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Police Detective Renee Brown is keeping Wedgewood, Minnesota safe. This time the problems are happening on Marceil Pestkey's block. Detective Brown dreads those calls. Marceil Pestkey thinks she can get partial treatment, since she's Renee's mother's best friend. Ordinarily, the calls coming in to the dispatcher at night would be, handled by the night duty officer. Not when Marceil Pestkey is, making the call. She asks for Detective Brown. The drunk...
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Fay Risner in Book two of her Nurse Hal Amish series links the modern world to the timeless Amish way of life when Nurse Hallie Lindstrom falls in love with Amish widower John Lapp. This is a fascinating look at two differing cultures set in an intricate and richly detailed tapestry of a traditional Amish setting in southern Iowa. The Amish simple way of life based on faith, convictions and honesty is entwined in this love story between an English...
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Join the fun! You're invited to the wedding of John Lapp and Nurse Hal. Family and friends gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men put a tent up in the yard for guests. So put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up the buggy and take a ride by scenic pastures and rolling hills to Wickenburg, Iowa. Take a seat on a bench next to Hal's parents. They will be glad to explain the ceremony to you because they came armed with facts from Aunt Tootie's book on...
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Anna Winters buys the cottage of her dreams. The yard is full of blooming roses which lends color and fragrance to the place. When her elderly mother, Joyce Winters's dementia worsens, Anna takes her in. From the start, Joyce says the house has bad vibes and doesn't like living there. When she finds a china teapot covered with roses at the back of her closet, she is adamant a woman named Emily wants the teapot placed on the fireplace mantle. One night...
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According to the gossips, they haven't seen Florence Moffatt's husband, the town drunk, staggering home in the wee hours of the morning for days… They ask Florence where Elmer is. Florence says he's away on business which makes Gracie Evans scoff that Elmer never worked a day in his life. One day Florence shows up at the Bible Study group in black widow weeds and announces Elmer passed away in Cedar Rapids. She's going to bring him home in a rented...
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Bag lady Cowboy Girl Annie knew life to be tough. She had adjusted to all her bad breaks years ago, because she always figured life was similar to a game of poker. She called what happened to her the luck of the draw and endured whatever bad luck came her way. It could be something as simple as the squeaky wheel on her shopping cart locking up before she'd made her rounds of the dumpsters. On the other hand, it might be something as deadly as getting...
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Gracie Evans wasn't the only one upset when the Locked Rock, Iowa newspaper editor wantedto compete with big city papers by starting a gossip column. Appearing in the gossip columnwasn't the way Locked Rock citizens wanted to find themselves in print. That didn't stop thenewspaper from selling more copies, because everyone had to find out if they were in thegossip column each week. Shortly after two women were mentioned in the gossip columnthey were...
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Gracie Evans is a retired farmer and Locked Rock, Iowa's Miss Marple. She wrestles with boredom. Her only diversion is rocking on the Moser Mansion Rest Home for Women front porch with her companion Melinda Applegate. Through peek holes they tore in the flower vines attached to the porch, they spy on the neighbors. What starts out as harmless snooping turns into a dangerous past time when the neighbor across the street is killed. Gracie and Melinda...
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Katrina Sibowski has inherited a gift from her grandmother she doesn't want or understand. Gift is what her grandmother, Libby Sibowski, calls the women in the Sibowski family's ability to have second sight. This revelation catches Katrina by complete surprise. Her mother, Vencil, is uneasy around her mother-in-law because of her powers. She knew there was a fifty-fifty chance Katrina might inherit second sight, but she didn't warn her daughter. Katrina's...
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Fall was normally a routine season in Amish Country with harvest taking up much of the Plain farmers time. They put in long hours of hard work, shucking corn and making the last crop of hay. But one fall near Wickenburg, Iowa wasn't normal at all. When Jacob Stolfus's barn burnt down, he saw a rider on horseback leave his cornfield. After Sheriff Dawson investigated, he said the fire was arson. The news spread through the Amish Community, leaving...
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Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes that Emma is suffering from depression. Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have...
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During the Great Depression, Rachel felt lucky to be teaching school in Oklahoma. She was eager to start her second year as soon as summer ended. She tried to think positive. She was one of the lucky few to have a job even though she was sadden by the circumstances everyone in the United States faced. Travelers were on the road going from place to place, looking for work. Migrants were hopping on and off trains and camping in a grove of trees near...
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Fay Risner porta als lectors en un viatge emocional en una licitació, història original situat als turons del sud de Texas.
Una història que és reconfortant, romàntica i un misteri.
Home Health infermera Hal Lindstrom s'assigna Amish vidu John Lapp. Ofereix a quedar-se amb els seus fills, mentre que ell està a l'hospital. Quinze anys d'edat, Emma s'encarrega de la casa. Els seus dos germans menors estan manejant l'operació lletera. Hal s'adona...
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Welcome to the Lapp farm near Wickenburg in southern Iowa. Come to visit and bring your sense of humor. Dependable Emma Lapp dreams about the same fate that happens to all teenage Amish girls. Eventually, she will fall in love, marry and have a large family, but she's been offered the teacher's job for a term. That means working away from home and leaving Nurse Hal to take care of the household while she's still trying to perfect her cooking skills....
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Fay Risner emmène le lecteur dans un voyage émotionnel dans un appel d'offres, histoire originale définie dans les collines du sud de l'Iowa.
Une histoire qui fait chaud au coeur, romantique et mystérieux.
Accueil Santé infirmière Hal Lindstrom est attribué Amish veuf John Lapp.
Elle lui propose de rester avec ses enfants pendant qu'il est à l'hpital.
Quinze ans Emma prend soin du ménage.
Ses deux frères plus jeunes manipulent l'exploitation...
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Moser Mansion in Locked Rock, Iowa became a spooky place right after the annual Halloween party. Libby Hook sees ghosts wandering around with her in the middle of the night. She unsettles everyone with her screams that are loud enough to wake the dead. Gracie Evans blames the hauntings on a southern contractor that is trying to buy the mansion so he can turn it into a hotel. The residents would have to find new homes if that happens. Seems the only...
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1895 was the year life as a grownup began for Lilly Baker Elliot when she took notice of Tom Elliot, a handsome bachelor farmer. He began to spend time in her parents general store, not knowing what he wanted to buy. It became very clear to Lilly that he just wanted to spend time with her. Lilly was a bright fifteen year old, and Tom was twenty three. For Lilly's mother, Bernice, this was a match she had been working toward for years by showering...
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Elizabeth Winston grew up not caring about Christmas. This Christmas is going to be much worse than the holidays she and her brother, Scott, spent with her divorced parents. Her former boyfriend, Steven Mitchell, showed up to pester her about renewing their relationship now that his marriage has ended. Elizabeth always looks forward to sharing Christmas with her brother, Scott, but he says he has a business trip during Christmas. His present for her...
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Fay Risner has brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with the second story in the Stringbean Hooper series.
Looking forward to a journey across country to San Jose, California, Stringbean Hooper and his wife, Theo, have no idea just how much trouble they can get into. Theo considers this trip their honeymoon and a chance to be at her brother, Brock's wedding. Stringbean has been in one place too long and is eager to see country he hasn't seen before.
Stringbean...