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Author
Series
Land of shining water volume 1
Language
English
Description
A family promise and a lack of lady-like qualities have kept Merrill Krause single. When a chance at love appears, can she overcome the challenges?
Author
Series
Land of shining water volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Chantel's sister falls in love with a sworn enemy in the their 1890s iron-mining community, will Chantel's attempts to aid the couple result in a romance of her own?
Author
Series
Land of shining water volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Emmalyne Knox and Tavin MacLachlan were destined to be together...until the tragic deaths of Emmalyne's youngest sisters. Family tradition mandates that the youngest daughter should remain single to care for her parents in their old age, and now that daughter is Emmalyne. Her father unyielding, Emmalyne surrenders to her duty, heartbroken. Tavin leaves town, equally devastated. Years later, Emmalyne's family moves, and she and Tavin meet again. Their...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanished from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. The loss devastated the family. Sixty-four years later, Emily's sister Lucy writes the story of that harrowing summer in a notebook that she bequeaths, along with the lake house and a hefty investment portfolio, to her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers a chance to give her own daughters a stable home she never...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she's been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel's grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurant,...
7) Prudence
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at the Pines are those he's about to leave behind: his hovering mother, the distant father, the Indian caretaker, and Billy. But before the homecoming can be celebrated, the search for a German soldier who has escaped from the POW camp...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Portrait of a family struggling quietly with a crisis. Willie is a compulsive gambler and disregards his wife Arlene's plea for a house. They live together in a small backroom of the depot where Willie works, and have one six-year-old daughter, Lark. Since Willie can't save any money, Arlene decides to start her own typing business. She and Lark dream of the day they can buy the Cape Ann house they've chosen from a house catalog. Willie's gambling...
Author
Series
Misty Lake volume 5
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
Karen has a good life ... a loving husband, a growing family, and a career that both suits and challenges. Then, with a few words, a text sends that life crashing down around her. At first confused, then frustrated, and finally devastated, Joe doesn't know what to do or where to look in order to help his wife and save his family. The McCabes have always rally around one another, supporting and protecting. When the one who's always been there for them...
10) Evergreen
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It is 1938 when Eveline, a young bride, follows her husband into the wilderness of Minnesota. Though their cabin is rundown, they have a river full of fish, a garden out back, and a new baby boy named Hux. But when Emil leaves to take care of his sick father, the unthinkable happens: a stranger arrives, and Eveline becomes pregnant. She gives the child away, and while Hux grows up hunting and fishing in the woods with his parents, his sister, Naamah,...
11) Rise
Author
Publisher
NineStar Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Lorraine Tyler is finally at veterinarian school with her best friend and roommate, Frankie. She's also got a girlfriend who likes to play naked hide-and-seek. Life in Bend is pretty great for Lorraine until she hears the voice of her dead sister Becky in her head, pointing out Lorraine's failures past and present. Her problems don't end there. Her dad is hospitalized, leaving her heartsick at the thought of losing him, and there has been no justice...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.
13) Stray
Author
Publisher
NineStar Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lorraine Tyler should be in vet school, but she stayed behind in her home town of Bend, Minnesota to care for her nephew, spend time with her lover, Charity, and give her momma a chance to complete nursing school. Lorraine is content until her momma brings home a steady stream of bachelors to straighten her out. Charity is out of town more and more, and Lorraine's brother-in-law is looking for a new mom for Little Man. To make matters worse there...
14) Home song
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school principal Tom Gardner feels a sense of shock when he sees Kent Arens, a new transfer student. With one glance, Tom sees that this teenager is the son he never knew he had-the result of a one-night stand on the eve of his wedding years before, now grown into an intelligent, athletic, and polite young man. But the boy's presence has a devastating effect on Tom's family.
Author
Publisher
Pyramid Publishers
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
When Irene's husband abandons her and their children in the early 1920s she tries, in various ways, to earn an income to support her children. When circumstances make that impossible, her vulnerability is exposed for the world to see and the vultures descend upon her. The neighbor wants her baby; the banker wants her loan repaid; the doctor wants her farm; the judge wants her two little boys; and the town telegrapher just wants her. Each of the vultures,...
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