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Rising Seas by Edie James
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFleeing his old life gave him hope.Will his deadly secrets kill their only chance at love?Detective Will Natchez isn't who he seems. On the run from a ruthless gang of dirty cops, he's hiding in plain sight. Getting hired by the tiny MacKenzie Cove PD was his first stroke of luck since escaping witness protection. The second? Meeting gorgeous psychologist Viv MacKenzie... -
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Seagrass Secrets by Christy Barritt
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s her best friend. She’s the woman of his dreams.Firefighter Colby Morris needs answers. After discovering a dead body, he then learns his best friend’s address was in the man’s pocket. He’ll do anything to keep Emmy safe—yet he wants to keep his heart safe also. That’s why he’s never told Emmy he’s in love with her... -
![The Amish Christmas Angel by Hannah Schrock]()
The Amish Christmas Angel by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKatie is on the cusp of getting engaged when she finds an Englischer hiding in the familye’s barn at Christmas time. It will soon be Christmas and Katie Raber is eager to get engaged but Jacob King doesn’t seem as keen. After courting for more than a year, Katie doesn’t understand his hesitation... -
![My Facebook Boyfriend... For Real!!? by Anne Bernadette Castueras]()
My Facebook Boyfriend... For Real!!? by Anne Bernadette Castueras
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIkaw na lang ang NBSB sa barkada? Bakit di mo subukang gumawa ng iyong Facebook Boyfriend? Makakapagpalit ka pa ng status mo from single into relationship, oh di ba? Pero pa'no kung ang ginamit mong picture ng FBBF mo ay mabuking ka?Sa Facebook 'di lang friends ang makikita dahil pati ang lalaking mamahalin mo - dito mo lang mase-search! Ito ang istoryang pupunan ang BORING na araw ninyo sa... -
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![Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen]()
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure--and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world...Categorized as:
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![The Hershberger Sisters: Anna by Hannah Schrock]()
The Hershberger Sisters: Anna by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen fate seems to turn against her, Anna Hershberger starts to lose her faith.The Hershberger’s were once a happy family. But all that changed when their father died unexpectedly. Anna, the eldest daughter, began to pitch in to help her mother in their bakery and with raising her two younger sisters, Esther and Katie... -
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The Hershberger Sisters: Esther by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome embrace their Amish heritage, others can’t wait to leave it behind. Esther Hershberger never could understand how other girls her age could just get married and have a family. How could you when there was an entire world just waiting to be explored? Although she loved her Amish heritage, she didn’t believe it was her future... -
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The Hershberger Sisters: Katie by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKatie was always shy, but can she put her shyness aside to help a widower in need?Of the three Hershberger sisters, Katie has always shied away from strangers, preferring to take care of Anna’s twins and their home to interacting with strangers outside of her family. But when Anna mentions a family in desperate need of a nanny, she can’t say no... -
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A True Christmas Miracle by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis Christmas Katie Troyer is hoping for another miracle, but that seems unlikely as her mother’s health battle continues. Katie had been an only child for a very long time, but that all changed six years ago. On Christmas day her mother had brought Susan into the world, their very own Christmas miracle. But this year there isn’t a miracle in sight... -
![Gott Heard My Cry by Naomi Troyer]()
Gott Heard My Cry by Naomi Troyer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDo we really need a past to know who we are?A young Amish woman wakes up a tangled mess in a muddy field beside an overturned buggy. Fighting pain and nausea, she makes her way to a nearby farmhouse, looking for help.She does not know who she is... -
![A Season For Second Chances: Amish Romance by Samantha Price]()
A Season For Second Chances: Amish Romance by Samantha Price
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach blended family has their own issues to sort out. The Bruner/Baker family is no different.Wilma is recovering from the wedding while Favor deals with doubts that have crept into her mind about getting married... -
![Gott is in Control by Naomi Troyer]()
Gott is in Control by Naomi Troyer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen an accident claims Rose’s memory, she finds herself at the mercy of a lonely, miserable man.Rose’s father is a champion horse breeder. Their horses are the best in five counties and Rose’s horse Daffodil is the best mare of them all. Daffodil was an orphaned foal when Rose lost her mother. Together, they dealt with their grief and created a bond stronger than most... -
![A Suitable Amish Wife by Mary Lantz]()
A Suitable Amish Wife by Mary Lantz
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED***Despite her deepest wish to be a wife and mother it is clear to everyone in the community that Charity is not marriage material. Charity needs to change.Charity Miller is an excellent cook, a talented quilter and a beautiful woman, yet the men in her community eschew her. Outspoken and dominant, no man can tolerate her... -
