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21) Love me again
Author
Series
Hope novels (Jaci Burton) volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When the man she left behind to marry someone else starts renovating the building next to her new bookstore, Loretta Simmons, with her young daughter in tow, must make amends with Deacon Fox, who refuses to let her break his heart twice.
22) Fields of gold
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Fields of gold" tells the story of Evangeline Glennon, a young woman who is certain her future in Dillon, Oklahoma will be as predictable and flat as the miles of wheat that stretch from her front door to the edge of horizon. She is wrong.
Author
Series
Hope novels (Jaci Burton) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Molly Burnett dreads returning to her hometown of Hope for her sister's wedding, especially knowing she'll have to endure a weekend with the one man she never wants to see again. It's only a couple of days, so Molly will try to forget her painful past with her high school sweetheart Carter Richards. Because despite the bitter memories, she still can't forget what they once meant to each other. But when Molly is forced to extend her stay, Carter sees...
25) Tex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
"Usually easygoing and affable, fifteen-year-old Tex undergoes a startling personality change when his rodeo-riding father reveals the truth about Tex's birth, unwittingly pushing the boy to the point of murder."--
26) BLOOD SISTERS
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island as an...
27) To trust
Author
Series
Broken roads romances volume 1
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another...
31) On the run
Author
Series
Ivy Malone mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Original heartbreakers volume 2
Publisher
HQN Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beck Ockley, millionaire playboy, has known the pain that love can bring and is determined never to feel it again. Harlow Glass, a vulnerable Southern girl and reformed bully, is trying to rebuild her life now that she's lost everyone and everything she's ever loved. Their chemistry burns white-hot, but commitment, the one thing Harlow wants, is the one thing Beck can't give...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Bailey Ruth loves to return to earth as an emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions. Problem is, she's a bit of a loose cannon as far as ghosts go--forgetting to remain invisible, alarming earthly creatures--so she's far from the top of department head Wiggins's go-to list for assignments. That's why she's surprised when the Heaven-sent Rescue Express drops her off at a frame house on the outskirts of her old hometown, Adelaide, Oklahoma,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headlines. This relentless national attention and the tornado's aftermath caused great tension with their brother, Tucker, who soon abandoned his sisters and disappeared. On the three-year anniversary of the tornado, a cosmetics factory outside...
Author
Series
Wells Landing volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Amy Lillard's poignant introduction to Wells Landing, a small Amish community is home to two brave souls hoping to forget their painful pasts and rebuild their faith in the future. Caroline Hostetler arrived in Oklahoma determined to forge a new life for herself and her daughter, Emma. As a single mother, she values the warmth and safety she's found in close-knit Wells Landing. She's even caught the eye of a handsome newcomer--a man who just may...
38) Lorie's heart
Author
Series
Wells Landing volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome back to Wells Landing, Oklahoma, the tranquil Amish community where still waters run deep and a brave young woman sets out to discover her faith, her family, and herself. . . Lorie Kauffman is grief-stricken when her father passes away unexpectedly. But her heartache quickly turns to bewilderment when she discovers he'd been leading two lives--one of simplicity and hard work in Wells Landing, and one fraught with painful ordeals in Tulsa....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When he drops out of college to enlist as a Navy pilot, Morgan Glennon comes face-to-face with war and its consequences, leading him to an unusual woman who is the only one who can help him reclaim both his joy for living and for flying.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The poor but proud Dunne family and their friends struggle to survive on the dust-plagued prairies of the Oklahoma Panhandle, but discover bitter disappointment in the orchards and vineyards of the so-called promised land of California.
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