Dorothy Garlock
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Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone. But now she's at a loss as to how to handle the defiant teenager he has become, even as she struggles to keep her family financially afloat. She's fresh out of ways to turn her luck around-until a daring stranger's unexpected kindness sparks hope she hasn't felt in a long time...
22) Mother Road
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Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock) volume 1
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[2003]
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In 1932 Route 66 through Sayre, Oklahoma, saw a steady stream of dust bowl refugees, and many stopped at the garage owned by one-legged Andy Connors for fuel, repairs, a drink of water, or to rest in his campground. Big, brawny, and relatively well-off, H. L. Yates has come to Sayre to pay an old debt to Andy and finds the perfect way to do it when Andy is bitten by a rabid skunk. After taking him to the hospital, Yates takes over running the garage...
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Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides into Dalton Barnes. He's lived in Redstone all his life and hates how the big city out-of-towners are gawking...
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Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 3
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"... a young woman takes over a frontier hotel during Oklahoma's oil boom and carves a place for herself in a man's world"--Jacket.
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Louise Watkins has her hands full. Her mother had been the town midwife, but when her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in a childbirth ever again. Since then Louise has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice's six-year old, Charlotte, because the child's father was lost in World War I. But Louise's principal job is running the boardinghouse that is the family's main source of income. One day, Charlotte befriends a...
27) Take me home
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Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, 1945. Olivia Marsten never imagined she'd be a war bride. But when her childhood best friend surprises her with a marriage proposal before he leaves to serve with the Navy, she reluctantly accepts even though her heart belongs to someone else. Sparks fly the moment mysterious stranger Peter Becker lays eyes on Olivia. but Peter harbors a dark secret. The son of an American soldier, he was forced to join the Reich's...
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Sophie Heller and her family left Nazi Germany for a better life in Victory, Illinois. But when war fever sweeps the town, the Hellers become targets of suspicion, threats, and attacks. Sophie, working as a newspaperwoman, begins an investigation to uncover the truth. Cole Ambrose, a physically disabled local teacher, becomes her unexpected ally, and love.
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2017.
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Hooper's Crossing, New York, 1952. The post-war boom seems a million miles away . . . especially for a sheltered librarian who longs for the adventure and excitement of the big city. New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams about. But ever since her mother died, her overprotective father won't ease up on her. So she spends her days working at the library and her nights hoping life doesn't pass...
34) Nightrose
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Wyoming frontier series volume 2
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c1990
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Kathy, a fiercely independent young woman, ignores her own emotional needs and attempts to protect her niece and her sister, as they struggle to survive in the wilderness. But the passionate attentions of rugged frontiersman Garrick Rowe causes her reserve to crumble.
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2009
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Kelly gladly left her beloved Alaska to move to Boston and marry Jack. Once there, she learned that Jack was actually Johathan Templeton III, a Boston Brahmin. Faced with a chilly reception from his family and his sudden possessiveness, Kelly fled back to her Alaskan home. When Jack tracks Kelly back to her northern home, she has to wonder whether he is back to reclaim the wife that he loves, or to seek revenge for her desertion?
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2008
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Beth Marshall is shocked when Tom Clary, the cowboy she left town to avoid, arrives in Minnesota to bring Beth home to tend to her ailing sister, but when Beth's long-buried feelings for Tom are reawakened, she wonders if Tom has truly changed or if he will only break her heart once more.