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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When Emma returns home to Serenity following her sister's untimely death, she must confront Sam and the feelings she never fully dealt with after their broken engagement. A strange clause in her sister's will forces Emma to stay and work with Sam to restore her sister's old house. As they work side by side, the promise of love blooms again.
Author
Language
English
Description
"No one interested in the history of the American West or in women's history should miss this well-written, carefully researched, comprehensive treatment of a subject that previous scholars have largely ignored. Based on the writings of more than fifty women who accompanied their husbands to remote duty posts in the far west.
Author
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
thrown off a wagon train with two other women and trying to avoid jail for a murder they committed, Bailee Moore agrees to enter a "Wife Lottery"-a ploy concocted by the Cedar Point sheriff to secure wives for the men in the small Texas town. For the sensible Bailee, however, marrying Carter McKoy is like exchanging one life sentence for another-expecially since her new husband hasn't even uttered a single word in her presence.
Author
Series
Change and cherish volume 2
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1850s, Emma Giesy wonders if God has abandoned her when she and her husband's family find themselves struggling alone in the remote coastal forest of Washington Territory, after leaving a repressive religious community led by an autocratic German leader.
85) Tried & true
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"--
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Carley Burch leaves her high society life in New York City to reclaim her fiancé, Glen Kilbourne, who had moved to the Wild West to recover from World War I. She braves fierce ruffians, brutal elements and lack of civilization. Carley must adapt to the rigorous life of the West. But will she be able to convince Glenn to return to his "home" in New York? Will she be in time before a rival temptress steals Glenn away?
Author
Publisher
Western Reflections
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Bess is Carol McManus' second historical novel. As with Ida, Carol's award-winning and best-selling first novel, Bess is based on the author's close observations of pioneer women who lived and worked in the first part of the twentieth century in western Colorado. Life in those days was filled with determined women who tried to make a better life for themselves and their families. As opposed to their Victorian counterparts, who were for the most part...
88) Redeeming love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue and often doesn't even try to do so, fueling...
Author
Series
Journals of Callie McGregor volume 1
Publisher
Integrity Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Love comes softly series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
This story of a frontier family begins where "Love Comes Softly" left off, telling the heartwarming tale of a marriage that began in tragedy but flourished due to the couple's devotion to one another and to God. The husband and wife, Marty and Clark, have been blessed with children, and now it's time for a school to be built for all the town's youth.
Author
Series
Westward chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Simone Dumas flees from her abusive father and is hired by Jeffrey O'Donnell to work as a Harvey Girl at the Topeka Harvey House.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marty and Clark Davis's daughter Missie and her husband had homesteaded land in the far West, many weeks' journey away by covered wagon. But with the coming of the frontier railroad the miles are suddenly bridged, making possible their long-awaited reunion. Grandparents Marty and Clark are thrilled to meet their two little grandsons for the first time. Missie plies her mother with questions about her brothers and sisters while Willie shows them around...
94) Red bird
Author
Series
Prairie winds volume 3
Language
English
Description
Carrie Brown was only a child when she first met Soaring Eagle, but she's never given up on the dream that one day, they will be together. Those closest to her consider that dream a childish fantasy. Soaring Eagle has spent the years since Carrie left Nebraska studying at Eastern colleges. Now he's a sought-after lecturer--and he's met beautiful, intelligent Julia Woodward. Is Carrie's dream stubborn imagination or God's will? To find out, she must...
Author
Series
Change and cheriesh volume 1
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
She came from the East to teach, but can she survive the frontier? Nothing in her cultured Eastern upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching position in the Canadian West. Despite the many hardships, she cares deeply for the schoolchildren, but she is determined not to open her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Then she meets a certain member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. . .
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the early 20th century, new schoolteacher Beth Thatcher is assigned a post in a remote mining community in Western Canada. There her courage--and her heart--will be tested in unexpected ways"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
From the day she fell off the wagon tain as an infant, Glory was raised by Poppy, the frontiersman who found her on a trail. After Poppy passes awya, glory sets off with their gold to start a new life, only to be stranded when her mule dies. Then a wagon train carrying mail-order brides heading to Colorado appears. Can this spirited beauty find happiness as a bride..or will she prove too tough to tame?
Author
Publisher
Black Hawk Publishing
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"The exciting, true story of the woman who became one of Colorado's best known figures, honored after her death with a stained glass window in Colorado's capitol, and now the subject of Gabriel's daughter, a new work premiering in 2003 at the world-famous Central City Opera House"--P. [4] of cover.