Moser, 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 MOSMawer, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAWRaney, Deborah.
Summary: "Eighteen months after the tragic Grove Street Fire took the life of her husband, David, and four other heroic firefighters, Susan Marlowe thinks she's finally beginning to heal. But then she discovers that David carried a secret to his grave. A secret that changes everything she thought their marriage had been. For the sake of their sons, Susan must try to forgive the unforgivable. Andrea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RANCanty, Kevin.
Summary: The doomed romance in Montana between two people of different class and race. He is a half-Indian who saves the life of a white senator in a car accident, and she is the senator's granddaughter. By the author of Into the Great Wide Open.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANRaney, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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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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Summary: Unearthing a lost memory may cause Bryn to lose everything she holds dear--but could it also set her free? The night the homeless shelter burned to the ground, five heroic firefighters died at the scene. Now their survivors must find a way to begin again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RANWubbels, Lance
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WUBHoran, Nancy.
Summary: "In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORNaigle, Nancy
Summary: Sydney Ragsdale is looking for a fresh start far away from her controlling ex-husband and the self-doubt that has plagued her since the divorce. Returning to her childhood home in Hopewell, North Carolina is just what her soul needs. Praying some Christmas magic will follow her she moves with her daughter to a farmhouse that once belonged to her grandparents. While there Sydney finds solace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIPearl, Nancy
Summary: "From "America's librarian" and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotionally riveting debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie have radically different understandings of what love and marriage should be. Georgegrew up in a warm and loving family--his father an orthodontist, his mother a stay-at-home mom--while Lizzie grew up as the only child of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAThayer, Nancy
Summary: Wendy Anderson is 35, the mother of two children, and happily married-until she discovers her husband Zack has cheated on her. Confused, angry, and lost, she rents a house on Nantucket for two summer months. When she and her children arrive at Isle Stay, she discovers that Trevor Black, 30, recently widowed, and his son Dylan, 5, have also rented the house. Neither one is willing to give up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FictionThayer 2015Thayer, Nancy
Summary: Charming ladies' man Rory Randall dies with one last trick up his sleeve: His will includes a calculating clause mandating a summer-long reunion for his daughters, all from different marriages-- that is, if they hope to inherit his posh Nantucket house. Relations among the three sisters are sour thanks to long-festering jealousies, resentments, and misunderstandings. Arden, a successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2013
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Summary: Darcy Cotterill, 30 and divorced, works at the Nantucket library during the day. She spends most nights in her backyard, gazing at the stars. She's on the brink of starting a relationship with a local carpenter, Nash, when she gets new neighbors for the summer, the most unexpected of whom are her ex-husband, his new wife, and step-daughter. As Darcy is drawn into the lives of her neighbors, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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Summary: Memorial Day weekend means that seasonal visitors have descended on the glamorous island of Nantucket. For year-round resident Darcy Cotterill, it means late-night stargazing in the backyard of the beautiful house she grew up in and inherited from her beloved grandmother. It's also Darcy's chance to hit the beach and meet her new summertime neighbors. But the last person the thirty-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Three women forge a unique bond one sun-drenched summer on New England's Dragonfly Lake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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Summary: "Freelance graphic designer Gracie Temple is trying to concentrate on her upcoming marriage to Sam Goodrich, the man of the dreams--until events make her simple life in Harmony, Kansas, a mess of complication and fear. Foremost there's Hannah Mueller, daughter of the local Mennonite pastor and the girl Gracie sees as her protege. Gracie promises Hannah's parents that an art workshop in Wichita...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEHMehl, Nancy.
Summary: Gracie had hoped to make Harmony her home and explore romance with Sam, but when a developer moves in and hires her as graphic designer, the town's outrage may send her back to the city. Can she help the town fight the development of tourism while avoiding being framed for arson?--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour 2010
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Summary: "When Maggie and Emily meet as girls on the Nantucket beach, they are instant best friends--even though Emily's mother would much prefer she play with the daughters of senators and statesmen than a seamstress's kid like Maggie. But after many golden summers spent building sandcastles and sharing their dreams for the future, Emily and Maggie grow apart. In her twenties, beautiful and spirited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THAThayer, Nancy
Summary: "Wedding bells are ringing, a family is reunited, and new love is blooming--for better or worse--in this captivating novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer. A few years after losing her beloved husband, Alison is doing something she never thought she would do again: getting married. While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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Summary: As she prepares for her long-awaited wedding to David, Alison finds her life thrown into turmoil by family drama involving her grown daughters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2018
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Summary: A woman from Nantucket returns home to find that reunions aren't always so simple in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Growing up, Lara always dreamed of leaving Nantucket to become a writer. Now that she's a bestselling novelist living in New York City, she realizes that success isn't what she thought it would be....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019