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Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Dori Sanders' first novel, CLOVER was a smash hit. Now, with HER OWN PLACE, Dori Sanders tells a story about ordinary people taking part in a transformation of heart and mind--in the South, in the nation. "Resonates as powerfully as an old hymn."--Kirkus Reviews; "Like a ripe summer peach, HER OWN PLACE just keeps getting better and better until the last page leaves the reader longing for more.
25) A can of peas
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Series
Lake Emily novels volume 1
Description
Weaving together the strong threads of family and friends in a pattern of grace, forgiveness, and kindness, A Can of Peas invites readers into a place where every day brings a new story and neighbors are more than just people who live down the road. Sometimes funny and often poignant, these vignettes will draw both men and women into the reassuring rhythms of life as it ought to be{7f2013}and as it still is in the heart of America. After the death...
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"The world has come to Three Chimneys, Virginia. This tiny, rural town is home to Manda and Jake Frank, who overnight have become international celebrities as the parents of eleven tiny infants, born through fertility treatments. Their pastor and spokesperson, the Reverend Leland Vaughn, tries to shield them from the media frenzy, but even his head is turned when presidential hopeful Adams Brooke pays the family a visit." "But there is one woman in...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Gary and Susan Hazen are natives of the Adirondacks, high school sweethearts who have raised their two sons on the satisfaction of living off the land. Gary is a highly principled and respected woodsman and hunter, but his self-righteousness brings him into conflict with his sons. Both young men have secrets that will strain the family fabric, and together father and sons weave a tangle of intention and circumstance that will culminate in an act that...
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
On a primitive farm on the margins of an upstate New York town, three Proctor brothers live together in a kind of crumbling stasis--until one of them dies in his sleep and the other two are suspected of murder. A deeply intimate saga of the human condition at its limits.
36) Next of kin
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
The death of Caro Meredith turns the lives of her grieving husband, in-laws, brother-in-law, and stepdaughter upside down as they all struggle to cope with the loss of a woman who had been the central figure in all their lives.
Author
Series
Homestead volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Jolie relies on God's wisdom and guidance as she struggles to understand homestead politics and her own feelings for Tanner.
Author
Series
Homestead volume 3
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When a boy is killed by a breakaway rail car, Jolie bowers's compulsion to control is stretched to the limit.
Author
Series
Homestead series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The Bowers are not your typical, late-nineteenth-century homesteading family. They did not move west to farm Nebraska; they moved east. Matthew Bowers won't be working the land; his wife Lissa will--despite her diminutive size. Papa is dreaming of new ideas and Mama is farming, it will be 17-year-old Jolie who runs the household.