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Return to the Canadian West volume 3
Language
English
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When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. But the town's rapid growth brings many challenges. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education--one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the...
Author
Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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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"--Provided by publisher.
6) Amethyst
Author
Series
Dakotah treasures volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Jeremiah McHenry returns to Medora to make a new life. Will he be able to convince Amethyst that he is the kind of man she's been looking for?"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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
Secret refuge volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
10) To dream anew
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
11) Glory
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Traveling by covered wagon, Marty and her husband come to the frontier prairie with bright dreams of a new homestead. But her husband is killed in an accident, and Marty, pregnant and alone, now has nowhere to go. When widower Clark Davis offers her a home in exchange for caring for his little girl, Marty knows she must accept. But acceptance means she must marry Clark, and become a real mother for little Missy.
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Language
English
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Description
"Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the "lone women" taking advantage...
14) Land of my heart
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
Author
Series
Canadian West series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Janette Oke's beloved story of a young teacher moving west concludes with a poignant and touching tale. Canadian West book 4.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Marty and Clark Davis arrive home from a visit out west with daughter Missie knowing there are changes ahead for them. But are they prepared for the changes that have taken place while they were gone? Clare and Kate are eagerly awaiting their new baby, but what lies ahead will test their fate in unimagined ways. Luke wants to become a doctor, but his studies will take him far from home. Ellie has blossomed into a lovely young woman, but is there...
18) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
MY ANTONIA is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia, who has settled in Nebraska. Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden, the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative years, as well as, through the persona of Jim, Cather's experience of New York, where she worked as Editor of the MCCLURE magazine. MY ANTONIA is the third in a sequence of Cather's works which deal with immigrant settlers in the USA. Writing as a...
19) Where trust lies
Author
Language
English
Description
"After teaching in a 1920s mining town in western Canada, Beth Thatcher no longer feels at home among her wealthy family in the East, and her heart is torn between two very different worlds"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Martin and her two children have finally reached the Oregon Country. But Eli Kincade, the wagon train scout who captured her heart, has chosen to continue life on the trail.
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