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As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking...
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2013
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Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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"Phoebe Starbuck has always taken care of her father as he chases one whim after another. Finally, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves she takes two gifts from her father, but desires only one: her great-grandmother's journal. The second gift? A 'minder' in the form of cooper Matthew Macy, a man she loathes. Phoebe soon discovers that life at sea is no easier than...
4) Quaker oaths
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Dreamscape Media, LLC
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[2018]
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English
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When Quakers get married, every wedding guest signs their marriage certificate. But now Joe and Emily need all those guests to cross their names off to get divorced.
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"After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom--a Quaker in good standing, of course. But if they relinquish the inheritance, it all goes to Tristram Macy, their father's thieving business...
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Tack Gentry has been away for a year when he returns to the familiar buildings of his uncle John Gentry's G Bar. To his amazement, the ranch has a new owner, who is unimpressed when Tack explains that his uncle was a Quaker, didn't believe in violence, and never carried a gun. His advice to Tack is to make tracks. But Tack has other plans.
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"Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, Jane, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that day finally arrives, Ren discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Bold and spirited Daphne Coffin, sister to Jane, doesn't defer to Ren as an authoritative whalemaster, but sees through his aloofness to the aching heart beneath. She encourages...
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Well Go USA
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[2022]
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A modern fairytale' with zombies! Oliver lives alone in his late parents' suburban home and faces rejection at every turn. He is tasked with making new friends, and decides his best bet is to build a perfect TV family starting at the local cemetery' where he digs friends up one at a time!
10) Judge thee not
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Quaker midwife mystery volume 5
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Beyond the Page Publishing
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[2019]
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No stranger to judgmental attitudes in her small town of Amesbury, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is nonetheless stunned when society matron Mayme Settle publicly snubs her good friend Bertie for her nontraditional lifestyle. When Mrs. Settle is later found murdered--and a supposed witness insists Bertie was spotted near the scene of the crime--the police have no choice but to set their sights on the slighted woman as their main suspect. Rose is certain...
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"Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner agrees to oversee a wedding in place of the ill Unitarian minister, unaware until the couple stands before him that they're two women. In the tempest of strong opinions and misunderstandings that follows, Sam faces potential unemployment. Deeply discouraged, he wonders if his pastoral usefulness has come to an end. Contemplating the future, Sam receives a call from a woman in Hope, Indiana. It seems Hope Friends Meeting...
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"-- Provided by publisher.
13) A changing light
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Quaker midwife mystery volume 7
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Beyond the Page Publishing
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[2021]
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English
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"As the nineteenth century nears an end, midwife Rose Carroll can see signs of progress and change everywhere in her Amesbury community. Adding to the excitement is the annual Spring Opening, when the town's world-famous carriage manufacturers throw open their doors to visitors from all over the globe. This year's festivities are tainted, however, when a representative from a prominent Canadian carriage company is murdered. Driven by her strong sense...
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"In a league with Jan Karon's Mitford series . . . readers who seek pleasant, witty and occasionally poignant fiction will delight in this book." —Publishers Weekly
It's another bustling year in the lives of this quirky Quaker community. Dale Hinshaw is back and floating another of his crackpot ministry schemes—this time, quite literally, with his Salvation Balloons project. Pastor Sam Gardner's wife, Barbara, the 1977 Tenderloin...
It's another bustling year in the lives of this quirky Quaker community. Dale Hinshaw is back and floating another of his crackpot ministry schemes—this time, quite literally, with his Salvation Balloons project. Pastor Sam Gardner's wife, Barbara, the 1977 Tenderloin...
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Sam Gardner never dreamed he would be thanking God for Harmony's self-appointed general of the religious Right, Dale Hinshaw. God does indeed work in mysterious ways.
Amanda Hodge, who has been living with her Uncle Ellis and Aunt Miriam since her parents abandoned her years ago, now faces their return and their desire to be a part of her life again. Dale Hinshaw hovers on the brink of death, in dire need of a heart transplant The whole town
...16) A lesson in Hope
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2015.
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"Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old Olive Charles passes away, leaving her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds like a godsend. Yet as word spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions as to how the money would best be used. And before the estate is released to the meeting, Olive's estranged niece, Regina, turns up tipsy...
17) Home to Harmony
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Welcome to Harmony ...In this acclaimed inaugural volume in the Harmony series, master American storyteller Philip Gulley draws us into the charming world of minister Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown, capturing the essence of small-town life with humor and wisdom.
18) The outsider
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Showtime Entertainment
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[2018]
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English
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Rebecca, a beautiful young Quaker widow, forges an unexpected relationship with a mysterious gunslinger.
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When Hannah Breed confides to midwife Rose Carroll that she's pregnant out of wedlock, Rose promises to help her through the pregnancy and figure out a way to break the news to her family. But that night, amid the noise and revelry of the Independence Day fireworks, Hannah is found shot dead.After a former slave and fellow Quaker is accused of the murder, Rose delves into the crime, convinced of the man's innocence. An ill-mannered mill manager, an...
20) The big trees
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Mr. FAT-W Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.
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