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21) Matilda's song
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Pub. Date
2009
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Matilda escapes marriage to a brutal knight by pretending to be married to her cousin when she is waylaid by a local baron, Lord Geoffrey. Geoff demands his 'first night' rights and now they both know a passion like none they've ever experienced. When the brutal knight returns and sees Matilda with Geoff he has murder on his mind.
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Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick shows how langscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman's desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life.
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Harlequin historicals volume 649
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A widow before she'd even been a wife - Mary Margaret Hampton was in big trouble! Lonely loggers. One genteel lady. A dangerous combination, Tom Randall thought. He was trying to run a business, not a tea party! And if obstinate Meggy Hampton didn't hightail her moonlight and magnolias back south, the sweet sparks she was igniting would make the camp - and his passion - explode like the Fourth of July!
25) Blue horizons
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Women of Paragon Springs volume 2
Pub. Date
2001
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Meg Brennon knows that her new life at her road ranch in Paragon Springs, Kansas, can't truly begin until she severs all ties with the abusive husband she'd fled years before. Although fearful, she returns to St. Louis determined to find him and obtain a divorce. But Ted Malloy refuses, hoping that Meg's return will win him his dying father's favor, and fortune. It's going to be a long hard fight, but Meg can't afford to stay away from Kansas and...
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Women of Paragon Springs volume 4
Pub. Date
2002
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Lucy Walsh's heart remains with the struggling town of Paragon Springs, but she feels beholden to her husband, Admire, to make the Run to the Cherokee Strip for new land.
27) No other place
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Women of Paragon Springs volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
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A hard, high plains life has turned refined southern lady, Aurelia Symington, into a work-toughened, capable woman determined to give her best to those she loves.
29) Out of the dark
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Pub. Date
2009
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As a blind woman seen as a flawed commodity, Lady Lynnet is used to the idea that she's unlovable. But her parents' plan to force her into a loveless marriage is too much. Wandering, upset and lost in the cellars of the king's castle, the darkness doesn't frighten her, but the murder plot she overhears chills her to the bone. Worse, no one believes her, and the only one she can turn to is a Norman sheriff whose voice sounds disturbingly like one of...
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c2004
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Extra! Extra! Mail-Order Brides Compete To See Who Can Deliver! That should be the headline in the Gazette, Lolly Mayfield swore. Here she'd gotten up the gumption to answer an ad, only to find herself competing for bride status against two other women, with Kellen Macready as the extremely eligible-and very masculine-prize! If it weren't for charity, Kellen Macready would never have agreed to be the grand prize in a public matchmaking contest. But...
31) Rain of fire
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Pub. Date
2006
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When a new hot spring appears overnight in the park and a noted naturalist is scalded to death, Kyle Stone mounts an expedition into the Yellowstone backcountry to unravel the mystery.
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Pub. Date
c2009
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"Solomon, daughter of Rulon Clark Allred, was twenty-eighth of forty-eight children born to her father's seven plural wives. She recounts growing up in a family often split up, living on the run or in hiding. Choosing monogamy for herself, she struggles to remain close to her polygamous family"--Provided by publisher.
33) Hoodoo
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Pub. Date
c2008
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"After an environmental lawyer, a copper mining executive, and an ethnobotanist are killed, geologist Frankie MacFarlane becomes a suspect. Frankie must decipher interlocking puzzles to clear her name and to find the killer in a mystery that involves the conflict between mining and land values in the Southwest"--Provided by publisher.
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Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she travels to the arid plains of eastern Colorado in the mid-1930s to marry Alfred Bowen, ten years her senior. They have met only twice and have come to love each other through letters. Now, on an isolated ranch in the Dust Bowl, they must adjust to the harsh ranching life and the dangers of an untamed landscape, as well as the differences between them.
35) Lake of fire
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Pub. Date
2007
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It began with lies. One-quarter Nez Perce, Cord Sutton attempts to hide his Indian blood by adopting the life of a gentleman. As part of the ruse, he plans to buy the Lake Hotel, an island in the Yellowstone wilderness that offers elegant accommodations to travelers on the Northern Pacific Railroad. When Chicago heiress Laura Fielding is rescued from a stagecoach robbery in Jackson Hole by a rugged mountain man, she hides the fact she's wealthy. What...
36) The scout
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Pub. Date
c2003
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Expecting The Unexpected Was An Army Scout's Job
Still, Major John Montgomery never anticipated finding love along the Oregon Trail. But Constance Weldon, outspoken, courageous and possessed of a quiet beauty completely at home under the wide Western sky, was like a balm from heaven to his wounded soul...;!
She'd promised her dying father she'd drive their wagon west, and Constance Weldon was always and forever a woman of her word. Though keeping...
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Portraits of the heart volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
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Jessie Ann Gaebele pursues her dream of owning her own photographic studio as she tries to put the shadow of a forbidden love behind her.
38) Haven
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Pub. Date
c2003
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Laila Mitchell sets out for Oregon with little money, a medicine kit, and not much more than the clothes on her back in the hopes of finding her last living relatives. What she finds instead is soul-satisfying work and a chance at love in a wild, enchanted canyon.
39) Fracture
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Pub. Date
c2011
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"Now reunited, Frankie MacFarlane and Philo Dain attempt to recover the Dain coin collection stolen by Philo's murdered aunt. As they follow the trail, Frankie and Philo unearth secrets from Philo's past and discover a treasure hidden from the world for nearly two hundred years"--Provided by publisher.