Virginia Smith
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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"By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about...
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Annie's sweet intrigue volume 10
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Rylee Kerrigan, a new attorney with the ink still fresh on her license, envisions defending high-profile clients at a large firm in the city. Unable to land her dream job, she reluctantly accepts the only one she can find--handling pro bono cases at Stackhouse Law Firm in a small town near Cincinnati, Ohio. When Rylee unearths a dusty box of old cases, her boss tells her to throw it away. Before pitching the files, Rylee examines them, and she's shocked...
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Madeline LaCroix once thought she had everything. A job she enjoyed in sunny California. A beautiful new home she was about to move into. And, best of all, a fiance with whom she couldn't wait to spend the rest of her life. Three weeks before her wedding, Maddie"s dreams were blown apart when an arsonist set fire to a home improvement store, killing the man she adored and badly injuring her. Now, scarred emotionally and physically, Maddie has started...
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Amish of Apple Grove volume 1
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
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Kansas, 1881. On a trip to visit relatives, Emma's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them destitute and stranded on the prairie. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down at him and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. Luke Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, is not planning on being the answer to anyone's...
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
2011
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The ragged scar on her left hand is a cruel and constant reminder of the death of her career as a pianist. But another dream is about to come to life-- and now hundreds of lives depend on Jill's willingness to warn her small, oceanside town in Nova Scotia of a nameless, looming disaster. But doing so could cost Jill her reputation, jeopardize the political career of the man she loves, and ruin their plans for a future together.
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Amish of Apple Grove volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
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Jesse Montgomery is beginning to feel restless. Though he's grateful to his friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again after a few bad choices and some hard living, surely the Lord doesn't want him to stay in Apple Grove forever. Doesn't the Almighty have plans for this reformed rowdy cowboy to build a life of his own? When an unscrupulous cattle baron tries to steal Amish land, Jesse intervenes and is wounded. Lovely Katie Miller,...
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
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Penniless and desperate for an adventure, Evie Lawrence moves to the Oregon Territory in 1851, intending to build a restaurant in one of the new settlements there. At his logging camp outside Seattle, Noah Hughes feels the last thing the camp needs is a woman! Are they ready to look beyond their expectations, and embrace the best God has for them?
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A Plain and Simple Heart, an exciting new Amish-meets-Wild West adventure from bestselling authors Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith, weaves an entertaining and romantic tale for devoted fans and new readers.
1884-Several years earlier, young Rebecca Switzer lost her heart to Jesse Montgomery, a rugged but dissolute cowboy on a dusty cattle trail near the Amish settlement of Apple Grove. Now she is grown up, and when she hears one day that he has been...