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Sunday Reads – Free Kindle & Nook Books

For the Mommas

Fourteen-year-old Andrew discovers his mother’s hidden diary at his grandmother’s home during a Christmas gathering. His eyes are opened to a family secret when he reads about her time as a nurse in Salonika during the First World War, and the tragic love affair she had with his father, a Greek Officer who died in battle.

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Meet a Reader | Beth from VA

The Frugal Girl

I live just outside of Richmond, VA with my husband, 18-year-old twin daughters, and our two dogs. ” deer on my street One of my daughters has significant health issues that are largely invisible (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and dysautonomia, including POTS). I want my daughters to have more knowledge and opportunity than we did.

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Free Nook Books – Boomerang Bride & More

For the Mommas

The daughter of wealthy merchants in Seattle, she feels betrayed both by her real parents and by the ones who raised her. When Maggie asks to visit her grandmother in Arkansas, her father agrees on the condition that she take her Aunt Georgia as a chaperone and his young partner, Charles Stanton, as protection on the journey.

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Homespun Alchemy™. In the Kitchen

Frugal Luxuries

Little did I realize that doing so was to shift the paradigm of my long held belief that it was my grandmother who was responsible for all of the usual. When I asked how his mother went about making her sauerkraut , he informed me that it wasn ' t his mother , but his father who created and nurtured those huge crocks of deliciousness.

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Sunday Reads 8/10: Seven Days of Friday, 1931 Caleb’s Err and More eBooks

For the Mommas

Lured by the promise of “real” freedom and a new town to call their own, sharecroppers Ezekial Harban and his three daughters leave behind remnants of slavery in the war-torn south and set off for Nicodemus, Kansas. Many head back home, but Ezekial and his daughters are determined to build a new life in the stark territory.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

My mother grew up on a farm, and from her accounts my grandmother and grandfather (who also was a foreman at the local glass factory, along with being an independent farmer) were frugal, and sometimes times were tight. My grandpa would shoot squirrels when they needed meat, and they had a big garden and my grandmother baked her own bread.

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