Christine's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:38:58 -0700 60 Christine's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Sacketts Volume 5 (Ride the River / Lonely on the Mountain / Jubal Sackett)]]> 5628415 Ride the River - Echo 16 5'2", with Dorian Chantry and freeman Archie, gets gold and puzzle box home to mountains.
Lonely on the Mountain - Tell, with younger brothers Orrin and Tyrel, fights off Sioux to save cousin Logan in Dakota.
Jubal Sackett - 1600s explorer blazes trails beside Indian princess Natchez.]]> 565 Louis L'Amour Christine 5 4.43 The Sacketts Volume 5 (Ride the River / Lonely on the Mountain / Jubal Sackett)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Procession of Angels: True Stories of God's Messengers]]> 17032535 290 Evelyn Bence 0824931114 Christine 3 3.75 2010 A Procession of Angels: True Stories of God's Messengers
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]]> <![CDATA[The Earth Prescription: Discover the Healing Power of Nature with Grounding Practices for Every Season]]> 51043821 Get in touch with the earth! This hands-on guide will help you deepen your innate bond with nature and feel more centered, focused, creative, and vibrantly alive.

A life lived indoors is not a life lived. And yet many of us spend the majority of our days indoors, trapped in our own heads, addicted to our screens and online connections, and feeling more and more disconnected to our own bodies—and the planet—than ever before. Intuitively, we know that even a five-minute walk outdoors can calm us and awaken our senses, but we tell ourselves we don’t have time, or we can’t seem to make the time.

In The Earth Prescription, holistic physician Laura Koniver, MD, offers the ideal antidote to the toxicity of a life isolated from nature—grounding, or directly touching the earth to heal your body and rejuvenate your sense of total well-being. Think about how good it feels to get outside and walk along the grass. This simple activity connects you to the earth, allowing you to reap its restorative powers—which include reducing depression, lowering blood pressure, curbing stress, and increasing happiness.

With this practical and uplifting guide, you’ll learn how to incorporate the practice of grounding anytime, anywhere, and find tips for including kids or your favorite pooch. Also included is an “earth journal� to log your experiences and positive results, as well as a troubleshooting guide to help ensure that you stay grounded in every season—despite the weather! This book will give you everything you need to enjoy the healing energy of nature—you simply have to get outside and get grounded.]]> 232 Laura Koniver 1684034892 Christine 0 to-read 3.79 2020 The Earth Prescription: Discover the Healing Power of Nature with Grounding Practices for Every Season
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ultimate Guide to Methylene Blue: Remarkable Hope for Depression, COVID, AIDS & other Viruses, Alzheimer’s, Autism, Cancer, Heart Disease, Cognitive ... Targeting Mitochondrial Dysfunction)]]> 58064093 187 Mark Sloan 1777239648 Christine 0 to-read 4.55 2021 The Ultimate Guide to Methylene Blue: Remarkable Hope for Depression, COVID, AIDS & other Viruses, Alzheimer’s, Autism, Cancer, Heart Disease, Cognitive ... Targeting Mitochondrial Dysfunction)
author: Mark Sloan
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average rating: 4.55
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]]> <![CDATA[The Glory of Christ (AW Pink Books, #1)]]> 41219038 Longing to know Christ better?

To see the glory of Christ and pondered long on its significance is one of the greatest privileges that a Christian can enjoy.

In every chapter of "The GLORY of CHRIST", A. W. Pink sets before readers the unsearchable riches of the Lord Jesus Christ, the hope of our glory and the glory of our hope. His teaching is well-suited to bring us to share in his longing to know Christ better, to see his glory more clearly and to serve him more faithfully.

Read this book, and may God by his Word and Spirit give you such a sense of his uncreated glory, blazing forth in Christ, that you will be satisfied and filled with joy.

]]> 147 Arthur W. Pink Christine 0 to-read 4.67 The Glory of Christ (AW Pink Books, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Usfs 1919 the Ranger the Cook and the Hole in the Sky]]> 1349112 Book by MacLean, Norman 0 Norman Maclean 0939643588 Christine 0 to-read 4.18 1994 Usfs 1919 the Ranger the Cook and the Hole in the Sky
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]]> Orchard 60324185
For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. Yet when Evan's draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite their Old Order Amish belief in non-resistance. The faraway war that has caused so much turmoil and grief among their Englisher neighbors threatens too close to home.

