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Author
Series
Unexpected brides volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"After three failed attempts, Everett Cline is not happy when another--uninvited--mail-order bride steps off the train in his Kansas farming community. But is she the wife he's been waiting for?"--
62) Paradise Valley
Author
Series
Daughters of Caleb Bender volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Caleb Bender and other members of an Ohio Amish community decide to relocate to Mexico to avoid conflicts with Ohio's laws. Caleb's family are the first settlers. His daughters eventually connect with the local people, but the family is endangered by the strife following the Mexican Revolution.
63) Beloved Hope
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hope Flanagan survived the massacre at the Whitman Mission, but at terrible personal cost. Safe now in Oregon City, she lives with her sisters, Grace and Mercy, and Grace's new husband, Alex. As she spends her days tending their flock of sheep, Hope's mind and soul are slowly healing. Yet, though she was once surrounded by suitors, she has no interest in giving her heart again after the man she loved died in her arms. Hope's precarious new peace is...
Author
Series
Brides of Gallatin County volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Nick Lassiter has loved Beth since she first came to their rugged Montana town, but she's always seemed to think of him more as a brother. Just when he finally gets Beth to consider him, however, a challenger threatens the affection growing between them. But neither Nick nor Beth is prepared when they must face the consequences of Nick's complicated past.
65) Fire & ice
Author
Series
Wild at Heart volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1860s West, two independent ranch homesteaders go head-to-head over prized land, until Gage Coulter proposes an unexpected plan to Bailey Wilde and, in a moment of weakness, she agrees"--
66) Widowmaker Jones
Author
Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With a bag full of gold dust, Newt 'Widowmaker' Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger--Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan 'Red' Cortina--is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico, where the man is legendary for the...
67) The Lawless
Author
Series
Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 7
Publisher
Signet/New American Library/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Post-Civil War prosperity has transformed the nation as well and the Kents.
69) Rebecca's reward
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing, and advising her in the use of her feminine wiles.
70) Prairie day
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her pioneer family travel westward to find a new home on the prairie.
71) A bride at last
Author
Series
Unexpected brides volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On the 1880s Kansas prairie, Silas and Kate both harbor resentment over their previous failed mail-order engagements, but when a young boy loses his mother and needs their help, they must attempt to move beyond past hurts and find healing together"--
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 17
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the wake of an uprising in Muddy Gap, Wyoming, by the marauding Grubbs gang, Smoke Jensen visits the town and then flees for his life, with the Grubbs in hot pursuit, unwittingly leading them straight into Cheyenne territory.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laura and her beloved bulldog, Jack, share some wild adventures as the Wilder family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas and later to Minnesota.
Author
Series
Old cowboys never die volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the company lawyer skips town with the crew's pay, cattle drivers Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin do one last job before they retire.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1832, Scotsman Big John McTavish has lived among the Metis of the Red River Valley for thirty years. He also enjoys friendly relations with the neighboring Chippewas but that may come to an end when he is forced to shoot a Chippewa named Wolf Slayer while defending Pike, a mountain trapper.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
77) The water seeker
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
79) Nora's chicks
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.
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