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Oh, Sister by Jodie Chapman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeet Isobel, Jen and Zelda.Three women whose bodies and minds are not their own.They belong to the Church.Life and death decisions are taken by others on their behalf.Who they might marry.Whether they start a family.Isobel and Jen know nothing of the world.But when Isobel's husband leaves her and Jen challenges those in charge, the Church turns its back on them...Categorized as:
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![The Fool of New York City: A Novel by Michael D. O'Brien]()
The Fool of New York City: A Novel by Michael D. O'Brien
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in present day Manhattan, The Fool of New York City is the tale of two souls who are considered to be -fools- and -idiots- in the eyes of most people they encounter.One is a literal giant, the other an amnesiac who believes he is the 17th century Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, hundreds of years old, aging more slowly than the rest of the human race... -
![To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service by Hayim Halevy Donin]()
To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service by Hayim Halevy Donin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA distinguished guide to Jewish prayer Why do Jews pray? What is the role of prayer in their lives as moral and ethical beings? From the simplest details of how to comport oneself on entering a synagogue to the most profound and moving comments on the prayers themselves, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin guides readers of To Pray as a Jew through the entire prescribed course of Jewish liturgy, passage... -
![Joanna's Struggle by J.E.B. Spredemann]()
Joanna's Struggle by J.E.B. Spredemann
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoanna Fisher is a typical Amish girl. She attends a one-room schoolhouse with her siblings in Paradise, Pennsylvania. She loves riding her horse, chorin' with her family, and spending time with her best friend, Chloe. But when something unexpected happens at a nearby mud sale, Joanna finds her perfect world turned upside down. Could one event change Joanna's life forever? Approx... -
![The Poems of St. John of the Cross by John of the Cross]()
The Poems of St. John of the Cross by John of the Cross
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSan Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re-creating the religious fervor of St. John's art...Categorized as:
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![The Colony by Annika Norlin]()
The Colony by Annika Norlin
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA mega best-seller in Sweden, with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway, Annika Norlin’s debut novel The Colony is the biggest Swedish literary phenomenon since Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove...Categorized as:
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![Brotherhood by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr]()
Brotherhood by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman M�tisMohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority... -
![Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau]()
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBarnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Itsik Malpesh is a poet and a dreamer who writes endlessly about his true love, Sasha, whom he has yet to meet. When Itsik's poems get him into trouble in czarist Russia, he begins an odyssey -- with a picture of his beloved Sasha in his coat...Categorized as:
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![The Love Hunter by Jon Hassler]()
The Love Hunter by Jon Hassler
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLarry Quinn lives in a college town in rural Minnesota. He is dying from multiple sclerosis and his best friend, Chris MacKensie, has fallen in love with Larry's wife, Rachel. The love for the dying and passion for the living form an uneasy bond, as the three of them face the truth of life together... -
![The Valley of Masks by Tarun J. Tejpal]()
The Valley of Masks by Tarun J. Tejpal
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings(This novel has been longlisted for Man Asian Literary Prize 2011 for Fiction)'This is my story. And the story of my people.'The Valley of Masks examines the pathologies of power, purity and dogma to give us a frightening yet ultimately redemptive vision of the future... -
![Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess]()
Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMan of Nazareth is a historical novel by Anthony Burgess based on his screenplay for Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth. It is one of a trilogy of Burgess books with biblical themes, the others being The Kingdom of the Wicked and Moses.Man of Nazareth is a fictionalized historic account recalling the story of Jesus from his birth to his death...Categorized as:
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![American Gospel by Lin Enger]()
American Gospel by Lin Enger
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRadically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic visionOn a small farm beside a lake in Minnesota’s north woods an old man is waiting for the Rapture, which God has told him will happen in two weeks, on August 19, 1974...Categorized as:
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![Love and Latkes by Stacey Agdern]()
Love and Latkes by Stacey Agdern
