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"Celebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon's shocking death in his favorite place on earth, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage, his (messy, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon's three wives, his children, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell. The three very different women have long been bitter rivals, each...
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Deacon's family volume 3
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"Sylvie King, now a widow, desperately needs help on her horse farm. What she doesn't need are complications. Unfortunately, she's just hired a man with plenty of them"--
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Deacon's family volume 2
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New to Stoney Ridge, schoolteacher Mollie has come to town for a fresh start. When Luke Schrock, new to his role as deacon, asks the church to take in foster girls from a group home, she's the first to raise her hand. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together. The 11-year-old twins she takes in bring her sleepless nights and police visits... and then the girls accuse Mollie of...
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On the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. Helpful and studious, she has everything a girl could want: a beautiful home, a mother who adores her, and an attentive stepfather. But inside, Jillian harbors a terrible secret. Terrified to tell, convinced that her friends and loved ones, especially her mother, won't understand - and worse will blame her - Jillian endures her pain in silence, believing she's got everything under...
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In this newly updated and revised introduction to the permanent diaconate, Plater includes a history of deacons in the early church, a survey of deacons from the Reformation to the present, stories of modern diaconal ministries, including first-hand accounts, and a discussion of the formation, training, and deployment of deacons. This book is a basic, essential text for discernment committees and commissions on ministry, and a comprehensive look at...
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Lena Rose Schwartz hadn't planned to leave her Old Order community in Centerville, Michigan. But then, she could not have foreseen the accident that made her and her siblings orphans. After her parents' funeral, her younger brothers and sisters are farmed out to various nearby relatives. But when the deacon in charge of the arrangements tells her there aren't places enough for everyone, she agrees to go live with her father's second cousin and his...
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"Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael's latest batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at their feeders when her hopes for a relaxing early summer morning are dashed. First her father recruits her to help him install a new batch of bees in the hive in her backyard. Then Mayor Shiffley recruits her to placate the NIMBYs (Not in my backyard), as she calls them - a group of newcomers to Caerphilly who have built McMansions...
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With proper planning, we can all retire at a younger age than we ever dreamed. Hayes explains the practical, concrete steps you can take to start your retirement when you're young enough to thoroughly enjoy it. He covers the development of a personalized retirement plan, as well as ways to maximize income and assess and reduce debt. By selecting the right investment vehicles and sticking to the plan, you can achieve financial independence and enjoy...
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Susan Hostetler returns to her Amish community with her English friend, Teresa, who hopes to settle there with her newborn, fatherless son. But Deacon Ray forbids the unwed mother from attending church services. Susan's estranged boyfriend, Thomas Stoll, in hopes of winning her back, convinces an old bachelor to propose to Teresa and adopt her child after the marriage. Deacon Ray agrees to the idea, but Susan is outraged at the turn of events.
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"From Catriona McPherson, Agatha Award-winning author of Quiet Neighbors, comes Strangers at the Gate: a twisty, fascinating mystery that asks the question: who do you turn to when everyone's a stranger and you've stopped believing your own eyes? Finnie Doyle and Paddy Lamb are leaving city life in Edinburgh behind them and moving to the little town of Simmerton. Paddy's been made partner at the law firm in town, and Finnie has snagged a job as a...
13) The wish
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Leona Speicher got the "sister" she'd always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family moved to Lancaster County Amish farmland. The Arkansas newcomers seem to be everything a devout Plain family should be, and Leona can't help comparing Gloria's's engaging young parents to her own. Leona's cousin shows a romantic interest in Gloria around the same time as Gloria's older brother expresses his fondness for Leona--it seems likely the two young...
14) Song of Solomon
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At age forty-five, Dr. Neil Taylor is an eligible bachelor living a seemingly satisfied existence as a deacon of his church and director of Kingdom Builder's Academy. Despite outward appearances, though, Neil harbors secret pains that have caused him to build a well-constructed wall of defense around his heart. Everything changes when Shaylynn Ford, a beautiful young mother, strolls through the doors of his office. Neil is certain Shaylynn is his...
15) Tamed
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Tangled (Emma Chase) volume 3
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"In this third book by NYT bestseller Emma Chase, Matthew Fisher --the best friend of Drew Evans from TANGLED and TWISTED -- wants to settle down, but he'll have to overcome the mistrust of the colorful and unique Dee Dee Warren"--
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In modern-day Gossamer Grove, Wisconsin, an inheritance forces Annalise Forsythe to face the town's dark secrets, while a century earlier amid the arrival of revivalists in Gossamer Grove, newspaperwoman Libby Sheffield works with a deacon's son to investigate his father's death.
17) Closer still
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Although she has been trying to put her work, running a one-woman detective agency, on hold while she cares for her new baby, Jonathan, Brodie Farrell soon learns that taking time off is not as easy as it sounds. Not only does Jonathan have a rare disease that may leave him blind, his father, Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, is going after the nastiest crook in town, Joe Loomis, who quickly retaliates by threatening Brodie and little Jonathan....
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"Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a...
19) Blood sins
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All clues to the recent rash of murders point to the enigmatic Church of the Everlasting Sin and its charismatic leader, the Reverend Adam Deacon Samuel. But getting to the man known as 'Father' will be no easy task, for he is insulated within his flock of loyal minions--closely guarded by those who would gladly give their lives for his. Now, with the support of Haven, the civilian agency Bishop helped launch, the elite FBI Special Crimes Unit must...
20) LIARS ALL
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"Brodie Farrell has been asked to find some strange things in the course of her business, but this time it's personal. She's searching desperately for a cure for her baby's cancer. Attempting to keep the business afloat in her absence, Brodie's devoted friend and assistant, Daniel Hood, undertakes the hunt for a necklace stolen in a murderous robbery. Typically, his sense of fair play keeps him looking for the jewelry when a wiser man would have given...
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