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Rhodes – Driftless
This is the story of life in rural Wisconsin. It could take place in MN as well as southeast MN also has a driftless area. You will be introduced to the people of the area, the first is July Montgomery, who will interact with the other characters in the story. This is also the story about the way corporations treat small farmers. The people in this rural area become interconnected as the story evolves – there is the dairy farmers and his wife, his sister, who is a singer, the woman pastor, one sister who is handicapped and her sister, Violet, who has moved in to the house to take care of Olivia, who is in a wheel chair.

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Delinsky – Not My Daughter
When teenage girls form a pact to get pregnant, it will test family relationships. The town gets involved and people take sides. Susan Tate’s daughter is one of the girls who got pregnant, but she is also the Sr. High School principal. Now her detractors accuse Susan of being a bad mother. Barbara Delinsky’s story is about what does it take to be a good mother.

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Morris – The Mermaid in the Basement
A murder mystery where the accused is the son of a famous scientist. The accused man’s sister, Serafina, is a wealth widow of a nobleman. Serafina sets about to prove her brother’s innocence. She meets unlikely allies – including Dylan Tremayne, an actor with a criminal past. The year is 1857 so there is no internet or forensics to help discover the truth about the murder so the journey for the truth takes some strange twists.

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Morris – A Conspiracy of Ravens
Book 2 in A Lady Trent mystery series. With the aide of Dylan Tremayne, Lady Serafina Trent aims to help her neighbors, the Haydens, find the baby they thought was dead but had been switched at birth. A death bed confession reaveals that the child was raised by a prostitute in London’s worst slum. When the hayden’s butler is murdered, the prime suspect is the newly returned son Trevor Hayden. Lady Serafina again uses her scientific reasoning to help discover the real murderer.

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Morris – Sonnet to a Dead Contessa
Book 3 in the A Lady Trent mystery series. The year is 1858 in London. British noble women are being murdered. The first murder is a close friend of Serafina Trend and so she becomes involved in trying to solve the murder. She comes close to catching the murderer and is slashed in attempting to stop the suspect. There are many twists and turns to the story before Serafina solves the mystery.

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Hamilton – Confronting the Controversies
Adam Hamilton, a Methodist pastor, tackles seven controversial and divisive issues of our times that all good Christians should talk and read about. In short chapers, Pastor Hamilton presents both sides of the issue as well as Biblical passages so the reader can try to know what God wants us to do about the issues.

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Lotz – the Magnificent Obsession
For Billy and Ruth Graham’s daughter, just being raised in a Christian home wasn’t enough for her to feel fulfilled as a Christian. Ann uses Abraham as her example of someone who searchs for a way to know God on a more intimate level. Anne draws from Abraham’s life and her own personal experiences to share with us the magnificent obsession of searching for God’s will for our lives. The author takes us through Abraham’s life in Genesis and shows us how to apply Abrahams search for God and his mistakes and use these examples in our life today.

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Wright – Christmas Jar
An inspirational story that relates how to find the real Christmas spirit. Small miracles happen when the Christmas jar is given to a person in need.

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Morris – Heart of a Lion
Noah is the subject of this book. Young Noah has grown up hearing stories about his great-grandfather, Enoch, who heard God speak to him, and his grandfather, Methuselah, who also had knowledge of the Ancient One. Noah is conflicted when he meets and is tempted by a beautiful and lusty woman who worships Ur-Baal. We all know the story of Noah from the book of Genesis but it is a basic outline of a story and so the author has filled in the gaps, fleshes out the personalities of Noah, his wife Adah and their three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth. Although it is a book of fiction, the author has kept closely to the Biblical facts.

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Morris – No Woman So Far
Book 2 in the Lions of Judah series. This time the story is about Sarah, who abandons her urban life to take up a nomadic life with Abraham. The couple will live long lives that will be filled with difficulties. When a drought forces Abraham and Lot to seek grass lands and water in Egypt, the Pharaoh takes a fancy to Sarah and wants her as one of his wives. Sarah discovers God for herself as she is kept prisoner. Morris brings to life the story of Hagar and Ishmael, Sarah giving birth to Isaac, and Abraham will to sacrifice Isaac in an offering to God.

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Sparks – Dear John
“Dear John,” the letter read. And with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives changed forever. When Savannah Curtis came into his life, John Tyree knew he was ready to turn over a new leaf. As an angry rebel, he had enlisted in the army after high school. On furlough he meets Savannah, the girl of his dreams. The attraction is mutual and Savannah agrees to wait for John to finish his tour of duty;. But then 9/11 happens and it will change their lives.

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Sparks – The Last Song
Seventeen-year-old Veronica Miller’s life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moves to North Carolina. Three years later Veronica is alienated from her parents, particularly her father. Her mother decides to send her children to spend the summer with the father. Resentful and rebellious, Veronica rejects her father’s attempt to reach out to her and threatens to return to New York before the summer’s end. But she meets Will and finds herself opening up to love, happiness – and pain.

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Mortenson – Stones into Schools
Picking up where Three Cups of Tea left off, Stones into Schools starts with a promise to build a school. An Afghanistan horseman rode into Pakistan and secured a promise from Mortenson to come and build a school in an isolated pocket of the Pamir Mountain known as Bonza: Gumbaz – a new country for the Central Asia Institute. Those efforts were diverted when an earthquake hits Pakistan. The CAI helped with relief efforts and setting up temporary tent schools. The action returns to Afghanistan as the CAI launches schools in the heart of Taliban country as Mortenson helps the U.S. military formulate new strategic plans in the region.

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Evans – The Walk
What would you do if you lost everything – your job, your home, and the love of you life – all at the same time? When it happened to Seattle ad executive Alan Christofferson, he’s tempted by dark thoughts and a bottle of pills in his hand to take his life. Instead, he plans to take a walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Al leaves all he’s known and heads to Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, the lessons they share with him, will save his life – and inspire yours.