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1) Plain murder
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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A woman who left the Amish community long ago returns to Pennsylvania—and finds herself negotiating between her people and the police...
In this unique mystery debut, a shallow grave is found on a Pennsylvania farm, and one woman straddling the Amish and outside worlds must uncover a killer—and create a life on her own terms...
Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast has returned to Stone...
In this unique mystery debut, a shallow grave is found on a Pennsylvania farm, and one woman straddling the Amish and outside worlds must uncover a killer—and create a life on her own terms...
Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast has returned to Stone...
2) Late bloomer
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English
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Struggling to recover her long-buried memories of a childhood tragedy, Cody Jordan searches for fulfillment and self-identity in the face of adversity, acrimonious relationships, and love.
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English
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With a vibrant, fresh style Suzanne Woods Fisher brings readers into the world of a young Amish woman torn between following the man she loves--or joining the community of faith that sustains her, even as she questions some of the decisions of her elders. Her choice begins a torrent of change for her and her family, including a marriage of convenience to silent Daniel Miller. Both bring broken hearts into their arrangement--and secrets that have been...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Round and round she goes, blonde pigtails flying, her high-pitched giggle catching on the wind. But as the ride slows to a stop, her seat is suddenly empty. Little Lucy is gone... When seven-year-old Lucy Ross is snatched from the carousel in Denton city park, Detective Josie Quinn joins the frantic search. She's the one who finds Lucy's sparkly butterfly backpack abandoned by the ticket booth, a note with a devastating message stuffed inside: answer...
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English
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The perfect family. The perfect house. The perfect life. All gone now. What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the school assigns each eighth-grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year as a lesson in mortality, Worm Tarnauer, who thrives on being invisible, doesn't count on Becca Finch, the seventeen-year-old car crash victim who changes everything.
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Series
Melanie Travis mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
While attending a five-day symposium for dog show judges in the Pocono Mountains with her Aunt Peg, a very pregnant Melanie Travis is fast on the scent of a killer when the dead body of an offensive guest speaker is found floating in the outdoor hot tub.p
11) Summer breezes
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Series
Tales from Grace Chapel Inn volume 33
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 15
Language
English
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Description
For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. On this quilter's holiday, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom has invited her friends to continue an old family tradition of sewing quilt blocks representing their thankfulness and gratitude. As each quilter explains the significance of her carefully chosen block,...
13) Plain dead
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Series
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English
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"Although she left her Old Order Amish ways in her youth, Rachel discovered corporate life in the English world to be complicated and unfulfilling. Having returned to Stone Mill, she's happy to be running her own B&B. But she's also learning--in more ways than one--that the past is not always so easily left behind. After local newspaperman Bill Billingsly is found gagged and tied to his front porch, left to freeze overnight in a snowstorm, Detective...
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Ladies of liberty volume 2
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English
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When her father is falsely imprisoned for slave trading, Catherine Newbury finds her English world turned upside down. Whisked away with trusted servants to America, she is forced to disguise her past and create a completely new life. Taking on a servant's last name, Catherine becomes an accomplished seamstress whose dress designs are sought throughout Philadelphia. Carter Danby, an architect who was touring England, met Catherine at a party in her...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Donovan is burned out on work, worn down by her dating relationships, and in need of an adventure. When her grandmother asks her to accompany her to Redbud, Pennsylvania, to restore the grand old house she grew up in, Kate jumps at the chance. Upon her arrival in Redbud, Kate meets Matt Jarreau, the man hired to renovate the house. Kate can't help being attracted to him, drawn by both his good looks and something else she can't quite put her...
17) Lovely wild
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Brought up in the savage captivity of her unstable grandmother's rural Pennsylvania home, Mari Calder once yearned for rescue. Now she struggles every day to function as an adult in the confines of normal society. Left with only a foggy recollection of her childhood, she's consumed with being a dutiful wife to her husband, Ryan, and mother to their two children. But an unexpected twist of events returns her to that long-forgotten house in the woods....
18) Killer smile
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Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Lawyer Mary DiNunzio's new case is a mystery-the strange suicide of an Italian fisherman interned during a dark, unspoken chapter in American history. Armed only with the puzzle pieces of a lock of hair, an old photograph, and a paper covered with indecipherable doodles, Mary digs deep into the case and suspects betrayal-and murder.
Meantime, Mary's friends worry that her investigation is becoming an obsession, so they set her up on a series of truly...
19) Seeds of hope
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Series
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English
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Miriam Troyer has had a secret crush on Mark Byler since she was a teenager, but she knows they can never have a relationship: Mark is a big-city attorney and an Englischer. Miriam loves her quiet way of life and Mark has always loved his visits to his grandfather's farm, but he's convinced the Amish life isn't for him, But when things go wrong and his firm distances itself from him to try to save themselves, Mark finds himself back at his grandfather's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"City girl Effie Starr Zook is not excited about spending the summer on her aunt and uncle's farm in Nowheresville, Pennsylvania, until she stumbles across a mystery that leads her smack into an old family feud"--
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