As Evan departs for boot camp, Ellie confides her disappointment to Sol Bontrager, the brother of her best friend and cousin to her new beau, Menno. In contrast to Evan, Sol is a conscientious objector. Despite Ellie's attraction to Menno, she finds herself drawn to Sol's steady presence as they work together in the orchard. Suddenly, it feels as if everything in Ellie's world is shifting, and the plans she held so dear seem increasingly uncertain. Can she and her family find the courage to face a future unlike any they could have imagined?

"This [book] serves as a reminder of why Lewis continues to top bestseller lists."-- Publishers Weekly

" The Orchard is a peaceful, heartwarming romance novel set amid the quiet solitude of an Amish family's orchard during the Vietnam War."-- Foreword Reviews starred review]]> 352 Lewis 0764237535 Christine 0 to-read 4.18 Orchard
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]]> I Am David 278958 David's extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm's classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope.
]]> 256 Anne Holm 0152051600 Christine 0 to-read 3.97 1963 I Am David
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unabridged Mark Twain, Vol. 1]]> 527211 1292 Mark Twain 0914294547 Christine 0 to-read 4.43 1976 The Unabridged Mark Twain, Vol. 1
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]]> O Rugged Land of Gold 1145031
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"I was furious.Ěý If I had a gun, I'd have shot them dead.Ěý Those lazy, stupid men kept right on going and left me alone.Ěý Not once had they looked in my direction, and me needing help so bad.Ěý I was so mad at them that I cussed.Ěý I screamed cusses at them until I was hoarse.Ěý I said all the bad words I had ever heard in all my life, and I invented some new ones, too.Ěý I wished the tow-line would break and they would lose every last log; wished their old logs would go to China.Ěý I stood up and shook my fist at the disappearing boat.

ĚýĚý When it had gone from sight, I dropped down and cried.Ěý I shed tears of helpless rage and of utter defeat."

...

Ěý

"An old bear came and sniffed me.Ěý He really did.Ěý It was in the first gray of dawn.Ěý I had dozed, and the sound of him coming roused me.Ěý I kept perfectly still, hardly breathing, and straining my ears and eyes to learn what and where the sound was.Ěý Then I smelled him and knew for certain it was a bear.Ěý All the primitive instincts of fear within me were aroused.Ěý My heart pounded in my throat, and I could feel my flesh creep.Ěý I drew myself up and made myself little and tight.Ěý I kept still as death."]]> 226 Martha Martin 0940055007 Christine 5 to-read 4.01 1953 O Rugged Land of Gold
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]]> <![CDATA[Twelve Extraordinary Women : How God Shaped Women of the Bible and What He Wants to Do With You]]> 29023
In "Twelve Extraordinary Women," you'll learn more than fascinating information about these women, you'll discover-perhaps for the first time-the unmistakable chronology of God's redemptive work in history through their lives. These women were not ancillary to His plan, they were at the very heart of it.

Some of the women you'll come to know include:


Ruth (Ruth 1-4) Anna (Luke 2:36-38) Martha and Mary, sisters of Lazarus (Luke 10:38-42) Mary Magdalene (Matthew 27:56-61) Sarah (Genesis 11-25) Hannah (1 Samuel 1-2) The Samaritan woman (John 4 Mary, the mother of Jesus (Luke 1-2)
You will be challenged and motivated by this poignant and personal look into the lives of some of the Bible's most faithful women. Their struggles and temptations are the same trials faced by all believers in all ages. And the God to whom they were so committed is the same God who continues to mold and use ordinary people today.]]> 205 John F. MacArthur Jr. 0785262563 Christine 0 to-read 4.08 2005 Twelve Extraordinary Women : How God Shaped Women of the Bible and What He Wants to Do With You
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cherokee Herbal: Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions]]> 785681
� Details the uses of over 450 plants for the treatment of over 120 ailments.

� Written by the coauthor of Medicine of the Cherokee (40,000 copies sold).

� Explains the healing elements of the Four Directions and the plants associated with them.

� Includes traditional teaching tales as told to the author by Cherokee Elders.

