Ragen, Naomi
Summary: A powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. Yaakov is a man of God, a father, a Talmud scholar, and a widower. After failing to save his wife's life, he is struggling both financially and spiritually. Lola is a woman from the secular world who has suffered terrible tragedy and hardship in her life. To find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGRagen, Naomi
Summary: "In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant Wife, Naomi Ragen continues the love story between newly observant California-girl Leah and ultra-Orthodox widower Yaakov from An Unorthodox Match. From the joy of their wedding day surrounded by supportive friends and family, Yaakov and Leah are soon plunged into the complex reality of their new lives together as Yaakov leaves his beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGRagen, Naomi.
Summary: " In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGGoyer, Tricia.
Summary: A young Amish woman, searching for truth and love amidst tradition, returns to her home state of Indiana after a season in Montana, hoping to understand where exactly her heart belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. Group 2012
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Summary: A young Amish woman recently moved from Indiana to Montana is torn between marrying a man from back home or the Englischer whose active faith is calling to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B&H Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: "On the night Marianna Sommers was born, a freak accident shattered her family. Even as she came into the world, her two sisters left it for heaven. She's spent her life making up for that loss, being to her family and their Indiana Amish community all that her sisters would have been. Her only dream: a simple life married to Aaron Zook, the one she's loved since childhood. Then her father says...
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOYRoper, Gayle G.
Summary: Cara Bentley's efforts to find her roots lead her to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where attorney Todd Reasoner helps her in her investigation, but it soon becomes clear that someone does not welcome her digging into the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROPScruton, Roger.
Summary: "Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal. The novel tells the story of Jan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midpoint Trade Books Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCRMoser, Nancy.
Summary: Moser spotlights Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her struggle for love against all odds. Long confined by baffling ailments, Elizabeth dispels her gloom through Bible meditation, prayer, and writing. But as she and a kind gentleman exchange letters in 1845, his fondness for her poetry takes an unexpected turn--inspiring her secret sonnets and dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSRigler, Laurie Viera.
Summary: Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England, inexplicably awakens in an overly wired and morally confused L.A. with memories that are not her own and a friend named Wes--who is as attractive and confusing to Jane as the man who broke her heart back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIGSpinola, Jennifer Rogers.
Summary: "Explore Yellowstone National Park where the rough and glorious wilderness paints the perfect setting for romance. French-Arapaho Collette Moreau crosses paths with a washed up cowboy named Wyatt Kelly-- in a race for hidden treasure. Justin Fairbanks's past intrudes on his present while he serves at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp during the Great Depression. Firefighters Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPIHickam, Homer H.
Summary: Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICMoyes, Jojo
Summary: A single mom trying to raise a bullied stepson and a math whiz daughter finds an unexpected rescue in the form of an obnoxious tech millionaire named Geeky Ed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYYglesias, Rafael
Summary: This is the story of the relationship between Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret. Spanning thirty years, the novel alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, and children--and to Enrique. Inspired by the author's own marriage to his wife who died in 2004, this achingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC YGLMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Inseparable since the sudden loss of their mother as teenagers, Willa and Harper Lakey are perfect opposites. Quiet, demure Willa has always admired Harper's sense of fearlessness and adventure but enjoys her peaceful routine as a café owner in their quaint, coastal hometown of Oceanside, Washington. When a handsome customer shows interest in Willa, Harper urges her sister to take a chance on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction MacSummary: Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2002