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Karr Kathleen
The Promised Land (Destiny's Dreamers Book 2)
 DescriptionDestiny's Dreamers: Book TwoNow in the last miles on the Oregon Trail, will Johnny and Maggie Stuart be robbed of their cherished dream? For Johnny and Maggie and their young family, the long journey West has been fraught with danger. They have been beset by hunger, blistering heat, and bone-rattling chill. They have helped bring life into the world and have ushered it out. Even attacks by wild animals and hostile Native Americans have been weathered, and they have survived. Nothing, however, has prepared them for the cruelest cut of all: treachery from within their own ranks that will put their lives at risk and will create a growing rift between them. Will Johnny and Maggie's strong and shining faith endure this latest test? Will Johnny succumb to temptation more deadly than a well-aimed arrow? Destiny's Dreamers: Book Two Now in the last miles on the Oregon Trail, will Johnny and Maggie Stuart be robbed of their cherished dream? For Johnny and Maggie and their young family, the long journey West has been fraught with danger. They have been beset by hunger, blistering heat, and bone-rattling chill. They have helped bring life into the world and have ushered it out. Even attacks by wild animals and hostile Native Americans have been weathered, and they have survived. Nothing, however, has prepared them for the cruelest cut of all: treachery from within their own ranks that will put their lives at risk and will create a growing rift between them. Will Johnny and Maggie's strong and shining faith endure this latest test? Will Johnny succumb to temptation more deadly than a well-aimed arrow?
The Great Turkey Walk
 List Price: Price: $2.86 You Save: $5.13 (64%) DescriptionYeeeeeee-haw! Git along, little . . . turkeys?
Big, brawny Simon Green, who's just completed third grade (for the fourth time), may not be book smart, but he's nobody's fool. When it's time to be done with school and make his way in the world, Simon hatches a plan that could earn him a bundle. He intends to herd a huge flock of bronze turkeysall the way from his home in eastern Missouri to the boomtown of Denver, where they'll fetch a mighty price. In the year 1860, the hazards of such a trek are many - how does one shepherd the birds across a river, for instance? - but Simon is undaunted. Accompanied by a faithful drover, and eventually to be joined by two boon companions, he undertakes the biggest journey of his young life, in this high-spirited Wild Wild West adventure by an acclaimed author of historical fiction.
Gilbert & Sullivan: Set Me Free
 List Price: Price: $0.01 You Save: $5.98 (100%) DescriptionAlthough conditions in Sherborn Women's Prison are miserable, the inmates' spirits soar when the new chaplain decides to stage a musical: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. The show transforms the women, and no one is changed more than sixteen-year-old Libby Dodge, who discovers she's a natural performer. But Libby is still bound by her prison sentence and shadowed by her murky past. Gilbert and Sullivan may make prison life more bearable, but can musical theater set her free?
Man of the Family
 List Price: Price: $3.94 You Save: $12.06 (75%) DescriptionA moving father-son story.
At ten, Istvan Csere is learning from his father all about running the family's chicken farm in South Jersey. The father, a flamboyant, proud character who fled Hungary with Istvan's mother on the brink of the First World War, has great plans for his family and their little farm. And Istvan is increasingly aware of his own responsibilities in helping to realize these dreams. First steps are taken -- money is saved for an electrical generator, seedlings for a fruit orchard are planted. Then something terrible happens and Istvan must suddenly take over as man of the family, having to rely on the lessons learned from his father sooner than he ever expected. Transforming her own family history into compelling historical fiction, Kathleen Karr examines a pivotal year in her father's childhood -- a year that changed his life forever. Karr Kathleen News
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