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Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
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The body of a woman washes up near Point Deception, California--a day after she was spotted near her broken-down car on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Rhoda Swift worries the woman's brutal rape and murder will resurrect fears from the unsolved massacre of two families 13 years before. When Rhoda investigates with journalist Guy Newberry, a shocking truth will test how far she is willing to go for justice.
5) Ghosts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
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In Stacey D'Erasmo's acclaimed second novel, a quintessentially modern family is ultimately transformed by the emerging breakdown of their teenaged son, Christopher. When he disappears from his San Francisco home, his extended family comes together in a frantic search. But Christopher is in much more trouble than they know, and their attempts to support him and to save him will challenge their assumptions about themselves and one another. Exquisitely...
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Series
Virgin River volume 5
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that started it all ... The community of Virgin River saw Vanessa Rutledge through her darkest days -- now she's looking to a bright future. In the space of a few months Vanessa buried her husband, Matt, and gave birth to their son -- breaking her heart while filling it with a whole new kind of love. But the one man she longs to share this love with now acts as if she doesn't exist. Paul Haggerty lives by...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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It is the beginning of December. Oak fires are burning in the stately flickering hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For Reuben Golding, now infused with the wolf gift and under the loving tutelage of the Morphenkinder, this Christmas promises to be like no other . . . as he soon becomes aware that the Morphenkinder, steeped in their own rituals, are also celebrating the Midwinter Yuletide festival deep within Nideck forest. From out of the shadows...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Bestselling British author Patrick Gale chronicles the misadventures of a misfit tree surgeon in this "modern-day myth of self-discovery" ( The Guardian ). It was in the ancient cathedral city of Barrowcester that eight-year-old Lawrence Frost began his love affair with the trees that had "sprung up on the site of an ancient plague grave and unconsecrated resting place for the city's outcasts." And it is there that the thirty-two-year-old forester...
14) Whispering rock
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Virgin River volume 3
Language
English
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LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela, a twice-married, decorated U.S. Marine Corps reservist who had been wounded in the line of duty, finds peace and healing in the town of Virgin River, as well as new love in the person of Brie Sheridan.
"Virgin River became a safe haven for Sacramento prosecutor Brie Sheridan after she nearly lost her life at the hands of a crazed criminal. Though tough and courageous, she has some fears she can't escape--but now she...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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In David Vann's searing novel Goat Mountain, an 11-year-old boy at his family's annual deer hunt is eager to make his first kill. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture, tragedy erupts, shattering lives irrevocably. In prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that...
16) Wild Man Creek
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Welcome back to VIRGIN RIVER with the books that started it all ... Sometimes love takes root in unexpected places -- if you'll only let it grow Colin Riordan came to Virgin River to recuperate from a horrific helicopter crash, the scars of which he bears inside and out. His family is wonderfully supportive, but it's his art that truly soothes his troubled soul. Stung personally and professionally by an ill-advised affair, PR guru Jillian Matlock...
17) One wish
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From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River ! #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr delivers another smart, funny, emotional novel about the complexities of life in the small Oregon town of Thunder Point Grace Dillon was a champion figure skater until she moved to Thunder Point to escape the ruthless world of fame and competition. And though she's proud of the quiet, self-sufficient life she's created running a successful...
18) Sunrise Point
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Return to Virgin River with the books that started it all ... Nora Crane will do what it takes to keep her family afloat. Things are better than they've been for a while; still she's barely scraping by. But she's got two little girls to look after so she's willing to work hard and help out with harvesttime at the Cavanaugh orchard. Her new boss is Tom Cavanaugh. After his time in the Marines, he's come home to take over the family farm. Tom thinks...
19) Virgin River
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Welcome back to Virgin River with the book that started it all ... Wanted: Midwife/nurse practitioner in Virgin River, population six hundred. Make a difference against a backdrop of towering California redwoods and crystal-clear rivers. Rent-free cabin included. When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees this ad, she quickly decides that the remote mountain town of Virgin River might be the perfect place to escape her heartache, and to reenergize...
20) Angel's Peak
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Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that started it all ... Four years ago, air force sweethearts Franci Duncan and Sean Riordan reached an impasse. She wanted marriage and a family. He didn't. But a chance meeting proves that the bitter breakup hasn't cooled their sizzling chemistry. Sean has settled down in spite of himself -- he's not the cocky young fighter pilot he was when Franci left, and he wants them to try again. After all, they...
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