Carlson, Melody.
Summary: When Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah finds her independence, she travels away from all that is familiar but when she returns to Shining Waters, three generations of family heartbreak converge and Sarah finds God right in the center of it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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Summary: When Rachel Milligan takes her recently orphaned niece to meet her Amish relatives, she realizes she will do whatever it takes to ensure Holly has the loving family she needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Pub Group 2013
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Summary: "Once upon a time in a little town on the Oregon coast lived four Lindas--all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. But that was forty-seven years and four very different lives ago. Now a class reunion has brought them all together in their old hometown--at a crossroads in their lives. Janie is a high-powered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: The small town of Parrish Springs is not ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange older woman with scraggly gray hair and jewelry that jangles as she walks, Matilda is certainly not the most likely person to buy the old Barton Building on the town's quaint main street. When it becomes apparent that her new shop doesn't fit the expectations of Parrish Springs residents, a brouhaha erupts. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Publishing Group 2011
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Carlson, Melody.
Summary: Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover becomes a first-time house-flipper. As ideas go, it's daring and genius. She'll take out a short-term loan, buy a fixer-upper, renovate it, resell it, and use the profit for an adorable house of her own. But Gretchen's plans to flip quickly flop when the house turns out to be in worse shape than she expected. She is relying on her retired contractor-father, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2008
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Summary: "Emma Burcelli has given up on romance. Not just because she's suffered over a decade of dating disasters. Not because her parents' marriage ended on New Year's Eve. No, Emma concludes that love is officially dead when her grandfather Poppi passes away, leaving the last true romantic's other half, Nona Burcelli, devastated. Emma helps by working in the family's bookstore, which Nona insists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Anna Larson's daughter, Lauren, is confused, brokenhearted and misguided. It's the turbulent 1960s and feeling alienated from her mother, Lauren chooses to stay with her paternal grandmother. However, repelled by the woman's manipulative and spiteful ways, Lauren returns to her mother, the river and the Inn at Shining Waters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2007
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Summary: "It is 1937, and Lucy Turnbull knows better than to wish for a pony this Christmas. Her mother has assured her in no uncertain terms that asking for a pony is the same as asking for the moon. Besides, the only extra mouths they need at their boarding house are the paying kind. Then an interesting pair of strangers comes to town, and Lucy's world changes forever."--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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Summary: Following her mother's funeral, and on the verge of her own midlife crisis, widow Anna Larson returns to the home of her youth to sort out her parents' belongings, as well as her own turbulent life. For the first time since childhood, Anna embraces her native heritage, despite the disdain of her vicious mother-in-law. By transforming her old family home on the banks of the Siuslaw River into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: A small town is surprised by a newcomer who opens a very unusual Christmas shop where customers find more than they bargained for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008