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Amish of big sky country volume 1
Language
English
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Schoolteacher Mercy Yoder loves her life in the tiny village of West Kootenai in Montana. A wildfire forces her family to evacuate to the small town of Eureka. John Hostetler, Mercy's beau, sorts through the damage left by the fire, helping Mercy set up a makeshift school. Eureka is filled with fire personnel, media, and rubberneckers-- more contact with the outside world than Mercy has ever experienced. A chance encounter with a smoke jumper, Travis...
Author
Series
Hidden Legacy novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nevada Baylor is faced with the most challenging case of her detective career: a suicide mission to bring in a suspect in a volatile case. Nevada isn't sure she has the chops. Her quarry is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, who can set anyone and anything on fire.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newly-wed Sarah Fontaine awake. Expecting her husband's call from London, she hears instead an unfamiliar voice. Nick O'Hara from the US State Department is calling with devastating news: Geoffrey Fontaine, Sarah's husband of two months, died in a hotel fire ... in Berlin. Convinced her husband is still alive, Sarah forces a confrontation with Nick that finds them criss-crossing Europe on a desperate...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On the outside, luxury realtor Sarah Nelson looks like every other mom in the neighborhood. But she has an edge that others don't: She's a witch. And no one knows . . . except her estranged ex-coven and college friends, Katrina and Alicia. One terrible night during their freshman year, the trio accidentally burned down their dorm, and soon after they scattered. Their secret had been safe, until Sarah learns they've been invited back to commemorate...
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
Author
Series
September 11th series volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alex Brady shuts out all relationships when he loses his beloved father in the Twin Towers. Will he have the courage to open his heart to love again?
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Fire chief Stella Griffin has been put in charge of judging the annual recipe contest, but Eric{u2014}her resident ghost and true culinary genius{u2014}has vanished. Before she can track down his latest haunt, she{u2019}s called in to investigate a local moonshine distillery that was set ablaze, making her realize there{u2019}s more than pies and cakes cooking in Sweet Pepper. As rumors of a revived whiskey war ignite, Stella turns to the town{u2019}s...
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Samuel Craddock is perplexed by a series of increasingly troubling events at Granger's Store. The shop owner's son, Mark Granger, has plans to renovate and modernise the popular animal feed store in the small Texas town of Jarret Creek. But when he's assaulted, its clear that some town folk are against his ideas. Could the devastating fire that follows be linked to the threatening phone calls Mark has been receiving? When the body...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Following a shocking school shooting, the members of the yearbook committee-- Nick, Zola, Matt, and Christina-- are faced with documenting thie horrific tragedy. The four vow to honor the memories of those lost, as well as those whose memories are forgotten in the shadow of violence. But when a series of mysterious house fires hits the families of the victims, it pushes the grieving small suburban St. Louis town to the edge.
Four high school yearbook-committee...
14) One little spark
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Before the fire, it was the perfect place to raise a family. An idyllic community where neighbors knew one another... or so they thought. Jenna Abbott's life went up in flames even before the fire started in Tenmile, Oregon. She was still coping with her husband's affair--and the revelation that he got a much younger woman pregnant--when the fire finally died down, and Ryan was among the missing. Chelsea Goddard still can't explain how her estranged...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Here comes trouble," Rosemary's high school English teacher used to say whenever he saw her. Rosemary has often felt like trouble, and now at thirty-two, her marriage to her college sweetheart, Paul, is crumbling. In a last-ditch attempt to restore it, she agrees to give herself over to a newly formed Christian sect in central Texas, run by charismatic young pastor Papa Jake. While Paul acclimates quickly to the small town of Dawson and the church's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Laura has returned to work at Morris and Wood after her maternity leave, only to discover that the woman she brought in to cover for her isn't planning on going anywhere. Despite her close relationship with the agency's CEO, Harry Wood, Laura feels sidelined-- and outmaneuvered. Mia was only supposed to be a temporary hire at Morris and Wood, but she's managed to make herself indispensable to everyone. If people only knew why she was so desperate...
19) Inferno in Tokyo
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Over 900,000 copies sold in the series! This easy-to-read adventure is number 20 in this long-running, successful series and is now available in softcover. The Imagination Station has been malfunctioning for several adventures now, handing out the wrong gifts and traveling unexpected paths. Patrick and Beth must use their courage, strength, and resilience to help others and survive dangers as they travel through time and space and get caught up in...
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Language
English
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"For the citizens of Spokane Falls, the fire of 1889 that destroyed their frontier boomtown was no disaster; it was an opportunity. Barton Heydale, manager of the only bank in Spokane Falls, is on the verge of ending his short, unpopular life. But when his city goes up in flames, he sees an ember of hope shimmering on the horizon, headed right for him. As citizens flock to the bank to cash out insurance policies and take out loans, he realizes he...
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