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Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
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"--Provided by publisher.
4) 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on journal entries, letters, and song lyrics to evoke the courage and spirit of female pioneers, a collection of portraits traces the lives of such individuals as Amelia Stewart Knight, Miriam Colt, and Clara Brown.
8) 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.
10) To dream anew
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
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...
12) 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: 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.
15) Land of my heart
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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.
18) Rivers of gold
Author
Series
Yukon quest volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren and her sisters provide refuge for members of the Warden family, who have escaped from a land-grabbing cattle baron. The last thing Mitch Warden expects is to be smitten with Ilsa, a strong-willed, dark-haired woman who dresses like Robin Hood and defends herself better than most men. Mitch vows to help his family reclaim their land, but first he must draw away the hired killers who...
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