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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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In this sixth installment in the popular Mail Order Bride series, Dorianne DeFeo is a lovely, loyal daughter to widower Franco DeFeo, who works on the docks in Brooklyn. When Franco catches two fellow workers smuggling diamonds, they stab him and he dies in Dori's arms. Persevering through her grief, Dori finds her employment opportunities diminishing and finally answers an ad from Arizona lawman Stone McKenna for a mail-order bride. Traveling west,...
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This novel is the second book in the orphan train trilogy, which cronicles the placing of thousands of orphans from the slums of New York to families in the Western states. This migration lasted from 1853 to the 1920's and was one of the most successful public welfare projects ever conducted in the U.S.
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Grant Smith and Lydia Reynolds fell in love at a young age and their "tender flame" continued to burn. As Grant approached graduation from West Point he asked Lydia to marry him. Wedding preparations were underway when President Polk suddenly announced that war with Mexico was inevitable -- duty called and Grant was sent to Mexico. Lydia was grief stricken when she was told that Grant was wounded in battle and believed dead. After 2 years Grant escapes...
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Romance and revenge, hot tempers, and cold feet frame a gripping story set in rural Elkton, Idaho, in the 1860s. Young Jordan Shaw angers easily and lives wildly, experiencing prison and kidnapping before his family attempts to tame him with marriage. To avoid their choice, he seeks a mail order bride, pretty Diana Morrow, who suffers the abuse of a violent father before escaping her tumultuous family home. When Diana arrives in Elkton and finds Jordan...
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In this fifth installment of the bestselling Mail Order Bride series, two young couples seek freedom and love amidst slavery-rich Charleston, South Carolina. When nineteen-year-old Benjamin arrives from South Africa, he is scheduled to be sold into slavery -- but is set free by a Christian who takes him in as a paid worker. The man's son, Dan Johnson, befriends Benjamin, and the two make plans to start a cattle ranch in Texas. With bold dreams and...
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Shaken by events in the closing days of the Civil War, young Dr. Quint Roberts flees the Union army to start a new life in Bozeman, Montana. In this seventh installment of the bestselling Mail Order Bride series, the challenge of reconstructing relationship losses is explored. When his brother is killed, Dr. Quint suddenly finds himself responsible for three young children. Can he alone provide for their needs? Annamarie Taylor -- a bereaved Southern...
10) Web of destiny
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Alan Kane lost a beloved brother at the Alamo and grieves terribly. His one consolation is that he will be reunited with Adam someday in heaven. Meanwhile, the United States seems to be caught in a web of destiny to fight Mexico.
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In 1835, Alan Kane and his family come to the Circle C Ranch in Texas, little dreaming what the future holds in both blessing and danger; when Lieutenant Colonel William Travis calls for the men of Texas to rally against Mexico's General Santa Anna, two brothers, Alan and Adam, defend the Alamo.
13) So little time
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California pioneers McClain and Rya Reardon are a match made in heaven -- but time on earth together may be mercilessly short.
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Frontier doctor trilogy volume 3
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Dr. Dane Logan and his wife, Tharyn, are happily settled in Central City and considering the right time to start a family. Their medical practice in the little mining town keeps them busy with everything from new babies and appendicitis to gunshot wounds and a rancher gored by a bull. It's almost more than one doctor can keep up with. Then when the stagecoach he's riding crashes down a ravine, Dane awakens with a head injury--and no idea who he is....
15) The iron wagon
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Deputy U.S. Marshal Paul Brockman agrees to bring the beautiful Lisa Martin to Yuma, Arizona, but an attack by a band of Apaches forces Paul to draw on all his skills--and his faith--to survive the onslaught.
16) A time to love
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Broken-hearted after being left at the altar, Linda Forest takes solace in corresponding with a gentlemanly Christian banker who has advertised for a mail-order bride, however surprise turns to suspicion when his demeanor is not in keeping with his letters.
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Kathleen O'Malley Stallworth a mail order bride? Not likely! But the Lord works in mysterious ways. Her parents and siblings died in the great Chicago fire; her husband was killed by a mugger; now her fabulously wealthy in-laws have taken her daughter Megan from her, claiming she's not fit to be a mother. In a newspaper ad for a mail order bride, Kathleen sees a chance to seek revenge on the Stallworth family. Instead, her westward adventure transforms...
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Andersonville, Georgia. April, 1864. Captain William Linden of the Third Pennsyvania Calvary meets his fate under mysterious circumstances in a rebel prison camp on the eve of the war's end. Outraged, his daughter Jenny vows to avenge him. As she copes with her mother's grief and a lost love of her own, she stalks the Confederate prison guard she knows is responsible. Spotting an ad in the Harrisburg Journal placed by someone with the familiar...
19) Outlaw marshal
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For Chief U.S. Marshal John Brockman, becoming a friend to former outlaw Whip Langford is easy. Saving his life is more complicated. With John Brockman strongly encouraging him to accept salvation, former outlaw Whipley Langford determines to go straight. He won't turn his life over to Christ, but he won't go back to a life of robbing banks and trains either. It's not long before Whip is tracking old acquaintances, acting as a lawman without actually...
20) Quiet thunder
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Journeys of the Stranger volume 6
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Quiet Thunder, a brave Sioux warrior, and his childhood blood brother, a white army captain, inevitably face each other with weapons on the battlefield of Little Big Horn.
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