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Thorndike Pr
Pub. Date
2010
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To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen other off the coast of Maine: dotted with graceful Victorian homes, carpeted with gray cobblestones and bright wildflowers, populated by sturdy, hardworking folks. The small town that crowns its peak consists of seven buildings, each inhabited, according to divine decree, by an angel commanded to guard and assist anyone who crosses the threshold. Unexpected hijinks and heartwarming...
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Pub. Date
2000
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As the dim lights of the train station faded, Christine Bennett wondered if she would ever see home again. With the death of her grandfather, Christine experienced a deep loneliness she'd never felt before.
The words of his will rang in her ears: "In the event of my granddaughter's death, everything will go to Vince Jeffers." Jeffers watched her with an evil look that made her shiver.
Now, afraid of what might happen, she was obeying a note she...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2002
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The new year brings challenges aplenty for the angels who guard the homes of Heavenly Daze. Despite the blustery Maine winter chill, love is in the air. Buddy Franklin is searching for someone to change his lonely life, Dana and Mike Klackenbush are trying to reestablish the friendship that led to their marriage, Barbara and Russell Higgs are contemplating babies, while Barbara's mother, Cleta Lansdown, is determined to keep her close to home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Book 1 of the Desert Roses series. Working as a Harvey Girl at the luxury resort of El Tovar, located on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, Alexandra Keegan feels she is in a dream come true. But when her father's indiscretions come to light and her mother is suspected of murder, Alex finds herself the center of some unwelcome attention. Will she soon find herself alone in the world?
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Book 2 of DESERT ROSES. The last ten years have been difficult for Ashley Reynolds--first her parents disowned her because of her choice of spouse, war tragically took his life, then she discovered she would bear his child. Living with her grandfather and raising her daughter, Ashley Reynolds has finally found an element of peace while working as a Harvey Girl in Winslow, Arizona. When a crew of architects come to build a massive resort hotel, bringing...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
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The briefest month on the calendar presents the angels with the biggest challenges on Heavenly Daze. Edith Wickam, married to the pastor of the Heavenly Daze Community Church, has her heart set on wearing a designer dress to the wedding of the year. Trouble is, the zipper won't close! Will she find a diet - and the determination - to shed those pounds? Annie Cuvier is at peace with her world until tragedy presents her with a series of life-changing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Jamie Bryan, the widow of a firefighter who has lost during 9/11, must try to find a way to get past the events of that terrible day. Volunteering at St. Paul's memorial chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood helps, but a relationship with a man also touched by the tragedy, sends her deeper into her loss. Can Jamie find a way to move beyond Tuesday morning?
12) Hero's bride
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
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"You see I must go, don't you, Kitty?" Kip asked. Everything in her cried out, No, I don't understand. What about her dreams, her desires, the life they had planned together? Then she remembered the epitaph on the head-stone in the old hillside cemetery, the one that had made such a lasting impression on her: "What I gave, I have; what I spent, I saved, What I kept, I lost." It had been true a hundred years ago, and it was just as true now. If she...
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Pub. Date
c2006
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Return to Blessing, North Dakota, with the story of Andrew Bjorklund and Ellie Wold. After graduating in May of 1900, the two make plans to marry once the harvest is over and their new house is finished. They spend the summer working hard, and the Lord seems to shine on and in them in a special way. Everyone rejoices in their happiness. Everyone except for Toby Valders, who is determined to get even for all the drubbings he has taken from Andrew through...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
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It took serious injuries from a roadside bombto bring war photographer Drew Michaelsback to his estranged wife, Larissa. His needfor adventure had ultimately pushed Larissatoward the warm embrace of the church...;andaway from him. But now, being back in suchclose quarters with his first-;and only-;love,was stirring up feelings of peace and comforthe'd suppressed long ago. Yet his secretscould once again tear him away from thewoman to whom he'd uttered...
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After years spent following their father and his wanderlust, the three Gallatin sisters begin to fashion a life for themselves in the Montana wilds, operating a roadhouse at the crossroads of two stage lines. When their father is accidently killed, however, the oldest sister, Gwen, reasons that she's cursed. Death seems to haunt her every step. As the sisters work to maintain the roadhouse, an unexpected visitor arrives, sending Gwen into turmoil....
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
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The moment they met, social worker Mia Carano knew Officer Collin Grace was the perfect mentor for a runaway teen in her care. After all, the boy looked up to him, and desperately needed a role model.
Though a childhood spent in foster care had hardened Collin, Mia would reveal the caring man she knew was inside. After all, breaking through his gruff exterior would fulfill a boy's Christmas wish...;and maybe even her own.
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Sophie Broadmoor adores fancy balls, beautiful gowns, and expensive jewelry. Indeed, she enjoys everything the Broadmoor wealth provides and has earned a reputation as the wildest of the Broadmoor cousins. During a trip to England, she falls head over heels for Wesley Hedrick, a wealthy widower who promises her the world. But Wesley's promises never seem to come true, and soon Sophie finds herself in a very compromising situation. Why does it have...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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Dainty Laurel Chance is determined to show she can "rough it" alongside her rugged family on a seven-week journey to Yosemite. She soon is overwhelmed by the raw beauty of nature ... and the unexpected attention from their unofficial guide, Gabriel Rutlidge. What will Laurel do when she finds out Gabe doesn't have a relationship with the Lord? Join this nineteenth-century California woman as she learns the enduring power of love.
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