Blogs in August 2020

Sea Star 19th August 2020

An orphaned Chincoteague colt restores happiness to his new owners in this beloved horse story from Newbery Award–winning author Marguerite Henry. Movie men have come to Chincoteague to film the annual Pony Penning, and Paul and Maureen are thrilled—until...

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Big Cherry Holler 19th August 2020

It has been eight years since pharmacist and longtime spinster Ave Maria Mulligan married. What she hasn’t counted on is that fate and the ghosts of the past will come to haunt her, and test the love she has...

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The Unlikely Disciple 19th August 2020

As a sophomore at Brown University, Kevin Roose didn’t have much contact with the Religious Right. Raised in a secular home by staunchly liberal parents, he fit right in with Brown’s sweatshop-protesting, fair-trade coffee-drinking, God-ambivalent student body. So when...

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To Have and to Hold 19th August 2020

Virginia Company, Jamestown, 1621. The once struggling colony is now thriving, and the arrival of a ship full of potential brides has all the single men rushing to put on their best and meet the ladies in hopes of...

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The Kitchen House 19th August 2020

When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia...

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