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Series
Timber Ridge reflections volume 2
Language
English
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Dismissed from the university where she served as Professor of Romantic Languages, Dr. Molly Whitcomb travels west to start over in the secluded mountain town of Timber Ridge, Colorado, where she'll be teaching children. Her train stops in Denver, and on a whim, Molly purchases a wedding band--an attempt to cover a mistake, but also a chance at a fresh start. Sheriff James McPherson was eager to hire a schoolteacher, but Dr. Molly Whitcomb isn't what...
3) Plainsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Set in Denver, the separate lives of a school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelors become one small community.
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Series
Publisher
4kids5cats Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Colorado, 1910. Quinn Cooper can’t help feeling uneasy. But securing a job as a schoolmarm in a tiny frontier town was the only way to save her family from starvation back in Boston. And her nerves aren’t eased by a stray gunshot that spooks the sleigh horses, casting her into the snow… until she’s rescued by a handsome stranger.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In search of life after child rearing, a Boston preschool teacher makes a tentative feint at Pikes Peak. The Peak dishes out far more than bargained for: a dying hiker, a lost trail, a fall, and a night out in an electrical storm. In surviving this maelstrom Catherine (Cookie) finds inspiration and confidence to attempt ever more daring forays into the extremes of Colorado:the Royal Gorge rapids, a solitary tube ride down the Colorado River, and a...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York, for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their society luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they learned that two teaching jobs were available in a remote mountaintop schoolhouse and applied - shocking their families and friends. "No young lady in our town,"...
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Series
Publisher
Summerside Press
Language
English
Description
"Claire Caspian is a first-rate professor, teaching even the most cynical student to find beauty in literature. But with her own personal story, she isn't as successful. Having recently lost her husband, Claire returns with her young son to the tiny desert town of Romeo, Colorado, where she grew up. There she settles in with her feisty old Abuelita, the richest woman in the county and attempts to rebuild her life. But love comes searching for Claire...
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Language
English
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Description
Every generation ha a duty to learn about their forefathers; how they lived their lives and fought for their country so that their children and grandchildren may have a better life. This is the reason I have written this story. It is in my own words; how I have seen and lived it over 40 years span of my life.
15) Home by morning
Author
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by her cause to help ex-slaves prepare for freedom, Prudence Lincoln must decide whether or not she is willing to give up everything for former Cheyenne warrior Thomas Redstone after he declares his love.