In this rare collection of the acquired herbal knowledge of Cherokee Elders, author J. T. Garrett presents the healing properties and medicinal applications of over 450 North American plants. Readers will learn how Native American healers utilize the gifts of nature for ceremonial purposes and to treat over 120 ailments, from the common cold to a bruised heart. The book presents the medicine of the Four Directions and the plants with which each direction is associated. From the East comes the knowledge of "heart medicine"--blood-building tonics and plants for vitality and detoxification. The medicine of the South focuses on the innocence of life and the energy of youthfulness. West medicine treats the internal aspects of the physical body to encourage strength and endurance, while North medicine offers a sense of freedom and connection to the stars and the greater Universal Circle. This resource also includes traditional teaching tales to offer insights from Cherokee cosmology into the origin of illness, how the animals found their medicine, and the naming of the plants.]]> 288 J.T. Garrett 1879181967 Christine 0 to-read 4.07 2003 The Cherokee Herbal: Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
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]]> <![CDATA[Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?]]> 7971518

Throughout most of evolution humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground, largely oblivious that the surface of the Earth contains limitless healing energy. Science has discovered this energy as free-flowing electrons constantly replenished by solar radiation and lightning. Few people know it, but the ground provides a subtle electric signal that maintains health and governs the intricate mechanisms that make our bodies work-just like plugging a lamp into a power socket makes it light up. Modern lifestyle, including the widespread use of insulative rubber or plastic-soled shoes, has disconnected us from this energy and, of course, we no longer sleep on the ground as we did in times past.


Earthing introduces the planet's powerful, amazing, and overlooked natural healing energy and how people anywhere can readily connect to it. This eye-opening book describes how the physical disconnect with the Earth creates abnormal physiology and contributes to inflammation, pain, fatigue, stress, and poor sleep. By reconnecting to the Earth, symptoms are rapidly relieved and even eliminated and recovery from surgery, injury, and athletic overexertion is accelerated.



This never-before-told story-filled with fascinating research and real-life testimonials- chronicles a discovery with the potential to create a global health revolution.

About the Author
Clinton Ober started as a cable TV salesman in Billings, Montana, and rose to become a leader in the industry. Following a near fatal disease in 1993, he embarked on a personal journey looking for a higher purpose in life. Since discovering Earthing he has been devoted to promoting the scientific exploration and practical applications for the concept.

Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C., is a board-certified cardiologist, a certified bioenergetic psychotherapist, and a certified nutrition and anti-aging specialist. He is the author of the best-selling book The Sinatra Solution: Metabolic Cardiology.

Martin Zucker has written extensively on natural healing, fitness, and alternative medicine for thirty years.]]> 272 Clinton Ober 1591202833 Christine 0 currently-reading 3.93 2010 Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?
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]]> The Secret Garden 2998
Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.

With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary.]]> 331 Frances Hodgson Burnett 0517189607 Christine 0 to-read 4.16 1911 The Secret Garden
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Mountain (Red Mountain Chronicles, #1)]]> 32615624
How well do we really know each other?

Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics. Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon--fully nude. Single mother Margot Pierce moved across the country to build an inn, but so far all she does is binge on gelato, the Hallmark Channel, and fantasies of murdering her ex. High school senior Emilia Forester is the daughter of celebrity parents struggling to build her own life outside of their shadow. And Brooks Baker is a man haunted by his past spent living on the streets as an orphan. Somehow, everyone lives together harmoniously, their lives intertwined like the vines in Red Mountain's beautiful and renowned vineyards.

But in a place where everyone knows each other, secrets are like poison...and right now Otis, Margot, Emilia, and Brooks all have something to hide. When their secrets come to light, will their small mountain be stronger for it--or will lives be torn apart?

Heartfelt and wonderfully descriptive, Red Mountain is the story of four complicated people living in a beautiful landscape unlike anywhere else. Told from multiple perspectives and rich with vivid descriptions of wine life, this novel will transport you from the first page to the last.

Boo writes contemporary dysfunctional fiction for open-minded soul searchers that enjoy books by such authors as Pat Conroy, Liane Moriarty, Amor Towles, Jojo Moyes, and Celeste Ng. Look out for the sequel, Red Mountain Rising, coming soon!]]> 360 Boo Walker 0991301862 Christine 0 to-read 4.04 2016 Red Mountain (Red Mountain Chronicles, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Widow's Journey: Reflections on Walking Alone]]> 22544251
Author Gayle Roper understands. As a recent widow herself, Gayle writes:

So who am I now that there's only one place at the table...one pillow with a head dent, one damp towel after a shower. There's only one toothbrush in the holder. The seat is never left up anymore.

