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(0)Martha Sears West
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Ignatz, a reformed petty criminal, acts as Pippa's surrogate father while her parents are away. Nine-year-old Pippa, arranges a romance, between her handicapped teacher and Ignatz, but will her good, intentions compensate for her bungling? Though Pippa tackles dangers and grown-up problems with courage and imagination, can she escape the cruelty of the school bully?
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The conniving beauty queen Katrinka, Morgan's former fiancée, is torn between the desire to destroy Hetty and the need for her friendship. The night before they were to wed, Morgan spurned Katrinka in favor of the tall, skinny Hetty. The humiliated Katrinka still seeks revenge. This she does by scheming to manipulate the rich, handsome Morgan and his business empire. Hetty struggles to befriend Katrinka and to overcome her resentment with kindness.
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3) HETTY
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Gentle, imaginative Hetty feels at home with her kindly parents but struggles to find her place in a new school. She takes refuge in her secret forest hideaway. When an accident forces her to rely on others, will Hetty find what it takes to grow up and fit in? And is a mysterious stranger watching over her?
HETTY is the first in a three-part "coming of age" series about a gentle-imaginative girl with loving adoptive parents and a natural father....
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It is the Christmas of 1794. The townspeople are downhearted because Napoleon has declared Christian worship against the law. Determined to celebrate Christmas, eight-year-old Jacques sculpts his own manger scene made of clay. As he meets neighbors along his travels, he depicts them in his Nativity set. Jacques develops a friendship with a Revolutionary soldier, giving him gifts, and teaching him about the Christ Child.
5) Hetty or Not
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A young woman poised to marry her beloved must face the machinations of his former fiancée in the third installment of West's (Hetty Makes it Happen, 2014, etc.) series.
In 1960, the shy, sweet 20-year-old Hetty Lawrence has graduated early from college and is thrilled to be back in her forest home. She visits "Hannah," the mighty tree that was once her dreamy childhood refuge and the place where she later confessed her love to Morgan Morganthal....
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In this tender and humorous love story, Pippa comes home from college to find her childhood friend Val is no longer a little boy. Pippa feels both confused and thrilled at the change in him. At sixteen, he handles tragedy with wisdom and maturity. If Val declares his love, will it destroy the friendship they treasure?
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In this tender and wholesome glimpse into their young marriage, we see Hetty's kindly husband Morgan loves her for her goodness and purity. He has forfeited a vast inheritance to marry her.
Hetty longs to work by his side as an attorney, and yet he pictures her as a stay-at-home mom. She must never have children, because of a congenital heart condition.
Hetty is thrilled to be leaving behind Morgan's former fiancée. For years, gossip...
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HETTY HAPPENS is second in a series following Hetty, a now seventeen year old girl, as she navigates her way through an ever increasingly difficult decision to support the marriage of Morgan Morganthal to Katrinka Wallace.
Hetty is lovesick and miserable, yet not even her kindly parents know. She can't speak about the one she loves. He'll soon marry someone else. Does she suffer from a youthful crush or is it lasting love? Gentle, imaginative Hetty...