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"Grace Mallory is tired of hiding. She hungers for a normal life, perhaps even a suitor. But when the man she believes responsible for her father's death discovers her whereabouts, survival takes priority. Amos Bledsoe prefers bicycles to horses and private conversations over the telegraph to social gatherings. His fellow telegrapher, the mysterious Miss G, has been the ideal companion. However, when he intercepts an ominous message and discovers...
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Red River of the North volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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The dream of their own farmstead and a good life in America had brought Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund across the Atlantic to pioneer the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. But Roald's tragic disappearance in a winter storm turned Ingeborg's dreams into a living nightmare. Against nearly impossible circumstances and overwhelming grief, she struggles to keep the farm and her family together. When spring appears, Roald's distant cousin Haaken arrives...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
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This is a rousing, old-fashioned tale that Grey based on the true story of a chapter of Western history&;the deadly feud of the Tonto Basin in Arizona, also known as "The Pleasant Valley War." It might be compared to an Old West Romeo and Juliet with two feuding families and two star crossed sweethearts. Family loyalty, forbidden love, and rivalry between cattle ranchers and sheep herders are all wrapped up in this classic western tale.
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"First in a new Amish series - Book 1: Land of Canaan. An exciting new title with crossover characters from the Daughters of the Promise series. Emily Detweiler's family abruptly moved to Colorado after tragedy struck in Ohio. But Emily can't get far enough to escape what happened there. David Stolzfus is not happy when his family relocates from Pennsylvania to Colorado, and they haven't told him why. David struggles not only with this unwelcome move,...
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"Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man's heart while he's eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an impression. Despite her sister's best efforts, Georgiana creates a culture clash as her modern, free-spirited personality comes up against the code of the West, the unwritten law of the range that everyone is expected to follow. Georgiana's...
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"Clint Belmet's parents were killed in a Comanche raid when he was young, but that hasn't stopped him from taking a job leading freight caravans on the old Santa Fe Trail, from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico-a route that goes right through Comanche territory. Here is the raw, primitive West of the early pioneers, great caravans of freighters rumbling across the deadly prairies, risking attack by Comanche. In this action-packed adventure...
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In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna is forced to take her father's place as scrivener. Before long, it's clear that the colonel himself is attracted to her. But she soon realizes the colonel has grave secrets of his own--some of which have to do with her father's sudden death. Can she ever...
13) By honor bound
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Guardians of the North volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Hunter Stone is seriously wounded in an attempt to rescue his wife from a band of Crow Indians led by Red Wolf.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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A mother and daughter try to restore their bonds after the girl returns from boarding school.
Sarah Perry, hoping to provide her daughter with opportunities for a better life, sends Rebecca east to boarding school while she stays behind to run her late husband's freight-hauling business, but over the years the gulf between mother and daughter widens, and when Rebecca does finally come home, Sarah struggles to bridge the gap.
15) Prairie rose
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Rosenbloom Cotton Mills, known as Rosie, has spent her entire 19 years in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri. Then, in May of 1865, Rosie saves Seth Hunter from an attack by his brother-in-law. Seeing a chance to escape the orphanage, Rosie accompanies Seth and his son, Chipper, out west to act as their housekeeper. Rosie soon falls in love with Seth but feels she can never marry because she was an illegitimate child. Eventually, her Bible reading...
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1886. Jesse Montgomery is feeling restless. Though he's grateful to friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again, surely the Lord doesn't want this reformed rowdy cowboy to stay in Apple Grove forever. When an unscrupulous cattle baron tries to steal Amish land, Jesse intervenes and is wounded. Lovely young healer Katie Miller attends to him while guarding her heart. This sweet Amish widow can't risk falling in love with an Englisch...
18) The endearment
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Anna Reardon escapes a shameful life in Boston by becoming the mail-order bride of Karl Lindstrom and finds all her strength and courage tested as she struggles to build a new world for herself in the rugged wilderness of nineteenth-century Minnesota.
20) Dawn comes early
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Disgraced dime novelist Kate Tenney fled the city that banned her latest novel for the emptiness of the Arizona Territory. An ad looking for a heiress to a vast cattle ranch seems to be the solution to her problems: the ranch heiress is required to be single and remain so in perpetuity, but Kate--abandoned by a string of men, with no intention of ever marrying--has no problems with that. Though an 1895 ranching life turns out to be harder than the...
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