I can still write Mrs. in front of my name, but I'm no longer in a marriage relationship. You need two people for a marriage and there's only me.

Is there only you? Then join Gayle as she draws on her emotions during the loss of her beloved husband, Chuck, and offers you a compassionate devotional to encourage you through your darkest days. Gayle knows a widow's pain is deep. But she also knows God's love is deeper still. And it's in His love you'll find your deepest comfort.]]> 144 Gayle Roper 0736959580 Christine 0 currently-reading 4.27 2015 A Widow's Journey: Reflections on Walking Alone
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]]> Hondo 469933 194 Louis L'Amour 0553802992 Christine 5 4.02 1953 Hondo
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]]> You, Me, and the Sea 40696317
To find her way, she must abandon everything she loves�

As a child, Merrow Shawe believes she is born of the sea: strong, joyous, and wild. Her beloved home is Horseshoe Cliff, a small farm on the coast of Northern California where she spends her days exploring fog-cloaked bluffs, swimming in the cove, and basking in the light of golden sunsets as her father entertains her with fantastical stories. It is an enchanting childhood, but it is not without hardship—the mystery of Merrow’s mother’s death haunts her, as does the increasingly senseless cruelty of her older brother, Bear.

Then, like sea glass carried from a distant land, Amir arrives in Merrow’s life. He’s been tossed about from India to New York City and now to Horseshoe Cliff, to stay with her family. Merrow is immediately drawn to his spirit, his passion, and his resilience in the face of Bear’s viciousness. Together they embrace their love of the sea, and their growing love for each other.

But the ocean holds secrets in its darkest depths. When tragedy strikes, Merrow is forced to question whether Amir is really the person she believed him to be. In order to escape the danger she finds herself in and find her own path forward, she must let go of the only home she’s ever known, and the only boy she’s ever loved....]]> Meg Donohue 0062899155 Christine 0 to-read 3.73 2019 You, Me, and the Sea
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]]> A Gentle Spirit Journal 2592695 384 Ashleigh Bryce Clayton 1586605658 Christine 5 4.25 2002 A Gentle Spirit Journal
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> Love Has A Price Tag 126156 211 Elisabeth Elliot 0830736883 Christine 0 to-read 4.19 1979 Love Has A Price Tag
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]]> Jack London: An American Life 17332201 A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works



Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.

The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery.

In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.]]> 480 Earle G. Labor 0374178488 Christine 0 to-read 4.05 2010 Jack London: An American Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again]]> 17164633
Someday they will overhear me telling my story to someone and want to know more about it. They will look at me with their big, innocent eyes and try to make sense of what they're hearing. It isn't always easy explaining what happened even to adults, so how am I going to explain it to my kids?

There is so much I want to share with them, so much I want them to know. You see, my story is one of hope and forgiveness and salvation, and of the glorious healing power of God's presence. It's the story of what I saw and what I learned when, during a hospital stay, I left my body for nine minutes and went to heaven and stood before God. And it's the story of how, when I came back to Earth, my life was profoundly and permanently changed; changed down to the very core of my being.

But it is also a story that, for the longest time, I didn't want to tell.]]> 272 Crystal McVea 1476735859 Christine 0 3.98 2013 Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again
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]]> <![CDATA[A Gentle Spirit Devotional Journal]]> 9374132 384 Ashleigh Bryce Clayton 1577488202 Christine 5 4.50 1999 A Gentle Spirit Devotional Journal
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average rating: 4.50
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rating: 5
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]]> The Road Home 35138320
Beside the fact that Lena has never been more than a few miles from home, she's never met the family she will now be living with. But worse than that is the thought of being separated from her siblings. How will they manage without her to care for them--especially eight-year-old Chris? And what about Hannes Lehman, the beau she was sure would soon be asking her to marry him? It was true that he was not the man her father would have preferred for her. Maybe that was what the deacon was hinting at when he said "a fresh start might do you good."

