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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Book 7 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Belinda Davis had trained as a nurse to assist her older brother, Doctor Luke. But as time goes by and she sees those she's grown up with getting married and settling into their own lives, Belinda becomes restless. What had seemed exciting and fresh becomes dull and routine. When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to go to Boston--a large, "civilized"...
Author
Series
Prairie legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Heartwarming Return to the Legacy of Marty and Clark Davis From the LOVE COMES SOFTLY series... Twenty years have passed since youngest daughter Belinda's story in Love Finds a Home. Marty and Clark's spiritual heritage has been lovingly passed on to their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And now beloved granddaughter Virginia faces the test of her young life. Caught in that difficult period between childhood and adulthood,...
3) The covenant
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years of secrecy bind the tiny community of Gobbler's Knob together more than the present inhabitants know, and the Plain folk who farm the land rarely interact with the fancy locals. So when Sadie is beguiled by a dark-haired English boy, it is Sadie's younger sister, Leah, who suffers from her sister's shameful loss of innocence. And what of Leah's sweetheart, Jonas Mast, sent to Ohio under the Bishop's command? Drawn into an incomprehensible pact...
4) The betrayal
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seperated from her beloved Jonas after he takes a six-month carpenter's apprenticeship in Ohio, Leah hopes that their relationship will endure but finds herself challenged by an unexpected test facing their families.
5) The parting
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As her family breaks away from their church district, Nellie is torn between her family and her beloved Caleb, who is staunch in his Old Order beliefs, but if Nellie waits too long to choose, she surely lose him to another.
6) Take one
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison come to Hollywood to make a film with a great spiritual message, but are waylaid by a temperamental actress, a botched production schedule, and their own insecurities as producers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes she wished she was an only child . . . "She's lovely! Look at those curls. Those blue eyes. She's just beautiful!" Berta was used to hearing comments like that. But they were not about her. . . . Whenever ladies came to the house or met her mother on the street, they exclaimed over Berta's little sister, Glenna. Somewhere along the way, Berta decided that whatever Glenna was, she would not be. Whatever Glenna did, she would not do. Whatever...
Author
Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 3
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Powerful Conclusion to The Shunning and The Confession! Shunned from the Plain life of her youth, Katie Lapp (now known as Katherine) delights in the modern world, yet she longs for the peace that reigned in her mother's heart. Though her life is far removed from Lancaster County, she must come to terms with her Amish heritage...and the man she once loved.
10) The lost years
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When an aging biblical scholar is fatally shot after revealing his possession of a unique parchment believed to have been written by Jesus, Father Aiden O'Brien investigates the victim's suspicions that a close friend was responsible, a case that is complicated by circumstances implicating the man's Alzheimer's victim wife.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Christine and her older brother Henry are facing life's decisions. Henry has found the love of his life, and he and Amber are planning their wedding. Christine is recovering from the pain of a broken relationship.
12) The forbidden
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Longing to marry Caleb Yoder even though Caleb's father has forbidden him to court her, Nellie Fisher struggles with her feelings as she continues to cope with the death of her sister, Suzy.
13) Honor's price
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain legacy volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The exciting continuation of the Rocky Mountain Legacy series focuses on trusting in the Lord. After a vicious fire brings injury and devastation to Monte Farrell's western home, he feels fearful and protective. The dreams he shares with his betrothed, Abbie Martin, are going up in smoke. When the fire proves to be intentional, and the sabotage against the property escalates, Monte desperately wrestles with his need for revenge and his sense of honor....
14) Honor's quest
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain legacy volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Abigail Farrel is just beginning to adjust to her ladylike life as the wife of Montgomery Farrel when word comes of the death of Monte's sister. Monte takes the surviving daughter, Jeanette, into his home. Though Jenny is a spoiled, pampered toddler, Abbie's heart yearns to let love and discipline blossom in the young girl's life. The Farrel's lives are filled with the joyful chaos that a child brings, leaving them unprepared when another tragedy...
15) The quilt
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
125 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Truly Beautiful Story That Transcends Time and Place The Quilt is the story of Mary, an elderly grandmother whose gnarled, arthritic hands have a beauty all their own. They represent so many skills, so many memories, so many stories to be told. Anyone who had met Mary described her as beautiful--she had always been there to listen and comfort and encourage those who were in pain, those who had lost their way. And yet in the twilight of her days,...
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They labored hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers--they have aspirations of their own. Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing stories and plays since he was a young...
Author
Series
Left behind volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After millions of people around the world vanish in one moment, in what many claim to be the Rapture, Rayford Steele begins a search for the truth amidst global chaos.
19) Tender mercies
Author
Series
Red River of the north volume 5
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Is She Really Leaving Forever? Tracing the difficulties and joys of carving out a life from the Dakota sod in the second half of the 800s, Tender Mercies continues Snelling's Red River saga and will pull your heartstrings and make you feel the joys and frustrations of life on the open lands of the 9th century mid-west. The rich farmlands of the Dakota Territory in 1887 are finally beginning to yield the abundant harvest the pioneers had dreamed about...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After following his father's footsteps to become a Canadian Mountie, Henry discovers that his job comes at a high emotional cost, while his sister, Christine, leaves their family home to seek a new life in Edmonton.