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1) God's gift
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After being injured in Africa doing missionary work, James Graham comes back home to Chicago where he finally meets Rachel Ashcroft, the woman who has been sending him care packages, and tries to bring happiness and love back into her life.
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Joining her father during an on-the-rail missionary journey, idealistic musician Hope Irving resolves to serve the mining families of West Virginia only to capture the attentions of a poor young miner and an unscrupulous mine manager who may be using Hope's activities as cover-up for illegal activities.
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After their mission board declares it is no longer sending unmarried missionaries into the field, Pricilla White and Dr. Eli Ernest agree to a marriage in name only, but they encounter hardships and form an unexpected bond as they journey west to serve as missionaries in 1830's America.
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Willamette brides volume 3
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"After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology. But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed...
6) Beaded hope
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Four American women, all with their own challenges, embark on a mission trip to South Africa. Their lives are changed as they encounter a group of South African women who suffer from AIDS yet demonstrate great joy and faith in the face of overwhelming adversity. When the Americans discover the amazing beadwork that has been taught to generations of women in the community, they uncover a way to help these proud people support their families by selling...
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"Sophia has her life all planned out--but her plan didn't include being jilted or ending up in Dakota Territory. Sophia Makinoff is certain that 1876 is the year that she'll become the wife of a certain US Congressman, and happily plans her debut into the Capitol city. But when he proposes to her roommate instead, Sophia is stunned. Hoping to flee her heartache and humiliation, she signs up with the Board of Foreign Missions on a whim. With dreams...
8) Honor bound
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"Medical missionary Cynthia Myers is trained to save lives. Captain Rick Norton of the Special Forces A-Team is ordered to take them. When Cynthia's past catches up to her, they must learn to put aside their differences to make it out alive from the treacherous jungles of a war-torn African country"--
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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When young Emily Evans had felt God's call to start a church in a pioneer settlement, she never dreamed it would mean going alone.
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Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie lives alone in the mountains of Alaska. Clay is totally focused on his goal of being a missionary like his father-- until he meets a young, independent Indian woman with the most striking blue eyes he's ever seen. Will he be forced to choose between ministering to the natives, and the quiet nudging of his heart?
12) Joshua's Bible
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Shelly Leanne has spent many years in South Africa and Kenya teaching and studying politics and culture. She brings her expertise to Joshua's Bible, a touching tale of faith and courage. African American reverend Joshua Clay welcomes the chance to minister in South Africa. Once there, however, he is caught between others' expectations and his own beliefs. Turning to God, Joshua must gather the strength to search for answers and bring some peace to...
14) No graven image
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First published in 1966, No Graven Image is the only novel of the best-selling author Elisabeth Elliot.
Margaret, an intrepid twenty-five-year-old missionary, travels to the Andes Mountains of Ecuador to start her ministry. She sees little progress at first, but eventually gains a following and an enhanced reputation for her part in the safe and seemingly miraculous delivery of a breech baby. Things seem to be going well. She works on her translation...
15) Runaway saint
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When Sara's aunt Bel shows up looking for a place to stay after years without contact, the enigmatic woman brings refreshing change into the lives she touches, but Sara soon learns of the ordeal that Bel went through while she was away.
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Lumber Baron's Daughters volume 1
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"She mixed danger, desperation, and deception together. Love was not the expected outcome. With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother's unfortunate choice in husband until they discovered his plans to marry each of them off to his lecherous friends. Now they must run away--far and fast--to find better matches to legally claim their portion of their father's lumber dynasty and seize...
17) Wings of healing
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Guardians of the North volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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A flu epidemic reaches the Blackfoot tribe where Reena O'Donnell serves as a missionary. At the same time, Hunter Stone is ordered to move the Indians to a reservation. In the face of all this, can Reena and Hunter keep their love intact?
18) The high calling
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House of Winslow volume 37
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"Kat Winslow is volunteering as a missionary. But her calling is interrupted by two scorned suitors. Perhaps her high calling is to one of these men instead?"--Provided by publisher.
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House of Winslow volume 32
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Rena Matthews and her father set out to bring the Gospel to the South Seas and is upset when her father insists that the rugged Travis Winslow join the crew, until a storm leaves them shipwrecked on a deserted island and Travis takes charge of the group.
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House of Winslow volume 36
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Mallory Winslow obeys God's call and travels to Norway to spread the Gospel, and finds herself pulled into the tragedy of World War II as she joins the Resistance and begins spying on a German officer.
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