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"When the fun-loving and spontaneous artist Willow West meets buttoned-up, retired English teacher George Emerson, it's not exactly love at first sight. Though she does find the obsessive-compulsive man intriguing. Making it her mission to get him to loosen up and embrace life, she embarks on what seems like a lost cause--and finds herself falling for him in the process. A confirmed bachelor, George vacillates between irritation and attraction whenever...
2) The guardian
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Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
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When Jodi Winfield comes to Lancaster to house-sit, the last thing she expects to find is a dsheveled little girl alone on the side of the road. The young teacher is mystified when she learns there have been no reports of a missing child and the girl herself is no help, since she can't speak English. It's as if the child appeared out of nowhere. Jodi, then turns her attention to Hickory Hollow--and the cloistered world of the Old Order Amish--in...
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Langtry Sisters volume 2
Language
English
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Addie hopes to establish an orphanage in Whispering Pines, but she must also contend with her past, including her outlaw brother.
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Series
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true. Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas...
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Series
Little Hickman Creek series volume 1
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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"Feisty Liza Jane Merriwether discovers that God is the ultimate Matchmaker when she moves to Little Hickman Creek, Kentucky, to become the new schoolteacher; she meets a widowed farmer who falls in love with her, but he has already sent for a mail-order bride"--Provided by publisher.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In a small Amish town like picturesque Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one solution to an indiscretion is to make a good marriage. Or perhaps, fake a respectable engagement... Priscilla Ebersol has a fulfilling life teaching special needs children until her boyfriend's humiliating betrayal ruins her reputation and threatens her job. Ostracized for something she didn't do, Priscilla needs a distraction: researching the benefits of camel's milk for her brother's...
8) True courage
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Series
Uncommon heroes volume 4
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Someone snatched his cousin’s wife and son. FBI agent Luke Falcon is searching for a kidnapper and sorting out the crime. He’s afraid it’s the work of a stalker. He’s afraid they’re already dead. And he’ll do anything required to get them back alive…he didn’t plan on falling in love with the only witness.
9) Dakota born
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English
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Returning to the struggling town of Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, Lindsay Snyder seeks to discover family secrets while reevaluating her life, an effort that provides unexpected hope to the town of her childhood vacations.
10) Child wanted
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Series
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Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Lindy Burnett can hardly believe it: she's found her son. In the three years they've been separated, Lindy has thought of nothing else but her little boy. But Jerry doesn't remember her--and she's about to be adopted. His would-be father, schoolteacher Ethan Green, would do anything for the child--except give him up. Ethan has no idea of Lindy's connection to the boy, but there is no denying the connection Ethan feels to her. His painful past makes...
11) Big decisions
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Series
Lizzie searches for love volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Questions and indecision as well as answers and certainty enter Lizzie's life as she must decide whether to join the Amish church, to marry Stephen, and to continue teaching. Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.
12) Buttoned up
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Series
Secrets from grandma's attic volume 4
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"It's a new school year, and Amy Allen is excited about teaching at her old elementary school and helping her soon-to-be adopted kids adjust to their new community. She's not quite as excited when the principal asks her to handle the Parent Teacher Association finances and step in at the last minute to coordinate a huge carnival. It doesn't take long for Amy to discover that proceeds from past fundraisers and donations are mysteriously missing from...
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English
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"Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard...
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Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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"Simon can't stop thinking about the pretty Amish teacher at the local one-room school, but he's ignored the sparks between them because he's so shy. So Simon's little brother Isaac takes matters into his own hands"--Dust jacket flap.
15) Stranger things
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Serena is saved from a killer in the forest, she learns more about Christopher, the man who sacrificed his life to save hers, and must clear her name when she is suspected of working with the killer.
A troubled student has accused biology teacher Serena Diaz of sexual misconduct, cutting off her promising career just as it was starting to blossom. When a therapeutic walk in the woods leads her to a ruined house overtaken by criminals, Serena...
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Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Language
English
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AFter suffering a broken engagement, teacher Rachel Hostetler is looking for a fresh start. When handsome Noah Lapp rescues her from a runaway buggy her first day in town, things seem hopeful. Then Rachel hears talk that Noah is expected to court her cousin, Charlotte. Yet Noah spends all his free time with Rachel. Will Rachel discover the truth without losing her heart? And find a happy-ever-after in Happiness, Pennsylvania?
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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For Lillian Keim, instructing children in her one-room schoolhouse is as close to being a mother as she'll ever get. Lillian has a calling to be a teacher, and she won't give up to marry. But her plans--and her heart--are at risk when she begins to feel more than friendship for lifelong pal Timothy Bowman. When Tim rescues Lillian and her class from a fire, the volunteer firefighter suddenly sees what he's been blind to all his life: he wants his...
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Series
Matchmakers of Harts Haven volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Karl Graber is too busy struggling with his hardware store and two young daughters to indulge local matchmaker Rose Yoder's schemes. After his wife's death, the thought of loving and perhaps losing another woman holds no appeal. So while he's relieved to learn he's not on Rose's list of potential husbands for new schoolteacher Sophie Eicher, he's also surprised. Despite himself, Karl can't help wondering what Rose thinks he lacks--and why outspoken,...
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Series
Deacon's Family volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
New to Stoney Ridge, schoolteacher Mollie has come to town for a fresh start. Aware of how fleeting and fragile life is, she wants to live it boldly and bravely. When Luke Schrock, new to his role as deacon, asks the church to take in foster girls from a group home, she's the first to raise her hand. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together. Mollie envisions sleepovers and pillow...
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Series
Love's a mystery volume 4
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1945... When Iris Pitts takes a job teaching in the one-room schoolhouse in Nameless, Tennessee, she hopes her year of despair will finally end. She has no idea if her soldier boyfriend, Will McCrae, was killed, captured, or just broke up with her without a word. But then Will shows up in town, and a series of thefts occur, neither Will nor Iris knows if their rekindled relationship can survive. As Iris scrambles to find the thief--while reassuring...