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Wisdom and Humor from the Front Porch
Master storyteller Philip Gulley shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life.
When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million...
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Her high school sweetheart is the last person teacher Hailey Deacon expects to encounter back home in Hartley Creek. Since Dan Morrow closed the door on their future, Hailey's determined to make this a temporary stay. She has an ill grandmother to take care of. But when Dan, now a widower, brings his troubled six-year-old daughter to Hailey for help, how can she refuse? Working with both father and daughter, she vows not to fall for him again. But...
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An injured woman in a wedding veil on Jack Colby's ranch property? Jack has no idea who she is--and neither does she. "Kendra" doesn't know her name, what the veil is all about or where she belongs. And since Jack's entire life changed with the unwelcome discovery of a twin brother, he's not in the mood for secrets or surprises. Like finding out that Kendra might be spoken for. Yet even as she helps him open his heart to his family, he finds himself...
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The world-famous creator of the life-enhancing Positive Thinking self-help program offers powerful tools for achieving success and happiness in every area of daily life. There is a definite relationship between positive thinking and positive or good results. Norman Vincent Peale, one of the 20th century's most influential self-help experts and spiritual leaders, introduced his practical and effective techniques for happiness and success in his groundbreaking...
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"Whether you recognize it or not, you're at war with yourself. There's anxiety. Selfishness. Self-sabotaging tendencies. Narcissism. The black dog of depression. The inability to do the great things you long to do because you spend so many hours mindlessly drifting through the internet. It is war, but all is not lost. You can win?if you choose to engage. In I Declare War, Levi Lusko candidly shares about his struggles with moodiness, bullying, suicidal...
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When a heart-wrenching accident in a Christmas Eve snowstorm jars Andrew from his obsession with success, a Christmas miracle will give him a second chance at love, life, and gratitude ... but only if he can put aside his own ambition and learn to appreciate each moment. Sometimes it takes a tragedy to change a man's life-- and to teach him to treat every day as if it were his last.
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During the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Amish girl Hannah and her family move from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to a homestead in North Dakota, hoping to make a fresh start, but face harsh realities and nearly starve until Hannah takes matters into her own hands, going into town to look for a job, leaving her little time to contemplate her feelings for her neighbor.
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Worthy, Hachette Book Group
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2024.
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"Life can be hard, but no matter what challenges you are facing, Pope Francis wants you to know you were created by God for this moment. There is always a way to find joy and to celebrate the wonder of the life we have been given. In this brand-new book, Pope Francis offers fifteen mindsets that allow readers to find hope and meaning in every circumstance. He encourages us to defend and protect the light that shines in us, to believe in the beautiful,...
11) Code of silence
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Code of silence novels volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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When thirteen-year-olds Cooper, Hiro, and Gordy witness a robbery that leaves a man in a coma, they find themselves tangled in a web of mystery and deceit that threatens their lives.
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Hannah has put everything into building up her family’s homestead in North Dakota. Despite the Great Depression, unpredictable weather, and unforgiving landscape, she and her new husband Jerry stay on even after their Amish friends and family move back east. When a plague of grasshoppers destroys every last morsel of vegetation after yet another drought, Hannah and Jerry return to the fertile soil of Pennsylvania, where life will be safe and predictable....
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In a personal creed she wrote one month before her death, Rachel Scott explained her conviction that if one person goes out of his or her way to show compassion, it will start a world-changing chain reaction of kindness. Now her father is carrying on her crusade by challenging people of all ages to commit themselves to creating a revolution of compassion that can impact our troubled world.
16) The outside
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Hallowed ones volume 2
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Kicked out of the safety of her Amish community, teenaged Katie must face the dangerous vampire-infested outside world.
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Dakota (Linda Byler) volume 2
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"Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. As the local Amish community begins to thrive, a terrible drought and a windmill fire devastate their business and the community. Hannah must choose whether to stay in North Dakota or move back to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with the other Amish families that are leaving"--
After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah's family is...
19) Carolina gold
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The war is over, but at Fairhaven Plantation, Charlotte's struggle has just begun. Charlotte Fraser returns to her late father's once-flourishing rice plantation on the Waccamaw River, determined to continue his tradition of growing the special kind of rice known as Carolina Gold. But Fairhaven Plantation is in ruins, the bondsmen are free, and money is scarce. To make ends meet, Charlotte reluctantly accepts a position as tutor to the young daughters...
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"The heart finds its way when one least expects it--even in the most unforgiving frontiers. Invited by a friend to trek west and help establish the newly formed town of Cheyenne, Edward Vogel is prepared to leave the haunting memories of his wife and son's deaths behind him. The only problem is the corrupt new railroad town wants family men who can establish law and order, and desperation leads Edward to his friend Marybeth with a proposition of marriage....
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