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41) Queen of swords
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 5
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
42) Tried & true
Author
Series
Wild at Heart volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Change and cherish historical volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Desperate circumstances bring out the best and worst of the travelers, including Will Bramford, the wealthy widower who is pursuing Elizabeth, and Eli Kincade, the independent and solitary guide who has stolen Elizabeth's heart.
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Arizona Territory pioneer Sarah Prine struggles with drought, starving cattle, and a neighbor's unwelcome advances, a situation that is further complicated when her brother's family is devastated by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
52) Bound for sin
Author
Series
Frontiers of the heart volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Georgiana Bee Blunt is a respectable widow of means who knows exactly what she wants: a resourceful frontiersman--for the purpose of matrimony. Citified men with thoughts of love need not apply to Georgiana's ad for a husband. What she desperately needs is a rugged backwoodsman who can get her family safely to California, two thousand miles away. Someone who could wrestle a bear and not break a sweat. Someone just like Matt Slater... Travel worn...
53) Pearl
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby's most recent boarder is timid schoolteacher Pearl Hossfuss. To avoid an arranged marriage, Pearl deserts her home in Chicago to teach in Little Missouri. Ther she befriends Ruby and falls in love with young carpenter Carl Hegland. But when her father threatens to find her and take her back home, Pearl turns to God for the strength to stand up for herself and follow her heart.
55) Sixteen brides
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Sixteen Civil War widows settle in Nebraska after they are wooed by a land speculator, only to discover that they were lured there in hopes that they would accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival.
56) The hope within
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down in this conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Montana saga. Through the twists and turns of life and nature, Dianne comes to realize that the hope within Jesus Christ is the only hope that lasts"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball, and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national attention and putting women's basketball on the map.
59) Prairie song
Author
Series
Hearts seeking home volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Though it means saying goodbye to the beloved friends and spiritual mentors of her St. Charles, Missouri quilting circle, Anna Goben is certain that she needs to enlist her family in the Boones Lick Company wagon train. The loss of her beloved brother in the Civil War has paralyzed her mother and grandfather in a malaise of grief and depression and Anna is convinced that only a fresh start in the Promised Land of California can bring her family back...
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