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Gloria Sycamore returns to Sycamore Hill and takes on the ultimate challenge: regaining the town's trust while juggling the hilarious and downright chaotic pleasure of dating their beloved minister. Under the watchful eyes of the public, privacy is a luxury, and every decision she makes is open for debate. Pastor Owen finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard pew when rumors of biblical proportions create a divine dilemma for him and Gloria. The...
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It starts as a normal Sunday, but one horrifying moment changes everything forever. When a group of men abduct her son, Kim Jansen turns to the only person she can trust-Jackson McGregor. Officer McGregor would trade his life for the boy, but it's not McGregor the kidnappers want. They want a woman Kim helped disappear, and they've taken Kim's son as leverage. As McGregor races to save the boy, Kim faces an impossible choice-protect her friend or...
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When a disgraced woman's return entangles the lives of five couples, twenty-four hours changes everything forever.A whistleblower speaks up, and she tips the first domino of a twenty-four-hour chain reaction on the eve of Sycamore Hill's most important holiday event. A baker gets a career-making opportunity, a reporter chases the truth, a woman faces her greatest fear, and a lost child returns as the dominos continue to fall. The residents of Sycamore...
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Beneath the Sycamore Tree is a period piece that spans from the 1960s to 1980s. While the novel's setting is from that era, the ignorance and preconceived attitudes the protagonist as well as her family experiences are all relevant today. It chronicles the life of a young black girl from a middle-class family in Jackson, Mississippi, who through her relationship with her grandmother discovers dreams do not have to be deferred. It is an emotional journey...
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A cabin behind a padlocked gate, no power, no phone, only Revelation and a.38, a true story of abuse, loss, redemption and hope, which winds from south Texas to a sycamore tree in Tennessee. Mike escaped his father's fists, but years later glimpsed himself in his father's casket. Ginger named the sycamore tree for Trent. It grew slowly, like independence. This is Ginger's story, and Mike's yet it didn't begin with them. Mike shoved and slapped but...
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A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In 'The Self-Seeding Sycamore', a widow wages war upon her neighbour's garden, and makes a surprising discovery. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë's game-changing...
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A moving novel about the devotions of friendship and the power of love to heal, American Sycamore celebrates the American experiment and the importance of giving a damn.
Friends since their college days, Rob, Julia, and Ray are boomers who set out in their twenties to make things right in America. A couple since law school, Rob is a distinguished Constitutional scholar at Harvard and Julia a prominent journalist writing a book about the wreckage...
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Abandoned on a ranch in Wyoming by her drug-dealing parents, Catherine has no memory of her childhood before being, adopted at age twelve by her grandmother. Educated in an all-girls Catholic school she was not, prepared for the changes in her life when she moved from Fort Collins, Colorado, a college town, to Irvine, California, an affluent bedroom community south of Los Angeles.
Entering marriage as a naïve young woman, she feels unfulfilled in...
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"While playing in her tree house, Jesse is intrigued by a falling sycamore seed that slowly spins to the ground. But when she sees acorns falling fast directly down to the ground, she must solve the riddle while learning about propellers and windmills and using technology to understand aerodynamics"--
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~A Miss Fortune Universe Novel~ While Ida Belle and Gertie are off to New Orleans to care for a sick friend, Fortune looks forward to a restful week alone. Unfortunately, her plans are soon shot after two pint-sized children show up at Walter's General Store in search of water pistols and other creative weaponry. Olivia and Oliver Bergeron pitch a disturbing tale. Their mother was killed. Their uncle did it. And their dad may be next. Since time...
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This topsy-turvy adventure on Sycamore Street sees brother and sister Hude and Amani arrive in the country with one thought: it was going to be a long, boring summer. They couldn't be more wrong. With Grandma Hana's new neighbour planning to pull down her prized peach tree and a gang, led by the archer Bobby, marshalling the local lake, Hude and Amani have a hard time getting any peace. In this warm and comical story, find out how, under the watchful...
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As intriguing as it is relatable, Paige Roberts' compulsively readable novel delves into the secrets and ties that lie between friends-and neighbors.
When Amy Kravitz opts to leave Washington, D.C., behind in favor of a less stressful life in the Philadelphia suburbs, she has a certain kind of house in mind. And on a charming street in a
family-friendly neighborhood, she and her husband Rob find it. It's a perfect brick colonial with plenty of...
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Warning: This book could change the way you live. "Although I've experienced what it's like to get overextended, I've never been poor without options or help," writes Hagmann. "My faith tells me that being a Christian must affect who I am and how I behave with my wealth. Christ has something to say about the way I live my daily life, from how I treat others to how I spend my money." Do you make everyday economic decisions that reflect your Christian...
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A cabin behind a padlocked gate. No power. No phone. Only Revelation and a.38. A true story of abuse, loss, redemption, and hope that winds from south Texas to a sycamore tree in Tennessee.
Mike escaped his father's fists, but years later glimpsed himself in his father's casket. Ginger named the sycamore tree for her son, Trent. It grew slowly like independence. This is Ginger's story and Mike's, yet it didn't begin with them. Journalist Jennie Miller...
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While playing in her tree house, Jesse is intrigued by a falling sycamore seed that slowly spins to the ground. But when she sees acorns falling fast directly down to the ground, she must solve the riddle while learning about propellers and windmills and using technology to understand aerodynamics.