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Life on Kinser Hill had been lighthearted and carefree until the 1st of May 1922, which was when everything was to change for the family that resided there. On that fateful day, a knock on the door brought Vesta Kinser to her knees. Her husband Wesley had been senselessly, murdered. The years to come consisted of multiple court trials, with the desperate family seeking justice, yet justice was, denied. The tormenting and abiding effect on Vesta's...
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This is the true story of how you get your milk. And, because this is the story of a family dairy farm in Vermont it is also the true story of how you get delicious, Grade A maple syrup. Author Alan Pistorius embedded with the Treadway family for a year, recording four seasons of milking, fixing, plowing and syrup making. Pistorius' careful observations make for a powerful meditation on farming, business and family.
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Fruitcake Hill is a cleverly written history and personal memoir of an Irish family from the Chicago suburbs that has continuously occupied a single farmhouse property for over 137 years. The story focuses on the family's struggles to preserve the life they knew before urban sprawl became a reality. A humorous and informative read!
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For nearly a century and a half, the Smoot family "cooperated with nature" to create the vibrant Texas wildscape of the Flower Hill Estate on West Sixth Street. But the generosity of spirit that cultivated that sanctuary extends beyond the iron fence surrounding the property. Institutions like the Central Presbyterian Church, the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Austin American-Statesman, the Texas state capitol, The University of Texas...
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These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district-a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores family lived, earning their neighborhood the nickname "Dynamite Hill."
Due to his work, Shores' daughter, Barbara,...
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Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! This Love Inspired Historical bundle includes Would-Be Wilderness Wife by Regina Scott, Hill Country Courtship by Laurie Kingery, The Texan's Inherited Family by Noelle Marchand and The Daddy List by DeWanna Pace. Look for 4 new inspirational suspense stories every month from Love Inspired Historical!
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The Black Hills Family Fun Guide is your key to the perfect family getaway. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a lifelong resident, this great guidebook leads you on a modern-day adventure through the best that South Dakota has to offer. From hiking and horseback riding to museums and theaters, author Kindra Gordon's tips and trivia will help you to make the most out of every experience. Discover the faces and places of South Dakota. Blaze new...
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From the fur-trade stronghold to the Land of the Living Skies and from the North-West Rebellion and the Roughriders to profiles of Joni Mitchell, Gordie Howe, Guy Vanderhaegh, Tommy Douglas, and the entrepreneurial Hill family, no book on Saskatchewan is more comprehensive and fun.
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Does your soul mate feel more like a roommate? This year-long devotional will help you and your spouse go deep in your faith, nurture your marriage, and make laughter a part of your everyday life.
Each weekly devotion in Greater Joy TWOgether includes a short reading, a Scripture verse, thoughtful conversation prompts, ideas for putting the week's theme into action, and prayer starters to draw you closer to God and each other.
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In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international media coverage. Public interest eventually died out, and the Hills went back to their ordinary, obscure lives. Until, a few years later, the Hills were...
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Located in the heart of London's East End the Thames Ironworks might be described as characteristic of the industrial and social landscape of the Victorian era. This successful enterprise, under the respected Hills family, undertook projects in civil engineering, electrical engineering, shipping and motoring. But, as well as providing employment, the ironworks was also central to the social lives of its workers. Its football team, founded by Arnold...
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'Sometimes the best dreams are the ones you didn't know you had.'
Such is the discovery of a husband and wife upon their relocation to the Southern Tier of New York. Maggie Barnes find a lot of humor in her new town, and writes about everything from the intrusion of wildlife to trying to figure out three-way intersections. Attempts at baking, hauling home massive Christmas trees, building a deck; all of it is fodder for her pen. Readers will recognize...
13) Such a Thing
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A neglected city park is the scene of three brutal murders that claimed the lives of an alcoholic mother and her two young adult daughters. Jimmy and Al Hill are the grandparents with whom the young women have lived since their early teens.
The lead detective assigned to the case has been intimately involved in the life of the murdered mother. Both he and a subordinate detective were students of Jimmy Hill in their fourth-grade Sunday school classes....
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May 11, 1953 Nick Williams, a private investigator in San Francisco, receives a late-night call that his sister is dying following a freak car accident. After rushing over to the hospital with Carter Jones, a fireman and the love of his life, he arrives just in time to say good-bye to the last member of his Nob Hill family he could stand to be around. Once the cops get a chance to take a look at the car, it becomes obvious this was no accident. It...
15) A reliable wife
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Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who has answered his advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, but her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, then slowly poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow....
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"When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Number...
18) The nix: a novel
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"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
20) Vinegar Hill
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In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill—a
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