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    10/07/2024
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    Maggie Miller

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    Chapter: 13 | Listen: 3

    From bestselling and prolific author Mary Jane Holmes, Maggie Miller or Old Hagar’s Secret COMES a compelling story of deceit, love, misplaced pride and loss of innocence that will keep you in suspense until the very end. And as usual her amazingly real characters will not disappoint. Excerpt: ” Mustn’t put on airs ! ” muttered Hagar, as she left the room. ” Just as if  airs wasn’t for anybody but high bloods ! ” And with the canker-worm of envy at her heart she wrote to Hester, who came immediately; – Summary by Celine Major     [chương_files]  

    02/07/2024
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    Cousin Maude

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    Chapter: 12 | Listen: 4

    When Matilda’s husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the doctor is a miser and assumes that Matty will be his housekeeper. They have a little boy who is crippled and the doctor ignores him. Maude is totally devoted to him and on her mother’s deathbed promises to look after him always. The story then evolves with Maude meeting her stepsister Nellie’s cousins JC and James. Nellie has set her sights on JC who is after her money while Maude develops strong feelings towards James. JC begins to fall for Maude and when he learns that she has come into an inheritance bequeathed to her by her mother’s former servant/nurse Janet he proposes to her. The complications that follow along with the arrival of a new stepmother add just the right amount of drama to this sweet romance. – Summary by Celine Major     [chương_files]