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1) Inescapable
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After receiving threatening letters from a stalker, Lizzie is forced to return to her childhood Mennonite home and reconsiders her initial judgments of her community and faith only to discover that the danger she ran from is closer than ever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
CBA best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer captivated millions with her emotionally moving gem Waiting for Summer's Return-a CBD Top-Twenty Fiction. Set in 1936 Kansas, Where Willows Grow transports listeners to America's drought-stricken heartland as the hopes and dreams of hardworking farmers blow away with the wind. As pregnant Anna Mae and her husband Harley struggle to feed their growing family, Harley travels 100 miles to build a WPA monument....
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Kingdom falls prey to a serial killer, Callie needs to uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of separation, English-born Emmaline Bradford is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch and wishes to return to England immediately. But Geoffrey offers a compromise: If Emmaline promises to stay until spring, he'll pay her return fare if she decides to go back to her home country. When spring arrives, will Emmaline return to England, or will she marry Geoffrey and carve out a life with him in Kansas?
Author
Series
The Bliss Creek Amish volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who's struggling with an aggressive case of Hodgkin's lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her.
When a homeless young woman named Charisma and her two-year-old daughter, Gracie, show up in Bliss Creek, Annie welcomes them into the Shirack household and tries to help them establish a new life. But all the good deeds in...
8) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. GILEAD tells the story of America and will break your heart.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
10) Unbreakable
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"As her Mennonite town is shaken by strange incidents and outright attacks on its residents, Hope Kaufmann is forced to question all she knows and believes"--Provided by publisher.
11) Love's dwelling
Author
Series
Amish blessings volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first in a new Amish romance series set in Kansas, Love's Dwelling reminds us that family is more than what you are born into; it's who you choose as well"--
Cassie Yoder loves her job as a housekeeper for elderly couple Job and Dinah Keim. Their only children, a son and daughter, left the Haven, Kansas, district and their faith more than twenty years earlier with no contact. When Child Protective Services shows up on the Keims' doorstep with...
Author
Series
The Bliss Creek Amish volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Carl returns to their small Amish community, Emma must choose between her childhood love and Thomas, the strong, quiet widower who always seems to be underfoot.
13) First dawn
Author
Series
Freedom's path volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A saga of two families that portrays the harsh circumstances and intense courage displayed by African-American sharecroppers and Caucasian men as they formed the towns of Nicodemus and Hill City in the western Kansas prairie during the late nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a small Kansas farm in 1890, Christina Willems lovingly shepherds a group of displaced individuals who have come to see the Brambleville Asylum for the Poor as their home. But when a kitchen fire leaves the house uninhabitable, she must find shelter for all in her care, scattering her dear "family." Christina is forced to approach Levi Johnson, a reclusive mill owner, to take in a young blind boy named Tommy Kilgore. Levi agrees with reluctance,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
Author
Series
Harmony trilogy (Nancy Mehl) volume 2
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gracie had hoped to make Harmony her home and explore romance with Sam, but when a developer moves in and hires her as graphic designer, the town's outrage may send her back to the city. Can she help the town fight the development of tourism while avoiding being framed for arson?--Publisher description.
20) Simple secrets
Author
Series
Harmony trilogy (Nancy Mehl) volume 1
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gracie Temple's uncle left her a house in a rural Mennonite community. Gracie soon learns he secluded himself for years to protect a secret about her own father. Now it's up to Gracie to decide if she'll keep the secret or if she can afford to expose it. Sam Goodrich loves his fruit farm in Harmony, Kansas. But when he meets city-girl Gracie, he begins to wonder if he could leave it behind for a woman who makes him feel things he's never felt before....
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