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41) On her own
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Barbara Zook was devastated when her husband David was killed. Will she be able to raise their four young boys and manage her beloved David's harness store on her own? When harness maker Paul Hilty arrives in Webster County, Missouri, he finds himself agreeing to help run Barbara's shop. Things are going fairly well until widower Bishop John Frey comes a-courting Barbara, and Paul's jealousy takes everyone by surprise. Will Paul try to beat out the...
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"A spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest for justice after her daughter is murdered on the town playground. Sometimes the answers are worse than the questions. Sometimes it's better not to know. Set in the poorest part of the Missouri Ozarks, in a small-town with big secrets, The Familiar Dark opens with a murder in the town's playground. Eve Taggert, desperate with grief over losing her daughter,...
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"Complicated and confusing romance continues for Josephine's Guest House proprietor Kate Meyr. John Baker--Kate's lakehouse neighbor, a writer, and wannabe lover--intrigues Kate with his research on quilts for a magazine article. In the process, she discovers unusual destinations for quilts, even in her own family. These stories are precious and everlasting. But not all is precious in Borna as Kate faces a fight for her life in her beloved home. Thanks...
46) The coaster
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Bob Patterson considers himself an Everyman albeit an Everyman with a rich, beautiful wife, two good kids, and a mail-it-in job that ignores his law degree. Despite his good fortune, Bob is idling through life, bored at work and at home. In short, he is the proverbial Coaster.
47) Cottonmouth
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"1874. After losing his innocence in the Civil War and risking his life as a Texas Ranger, Samuel Pritchard has finally settled into a peaceful life in his hometown of Atherton, Missouri. As marshall, he hopes to put his bloody past behind him. To see his sister marry his lifelong friend. To find a wife and raise a family. For the first time in his life, Pritchard isn't gunning for anyone--and no one is gunning for him. Or so he thinks. Strangers...
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One of the most popular books of all-time, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been both venerated and vilified since it was first published in 1885. The story of a young abused boy on the run and his friendship with a runaway slave is about loyalty, compassion, and doing what is right.
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Nora King believes she is a woman in love. When Elam Detweiler leaves the ultraconservative Amish district of Harmony, Maine, and moves to Paradise, Missouri, Nora follows soon after. But does she love the man or the independence and freethinking he represents? Will Nora come to her senses before Elam's thoughtless choices ruin her reputation beyond repair?
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Wishes abound during the holiday season in Augusta, Missouri, as the perfect Santa takes his place in Doc's old office and sets the scene for children's wishes to come true. Connecting with her sisters is Lily Rosenthal's favorite event of the season, so she makes a quilt full of good wishes to welcome a newfound member of the family while dealing with her shop's Christmas rush. Unsettling events give the Dinner Detectives a lot to think about--and...
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Plain, independent Lidie Harkness, impatient with the restrictions placed on women in mid-nineteenth century Illinois, jumps at the chance to marry New England abolitionist Thomas Newton and travel with him to the Kansas Territory where they embark on a dangerous quest to stop the spread of slavery.
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"The second saga of Anne Brown and the Colebridge Community. Anne and her fiancé, Sam, start house-hunting, or is that haunting? Once again, a quilt holds keys and clues to important family secrets, but whose family is it this time? And why would anyone hide a quilt in a potting shed?"--Provided by publisher.
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"When big-city businesswoman Priss Porter returns to town with a body in her trunk, she expects Stella to dispose of it for her. She's even got a snapshot of Stella doing what she does best-curing woman-beaters by the use of force-in case Stella needs convincing. But Stella refuses to cooperate, only to hear later that Priss has gone missing. Stella is implicated when Sheriff "Goat" Jones discovers a scarf she left behind. He warns her to stay local,...
55) The rivermen
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Traces the history of transportation on the Missouri River in the nineteenth century and its impact on the development of the West.
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After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing...
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Torie O'Shea investigates the tangled roots of an ancient family tree.
Torie O'Shea- genealogist and amateur sleuth- is having a killer of a day. The town gossip spreads the word that her sweet wheelchair-bound mother is having an affair-with the sheriff! Then quiet Marie Dijon is found dead at the foot of her basement stairs. Did she fall? Was she pushed? All Torie knows is that Marie had a family tree with royal roots completely foreign to a folksy...
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"Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find himself in the England of King Arthur. The tough minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific enlightenment, faces a world whose idyllic surface only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and ignorance. This is the springboard which launches one of literature's most extraordinary excursions into fantasy. With the agility of Mark Twain's unique virtuosity,...
60) Hideaway home
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Soldier Red Meyers looked forward to returning to Hideaway, Missouri, and his sweetheart, Bertie Moennig. But his dreams were shattered when he was gravely wounded during the last stages of World War II. Bertie was a beautiful woman, inside and out, and she deserved a whole man. For Bertie's sake, Red was determined to stay away. But a tragedy on the home front brings the couple face-to face for the first time in years, and now a dangerous mystery...