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Secret refuge volume 3
Language
English
Description
This Civil War series conclusion brings the Highwood family to places of peace and rest after separate journeys of faith. A Secret Refuge book 3.
Author
Series
Tender ties historical series volume 2
Language
English
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Continuing the Tender Ties Historical Series, Every Fixed Star brings readers more of the dramatic, fictionalized account of Marie Dorion: the real-life woman who was the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest. In Book Two of the series, Marie learns the value of a tender heart, the faith of distant friends, and the act of holding life’s circumstances in open hands.
Following the family tragedy, the...
Following the family tragedy, the...
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 7
Language
English
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A sprawling historical novel that takes the Winslow family on a wagon train across the nation. House of Winslow book 7.
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Series
Language
English
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Romance and revulsion, distance and determination frame a story that spans the continent in the late 1800s. McClain Reardon had saved ten-year-old Rya's life when the fugitive John Wilkes Booth held her at gunpoint in Virginia. Reuniting with McClain years later on the wagon trail to California, lovely Rya falls in love with her lifelong hero, and they plan to get married. But there is one dark shadow on this bright future: a sore old suitor's merciless...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose. So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts,...
8) Angel train
Author
Series
Wagon wheel series volume 4
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Author
Series
Tender ties historical series volume 1
Language
English
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Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war, protect her sons and raise them well and, despite an abusive, alcoholic husband, keep her marriage together.
With two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind...
With two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind...
12) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.
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Series
First mountain man series volume 1
Language
English
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Only one man can mete out justice on the unforgiving frontier. First in the Preacher series from the New York Times bestselling western author.
He's known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he's as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get. But when he was a young greenhorn, he was caught by a marauding tribe and set to be burned alive, until he just started preaching and never...
He's known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he's as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get. But when he was a young greenhorn, he was caught by a marauding tribe and set to be burned alive, until he just started preaching and never...
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Language
English
Description
Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding the McKaskels, a family of greenhorn Easterners, across the prairie -- fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other! Quick and the Dead tells the story of peaceful folks driven to action under the guidance of a mysterious stranger. It...
17) New beginnings
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Western trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
20) Walking west
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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