Allison Pittman
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English
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Life has been scorching Nola Merrill's skin and soul more than the 'Dust Bowl' ever could. Bitter with her divorce and aware that life lost meaning when her mother died and left her with an unaffectionate father, Nola commits a shameful sin by sleeping with a drifter and long-lost friend. Only by confessing her sin can Nola lead her family into a quenching future free from Oklahoma's dry and dusty air.
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English
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During the Roaring Twenties, two women find they've been victims of treachery and deceit which led to an imprisonment for a crime that never happened.
Hollywood, the 1920s. Celeste DuFrane's father's work with color movie film opens doors that lead to the stardom she always aspired to. But after losing her mother, she discovers that half the estate has been left to a woman accused of killing Celeste's baby sister before Celeste was even born. Dana...
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Crossroads of grace volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Crossroads of grace volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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English
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Germany, 1505. In the dark of night, Katharina von Bora says the bravest good-bye a six-year-old can muster and walks away as the heavy convent gate closes behind her. Though the cold walls offer no comfort, Katharina soon finds herself calling the convent her home. God, her father. This, her life. She takes her vows--a choice more practical than pious--but in time, a seed of discontent is planted by the smuggled writings of a rebellious excommunicated...
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Crossroads of grace volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Young widow Hedda Krause checks into the Menger Hotel in 1915 with a trunk full of dresses, a case full of jewels, and enough cash to pay for a two-month stay, which she hopes will be long enough to meet, charm, and attach herself to a new, rich husband. Her plans are derailed when a ghostly apparition lures her into a long, dark hallway, and Hedda returns to her room to find her precious jewelry has been stolen. All her hopes for the future seem...
10) Laura's shadow
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Series
Doors to the past volume 9
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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De Smet, South Dakota--1890. Young women growing up in De Smet live by two rules: don't go out in a snowstorm and don't give your heart to Cap Garland. Young Mariah Patterson only managed to obey one. Orphaned and having devoted her youth to scrapping out a life with her brother Charles, Mariah finds herself with no option but to marry the devoted--but dull--Merrill Gowan. Throwing caution to the wind, she seizes an opportunity to lay her feelings...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Pudge and Prejudice is an homage to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, transported to the fictitious Northfield Texas High School in the year 1984. After moving to Northfield with her family, Elyse Nebbit faces the challenge of finding her place in a new school, one dominated by social status and Friday night football. When Elyse's effortlessly beautiful older sister Jayne starts dating Charlie Bingley, the captain of the school football team, Elyse...
12) The seamstress
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[2019]
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456 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"1788: In a tiny French village, during the waning days of peace, cousins Renee and Laurette live a peaceful, relatively contented life as the shepherdesses under the guardianship of the respectable Emile Gagnon. When Renee is given the chance to work as a seamstress at the Palace at Versailles, their lives take two very different paths straight into the heart of the Revolution. Based on a character who appears in the classic, A Tale of Two Cities"--...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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367 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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When the owner of the "Capitol Chatter" newspaper dies and his nephew Max Moore takes over, Monica Brisbane embarks on her most challenging assignment yet: infiltrating and reporting on the Anti-Flirt Society. Soon romance begins to blossom between Max and Monica, forcing Monica to choose where her loyalties lie: with the young women of the society or the alluring pull of the speakeasy and its inhabitants.