It won't be forever, she consoles herself. I'll come back as soon as I can to take care of my family--and to make a home with Hannes. But doing so may prove far more complicated then she ever imagined.]]> 318 Beverly Lewis 0764219677 Christine 0 to-read 4.21 The Road Home
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]]> <![CDATA[A Breath of Hope (Under Northern Skies, #2)]]> 35086268
But America is not everything Nilda imagined. A terrifying experience in a lumber camp shakes Nilda's confidence and trust in men, but a job helping a young widow raise her children and run her farm gives her a chance to build her own life. When she meets Fritz, the children's schoolteacher, she is initially unimpressed and uninterested. His kindness and passion for learning begin to win her over, but how can she sacrifice her dreams for the future for a man she's still not sure of?]]> 326 Lauraine Snelling 0764218972 Christine 0 to-read 4.23 2018 A Breath of Hope (Under Northern Skies, #2)
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]]> The River 20665079
A line I can't move beyond...

The River

Tilly and Ruth, two formerly Amish sisters, are plagued by unresolved relationships when they reluctantly return to Lancaster County for their parents' landmark wedding anniversary. Since departing their Plain upbringing, Tilly has married an Englisher, but Ruth remains single and hasn't entirely forgotten her failed courtship with her Amish beau.

Past meets present as Tilly and Ruth yearn for acceptance and redemption. Can they face the future in the light of a past they can't undo?]]> 318 Beverly Lewis 0764212451 Christine 4 4.06 The River
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]]> <![CDATA[Stahman's Shawls and Scarves: Lace Faroese-Shaped Shawls from the Neck Down & Seamen's Scarves]]> 1055121 Myrna A.I. Stahman 0967542707 Christine 0 to-read 4.35 2000 Stahman's Shawls and Scarves: Lace Faroese-Shaped Shawls from the Neck Down & Seamen's Scarves
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]]> The Proving 34020191 her Lancaster County's most popular Amish bed-and-breakfast. The catch is she has to run it herself for one year, acting as hostess. Amanda accepts the terms, but coming home to people she left behind won't be easy.]]> 446 Beverly Lewis 076421991X Christine 0 to-read 4.07 The Proving
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]]> <![CDATA[Free-Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano: Transforming Traditional Stitches into Fiber Art]]> 14476975 128 Judith Baker Montano 1607055724 Christine 0 to-read 4.39 2012 Free-Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano: Transforming Traditional Stitches into Fiber Art
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]]> <![CDATA[Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs]]> 34304248 Rightful Place, was the story of a woman finding beauty in her place, the Llano Estacado. Her new collection of creative non-fiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her mid-life transition with prose poems and essays that illustrate a new terrain as well as new ways of being in the world.

Touching on faith and body image and belonging, these essays explore our role in deciding what is favorable or unfavorable, as well as where we some day want to dwell, and who came before us. In that touching, they feel their way with observations about current affairs, drought, mystery, and the hard decisions that face us all as we continue to move toward more questions with fewer answers. This exploration is informed and softened by hummingbirds, Gila monsters,bats, foxes, bears, wildflowers, and hidden seep springs where life goes on whether we are there to see it or not. It is about work in a wild and wilderness environment. In the end, even as life changes drastically around us, we are better off for knowing that the ugly mud bug turns into a jewel-toned dragonfly.]]> 182 Amy Hale Auker 1682830063 Christine 0 to-read 4.52 2017 Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
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]]> Long Ride Home 699683 Ěý
Traveling under an alias, the last thing gunman Clip Haynes wanted was attention. But Basin City needed a town-taming marshal, and a cold-blooded murderer was hiding behind Haynes’s real name. Now Haynes was coming out of hiding to protect his honor, save a town, and catch a killer—even if it cost him his life.
Ěý
Lou Morgan was as tough as they came. But it wasn’t just the money or the challenge that motivated him to take on a suicide job involving a buried Spanish treasure and two greedy killers. It was love for a beautiful señorita who had left him for dead years ago.
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It’s not easy being the new schoolma’am in town . . . especially when you’re a man. But Van Brady isn’t quite the tenderfoot he seems, and before he’s through he’ll teach a few hard cases a lesson they’ll never forget.
Ěý
From the rough-and-tumble streets of San Francisco to the dry desert plains of Texas, from a roughshod gambler willing to wager his own life on a single bet to a killer with a heart, here are stirring tales of the Old West as only Louis L’Amour can write them, tales of men and women risking their lives, fighting their wars, and standing tall on the American frontier.

