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1) Larkspur
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"Miss Kristin Anderson had never left home before, but no one was going to stop her from going to Montana to take possession of Larkspur, the ranch she had inherited. She was 23, a 'spinster'...She didn't know she'd have to outsmart gunslingers and a land grabber...And she never dreamed that Buck Lenning, the 'old' foreman at her ranch, was a young, lanky, secretive cowboy..."--Cover.
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Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides into Dalton Barnes. He's lived in Redstone all his life and hates how the big city out-of-towners are gawking...
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World War II has ended, and everyone is pursuing peacetime's bright promise. Newly-arrived in a small Wisconsin town, Christina Tucker wants to put her wartime nursing skills to use. But helping a shell-shocked veteran recover tests her determination and disturbs town memories best left buried. She turns to her patient's seemingly-irresponsible brother, Tyler Sutter. A restless ex-soldier, Tyler can't believe this pretty nurse can heal his family....
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"Adrianna Moore has just had a double shock: the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer. The lawyer, a repulsive social climber, tells her that to regain her inheritance, she must marry him a week from Sunday. Adrianna takes off, driving desperately to a new life. Caught in a violent rainstorm, she collides with an oncoming truck. Quinn Baxter, the driver of the truck, demands repayment for his lost...
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As a child, Charlotte Tucker was raised in small town Minnesota where the only real company was the people who came to her aunt Louise's boarding house. Several years later, Charlotte is a young woman and thirsty to get out of her hometown and see the world. When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, she jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer, a small town to the north, to begin her new career. She soon befriends...
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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...
7) By starlight
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"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...
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Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone. But 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. She's fresh out of ways to turn her luck around-until a daring stranger's unexpected kindness sparks hope she hasn't felt in a long time...
10) Take me home
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Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, 1945. Olivia Marsten never imagined she'd be a war bride. But when her childhood best friend surprises her with a marriage proposal before he leaves to serve with the Navy, she reluctantly accepts even though her heart belongs to someone else. Sparks fly the moment mysterious stranger Peter Becker lays eyes on Olivia. but Peter harbors a dark secret. The son of an American soldier, he was forced to join the Reich's...
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Sophie Heller and her family left Nazi Germany for a better life in Victory, Illinois. But when war fever sweeps the town, the Hellers become targets of suspicion, threats, and attacks. Sophie, working as a newspaperwoman, begins an investigation to uncover the truth. Cole Ambrose, a physically disabled local teacher, becomes her unexpected ally, and love.
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Louise Watkins has her hands full. Her mother had been the town midwife, but when her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in a childbirth ever again. Since then Louise has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice's six-year old, Charlotte, because the child's father was lost in World War I. But Louise's principal job is running the boardinghouse that is the family's main source of income. One day, Charlotte befriends a...
13) Wayward wind
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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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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 pass...
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Iris Ouverson has poured all her energies into the family farm, so the appearance of John Lang is both unexpected and infuriating. Now, the land is theirs to share-an idea she can't accept. But John is determined to prove his dedication to the farm and his feelings for Iris. The caring affection he showed her has ripened into a deep, adoring passion that thrives in the fertile cllimate of their need for each other. But when disaster strikes the farm...
18) Nightrose
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Kathy, a fiercely independent young woman, ignores her own emotional needs and attempts to protect her niece and her sister, as they struggle to survive in the wilderness. But the passionate attentions of rugged frontiersman Garrick Rowe causes her reserve to crumble.
19) More than memory
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"Iowa, 1958. Nelda Hanson, a successful young designer in Chicago, has come home to sell the family farm. Here, just eight years ago, she was a pregnant teenage bride, torn from the arms of her new husband minutes after the ceremony. Nelda wouldn't see him again, not even after she bore his child. Now suddenly-and dangerously-Lute Hanson is back in her life. The thin, blue-eyed boy with the shy smile has become a rugged and handsome, yet distant and...
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Beth Marshall is shocked when Tom Clary, the cowboy she left town to avoid, arrives in Minnesota to bring Beth home to tend to her ailing sister, but when Beth's long-buried feelings for Tom are reawakened, she wonders if Tom has truly changed or if he will only break her heart once more.