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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 3
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English
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A captivating story of a young girl who must assume responsibility for raising her younger siblings. As the challenges intensify, she is determined in her faith to raise them as her mother would have wanted.
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Heirs of Montana volume 4
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English
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In 1886, Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down. Cole takes her and the children to Kansas to care for his dying father. After the funeral, Cole's mother insists he stay and take over his inheritance. Unable to deal with her mother-in-law's cruel treatment, Dianne takes the children back to Montana alone. There, blizzards devastate the area, trapping a now pregnant Dianne at the ranch.
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2006
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English
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It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke’s wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet’s rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they’d hoped for. In the spring she had given birth to Luke’s son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a stranger in the hope of keeping...
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"Helen Sheppard's arrival at Fort Henry on the Ohio frontier comes at a time when outlaws are being driven from the land by determined bordermen like Jack Zane, who have no time for women in their lonely lives. There is something about Helen, however, that unsettles Zane's ways and drives him on a last trail in pursuit of the vilest and most desperate outlaws he has ever encountered on the frontier"--Back cover.
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A woman's life on the Colorado frontier, told by Mattie McCauley, a homestead bride. She describes the hardships--weather, childbirth, Indians--how she saved Luke, her husband with some fast shooting and how she was betrayed by him when Luke's old flame, Persia came to town. Yet she remains by his side for the sake of the family and the children. By the author of The Persian Pickle Club.
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Westward chronicles volume 1
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English
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Jeffery O'Donnell is captivated by the mysterious Simone, who arrives at his office hoping to acquire a position as a Harvey Girl at the popular way-stops along the frontier rail line. Jeffery is torn, however, when he suspects that Simone may harbor a disturbing secret. Westward Chronicles Book 1.
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Tender ties historical series volume 1
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English
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During the fur trapping era of the early 1800's, with two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Louis when her husband heads west. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition leader and her volatile husband, Marie finds that the daring act she hoped would bind her family together may in the end tear them apart.
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Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 1
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English
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Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty.
It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered—a...
It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered—a...
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Westward chronicles volume 3
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English
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Jillian struggles to fill the shoes--and identity-- of her identical twin sister amid the strict rules and routines of the Arizona Harvey House. When the local doctor inadvertently discovers her ruse, he creates a plan of his own. Westward Chronicles Book 3.
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"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...
11) My Ántonia
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A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl. A novel set in Nebraska about pioneering Bohemian farmers & of the courageous heroine, Antonia. First published in 1918. In Willa Cather's own estimation, My Antonia, first published in 1918, was "the best thing I've ever done." An enduring paperback bestseller on Houghton Mifflin's literary list, this hauntingly eloquent classic now boasts a new...
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Hawkshadow Pub. Co
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English
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Orphaned by the untimely deaths of her parents, Emma Jorden has to abandon her Kansas home. Lost on the featureless prairie and near death, she is rescued by Shea Hawkshadow, a half-breed Cheyenne warrior. Her impulsive marriage to Shea propels them both into a precarious and treacherous existence. Fleeing brutal persecution for their interracial marriage, they embark on a risky journey across the frontier.-Cover.
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WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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In April 1852, Mazy Bacon's husband, Jeremy, sells their farm, buys a wagon and some cattle, announces that they are heading West, and invites her mother along for the ride. A shocked Mazy has no choice but to follow and hope God will hear her pleas to return home. As the small family journeys westward and joins a wagon train heading for the Oregon Territory, the strengths and weaknesses of each person are dragged glaringly into the spotlight.
16) Every fixed star
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Tender ties historical series volume 2
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WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
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English
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"Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from "civilized" society become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is a series of breathtaking adventures--May's brief, passionate romance with the gallant young army captain John Bourke; her marriage to...