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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 10
Language
English
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The heartwarming story of sisters whose relationship is threatened when both are attracted to the same man.
82) Tried & true
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Series
Wild at Heart volume 1
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"--
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Series
Desert dwellers trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Fithian Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 2
Language
English
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In Sarah's Quilt, our indomitable heroine Sarah Agnes Prine, the courageous pioneer woman introduced in These Is My Words, shares her homespun wisdom and her heartache as she contends with life in the Arizona territories at the turn of the last century. Sarah's Quilt opens in 1906 after years of drought have devastated the cattle ranches of Arizona. Sarah is faced with starving cattle, a dry well, and romantic advances from
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 7
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English
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Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She discovers that a quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob with five unusual patterns of his own design contains hidden clues to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. The heroic journey she undertakes leads to...
87) Every fixed star
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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...
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English
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"Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West"--
89) Summer moon
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English
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Acclaimed author Jill Marie Landis has gifted readers with award-winning love stories that express the most intimate longings of the human heart. With unique insight and irresistible wit, she breathes vivid life into her characters while depicting superb settings of stunning beauty and realism. Now, in her long-awaited hardcover debut, Jill Marie Landis tells the tender tale of a woman without choices who risks everything for one last chance at
...90) Sixteen brides
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Series
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English
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Sixteen Civil War widows are lured west with the false promise of land in this tale of women showing strength in circumstances beyond their control.
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English
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What better opportunity to put a bullet in Dan Tyler's heart than being his trusted wife? Murder is Jenny Linden's motive in answering the former prison guard's ad for a mail order bride. She's ready to avenge her father's death in a Confederate prison camp. Packing her purse with a revolver — and a Bible, to convey a false identity — she sets out to Winslow, Arizona, to marry him, kill him, sell his ranch, and return a rich woman. Can the light...
92) Where trust lies
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Return to the Canadian West volume 2
Language
English
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"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.
93) Savage hope
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
95) Colter's wife
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
97) Vow of vengeance
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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...
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