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can’t make a latke without breaking a few eggs… Batya Averman is ecstatic when a latke fry-off committee chooses her as its web designer—until she learns the event is in Rivertown, New York, the hometown she fled years ago. But she’s no longer the girl with an embarrassing history and an unrequited crush on Abe Neumann... -
![The Burning Season by Alison Wisdom]()
The Burning Season by Alison Wisdom
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe acclaimed author of We Can Only Save Ourselves returns with an urgent and unsettling story that journeys into the heart of religious fanaticism and cult behavior as it probes one woman's struggle to define life on her own terms.Here comes trouble, Rosemary's high school English teacher used to say whenever he saw her...Categorized as:
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![Ritual by Graham Masterton]()
Ritual by Graham Masterton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen restaurant critic Charlie McLean and his son, Martin visit the little town of Allen's Corners in rural Connecticut, little do they realise what they're letting themselves in for. In the mood to try something different they stop at Le Reposoir, unaware that most of the meals on the menu are not the a-la-carte range they're used to, but more a mixture of mundane dishes and human Hors d'oeuvre... -
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Les meufs c'est des mecs bien by Mourad Winter
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings" Je sais, là, vous vous dites que j'suis un iench et vous avez sans doute raison... -
![The Summer Job by Adam Cesare]()
The Summer Job by Adam Cesare
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Mission, Massachusetts. Praying won’t save you, but it couldn't hurt. Claire is an alternative girl looking for an alternative. Her post-college prospects have fizzled and she’s looking for a new job, a new town, a whole new life. A summer position at a remote hotel may be just what she needs.Very soon, though, she begins to suspect the hotel may have decidedly sinister motives...Categorized as:
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![Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove]()
Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlternating between a woman’s childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness family’s splintering belief system, their isolation, and the erosion of their relationships. As Emily becomes closer to her closeted Uncle Tyler, she begins to challenge her upbringing...Categorized as:
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![Kidnapped by the Cult by Francine Pascal, Kate William]()
Kidnapped by the Cult by Francine Pascal, Kate William
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe power of persuasion... Jessica Wakefield's parents have grounded her, she's angry at her boyfriend, Sam, and her friends don't care what happens to her. Then, just when she's at her lowest, Jessica meets a magnetic stranger.Adam Marvel is the leader of the Good Friends, a mysterious cult that pretends to help the poor and needy... -
![State of Grace by Hilary Badger]()
State of Grace by Hilary Badger
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEver since she was created, Wren has lived in an idyllic garden with her friends. Wren's deity Dot ensures the trees are laden with fruit and the water in the lagoon is crystal clear. Wren and her friends have everything they could possibly need right there, in Dot's Paradise.If only Wren could stop the strange, disturbing visions she's started having... -
![The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman, Jane Hamilton]()
The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman, Jane Hamilton
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings" The Family Markowitz is one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life to have come our way in quite a while." --Linda Matchan, Boston GlobeIn The Family Markowitz , Allegra Goodman writes with wit and compassion of three generations of Markowitzes making their way in America... -
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![The Girl With A Secret Crush by Sudha Nair]()
The Girl With A Secret Crush by Sudha Nair
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwenty-nine-year-old Malini is single, a cat lover, and a proofreader with a secret crush.Vikram Mathur is a bestselling author with more than a dozen books and a debilitating problem—the writer's block.What Malini wants more than anything is to meet Vikram, but he doesn't even know she exists.What if wishes were to come true! Read this short and sweet story to find out... -
![Coming of Age at the End of Days by Alice LaPlante]()
Coming of Age at the End of Days by Alice LaPlante
Rated: 2.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlice LaPlante's acclaimed psychological thrillers are distinguished by their stunning synthesis of family drama and engrossing suspense. Her new novel is an affecting foray deeper into the creases of family life—and the light-and-dark battle of faith—as LaPlante delves into the barbed psyche of a teenager whose misguided convictions bear irrevocable consequences...Categorized as:
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![Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel]()
Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
Rated: 2.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWoke Up Lonely is an original and deeply funny novel that explores our very human impulse to seek and repel intimacy with the people who matter to us most.Thurlow Dan is the founder of the Helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness in the twenty-first century...
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