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Author
Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
Beth Thatcher's excitement over her return to Coal Valley, her anticipated engagement, and the expansion of her school is mitigated by the arrival of a new teacher whose philosophy of education clashes with Beth's beliefs.
Author
Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In the early 20th century, new schoolteacher Beth Thatcher is assigned a post in a remote mining community in Western Canada. There her courage--and her heart--will be tested in unexpected ways"--
Author
Series
Quilts volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
306p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
History is thick with secrets in The Sugar Camp Quilt, seventh in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series from bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. 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...
Author
Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 2
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Series
Yukon quest volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
383p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Angel of mercy volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk is opened, people around her start to disappear... The year is 1914, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will be one of...
Author
Series
Yukon quest volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
380 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
California’s Gold Country in 1850 is a time when men sell their souls for a bag of gold and women sell their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s...
Author
Series
Canadian West volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
12) The lost wife
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comprehensive historical portrait of Laura Ingalls Wilder draws on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and official records to fill in the gaps in Wilder's official story, sharing details about her pioneer experiences.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, chronicling her early years living on a prairie, her marriage, and her writing career. Includes black-and-white photographs and timelines.
15) Inland: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
Author
Series
Oklahoma western biographies volume 29
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xviii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
xviii, 156 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life as a young pioneer homesteading with her family on many adventurous journeys.