Grace Livingston Hill
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Jane Arleth's mountain vacation is cut short when she receives news that both her parents have been sick back home. Anxious to help but sad to leave a rare chance to relax for the hard times ahead, Jane returns to the city. She soon discovers that there's only one cure for her ailing parents: some much-deserved, cooling time away from the scorching city. So Jane rents a tiny cottage on the beach, hoping for the best. What she finds is a summer
...2) A new name
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1925. The story begins: Murray Van Rensselaer had been waiting for an hour and a quarter in the reception-room of the Blakeley Hospital. He was not good at waiting. Things usually came at his call, or sometimes even anticipated his desires. It was incredible that he should suddenly find himself in such a maddening set of circumstances! He still wore the great fur-lined overcoat in which he had arrived after the accident, but he seemed to be unaware...
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"Half-sisters Silver and Athalie Greeves have grown up worlds apart. Silver is a humble, faith-filled young lady; Athalie is a flapper who takes after her socialite mother. When a chance visit suddenly reunites Silver and Athalie with each other and a father they've never known, will a true family emerge where only a family by name existed before? Terrance Bannard, the local minister, is soon taken by Silver's beauty and spirit, but will a rising...
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2012.
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159 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Lucretia "Crete" Ward lives with her sister Carrie and niece Luella, both of whom are very selfish and treat her like a slave. Upon learning that Donald, the son of their now-deceased older sister, is coming to visit from out west, Carrie and Luella fear what others will think of them if they are seen with a "backwoods cousin" and leave for a resort. Donald is actually well-educated and rich, and pays for some pampering for Aunt Crete. When the two...
6) Miranda
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Grace Livingston Hill romance novels volume 60
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2013.
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367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Five separate times Miranda Griscom has rejected wealthy Mr. Whitney's proposal of marriage, content in her role as housekeeper and nanny for the Spaffords. The community thinks her daft to refuse such a man, but they don't know that her heart belongs to the town's black sheep who, when accused of murder twelve years ago, she helped to escape. When she learns he has been living in Oregon Territory, can she hope to get word to him that his name has...
7) Phoebe Deane
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2008.
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351 pages ; 23 cm
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Day after day Phoebe is subjected to living as a servant in her brother's home, picked on by her hateful sister-in-law, and forced to endure matchmaking schemes influenced by greed. Marriage to an ill-tempered man with several misbehaving children seems to be her lot, and her hope is about to be snuffed out. Could a chance encounter in the woods change the direction of her life and finally introduce her to someone who could care about her?
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Grace Livingston Hill romance novels volume 30
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[2013]
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319 pages ; 22 cm
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A tragic accident and the kindness of a new acquaintance named Graham Seagrave help Constance Courtland to discover the true meaning of belonging to Christ.
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2013.
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391 pages ; 23 cm
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Though Dawn lived in a world of affluence, she couldn't find the comfort and love she so desperately needed. Her stepmother despised her, and her father ignored her. Then one day they came to her with shocking news: she was to be married to the man of their choice. Now it is Dawn's wedding day. She knows she should be filled with joy and anticipation. Instead, all she feels is hopelessness. For Dawn has finally found a man she could love, a man who...
10) The tryst
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2014.
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478 pages ; 23 cm
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"After overhearing a terrible conversation between her mother and sister concerning her, Patricia Merrill flees to New York City, assumes a fake identity and finds a job. When her childhood sweetheart shows up, she is torn between maintaining her secret or confiding in him"--
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Grace Livingston Hill romance novels volume 86
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1998.
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177 pages ; 22 cm
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19) Crimson mountain
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Laurel Sheridan overhears a sinister plot ot blow up the local defense plant and decides she must try to tell Phil Pilgrim, the handsome captain she met by chance along the road.