The Cactus Kid pays a debt --
Bad place to die --
That triggernometry tenderfoot --
The town no guns could tame --
Shandy takes the hook --
No man's man --
Ride or start shootin' --
Long ride home]]> 165 Louis L'Amour 055328181X Christine 5 3.88 1989 Long Ride Home
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> Riding for the Brand 1130580 offered by a trusted seller 256 Louis L'Amour 0553261894 Christine 5 3.95 1986 Riding for the Brand
author: Louis L'Amour
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> The Key-Lock Man 1123624 192 Louis L'Amour 0553280988 Christine 5 3.93 1965 The Key-Lock Man
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 3.93
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]]> Taggart 1123566 Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved.

But when Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious bounty hunter, enters their camp, tensions soon mount. Consuelo, against all good judgment, cannot resist testing Taggart. Is he the man who can make her happy? Will he give her the life her husband cannot? With thousands of dollars of gold in his packsadles, the Apaches are now no longer Adam Stark’s only threat.

]]> 192 Louis L'Amour 0553254774 Christine 5 3.90 1959 Taggart
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]]> Crossfire Trail 1177260
Rafe Caradec--gambler, soldier of fortune, wanderer from far-off places--had made a promise to a dying man. To save his ranch in Wyoming for his wife and daugther.

All Rafe knew was that a lot of mighty powerful men were out to get that ranch. Rafe couldn't understand why until he discovered the secret hidden deep in the land--the secret Rodney's enemies had found long before.

Right now Rodney's daugther believed Rafe was a crook, and she was playing into the hands of the men who were plotting to destroy her.

But Rafe figured a way to save the land--and the girl.

It was dangerous but it was the only way he knew.]]> 208 Louis L'Amour 0553280996 Christine 5 3.99 1954 Crossfire Trail
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]]> The Cherokee Trail 1123601 221 Louis L'Amour 0553270478 Christine 5 3.93 1982 The Cherokee Trail
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 3.93
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]]> The Man from the Broken Hills 632959 304 Louis L'Amour 0553276794 Christine 5 3.99 1975 The Man from the Broken Hills
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 3.99
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rating: 5
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]]> Fair Blows the Wind 818128 368 Louis L'Amour 0553276298 Christine 5 4.04 1978 Fair Blows the Wind
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1978
rating: 5
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]]> Down the Long Hills 44925 178 Louis L'Amour 0553280813 Christine 5 4.05 1968 Down the Long Hills
author: Louis L'Amour
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> Conagher 1123599
Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn’t about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated canyons for missing cattle, he found notes tied to tumbleweeds rolling with the wind. The bleak, spare words echoed Conagher’s own whispered prayers for companionship. Who was this mysterious woman on the other side of the wind? For Conagher, staying alive long enough to find her wasn’t going to be easy.]]> 208 Louis L'Amour 0553281011 Christine 5 4.05 1969 Conagher
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name: Christine
average rating: 4.05
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]]> The Shadow Riders 1123578
Colonel Henry T. Ashford had gathered an army of criminals and renegade soldiers, leading them on a path of destruction and kidnapping through Texas to the Gulf. Among Ashford’s captives were the Travens� sister and Dal’s tough-minded fiancée, Kate.

Now Mac and Dal must take up arms once again and ride together against Ashford’s army—ready to fight another war, if that’s what it takes to win the freedom of the women they love.]]> 240 Louis L'Amour 0553231324 Christine 5 4.01 1982 The Shadow Riders
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 4.01
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Lonely on the Mountain (The Sacketts, #17)]]> 1123515 194 Louis L'Amour 0553276786 Christine 5 4.03 1980 Lonely on the Mountain (The Sacketts, #17)
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1980
rating: 5
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]]> Galloway (The Sacketts, #14) 1123518 176 Louis L'Amour 0553276751 Christine 5 4.04 1970 Galloway (The Sacketts, #14)
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1970
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Ride the River (The Sacketts, #5)]]> 828166 Ride the River, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a young woman who has to protect her family fortune from a murderous thief and teach him what it means to be a Sackett. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett had never been far from her Tennessee home—until she made the long trek to Philadelphia to collect an inheritance. Echo could take care of herself as well as any Sackett man, but James White, a sharp city lawyer, figured that cheating the money from the young girl would be like taking candy from a baby. If he couldn’t hoodwink Echo out of the cash, he’d just steal it from her outright. And if she put up a fight? There were plenty of accidents that could happen to a country girl on her first trip to the big city.]]> 186 Louis L'Amour 0553276832 Christine 5 4.06 1983 Ride the River (The Sacketts, #5)
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Beach at Painter's Cove 32075833
Leo , the Whitaker matriarch, lives in the rambling mansion crammed with artwork and junk. She plans to stay there until she joins her husband Wes on the knoll overlooking the cove and meadow where they first met. Her sister-in-law Fae, the town eccentric, is desperate to keep a secret she has been hiding for years.

