Harmony, Maine, and moves to Paradise, Missouri, Nora follows soon after. But does she love the man or the independence and freethinking he represents? Will Nora come to her senses before Elam's thoughtless choices ruin her reputation beyond repair?
Author
Series
Country cooking school mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While preparing their students for the Southern Missouri Showdown, Betts and Gram, the owners of Gram's Country Cooking School, stumble upon the dead body of a local theater owner in their supply room and must serve up a killer before they take the fall for the crime.
Author
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After a buggy accident claims the life of her fiancé Lydia Hershberger makes a fresh start in Jamesport, Missouri, managing a gift store, where she meets Caleb Bontrager, the young man hired to do the bookkeeping. When false allegations by the bishop back home catch up with Lydia, can she clear her name and find lasting happiness?"--
Author
Series
Smoke Jensen novels volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Smoke Jensen The Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Until his Porsche careened off the road killing him instantly and not leaving much of him behind, Sterling Chaney was an influential member of Chouteau Forest -- home of the one percenters. As the eulogies at his funeral commence, an unexpected guest interrupts...Sterling. The story attracts widespread media coverage. Sterling's the man who showed up late for his own funeral. He revels in the spotlight, until it's revealed he earned his fortune...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Shadow Bend's library closed years ago because of budgetary problems, so when a wealthy benefactor offers to reopen it, everyone, including Dev, is thrilled. But Dev's excitement wanes when she realizes the mysterious donor is actually her runaway mother Yvette's latest husband, Jett Benedict. Dev suspects that Yvette and Jett's intentions aren't as noble as they appear, but before she can discover what they're really up to, Jett turns up dead--and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it's called, is anything but still. Original, profound, The Whole Town's Talking, a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Flagg's own Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, tells the story of Lordor Nordstrom, his Swedish mail-order bride, Katrina, and their neighbors and descendants as they live, love, die, and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses -- Arthur's...
57) Pursuit
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Once-straitlaced officer Juliette Worth is wrongly demoted after a hostage situation gone wrong and reassigned to investigating cold-case disappearances, a situation that turns sinister when her own daughter goes missing.
Author
Series
Country cooking school mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Gram's Country Cooking School, Isabelle "Betts" Winston and her grandmother share their home-style culinary secrets. But what they keep to themselves are the secrets of Broken Rope, a quiet little Missouri town, that isn't nearly as quiet as it seems. A fresh school year begins as Gram and Betts anxiously await the arrival of their new crop of students. But their enthusiasm is thwarted when a stranger named Freddie O'Bannon arrives and claims to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
First in a new series. Dev Sinclair is the happy new owner of an old-fashioned shop in her small Missouri town. But if she doesn't focus on finding the killer of her ex's fiance, this five-and-dime owner may find herself serving 25-to-life. Original.
Author
Series
Paradise Valley volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy Lillard's Widows' Club novels feature a group of women who look out for one another like sisters, set in a close-knit Missouri Amish community where matchmaking is a joyful tradition, especially when love, faith-and a little imagination-unite . . . While most women her age are searching for husbands, Astrid Kauffman has chosen a different path-writing romance novels and donating her profits to her beloved Amish community. But when Astrid struggles...
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