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"It's almost Valentine's Day, the busiest time of the year at Beechy's Sweets, where the Amish gifts of love and faith are even sweeter than the home-made candy. THE SWEETEST COURTSHIP National Bestselling Author Emma Miller. At age thirty-six, Jacob Beechy is a rarity--a master candy maker, and a bachelor. His mother, however, still hopes for grandchildren. With Valentine's Day around the corner, she convinces Jacob he will need extra help in the...
2) Blackmoore
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Having decided she will never marry, Kate Worthington plans to escape her meddlesome family by travelling to India. Her mother agrees on the condition that she gets--and rejects--three marriage proposals. To fulfill her end of the bargain Kate travels tothe manor of Blackmoore in northern England, where her plans go awry.
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Molly Ziegler is proud of being a successful midwife. But at twenty-one, she's unmarried -- and fodder for gossip in her Amish community. Her meddling mother urges her to marry the town's most eligible bachelor, but Molly wants more. And newcomer Isaac Gruber is her way out. If he pretends to court her, her mother has to stop matchmaking. But Molly didn't expect the feelings Isaac stirs in her. And when the plan backfires, it might just lead them...
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Hester Detlef, local Mennonite volunteer coordinator for disaster relief In Pincraft, Florida, defied the Old Order Mennonite tradition of limited education to get her college degree. Still single, Hester is well aware that her father has attempted to match her with Samuel Longbecker. but she has no feelings for the carpenter or for any other man. When a devastating hurricane roars across the barrier islands just off the Gulf coast of Florida, John...
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"A steadfast faith kept nurse Maggie Hunter going through the darkest days of the Great War. But her fiance's death overseas shattered her trust in God and her heart. Now an injured man has washed up on the shores of her Nantucket home, and to save him, Maggie must put more than her skill and dedication on the line.... Wartime tragedy cost Stefan Witte everything--and converted him to the cause of peace. But to deliver the vital information to American...
6) Trailblazer
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With her family farm falling on hard times, Grace Rogers applies for a position with the prestigious Fred Harvey Company. Soon she's headed for Juniper, New Mexico to work in the Palace Hotel. There she meets a handsome cowboy who quickly turns her head. Too bad the Harvey Girls are forbidden to fall in love ... Nick Hopkins has a plan: buy a little land, marry, and raise a family--in that order. But after meeting Grace, he can't keep away. Their...
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This Texan had no intention of becoming a groom; until he found out he had a year to find a bride--or risk losing the family ranch. Any of the four mail-order brides recently arrived in Granite, Texas, would make a good wife. So why can't Levi Westland stop thinking about the one who refuses to have him? The marriage of convenience levi offers isn't enough to persuade Millie Hamilton. Truth is, it is no longer enough for Levi either. Millie just needed...
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Amish widow Lizzie Fisher loves her seven stepchildren as though they were her own. But her brother-in-law's unexpected arrival on the farm has her worried. After all, Zachariah Fisher is the true heir of the property. And he could decide to send her away from the family and her home of two years. Lizzie is determined to show the handsome farmer that her physical challenges don't prevent her from being a hard worker or a loving mother. For she finds...
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"For Liza Schrock, the bakery her late husband bought was an unexpected haven from their unhappy arranged marriage. Now she's perfectly content to cook up mouth-watering delights for her hometown, give to those alone or in trouble-and remain happily unwed. And though she's willing to give handsome, newly-arrived widower Jacob Graber all the help he desperately needs, she is sure they can stay just friends . . . But as Liza also tries to aid Jacob's...
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For Lillian Keim, instructing children in her one-room schoolhouse is as close to being a mother as she will ever get. Lillian has a calling to be a teacher, and she won't give it 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 has been blind to all his life he wants...
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"Newly widowed Lizbeth Mullet has a secret: she's never told anyone the true identity of her son's father. Not even now that she's come home to Pinecraft and the man in question is her new landlord. Fredrik Lapp may not know Benuel is his son, but the two soon from an unmistakable bond. And seeing Fredrik again stirs feelings Lizbeth had worked hard to bury. With Fredrik's affections resurfacing, too, the burden of Lizbeth's secret is only getting...
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Newly minted Cowboy Creek sheriff Noah Burgess doesn't want a wife--despite his friends insisting that he needs one. So when they send for a big-city single mother to be his mail-order bride, he's fit to be tied. Even if vivacious Grace Longstreet might just be the only person who can see past Noah's scars...and help him heal. Grace needs a husband to keep her and her twin daughters out of her brother-in-law's grasp. And she'll do anything--including...
13) Renegade
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"MEET THE HARVEY GIRLS. These real-life pioneering women were symbols of elegance in the wild frontier: taming rough manners, falling in love, and changing the face of the West forever. Lily Travis may be a Harvey Girl, but she's a rebel--and a romantic--at heart. Too bad her impulsive nature led her to marry a man who promised a life of ease and prosperity, only to disappear the very next day. She's kept her secret as best she can, and now she's...
14) A beau for Katie
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The Housekeeper's Surprise Match Agreeing to work for two weeks as a housekeeper to help a family in need seems like a good idea to Katie Byler. But when Katie sees the handsome, young—and single—Freeman Kemp for the first time, she wonders what she's gotten herself into. Freeman may be considered a catch, but the stubborn young man is driving strong-willed Katie to distraction. When the two of them decide to play matchmaker for Freeman's elderly...
15) My lord winter
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Lady Jane Brooke, left by her parents to molder in a North Country mansion, sets out for London in an ancient carriage. When it collapses, she and her lady-companion continue the journey by mail coach. Lost in a fog, they and the other passengers take refuge at the home of Lord Wintringham, where they are anything but welcome. The starchy lord takes Jane for a governess. When they meet again in London, Jane continues the masquerade and gradually finds...
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"For the Sake of His Children A marriage of convenience? Rachel Hewitt couldn't possibly accept. Not even for the sake of three adorable little girls who desperately want a new mother. Sheriff Tristan McCullough offers Rachel a home and family, but not the one thing she truly seeks--someone to love her for herself. Tristan McCullough hoped to find a wife on the wagon train, not a nanny. The hardworking widower wants a marriage without emotional risks....
17) Wed by necessity
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Thorndike Press
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When a riding accident strands socialite Caroline Turner overnight with the new stable manager, she gets the one thing she never wanted - a husband! Marrying the infuriating Duncan McKenna wouldn't have been her first choice, but with her reputation damaged, it's her only one. Still, something about the brash, rugged Scotsman fascinates her. If Duncan had wanted to wed a society girl, he'd have stayed in Boston. He expects Caroline to balk at her...
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Audrey Sinclair Vanderleyden sets her heart on fulfilling a promise to her dying husband to continue practicing medicine. But the old physician from whom they bought a practice refuses to honor the sale to a "woman doctor." A gunshot wound robbed Nathan Maxwell of his sight, and the ability to continue practicing medicine. Can a marriage of convenience between these two near strangers give them the second chance each so desperately needs?
20) Veiled Joy
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2010.
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Kidnapped and then abandoned as a child, Joyous grows up amid the California Gold Rush as the adopted daughter of lovable prospector Angus McFarlane. Brit O'Donnell escapes the potato famine in Ireland to find a better life in the Monterey, California. The Silver Rush will test his mettle. Fifteen-year-old Carlos Montoya, son of a Castilian patrician, also ventures to California with dreams of silver. Three separate lives to be brought together by...
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