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"Addie Sullivan leads a quiet life in a northern California lighthouse. She mourns the death of her father and endures her mother's bitterness, until the night a storm brings an injured stranger and a dark secret to her home. The man insists she is not who she thinks she is, but rather "Julia Eaton" -- the child long lost and feared dead by her wealthy family. Seizing the chance to be reunited with the Eatons, Addie leaves her lighthouse home but...
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For five years handsome Jeff Taylor had wanted to apologize to Bobbie Bradford in person. But she had left town the day after the humiliating episode at the picnic and never returned. Jeff was older now. He had grown in his faith and as a man. Still the news that Bobbie was returning to Santa Rosa while considering Cleve Ramsey's proposal of marriage came as a shock. Will their friendship be restored after heartbreaking betrayal?
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Katie Russell loves working as a telephone operator in Mercy Falls, California. But since childhood she has been expected to marry well. Her family presses for an engagement to wealthy bachelor Bartholomew Foster and though he doesn't stir her heart, their engagement promises a secure financial future.Working the phone lines one evening, Katie overhears a chilling exchange between her friend Eliza and a familiar male voice. Katie soon learns that...
5) Sean Donovan
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Caught in his first bank robbery, Sean Donovan is sentenced to hang. But Charlotte Cooper, who needs a blacksmith for her livery, has other ideas. By law, a woman of good standing in the community can save a man from the gallows by marrying him. Humbled by the dramatic rescue and renewed in his faith, Sean's heart goes out to his new bride, a woman whose past has prompted her to guard her heart. Yet could the talk around town be true? Is the fiercely...
6) The Chase
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April 1950: A rusting steam locomotive rises from a Montana lake. Inside are the remains of three men who died forty-four years before. 1906: For two years, the West has suffered a string of bank robberies by a man who then murders any witnesses and vanishes. Fed up with the "Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in Isaac Bell. From Arizona to Colorado to San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what quickly becomes...
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California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
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When her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, New York socialite Olivia Stewart travels to California to discover the details of her sister's death. Olivia suspects her sister's fiance, Harrison Bennett, may have had a hand in her sister's death. Even as Olivia finds herself drawn to him despite her misgivings, several attempts are made on her life and Harrison may be the only person she can trust with her life.
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Seventeen-year-old twins--and powerful mediums--Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit responsible for their mother's death crosses into the land of the living, the twins race against time to uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to cheat death.
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One man's ambitious journey into the heart of California's gold country becomes a pursuit for limitless wealth in the face of devastating ruin At the height of California's Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance to the western frontier. A wanderer and a nobody, James is drawn to California by the dream...
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When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
13) Riding freedom
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A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
14) The golden gate
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"In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan’s investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont,...
16) The nightriders
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Zac Cobb, sent to California by Wells Fargo to investigate stolen gold shipments, encounters vigilantes and a corrupt federal judge who was formerly commander of the Union prison where Zac's brothers were held during the Civil War.
17) The Whip
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The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man.As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love and had a child. Her husband was lynched and her baby killed. The destruction of her family drove her west to California, dressed as a man, to track down the murder.Charley became a renowned stagecoach driver. She killed a famous outlaw, had a secret love affair,...