Ann H Gabhart
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English
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If any place on God's earth was designed to help one heal, it is Meadowland. Surely here, at her brother-in-law's Kentucky farm, Rose and her daughters can recover from the events of the recent past--the loss of her husband during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her struggle with tuberculosis that required a stay at a sanatorium, and her girls' experience in an orphanage during her illness. At Meadowland, hope blooms as their past troubles become rich...
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Shaker novels volume 7
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English
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"Carlyn Kearney has spent two lonely years not knowing whether to mourn or to hope after she receives word from the Union Army that her husband is missing. The war ends without further word. Now penniless, in debt, and forced from her home, Carlyn seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill ... [and] is just settling into life as a sister in the Shaker village when she receives a devastating letter confirming her worst fears. As she wrestles...
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Series
Rosey Corner novels volume 3
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English
Description
World War II is finally over and the people of Rosey Corner are busy welcoming the boys home. The Merritt sisters in particular are looking toward the future as they learn to hold their plans with a loose hand, trusting that God will guide and strengthen them.
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English
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In 1881, Jacci Reed is only five years old when a man attempts to kidnap her from the steamboat her mother, Irena, works on. Badly wounded during the confrontation, Irena takes Jacci aboard the Kingston Floating Palace, a showboat tied up beside them. There, Jacci's actor grandfather tends to her mother and Jacci gets a first taste of the life she will come to lead. Fifteen years later, Jacci is an actress aboard the Kingston Floating Palace, and...
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English
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When the soldier she planned to marry at WWII's end writes to tell her he's in love with a woman in England, Francine Howard seeks a fresh start in the Appalachian Mountains, training to be a nurse midwife for the Frontier Nursing Service. Deeply affected by the horrors he witnessed at war, Ben Locke has never thought further ahead than making it home to Kentucky. When their paths intersect, it's immediately clear that they are from different worlds...
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Shaker novels volume 4
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English
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It's bad when the girls go missing.
It's worse when the girls are found.
Six months ago, Charlotte almost lost everything. Now, she's determined to keep her daughter, Elle, safe. So when local girls close to Elle in age and appearance begin to go missing, it's her worst nightmare.
Charlotte's fears are confirmed when a frantic search becomes a shocking murder investigation. The girls' bodies have been found—half-buried, and with traces of mud...
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English
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Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in the books she loves. When a charming writer comes to town, she thinks she might have found it-- or is the perfect man actually closer than she thinks? Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long that she's nearly as rocky as...
8) The refuge
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 8
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1849. Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic sweeping the area. It's meant to be a temporary stay, but Walter is killed in a riverboat accident. With no family and no money, Darcie has little choice but to stay with the Shakers. To complicate matters, she is expecting a baby conceived before she and her husband came to the Shaker village. Marital relationships are considered sinful in this celibate community,...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"In 1933 Louisville, Kentucky, even the ongoing economic depression cannot keep Piper Danson's parents from insisting on a debut party. After all, their fortune came through the market crash intact, and they've picked out the perfect suitor for their daughter. Braxton Crandall can give her the kind of life she's used to. The only problem? This is not the man -- or the life -- she really wants....When Piper gets the opportunity to volunteer as a horseback...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis in Springfield, Kentucky. Twelve years later, nineteen-year-old Adria is determined to find a way to buy Louis's freedom. But in 1840s Kentucky, she'll face an uphill battle. Based partly on a true story"--
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Series
Rosey Corner novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Kate Merritt worries love's passing her by until Jay Tanner shows up to charm her hesistant heart. Pearl Harbor changes everything, including Kate's chance for love.
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Series
Hidden Springs mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
"Deputy Sheriff Michael Keane doesn't particularly enjoy being touted as the hero of Hidden Springs after pulling a suicidal man back from the edge of the Eagle River bridge in front of dozens of witnesses--a few of whom caught the breathtaking moments with their cameras. But the media hype doesn't last long as a new story pushes its way into the public consciousness of Hidden Springs' concerned citizens. Photos of a dead girl arrive in the mail,...
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Series
Heart of Hollyhill novels volume 2
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 6
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An expectant young woman turned away by her family at Christmas is taken in by the Shakers at Harmony Hill.
Author
Series
Hidden Springs mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hidden Springs Deputy Sheriff Michael Keen is called in to investigate a suspicious string of deaths at an empty old Victorian mansion, before more bodies can turn up.