Jillian , is a jet setting actress, down on her luck, and has run out of men to support her. She thinks selling The Muses will make life easier for her mother, Leo, and Fae by moving them into assisted living. The sale will also bring her the funds to get herself back on top.

Issy , Jillian’s daughter, has a successful life as a museum exhibit designer that takes her around the world. But the Muses and her grandmother are the only family she’s known and when her sister leaves her own children with Leo, Issy knows she has to step in to help.

Steph , is only twelve-years-old and desperately needs someone to fire her imagination and bring her out of her shell. What she begins to discover at the Muses could change the course of her future.

As Issy martials the family together to restore the mansion and catalogue the massive art collection, a surprising thing happens. Despite storms and moonlight dancing, diva attacks and cat fights, trips to the beach and flights of fancy, these four generations of erratic, dramatic women may just find a way to save the Muses and reunite their family.

Ěý]]> 432 Shelley Noble 0062439073 Christine 0 to-read 3.67 2017 The Beach at Painter's Cove
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> Beach Music 16729
A Southerner living abroad, Jack McCall is scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished heart. Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the Holocaust to the lingering trauma of Vietnam, Beach Music sings with life’s pain and glory. It is a novel of lyric intensity and searing truth, another masterpiece among Pat Conroy’s legendary and beloved novels.]]> 800 Pat Conroy 0553381539 Christine 0 to-read 4.17 1995 Beach Music
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name: Christine
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[The Missing (Seasons of Grace, #2)]]> 6372470 332 Beverly Lewis 0764205722 Christine 0 to-read 4.14 2009 The Missing (Seasons of Grace, #2)
author: Beverly Lewis
name: Christine
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Where Love Is, There God Is Also]]> 50282 Where Love Is, There God Is Also, The Hermits, and What Men Live By.
Tolstoy is best known for his classic works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.]]> 48 Leo Tolstoy 1425477569 Christine 0 to-read 4.12 1885 Where Love Is, There God Is Also
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name: Christine
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[Silver Linings (Rose Harbor, #4)]]> 24376196
Since opening the Rose Harbor Inn, Jo Marie Rose has met fascinating people from all walks of life, but none have piqued her interest quite like handyman Mark Taylor. Jo Marie and Mark are good friends—and are becoming something more—yet he still won’t reveal anything about his past. When Mark tells her that he’s moving out of town, Jo Marie is baffled. Just when she is starting to open herself up again to love, she feels once more that she is losing the man she cares about. As she grapples with Mark’s decision and tries to convince him to stay, she welcomes two visitors also seeking their own answers.

Best friends Kellie Crenshaw and Katie Gilroy have returned to Cedar Cove for their ten-year high school reunion, looking to face down old hurts and find a sense of closure. Kellie, known as Coco, wants to finally confront the boy who callously broke her heart. Katie, however, wishes to reconnect with her old boyfriend, James—the man she still loves and the one who got away. As Katie hopes for a second chance, Coco discovers that people can change—and both look to the exciting possibilities ahead.

Heartwarming and uplifting, Silver Linings is a beautiful novel of letting go of the past and embracing the unexpected.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 400 Debbie Macomber Christine 0 to-read 4.02 2015 Silver Linings (Rose Harbor, #4)
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[A Worthy Heart (Courage to Dream, #2)]]> 25822027 Can an Irish Lass with a Dream
for America Find True Love?

Maggie Montgomery's long-held wish to see America is finally coming true. She'll visit her beloved brother Rylan and his wife, Colleen, and at the same time, escape Neill Fitzgerald's unwanted attention. In addition, Maggie has a secret! She plans to remain in America to seek her fortune and to hopefully find love. While visiting Irish Meadows, she meets an intriguing man whom she thinks is a stable hand. Only when Rylan demands she stay away from Adam O'Leary does she realize he's Colleen's brother, recently released from prison. Nonetheless, Maggie can't seem to make her heart conform to her brother's request.

