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| With This Pledge by Tamera AlexanderGoverness Lizzie Clouston nurses soldiers after the Franklin, Tennessee, home she lives and works in is converted into a Confederate hospital. Engaged to one soldier, abolitionist Lizzie must be true to her own heart while standing for what she knows is right, even as she falls in love with one of her wounded patients...who's a slave owner.
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| We Hope for Better Things by Erin BartelsDetroit journalist Elizabeth Balsam loses her job, but continues to pursue the story she was working on about the 1967 Civil Rights riots in her city. This leads her to a box of photos, a great-aunt she has never met, and a series of discoveries about her family's history that goes all the way back to the Civil War.
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| The Bride of Ivy Green by Julie KlassenIn a Regency England village, several women face change and choices. First, Mercy Grove is forced to close her girls' school and ponders life as a spinster governess; Jane Bell is in love, but to marry means giving up her inn; and a new seamstress has arrived, but there's something she's hiding.
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The seamstress : a novel
by Allison Pittman
"1788: In a tiny French village, during the waning days of peace, cousins Renee and Laurette live a peaceful, relatively contented life as the shepherdesses under the guardianship of the respectable Emile Gagnon. When Renee is given the chance to work asa seamstress at the Palace at Versailles, their lives take two very different paths straight into the heart of the Revolution. Based on a character who appears in the classic, A Tale of Two Cities"
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Long Way Gone
by Charles Martin
In this imaginative modern version of the prodigal son story, musician Cooper O’Connor wants all that the world has to offer. The son of a tent preacher, he leaves home at 18, taking the guitar he's stolen from his father and his dreams of making it big in Nashville. While Cooper has success and meets Daley, a talented singer he falls in love with, it all falls apart, leaving him injured, spiritually and physically. Covering Cooper's childhood, absence, and return, Long Way Gone reminds readers that it's never too late to come home again.
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That certain summer
by Irene Hannon
Reunited after a long separation when their mother suffers a stroke, Karen, who has carried the family's burden of responsibility, and Val, an aspiring actress who was forced to leave town by a dark secret, share a summer of reconciliation that is also shaped by a single father and a hurting musician.
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The Proving
by Beverly Lewis
After five years as an Englisher, Amanda Dienner is shocked to learn her mother has passed away and left her Lancaster County's most popular Amish bed-and-breakfast. What's more, the inn will only truly be hers if Mandy can successfully run it for twelve months. Reluctantly, Mandy accepts the challenge, no matter that it means facing the family she left behind--or that the inn's clientèle expect an Amish hostess! Can Mandy fulfill the terms of her inheritance, or will this prove a dreadful mistake?
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| The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. WrightAfter the death of their parents, three siblings return home to make funeral arrangements and find boxes full of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week on Wednesday, uncovering the shocking truth about the past. |
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