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"With classes paused for the planting season, Alexandertol's schoolteacher Augusta Dyck is glad for some meaningful work to occupy her time. She even knows exactly who their town's benevolence society should help first: quiet, reserved widower Konrad Rempel and his young twin sons. Though Konrad may be struggling, he doesn't want anyone telling him what his sons need. Or what he needs. But God, indeed, knows best. Will the competing agendas of Alexandertol's...
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Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xii, 431 p. ; 24 cm.
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The year of her 15th birthday is one that Lara Grellier will never forget. The first Gulf War is raging in the Middle East; her unstable mother has become increasingly erratic in her behavior; the townspeople in Lawrence, Kan., are leery of the two unmarried women who have moved into the area and are rumored to be Wiccans, and Lara's brother has run off to join the Army.
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Little house chapter books. Laura volume 8
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.
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100 cupboards volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 20 cm.
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Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
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Blessings volume 10
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"Trent July has been the mayor of this historic town for the past four years, but now he's ready to let someone else take up the mantle. Barrett Payne, a former Marine, decides he wants the job. But when a surprise candidate also enters the ring, the town has opinions on who would be the best candidate. And of course that's not the only drama, as Malachi 'Mal' July continues to make reparations for the damage he's caused and to the people he's betrayed,...
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Series
100 cupboards volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
483 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry York, finally reunited with his family, works with them and the Chestnut King, the long-deposed and mythic leader of the faeren people, to destroy Nimiane and her forces of evil.
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Series
Blessings volume 9
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A redemption-seeking recovering alcoholic and foster-child mentor seeks forgiveness from the woman he betrayed, while a store owner and his high school sweetheart consider a second chance at love.
12) The river
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Series
River novels volume 1
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"The River is a story that will transform how you see yourself and the world." -Andy Andrews, New York Times best-selling author of The Noticer, The Traveler's Gift, and How Do You Kill 11 Million People?
"You were made for The River . . ."
Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River, a ribbon of frothy white water carving its way through steep canyons high in the Colorado Rockies. The rushing waters beckon him to experience freedom and adventure.
But...
14) West of Railhead
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
261 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"'WELCOME TO EDEN GROVE -- FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE WEST.' That was the message that greeted newspaperman Clark Tanner as he rode into the raw, new town in the summer of 1872. A lot of people, Tanner included, were putting all their hopes and dreams into founding the town and making a fresh start of things. Perhaps no one of them wanted to wipe the slate clean more than Clark Tanner, whose crusade against the corruption of a powerful block of Nebraska...
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Trail drive series volume 6
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Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.
16) A maiden's grave
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Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
422 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
In Kansas, fleeing killers kidnap a bus with deaf girls and hole up in a slaughterhouse. They kill one girl and threaten to kill the rest if their demands are not met. The 12-hour siege by the FBI becomes a media circus, exploited by politicians and competing police departments. By the author of Playing for Sleep.
17) Meant to be
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A historical family saga chronicling the lives and loves of three generations of women in a small Kansas community.
18) The key to love
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
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"The only thing Bri Duval loves more than baking is romance, so she creates a lovelock wall right outside her Parisian-style bakery in the middle of Kansas. When a love-scorned travel writer arrives in town, things start to heat up--in and out of the kitchen"--
19) A hopeful heart
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Abel Samms wants nothing to do with the group of potential brides his neighbor brought to town. He was smitten with an eastern girl once, and he got his heart broken. But there's something about quiet Tressa Neill and her bumbling ways that makes him take notice. When Tressa's life is endangered, will Abel risk his own life, and his heart, to help this eastern girl?
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After years of separation, English-born Emmaline Bradford is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch and wishes to return to England immediately. But Geoffrey offers a compromise: If Emmaline promises to stay until spring, he'll pay her return fare if she decides to go back to her home country. When spring arrives, will Emmaline return to England, or will she marry Geoffrey and carve out a life with him in Kansas?
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