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in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, The United States

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Charlene Amsden grew up among the logging camps and mining towns of Northern Idaho. She's been in bar fights, traveled back and forth across the United States in an 18-wheeler, and taught school in a paved desert and on a beach where the teachers proclaimed 'shoes optional'.

Thanks to a misguided prayer while sitting at the feet of a gifted storyteller when she was just six years old, Charlene has enjoyed an interesting life. She asked that she too would have interesting stories to tell.

Like the time that she climbed a tree with five of her friends and the tree bent double. Her friends jumped. Charlene ... didn't. The tree catapulted her within chain-length of the neighborhood attack dog - Thor, the Dog of Thunder. Later, Charlene's grandmot ...more

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	How (Not) to Feud With Your Obnoxious Neighbor (Yellow Pine Series Book 1) 4.65 avg rating — 96 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Christmas in Cedar Haven

Book Cover - worried woman looks out window into the night while a Christmas tree glows behind her.

A Christmas in Cedar Haven

When waitress Georgiana Ward finds a note on her shattered windshield that reads You’re next, she knows her violent ex-husband has returned to Cedar Haven. The police can’t locate him, and anonymous calls keep coming. All Georgie wants is to protect her ten-year-old son and survive Christmas in one piece.

She doesn’t expect Jackson Brenneman, the quiet man in booth sev

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