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William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble

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A demure kindergarten teacher with dreams of Nashville stardom makes a difficult choice when she reunites with a smitten and wildly attractive rancher during an annual western-themed Christmas ball that launches a holiday season of romance and promise Conner Branch hasn't stopped thinking about the sultry singer he spotted on stage during last year's Cowboy Christmas Ball. Imagine his surprise when he meets Megan Carson, a demure kindergarten teacher...

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