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1) By starlight
Author
Language
English
Description
"In early 1930s Montana, in the small town of Colton, Maddy Aldridge struggles to make ends meet during the Great Depression. With her mother long dead, her stubborn younger sister fighting her at every turn, and her father's arthritis deteriorating so badly that she has to run the family store alone, her desperation grows by the day. Enter Jeffers Grimm with a proposition too great for her to turn down: open an illegal speakeasy in the mercantile's...
2) Take me home
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Life in Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, in 1945 is focused entirely on the war. Olivia Marsten does everything she can for the war effort and to support Billy, her childhood best friend who's leaving soon for Navy training. Then Billy confesses he's been in love with her for years and proposes. Olivia accepts, but she knows it isn't right. How do you break your best friend's heart, especially when you're secretly in love with a stranger?
Author
Language
English
Description
"Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time, surviving her husband's death in World War II and raising their young son alone. Now she's at a loss as to how to handle the defiant teenager he has become, even as she struggles to keep her family financially afloat. Drake McCoy lives for putting his drag racing skills to the test. One night in this quiet town is all he needs to win big and be on his way...until he meets Clara. Drawn...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
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Hooper's Crossing, New York, 1952. The post-war boom seems a million miles away . . . especially for a sheltered librarian who longs for the adventure and excitement of the big city.
New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams about. But ever since her mother died, her overprotective father won't ease up on her. So she spends her days working at the library and her nights hoping life doesn't...
New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams about. But ever since her mother died, her overprotective father won't ease up on her. So she spends her days working at the library and her nights hoping life doesn't...
Author
Language
English
Description
When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Buckton, Indiana, 1956. As post-war America brims with new opportunities, a young woman discovers the courage to follow her dreams--and her heart. Gwendolyn Foster's life seems like a dream come true. A bright future in front of her, the successful, traditional man her parents wanted at her side. What more could a girl ask for? But Gwen has a different dream altogether--to be a writer--and she won't rest until it comes true. Strong arms to support...
10) Wayward wind
Author
Series
Colorado wind series volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Lorna Lightbody rides like lightning across the Colorado range that is her birthright and fiercest passion. She knows no man can outrace or outfight her, but when she meets Cooper Parnell, she has no weapons against the yearning that makes her tremble like a tree in a storm.
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Language
English
Description
Sophie Heller's family emigrated from Germany to Victory, a small town in Illinois, before World War II began. Now that the war has affected the town, the townspeople discriminate against Sophie and her family. When a train derails by accident, the Heller family is blamed. A teacher from the local high school comes to Sophie's rescue, and despite their cultural differences, a romance starts to bloom.
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