Adam O'Leary has never felt worthy of his place in the family. Spending time in jail only reinforces his belief. Now that he's free, Adam hopes to make amends and earn back his family's trust. Falling in love with Maggie Montgomery, however, was never in his plans.

Despite everyone's effort to keep them apart, the two develop a bond nothing can break--but has Adam truly changed, or will the sins of his past prove too much for Maggie to overcome?]]> 384 Susan Anne Mason 0764217259 Christine 0 to-read 4.17 2015 A Worthy Heart (Courage to Dream, #2)
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name: Christine
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]]> The Adventure of Mr. Petter 25486186 214 Jess Daniel Christine 5 5.00 The Adventure of Mr. Petter
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]]> <![CDATA[Roses for Mama (Women of the West, #3)]]> 389828 224 Janette Oke 0764202464 Christine 5 4.12 1990 Roses for Mama (Women of the West, #3)
author: Janette Oke
name: Christine
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[Woman of the West Set 3:Too Long a Stranger/The Bluebird & the Sparrow/A Gown of Spanish Lace/Drums of Change (Women of the West 9-12)]]> 66034 0 Janette Oke 0764280252 Christine 5 4.27 1996 Woman of the West Set 3:Too Long a Stranger/The Bluebird & the Sparrow/A Gown of Spanish Lace/Drums of Change (Women of the West 9-12)
author: Janette Oke
name: Christine
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Drums of Change: The Story of Running Fawn (Women of the West, #12)]]> 817407 235 Janette Oke 1556618123 Christine 5 3.84 1995 Drums of Change: The Story of Running Fawn (Women of the West, #12)
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> Grace 2889121 Updated and Renamed now as If Only

A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, The Gift, and The Christmas List. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption.

She was my first kiss. My first love. She was a little match girl who could see the future in the flame of a candle. She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since. And when she was gone my innocence left with her.

As I begin to write, a part of me feels as if I am awakening something best left dead and buried, or at least buried. We can bury the past, but it never really dies. The experience of that winter has grown on my soul like ivy climbing the outside of a home, growing until it begins to tear and tug at the brick and mortar.

I pray I can still get the story right. My memory, like my eyesight, has waned with age. Still, there are things that become clearer to me as I grow older. This much I know: too many things were kept secret in those days. Things that never should have been hidden. And things that should have.]]> 316 Richard Paul Evans 1416550038 Christine 5 4.17 2008 Grace
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]]> The Haunted Mesa 89695 426 Louis L'Amour 0553270222 Christine 5 3.79 1987 The Haunted Mesa
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> Follow the River 138872
With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness no white woman had ever seen. Her story lives on—extraordinary testimony to the indomitable strength of one pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her own people.]]> 406 James Alexander Thom 0345338545 Christine 5 4.21 1980 Follow the River
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name: Christine
average rating: 4.21
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]]> The Californios 1123580
When Sean and Eileen set forth to retrace his father’s footsteps, they know they are in search of a questionable treasure—with creditors, greedy neighbors, and ruthless gunmen watching every move they make. Before they reach their destination, mother and son will test both the limits of their faith and the laws of nature as they seek salvation in a landscape where reality can blur like sand and sky in a desert mirage.]]> 240 Louis L'Amour 0553253220 Christine 5 3.79 1974 The Californios
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name: Christine
average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[His Holiday Heart (The McKaslin Clan: Series 3, #8)]]> 4256392
What can make a grumpy "there-is-no-Santa-Claus" kind of man smile? The sight of quirky Lucy Chapin. Something about the woman creates warm and fuzzy feelings within confirmed bachelor Spence McKaslin. So he decides he'll just have to ignore her.

Hard to do, since they're working together on a Christmas program for hospitalized children. And the time with lovely Lucy soon has Spence thinking twice about spending his life alone. But can Lucy open his heart to the joy of the season…and to love?]]> 224 Jillian Hart 0373875037 Christine 5 4.09 2008 His Holiday Heart (The McKaslin Clan: Series 3, #8)
author: Jillian Hart
name: Christine
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Dressing Your Truth: Discover your Personal Beauty Profile]]> 7945769 223 Carol Tuttle 0984402101 Christine 5 3.54 2010 Dressing Your Truth: Discover your Personal Beauty Profile
author: Carol Tuttle
name: Christine
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)]]> 699654 185 Louis L'Amour 0553276867 Christine 5 4.12 1974 Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Christine
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1974
rating: 5
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