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Shaker novels volume 5
Language
English
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Jessamine Brady loves her Shaker sisters and brothers, but can't stop imagining life and love in the outside world.
2) The refuge
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic, but when Walter dies, Darcie is left alone--and lonely. Can love live again for this widow in a community that doesn't believe in marriage?
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 4
Language
English
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It is 1844 and Lacey Bishop's life is a tangled mess. Estranged from her own family, at age 16 she went to work for a preacher and his wife. When his wife died, the preacher convinced Lacey that the only decent thing to do was to marry him. That way she could continue to act as mother to the little girl who was left on his doorstop. But Lacey never expected he would decide to take them all off to a Shaker village. There she's still married but living...
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Gabrielle Hope has a special gift of "knowing" the future. When she and her mother join the Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1807, the members embrace her ability, although it sometimes frightens quiet Gabrielle. But when one vision comes true, a ch
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 6
Language
English
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An expectant young woman turned away by her family at Christmas is taken in by the Shakers at Harmony Hill.
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 3
Language
English
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Charlotte Vance is a young woman who knows what she wants. But when the man she planned to marry joins the Shakers--a religious group that does not marry--she is left dumbfounded. And when her father brings home a new wife who is young enough to be Charlotte's sister, it is more than she can bear. With the country--and her own household--on the brink of civil war, this pampered gentlewoman hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her...
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When Elizabeth Duncan feels a strong attachment to a handsome young Believer named Ethan, life gets complicated. Will Elizabeth be forced to leave the Shaker community to keep Ethan from stumbling? Or will Ethan's love for her change their lives fore
8) Wormwood
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 17
Language
English
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Description
While getting some much needed rest and assisting with some herbal workshops, China Bayles stumbles over old secrets in a Kentucky Shaker village after a shocking death occurs during her stay.
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Carlyn Kearney has spent two lonely years not knowing whether to mourn or to hope after she receives word from the Union Army that her husband is missing. The war ends without further word. Now penniless, in debt, and forced from her home, Carlyn seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill ... [and] is just settling into life as a sister in the Shaker village when she receives a devastating letter confirming her worst fears. As she wrestles...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
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