Risner, Fay

Elizabeth didn't care about Christmas, and this one was going to be much worse. Her brother says he has a business trip. He gives her his gift early. An obnoxious man robot Scott says does housework. Elizabeth finds out a former boyfriend, Steven, and her brother programmed the robot to brainwash her to take Steven back. Elizabeth decides to run away and take Hover Hill with her.

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Published: 2016

Answering Machine Knew

Wedgewood, Minnesota Police Detective Renee Brown and Rookie Jeff Briceson are called to a farm house to investigate the death of a woman. At first, what looks like a suicide turns into out to be a killing with plenty of suspects. The information was provided by a nosy neighbor who saw cars come and go the night of the murder. Now it's up to Renee to match suspects to the cars.

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Published: 2005

Grandma Robot

Risner, Fay

Author Karen Warwick moves to the country. Her scientist friend, Amy Brown, asks Karen to try out a robot maid to see if the robot was working well enough to sell. Karen soon regrets saying yes when the robot transforms from young to a senior citizen that could be a grandma. She knows more about Karen's old family home and kin then Karen does. Stunned, Karen finds herself drawn to Grandma Robot.

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Published: 1995

Doubting Thomas-Nurse Hal Among The Amish

Risner, Fay

Emma Lapp is getting married. Her excitement soon turns to dread. She has so many details to take care of and nothing is going right. Her husband-to-be is missing. She worries that he may have changed his mind since he hired a flirting, pretty woman for sales clerk in his shop. Emma isn't going to marry Adam with blind faith in him which leads the bishop to call her a doubting Thomas.

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Published: 2002

One Big Bat

Risner, Fay

Join Wedgewood, Minnesota's Police Detective Renee Brown in book two of her series as she moves in with her sister, Diane, for what will become the longest two weeks of her life. Not one of them could imagined, what was really wrong in Diane and Paul Logan's house when they hear strange noises in the attic that keeps waking them up in the night, but Paul claims it is One Big Bat.

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Published: 1998

Courting Buggy: Nurse Hal Among The Amish

Risner, Fay

Peter Rogies, has Alzheimer's. Aunt Tootie takes a liking to Peter. They end up on Lover's Lane in Jim's courting buggy. The next time the couple go for a walk they get lost in a timber in the dark. It would be just a matter of time before they succumb to the elements.What else will Tootie do to complicate Hal's Amish way of life. Lots of things and not all of them in The Courting Buggy.

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Published: 1991

Coffin To Lie On

Risner, Fay

Miranda Tollifson had an easy life after she married Minnesota farmer, Anselm Tollifson. He put up with her imaginary ailments and even brought in a woman to do the housework for her. All that changed when she went on a four month journey across the country to Oregon, enduring hardships. For so many reasons, she wished she didn't have to leave home. The important one was she was pregnant.

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Published: 2016

Will O Wisp

Risner, Fay

Gracie Evans is going to farm sit again. She invites Shana to come along to keep the girl out of trouble. Melinda Applegate invites herself along to keep both of them out of trouble. Millard Sokal shows up and appears to still be fond of Gracie. Shana unwisely takes up with a trouble family and the Indians moved. A fresh grave in Gracie's cemetery and a will o wisp spirit in the timber is scary.

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Published: 1993

My Children Are More Precious Than Gold

Risner, Fay

An entertaining as well as educational children's book and for grownups, too. Stories within include blacksmithing, robbing a bee tree, a brush arbor revival and picking blackberries in the pasture. Neighborhood apple butter parties and corn shucking contests show how the ridge farmers joined together to help each other and have fun at the same time.

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Published: 2014

Amish Country Arson

Risner, Fay

Fall was normally a routine season in Amish Country with harvest taking up much of the Plain farmers time. But one fall near Wickenburg, Iowa wasn't normal. Jacob Stolfus's barn burnt down. After Sheriff Dawson investigated, he said the fire was arson. Next the Briskey cornfield burnt. Nurse Hall was attacked in her barn and left for dead with a fire spreading around her. Amish faith is tested.

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Published: 1991

Listen To Me Honey

Risner, Fay

Eighth grader, Amanda Craftton bent to peer pressure. She slipped away from school at lunch time with her friends. They went to the mall to get tattoos. Afterward, one of the friends invites the girls to go home with her to sample a beer. Amanda's suspended. Her parents exiled to her grandparents farm in Arkansas. She knows when she goofs. Grandma's lectures begin with Listen to me, Honey.

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Published: 1998

Blue Bonnet

Risner, Fay

Life wasn't so bad for Bat Kayhill these days. Two years ago, he didn't feel that way. He'd moved from his Bar BK Ranch to live with his daughters in Dead Horse, Oklahoma after his wife died. Now he was tired of town life. He missed ranch life with the cowhands and was ready to move back home. The one hitch was he dreaded living in the house without a wife.

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Published: 2001

Cowboy Girl Annie

Risner, Fay

Cowboy Girl Annie knew life to be tough. She adjusted to all her bad breaks years ago, because she always figured life was similar to a game of poker. What happened to her was the bad luck of the draw. When gangster, Big Ed, put a bounty on her head, Annie's friend Skinny Jake blustered Annie and he were watching each other's backs. That was just before Jake told Annie to run and hide.

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Published: 2014