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2025
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On Beaver Creek Plantation in Virginia, enslaved men and women lit the world with their craft. They were chandeliers and candlemakers, bending wax and flame into beauty even as their families were torn apart by cotton and complexion. Names were lost, traded, and miswritten—yet carried forward in whispers, muslin stitches, and the glow of memory.A century later in Bluefield, West Virginia, five-year-old Cornelia listens on the porch as her Big Mama tells the stories that refuse to b...
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2002
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In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home Christmas story about tradition, family, and the shared experiences of women.Here, in a letter of her own, Lee Smith explains how she was inspired to write this celebrated epistolary novel:Dear Friends,Like me, you probably get Christmas letters every year. I read every word and ...
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- West Series
2016
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Geeky teen pushover Tracy Bracey is finally dead, replaced by the beautiful and confident Tessa. After years of bullying, the darkness hovering over her appears to be fading. She has at long last become the vibrant woman she truly wants to be. Well, there is one thing missing… But with a promising music career taking off, the last thing she needs is the incessant matchmakers in town trying to hook her up with every wannabe cowboy available.Lucas James is hot as hell, but the cloud ...
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- Timeless
2023
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**2024 CHRISTY AWARD WINNEROne woman. Three timelines. A decision that will alter her past and future forever.**Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. Each night, she goes to sleep in one time period and wakes up in another. Until she turns twenty-one, when she will have to forfeit two of those lives--and everyone she knows in them--forever.In 1861, Maggie is the daughter of a sena...
The Last Camellia
A Novel
2013
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"Terrific … compelling … an intoxicating blend of mystery, history and romance, this book is hard to put down." --Real SimpleOn the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate the household and acquire the coveted bloom. Her search is at once brightened by n...
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- Bridal Favors
2019
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With her parents murdered and her inheritance stolen, all Penny Shoemaker has is her position at A Lady's Favor dress shop designing handcrafted shoes for brides. But it's not enough to support herself and her younger brother. Her only chance to regain what is rightfully hers lies in the strange but brilliant Samuel Morrison.A dispossessed younger son, Samuel Morrison has a weakness for damsels in distress. So when Penny's predicament literally lands at his feet, he turns his keen ...
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- The Spy Series Short Stories
2015
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Alec Black, the Earl of Stryden, sees the inevitable and does his damnedest to ignore it.When another crop infestation at the family’s estate in Bedford collides with a promotion from the War Office, Alec is torn between his duty to his heritage and his duty to the crown. Matters become more complicated when his nephew, Samuel, demands of him a seemingly outrageous and impossible favor that relies on Alec’s seat in the House of Lords.But when a comm...
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- Dear America
2011
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Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear America series! Suddenly orphaned by the Spanish flu epidemic in the fall of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother, Daniel, of Portland, Maine, are taken by their uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Thrust into the Shakers' unfamiliar way of life, Lydia must grapple with a new world that is nothing like the one she used to know. Now sepa...
The Wright Sister
A Novel
2020
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An "immensely readable" novel inspired by the life of Katharine Wright and her brother Orville, a tale of estrangement and enduring love (Sally Koslow, international bestselling author of Another Side of Paradise).On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world's first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known to fewer people was their whip-smart siste...
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- Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker
2017
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Meet Beatrice Zinker: secret code genius and undercover mission expert, who does her best thinking upside down.Hanging from trees by her knees, doing handstands . . . for Beatrice Zinker, upside down works every time. She was definitely upside down when she and her best friend, Lenny, agreed to wear matching ninja suits on the first day of third grade. But when Beatrice shows up at school dressed in black, Lenny arrives with a cool new outfit and a cool new friend....
2011
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An unforgettable take on a favorite fairy tale by multi-award-winning author Jane YolenSummer's life in the mountains of West Virginia feels like a fairy tale--her parents dote on her, and she's about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after he's born, taking their mother with him, Summer's life turns grim. Things get even worse when her father marries a woman who brings poisons and magical mirrors into Summer's world. Stepmama puts up a pretty face and Summer's...
2012
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This charming, coming-of-age story is perfect for fans of Joan Bauer and Sheila Turnage.Prairie Evers is finding that school isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. She’s always been homeschooled by her grandmother, learning about life while they ramble through the woods. But now Prairie’s family has moved north and she has to attend school for the first time, where her education is in a classroom and the behavior of her classmates isn’t very nice. The only good thing is ...