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The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.
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Sourcebooks Landmark, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Annabelle Aster doesn't bow to convention-not even that of space and time-which makes the 1890s Kansas wheat field has appeared in her modern-day San Francisco garden easy to accept. Even more peculiar is Elsbeth, the truculent schoolmarm who sends Annie letters through the mysterious brass mailbox perched on the picket fence that now divides their two worlds. Annie and Elsbeth's search for an explanation to the hiccup in the universe linking their...
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Susan Wren mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
6) Violet
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Publisher
Inkshares
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"For many children, the summer of 1988 was filled with sunshine and laughter. But for ten-year-old Kris Barlow, it was her chance to say goodbye to her dying mother. Three decades later, loss returns--her husband killed in a car accident. And so, Kris goes home to the place where she first knew pain--to that summer house overlooking the crystal waters of Lost Lake. It's there that Kris and her eight-year-old daughter will make a stand against grief....
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Series
Bridge series (Evan S. Connell) volume 1
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
[1959]
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English
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In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. With a surgeons skill, Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development underneath? the entropy of time and relationships lead Mrs. Bridge's three children and husband to recede into a remote silence, and she herself drifts further into doubt and...
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Blessings volume 1
Publisher
Avon A
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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"On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift - she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt - angry, too - but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been raised in the church, she knew that when much is given much is expected, so she asked God to send her a purpose. The purpose turned out to be a town: Henry Adams,...
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