Gilbert Morris
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Join Sabrina and Waco on a Wild West ride through Indian Territory. Sabrina's pampered life comes to a screeching halt when a vile conman steals away her younger sister. When her daddy's money can't buy justice, Sabrina takes matters into her own delicate but stubborn hands and heads west to track down the outlaw. To Sabrina's disgust, her solitary hope for saving Marianne seems to be Waco Smith, an only slightly reformed ex-criminal himself. Will...
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Western justice volume 3
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2014.
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Raina Vernay is a slave to her brother-in-law's brutal bidding in a seedy Louisiana saloon. She's at the end of her rope, when a mysterious stranger, Ty Kincaid, arrives in town from Mexico, headed for Arkansas by way of the riverboats, and Raina's mind starts churning a plan. She longs to find the father she's never known, and Ty just might be her ticket to Indian Territory. But when Ty lands himself in jail, Raina has to wonder if this wanted man...
4) The miracle
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Raising four strong-willed younger siblings after her mother's death and her father's imprisonment, seventeen-year-old Lanie Freeman never knows what new adventure will roll into view-such as her brother's wild idea to turn the family's old truck into a traveling store. The Freeman Rolling Emporium could provide the financial security Lanie and her family so desperately need, or it could tear them apart. Yet it's only a prelude to other changes. Author...
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Water wheel novels volume 3
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2013
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English
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Dennis Wainwright and Gage Kennon rescue a gypsy woman and travel the Mississippi on a showboat.
They'd fought on different sides in the Civil War, so their friendship was an unlikely alliance. Gage Kennon was a humble and devout Christan man; Dennis Wainwright was the idea man. In their travels Gage saves a Gypsy woman from a terrible accident, and later saves an innocent young woman from being arrested. When their road leads to the grand showboat,...
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Water wheel novels volume 2
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Life hasn't been easy for Jeanne Bettencourt, a widow approaching thirty and struggling to provide for her eight-year-old daughter. But hope arrives in the form of the Helena Rose, a steamboat she unexpectedly inherits from a distant relative. Jeanne looks forward to a renewed livelihood on the mighty Mississippi, until news comes of another heir, a tough man named Clint Hardin--and a clause in the will that says claimants of the estate must live...
8) The dream
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Lanie Freeman had to grow up fast. Her mother died when she was just fourteen and now her father is in prison. The oldest of five children, seventeen-year-old Lanie has transformed into a surrogate mother ... and a beautiful young woman. Not only must she keep her family together, but lately she has drawn the attention of Roger Langley, son of the richest man in town. Tensions run deep between the Freemans and the Langleys. And on top of it all, Louise...
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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New in the Bestselling SPIRIT OF APPALACHIA! The American Revolution may have ended, but life for the settlers of the land over the Appalachian Mountains was hardly settled. British attempts to drive the Americans out of the land and hostilities with the Cherokees put a tremendous strain upon the inhabitants. Nathaniel "Fox" Carter, part-Cherokee, finds himself caught in the region's increasing unrest. When he decides to explore his ancestry, he is...
10) Rosa's land
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Lafayette Riordan longs for an adventurous life fighting the West's worst outlaws, but he was brought up to be a scholar and artist. Riordan secretly learns to handle firearms and gains a coveted spot with Judge Isaac Parker's famous marshals. Rosa Ramirez rides to Judge Parker after a band of outlaws raids her grandfather's ranch and demands protection. And she's livid when Riordan - the stable boy and dish washer - is the only man available.
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Wagon wheel series volume 2
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In the Oregon Territory in the 1850s, a young woman survives a cholera epidemic that destroys the religious community in which she was raised. She needs the help of a drifter to return the surving orphans to their extended families in the East.
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Chronicles the story of the settlers of America's first frontier--the lands over the Appalachian Mountains--and of the faith that carried them through the harshest of times. In Among the King's Soldiers, Sarah MacNeal is struggling with the death of Philip Baxter. Her stepbrother, Jacob Spencer, escorts her and her friend Amanda Taylor back across the mountains to Williamsburg to visit Jacob's grandparents. Here Jacob becomes embroiled in a struggle...
13) The homeplace
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Lanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. 'God,' she finally said, 'I'll do my best, and if you'll help me, that's all I ask.' Fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has...
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House of Winslow volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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The Captive Bride follows the Winslow family as they assist in the building of a great nation. With courage and spirit, Rachel Winslow stands up to the enemies of freedom. Can she face unjust imprisonment--even death--without retreat?
15) Charade
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A beautiful woman. A savage betrayal. The perfect payback. But is revenge enough? Ollie Benson's computer program, Moviemaker.com, explodes onto the market, thrusting him into a world of glamour, fame, and fortune. He's extravagantly rich. But he's still obese and desperately miserable---until he meets a woman who loves him for who he is. Or so it seems. When the two people Ollie trusts the most betray him in brutal fashion, he constructs an
...16) The rough rider
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House of Winslow volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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House of Winslow Book 18- Stepping off the train at New York's Grand Central Station, Aaron Winslow left the numbing cold of the Klondike gold fields far behind. But he could not shake the bitter sting left by the death of his cousin, Jubal Winslow, who had died to save Aaron's life. No words had been able to touch the guilt and disillusionment he carried. When Aaron arrives in New York City, he finds his younger brother, Lewis, passionately determined...
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"It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for Serafina Trent. A woman of means ... but not the typical Victorian lady who feels her place is to be seen and not heard. When her brother's most recent female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially since the actress had just rejected him in a most public manner. Now everyone believes Clive is headed for the gallows. Everyone, that is, but Serafina....
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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A young family leaves Boston for Virginia and from there join a wagon train headed west over the Appalachian mountains to Tennessee.
19) The courtship
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Lanie Freeman and her siblings have survived the Great Depression without their father. They are convinced that he has been unjustly imprisoned. Lanie's strong-willed sister, Maeva, runs away to Los Angeles to find the one woman in a city of thousands who can prove their father's innocence. Nothing Lanie says can deter Maeva from her mission. Even as her family seems to be unraveling, Lanie's dream of writing becomes a reality. Lanie is on the verge...
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Bonnets and bugles series volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Despite being on opposite sides during the Civil War, Jeff and Leah are determined to continue their friendship.