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"Addie Sullivan leads a quiet life in a northern California lighthouse. She mourns the death of her father and endures her mother's bitterness, until the night a storm brings an injured stranger and a dark secret to her home. The man insists she is not who she thinks she is, but rather "Julia Eaton" -- the child long lost and feared dead by her wealthy family. Seizing the chance to be reunited with the Eatons, Addie leaves her lighthouse home but...
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Californians volume 1
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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Twenty-year-old Kaitlin Donovan is forced to move to turn-of-the-century San Francisco to find her family's fortune after her mother dies.
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Mercy Falls novels volume 3
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English
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When her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, New York socialite Olivia Stewart travels to California to discover the details of her sister's death. Olivia suspects her sister's fiance, Harrison Bennett, may have had a hand in her sister's death. Even as Olivia finds herself drawn to him despite her misgivings, several attempts are made on her life and Harrison may be the only person she can trust with her life.
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Californians volume 2
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Harvest House
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English
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For five years handsome Jeff Taylor had wanted to apologize to Bobbie Bradford in person. But she had left town the day after the humiliating episode at the picnic and never returned. Jeff was older now. He had grown in his faith and as a man. Still the news that Bobbie was returning to Santa Rosa while considering Cleve Ramsey's proposal of marriage came as a shock. Will their friendship be restored after heartbreaking betrayal?
5) Sean Donovan
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Californians volume 3
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English
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Caught in his first bank robbery, Sean Donovan is sentenced to hang. But Charlotte Cooper, who needs a blacksmith for her livery, has other ideas. By law, a woman of good standing in the community can save a man from the gallows by marrying him. Humbled by the dramatic rescue and renewed in his faith, Sean's heart goes out to his new bride, a woman whose past has prompted her to guard her heart. Yet could the talk around town be true? Is the fiercely...
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Mercy Falls novels volume 2
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Katie Russell loves working as a telephone operator in Mercy Falls, California. But since childhood she has been expected to marry well. Her family presses for an engagement to wealthy bachelor Bartholomew Foster and though he doesn't stir her heart, their engagement promises a secure financial future.Working the phone lines one evening, Katie overhears a chilling exchange between her friend Eliza and a familiar male voice. Katie soon learns that...
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Shy and unattractive as a child, Megan was teased by her classmates. After her senior year in Paris, the wallflower has blossomed into a beauty. When she accepts an internship, Megan discovers that she'll be working with Devin Caldwell, who mercilessly mocked her at school -- and with whom she was hopelessly enamored. When she turns to dear friend Bram Hughes for advice, his vision is clouded by a sudden attraction to a girl he'd thought of as a kid...
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Jilted by a fortune hunter, cowgirl Cassidy McClare is a spunky Texas oil heiress without a fortune who would just as soon hogtie a man as look at him. Hoping a summer visit with her wealthy cousins in turn-of-the-century San Francisco will help her forget her heartache, Cassidy travels west. But no sooner is she settled in beautiful California than Jamie McKenna, a handsome pauper looking to marry well, captures her heart. When Jamie discovers the...
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Wells Fargo Trail volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Zac Cobb, sent to California by Wells Fargo to investigate stolen gold shipments, encounters vigilantes and a corrupt federal judge who was formerly commander of the Union prison where Zac's brothers were held during the Civil War.
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Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In the summer of 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler is the new and powerful anti-Semitic chancellor of Germany. But in Los Angeles, no-nonsense secretary Liesl Weiss has concerns much closer to home. The Great Depression is tightening its grip and Liesl is the sole supporter of two children, an opinionated mother, and a troubled brother. Leon Lewis is a Jewish lawyer who has watched Adolf Hitler's rise to power--and the increase in anti-Semitism in America--with...
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Lillian Porter is thrilled to accept a nanny position out west, until she arrives and hears troubling rumors that her employer caused his wife's death. But the accusation doesn't align with the man she comes to know--and love. When Woody is arrested on suspicion of attacking his housekeeper, can Lillian find the truth in time to save them both from tragedy?
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2014.
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English
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Allison McClare is determined to be a fearless, independent woman. But when she takes a notion to explore the wild Barbary Coast, she quickly discovers she's no match for the unsavory characters that haunt the dark streets. Detective Nick Barone would rather do almost anything than teach this petite socialite self-defense, but it seems he has little choice. Sparks fly every time the two meet until a grudging friendship develops into something deeper....
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"She's finally claimed her independence . . . how far will she go to keep it? A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles has been educated since childhood to help run her father's lumber dynasty. With the company safe from her stepfather after the marriages of her two sisters, Jilly can now focus on her dream of building a mountaintop railroad--and never marry.Nick Ryder came into Jilly's life when he saved her mother from her no-good stepfather, and he's...
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Wells Fargo Trail volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Zac Cobb's assignment to protect a shipment of gold bullion from river pirates in California in 1878 leads to a confrontation with a businessman who has kidnapped Zac's son.