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Recreational Reading in the Bowen Library

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Texas Brides

Equipped with their father's blessing and meager gifts of inheritance three brothers from the hills of Scotland enter the land of possibilities and settle on the plains of Texas. Dr. Robert Gregor opens an office in town. Mere days before Mercy Stein is to be wed, her world falls apart. the doctor can tend her, but only God can heal a battered soul. Will Rob risk everything and place his mother's wedding band on Mercy's hand? Duncan Gregor's quiet counsel and practical views draws people to the unassuming cobble. Carmen Rodriguez wallows in loneliness, believing no one wants a crippled wife, so she resolves to be content serving others. the two neighbors ought to get along, but Duncan nettles her. Will the Bible his father bequethed him bring the neighbors together. or drive them apart? The pocket watch his father left to him ticks off time for Christopher Gregor. Driven to capture the man who killed his friend, Chris becomes a Texas Ranger. The last thing he need is to be sidetracked by a helpless woman. Kathryn Regent finds almost everything she ever dreamed of with Christopher but will her secret tear them apart? Can their father's gifts help these brothers lead three hurting women to healing faith and love?

The Revelation

"Conclusion to the series spanning three generations in a quaint Old Order Amish community. A story of love, faith, and second chances featuring five courting-age sisters and their extended family that is both heartrending and uplifting"--Provided by publisher.

True Believer

As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter of the town psychic. Now, if the young lovers are to have any kind of future at all, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something he could never do before-take a giant leap of faith.

Love's Long Journey

Enchanting pioneer love story from the author of the bestsellers, Love Comes Softly, and Love's Enduring Promise.

The Actual

A witty tale of love in what the novel's protagonist describes is the late phase of his maturity. He is Harry Trellman, an expatriate businessman who returns to Chicago dreaming of his high school sweetheart, the only woman he ever loved but who married another. Fate is kind, the woman is available and Trellman begins recovering his lost youth.

From Here to Eternity

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood ... and, possibly, their death. In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair ... in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no other the honor and savagery of men.

Persuasion

The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.

Loving

In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?