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Hope on the plains: the Dakota series, Book 2 (Dakota Series #2)
By Linda Byler. 2017
Hannah and her family still struggle with the events of The Homestead (DB 88593), but they are settling into life…
in North Dakota when tragedy strikes. As other Amish families decide to return to Lancaster, Hannah and her family face the same decision, even as she is being courted. 2017Home is where the heart is: the Dakota series, book 3 (Dakota Series #3)
By Linda Byler. 2018
Hannah and her husband Jerry remained in North Dakota when the rest of her family returned to Pennsylvania. However, when…
their ranch is decimated by locusts, Hannah relents and they follow. But tragedy strikes once again, leaving Hannah reeling and questioning her faith. 2018Lancaster burning trilogy (Lancaster Burning #4)
By Linda Byler. 2015
Collection of three novels following the travails of Sarah Beiler as an arsonist terrorizes her small Amish community. In Fire…
in the Night, her parents' barn is burned down and she becomes entranced with flirtatious Matthew Stoltzfus. Also includes Davey's Daughter and The Witnesses. Some violence. 2015Who killed Christopher Goodman?: based on a true crime
By Allan Wolf. 2017
Four friends who were last seen with fellow student Christopher Goodman question what happened on the summer night leading up…
to the discovery of his body a few miles outside town. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2017The selected letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Laura Ingalls Wilder, William Anderson. 2016
A collection of the letters of the American author, illuminating her thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and relationships. Gathered from…
museums, archives, and personal collections, these letters span over sixty years of Wilder's life and shed light on her daily life. 2016Susanna's dream (The Lost Sisters #2)
By Marta Perry. 2014
Reeling from the death of her mother, Susanna Bitler is discouraged to learn that her business partner plans to quit…
their gift shop. But when Lydia Beachy and Chloe Wentworth reveal themselves as her long-lost sisters, Susanna grapples with the knowledge that her life was a lie. 2014Hell to pay
By Garry Disher. 2014
Relegated to a backwater town after a whistle-blowing incident earns him powerful enemies, Australian police detective Paul 'Hirsch' Hirschhausen confronts…
more local crime than anticipated, including the murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2014Naomi's Christmas: Pleasant Valley (Pleasant Valley #7)
By Marta Perry. 2012
Thirty-year-old Amish beekeeper Naomi Esch has spent fifteen years raising her siblings, but now that her father is remarrying, she…
must move out. Naomi stays with her brother while watching widower Nathan King's children. After rumors spread, Nathan proposes marriage--but Naomi wants to marry for love. 2012El amante turco (Punto de lectura #212/1)
By Esmeralda Santiago, Nina Torres-Vidal. 2007
Puerto Rican-born Santiago continues the memoir begun in Cuando Era Puertorriqueña (DB 40892). Recounts rebelling against her controlling mother and…
running off with Ulvi Dogan, a domineering Turkish filmmaker seventeen years her senior, then freeing herself from Dogan's possessiveness and later graduating from Harvard. Translated from English. Spanish language. 2004What is love? (What is?)
By Etan Boritzer, Robbie Marantz. 1996
The second book in the series on character education and social values by Etan Boritzer. Explains love as an "inside…
rainbow feeling" experienced by all the different people "held together by love" in the same world. For grades 3-6Improbable fiction: the life of Mary Roberts Rinehart
By Jan Cohn. 2006
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was born in Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh). She trained as a nurse, married a physician,…
and by 1902 had three sons. To supplement the family income, she began to write. Her work included mysteries, serious fiction, plays, and regular contributions to "The Saturday Evening Post". 1980Blood of the prodigal: an Ohio Amish mystery (An Amish-Country Mystery #1)
By Paul L Gaus, P. L. Gaus. 1999
Amish bishop Eli Miller breaks the traditional isolation of his people to ask Professor Michael Brandon, who is not Amish,…
to find his grandson, Jeremiah, who has disappeared with his father, Jonah, although Brandon is not to notify the police or use force to recover the boy, but then Jonah is found murdered along the roadsideOctober mourning: a song for Matthew Shepard
By Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman. 2012
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay…
college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Violence and strong language. Award winnerThou shalt not kill: biblical mystery stories
By Anne Perry. 2005
Fifteen short mysteries, spanning past and present, rooted in the Bible. Simon Brett examines an Old Testament murder in "Cain…
Was Innocent." Also includes Bill Crider's modern crucifixion tale "The Man on the Cross" and works by Carole Nelson Douglas, Peter Robinson, the editor, and others. Some strong language. 2005The naked woman: a study of the female body
By Desmond Morris, St. Martin`s Press. 2005
Zoologist presents the biological aspects of female anatomy--hair, eyes, mouth, breasts, legs, and feet. Discusses how human societies have sought…
to modify and embellish certain attributes using implants, tattoos, body piercing, cosmetics, false fingernails, and circumcision among other ways. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2004Perdido como niña en los tormentosos mares de Arabia, Shani crece a ser la favorita de la casa de Ahmad…
Khan. Ahora Shani ha de regresar a su nativa Inglaterra, y el Capitn Brandon Hawkesbury viene a embarcar a la joven mujer, observando que no sería fcil para que la inquieta muchacha acepte un nueva vida...una nueva familia...una nueva fePrairie song
By Cheryl Anne Porter. 2000
In 1889, pregnant Kate Chandler flees from her abusive employer in New York City to join a land rush in…
Oklahoma. Once there she enlists the help of gunslinger Cole Youngblood, who needs a caretaker for his orphaned niece and nephews. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2000The bird in the tree
By Elizabeth Goudge. 1992
In the 1930s, Damerosehay, a charming old house on the Hampshire coast, and a close-knit family are threatened when the…
grandson and daughter-in-law of the owner fall in love and plan to marry. Prequel to Pilgrim's Inn (DB 12807) and The Heart of the Family (DB 13768)Never the same again: a rock 'n' roll gothic
By Jesse Sublett, Jessie Sublett. 2004
The autobiography of famed punk band member and crime novelist Jesse Sublett, covering his first love's tragic murder, his music…
career, and his struggle with cancer. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some violence. Strong languageCet hiver / nick & charlie
By Alice Oseman. 2023
Cet Hiver « Je déteste Noël, lance Tori. - Non c'est faux, je réponds. - En tout cas, je déteste…
celui-ci. - Comme tout le monde. » Cet hiver a été difficile pour Tori, Charlie et Oliver Spring. Ils tentent tous les trois de traverser le jour de Noël sans heurts. Pour Oliver, cela revient à jouer à Mario Kart avec son frère et sa sœur. Mais, pour Tori et Charlie, cela implique d'oublier ces derniers mois. Ce Noël va-t-il séparer les membres de la famille Spring ou contribuer à les réunir ? Nick et Charlie L'absence rend le cœur plus tendre, pas vrai ? Charlie : « Je sors avec Nick Nelson depuis deux ans. Il aime le rugby, les chiens, le bruit des feutres sur le papier et dessiner sur les chaussures. Et il m'aime, moi. » Nick : « Ce que nous faisons avec Charlie à la maison : Regarder des films. Nous embrasser. Cuisiner. Discuter. Nous disputer. Rire. Nous sommes peut-être un peu ennuyeux. Mais ça nous va. » Tout le monde sait que Nick et Charlie forment le couple idéal. Qu'ils sont inséparables. Mais Nick s'apprête à partir pour l'université, et Charlie restera au lycée. Alors que l'heure des au revoir approche, les deux garçons commencent à s'interroger : leur amour est-il suffisamment fort pour supporter la distance ? Après tout, les premières amours durent rarement toujours