Joanne Bischof
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Series
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English
Description
Aven Norgaard understands courage. Orphaned within an Irish workhouse, then widowed at just nineteen, she voyaged to America, where she was wooed and wed by Thor Norgaard, a deaf man in rural Appalachia. That the Lord saw her along the winding journey and that Aven now carries Thor's child are blessings beyond measure. Yet while Thor holds her heart, it is his younger brother and rival who haunts her memories.
Author
Series
Blackbird Mountain novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Thor Norgaard hasn't spoken to anyone in his twenty-eight years, but when the young widow he loves crosses an ocean to live on his Appalachian farm, this reclusive alcoholic will brave much more than words to heal her heart"--
When Aven Norgaard leaves Norway to serve as housekeeper to her late husband's cousins in Appalachia, she expects lads in need of care, not three grown men, each in need of a wife and bound by a powerful brotherhood. As the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Upon arriving in Kenworthy, California, mail-order bride Juniper Cohen is met by the pounding of the gold mine, an untameable landscape, and her greatest surprise of all: the kind and loving man who awaits her. But when the mine proves empty of profit, and when Juniper's husband, John, vanishes, Juniper is left to fend for herself and her young daughter in the dwindling boomtown that is now her home. Juniper pens letters to her husband but fears...
Publisher
Barbour Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Four historical women, their lives in transition ... find joy in the memory, discovery, or receiving of a treasured heirloom and the love it represents. Betsy is brokenhearted to lose an heirloom watch, and its buyer won't return it. Wren cautiously welcomes back the boy-turned-man who disappeared four years ago. When Clara's father is injured, she borrows a neighbor's son to help on the farm. Darla returns to her hometown determined to recover both...