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1) The shunning
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Heritage of Lancaster County volume 1
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English
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Katie Lapp only knew the Amish ways, but an unexpected discovery may tear apart her beloved community; special movie edition includes stills and extra content.
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2015.
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English
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A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved...
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Heritage of Lancaster County volume 3
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English
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The Powerful Conclusion to The Shunning and The Confession! Katherine Mayfield, the new Mistress of Mayfield Manor, always dreamed of a fancy "English" life. But as the seasons pass, she finds herself grieving the loss of her Amish family and her dearest friend, Mary Stoltzfus. Shunned for the Plain life she once knew, Katherine finds solace in volunteer work with hospice patients - a labor of love she hopes will bring honor to the memory of her birth...
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Heritage of Lancaster County volume 2
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English
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Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie - now Katherine Mayfield - sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones sets Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy"...
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Prairie Legacy volume 3
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English
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Virginia must learn the heavenly source of strength through trials in this best-selling novel.
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Prairie Legacy volume 4
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English
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Virginia and Jonathan open their home to a young girl, only to face losing her when her troubled mother reappears. Prairie Legacy book 4.
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Prairie Legacy volume 1
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English
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A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 16
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English
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New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns to her enormously popular Kate Shugak series with Whipser to the Blood
Inside Alaska's biggest national park, surrounding the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park, are uneasy. "But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce," is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ the company hired to improve
10) Killing grounds
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 8
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English
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It's fishing season, and Kate Shugak is working with Old Sam aboard the fish tender Freya when Cal Meany floats up dead. His reputation as a womanizer, strike breaker, and abusive father ensures that there are several suspects, multiple motives, and quite possibly more than one murderer. While Kate investigates the killing, her aunties mend nets, operate an illegal fish camp, and impart cultural wisdom to Jack and his son Johnny. Ultimately, Kate...
13) Bad Blood
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"New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow's latest finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder One hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin's prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect...
14) Sweet salt air
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English
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Includes an excerpt from Blueprints (p. [445]-468). Two childhood friends reunite at a summer retreat, each harboring a horrible secret that would test the bounds of their longtime relationship if revealed.
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It's the height of hunting season in the bush. Kate and her boyfriend, Jack, volunteer to help out their friend and big-game outfitter George Perry with a hunting trip. After a successful outing with two of her charges, Kate returns to camp to learn that a hunter has been shot. It appears to be an accident, until the grisly body of a second hunter is discovered. With no shortage of potential suspects, Kate realizes the moose and the bears aren't the...
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It's a crisp, snowless October in The Park. The root cellar is full, the cordwood is stacked, the oil drums are filled and there's a freshly-butchered moose in her cache, but Kate Shugak must leave her cabin and head into the chaos of Anchorage, where the Alaska Federation of Natives' annual convention is being held. Why? Because board members of the Niniltna Native Association have been dying and they are the board members who happened to oppose...
17) No fixed line
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
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English
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It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board-responsible for investigating aviation incidents) unable to reach the crash site, ex-trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement to try to identify the aircraft, collect the corpses,...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 19
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English
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Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell team up for the first time ever when Liam needs Kate's help to clear his wife of the murder of a wealthy aviation entrepreneur. In their most challenging case to date, Kate goes undercover to find that the murder was only the beginning of a much larger conspiracy ranging from the darkest family secrets to treason and beyond.
19) A deeper sleep
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 15
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English
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Book 15: A Kate Shugak Novel
In A Deeper Sleep, her first novel since Blindfold Game, the stand-alone political thriller that made Dana Stabenow a New York Times bestseller, the author returns to the popular and award-winning Kate Shugak series.
Kate, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named...
In A Deeper Sleep, her first novel since Blindfold Game, the stand-alone political thriller that made Dana Stabenow a New York Times bestseller, the author returns to the popular and award-winning Kate Shugak series.
Kate, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named...
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Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 1
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The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison's Hollows series!
All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party . . . and to feed.
Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining—and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized.
A bounty hunter and a witch with serious sex appeal
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