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Sydell Lowell Voeller
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Jessica Williams is bored living in her small town in Oregon, and the kids at school seem equally boring. Life is indeed dull for Jessica until Cam Easton moves into her neighborhood and teaches her how to skate. Soon she discovers she is falling in love with him, but she runs into a major obstacle. Most of the people in town despise skateboarders, including her father who is running for mayor. Worse, Jessica's involvement with the skaters suddenly...
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Publisher's note: WALTZ WITH THE STARS has been previously published in earlier editions as STAR LIGHT STAR BRIGHT. When Chyenna Dupres and her young daughter move from Portland, Oregon, to the small town of Prairie Valley, Chyenna leases a historic inn there. She plans to turn the inn into an upscale eatery, despite strong resistance from some of the locals. Her most vocal objector is cattle rancher Blair Westerman, who has relocated from L. A. to...
3) Dummy & Me!
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Sixteen-year-old Deanna Lambert is miserable. She can't find her niche with the popular kids at school and she believes she is ugly. Then, too, after her mother deserted the family to pursue an acting career, Deanna's father has grown distant and embittered. Now Deanna is saddled with most of the chores at home--and she and her dad barely communicate. Yet Deanna's one happy escape is her volunteer work at the nearby children's hospital. There the...
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April Heatherton, history teacher and volunteer firefighter, is determined to protect the land she holds dear, especially the grave of an unknown pioneer woman who once trekked the Oregon Trail. Proposed logging operations are encroaching, and April soon finds herself organizing a local task force to try to stop them. Yet when April meets handsome Matt Spencer, son of the owner of Johnson Brothers Logging Company, she must reckon with her escalating...