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1) Crash
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Language
English
Description
Seventh grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Vacationing together in accordance with their tight-knit friendships, four Nantucket couples are shattered by a boating accident that kills two of their number, an event that sends the island into mourning and reveals unexpected truths about their private lives.
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. "Is nothing on this island as it appears to be?" he whispers in despair.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping WWII time-slip novel, Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More...
Author
Series
Harmony volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Quaker minister Sam Gardner copes with the eccentrics of his congregation while attempting to counter church elder Dale Hinshaw's plans for a "progressive" nativity scene on Christmas Eve.
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Series
Quaker midwife mystery volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds to her pregnant and postpartum mothers. When Charity Skells dies from an apparent early miscarriage, Rose wonders about the symptoms that don't match the stated case of death.
10) Cry of the wolf
Author
Series
Avalon web of magic volume 3
Publisher
CS Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Adriane secretly follows her wolf companion, Stormbringer, through a portal into the magical world.
13) Home to Harmony
Author
Series
Harmony volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Harmony ... In this acclaimed inaugural volume i the Harmony series, master American storyteller Phillip Gulley draws us into the charming world of minister Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown, capturing the essence of small-town life with humor and wisdom.
15) Obadiah the Bold
Author
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A young boy's desire to be a pirate is quelled by his brothers and sisters during a game.
16) Phoebe's light
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 3
Language
English
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Description
After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom--a Quaker in good standing, of course. But if they relinquish the inheritance, it all goes to Tristram Macy, their father's thieving business...
Author
Series
Harmony volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Follows Quaker minister Sam Gardner into his third year of ministry as Dale Hinshaw introduces his Salvation Balloons project, Deena Morrison deals with spinsterhood, Jimmy Muldock hides a secret, and Nora Nagle returns home.
Author
Series
Harmony volume 5
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In his fifth year of ministering to the citizens of Harmony, pastor Sam Gardner finds himself challenged by Deena Morrison's impending marriage to Dr. Daniel Pierce and the Hodges' possible loss of their daughter to her biological parents.
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