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A story based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, shows how landscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman's desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life.
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Kinship and courage volume 03
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English
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A CIRCLE OF COURAGEOUS WOMEN DISCOVERS THE MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE, FORGIVENESS, AND LOVE Ruth Martin had a dream: to become an independent woman and build a life in southern Oregon for herself and her children. But when her friend Mazy’s inaction results in a tragedy that shatters Ruth’s dream, Ruth must start anew and try to heal her tender wounds.
Her friends are also moving on. Mazy wrestles with her understanding of what faith...
Her friends are also moving on. Mazy wrestles with her understanding of what faith...
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In the second moving installment of her new "Kinship and Courage" series, bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick weaves a compelling tale of courage and loss, heartache and joy, as demonstrated in a small community of women whose faith and friendship must sustain them on a trip across the Oregon Trail.
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Change and cherish volume 1
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English
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In 1850s Bethel, Missouri, people live simply, setting themselves apart from worldly distractions. But spirited Emma Wagner chafes at this would-be utopia. When her outspoken manner clashes with the colony's leader, she heads west in search of independence. But she discovers something unexpected: a longing for the warm embrace of community.
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In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...
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Change and cherish volume 2
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2007.
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English
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Emma Giesy, a strong-willed German American, believes her young family will thrive in the light of their newfound freedom after she and her husband branch off from their repressive religious community in 1856; she struggles to keep her children secure in the remote Washington Territory. [LARGE PRINT READING]
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Tender ties historical series volume 1
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English
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"During the fur-trapping era of the early 1800s, with two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Louis when her husband heads west. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition leader, and her volatile husband, Marie finds that the daring act she hoped would bind her family together may in the end tear them apart."--
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Kinship and courage series volume 1
Kinship and courage historical volume 01
Kinship and courage historical volume 1
Kinship and courage historical volume 01
Kinship and courage historical volume 1
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English
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Based on an incident on the Oregon Trail recorded by pioneer Ezra Meeker: "the meeting of eleven wagons returning and not a man left in the entire train; all had died, and been buried on the way, and the women returning alone." The novel explores the possible fate of these women, bonded by loss, growing in faith and fighting for survival.
10) Every fixed star
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Tender ties historical series volume 2
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English
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After relocating her family to the Pacific Northwest, Marie Dorion finds herself facing constant challenges to keep her children clothed and fed.
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Tender ties historical series volume 3
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[2004]
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English
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"As the 1840s bring conflict to the Pacific Northwest's rugged Columbia Country, new challenges face Marie Dorion Venier Toupin: the wife, mother, and Ioway Indian woman who crossed the Rocky Mountains with the Astor Expedition ... On French Prairie in the newly forming Oregon Territory, Marie strives to meet the needs of her conflict-ridden neighbors: British settlers and Americans, missionaries and disease-stricken natives, fur trappers and French...
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Dreamcatcher series volume 2
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English
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Based on historical characters and events, it recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon's Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a place of belonging...only to be cast away from her home.
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2013.
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The Change & Cherish Trilogy, based on the true story of Emma Wagner Geisy, is now available in one volume. "A Clearing in the Wild": When Emma's outspoken ways and growing skepticism lead to a clash with the beloved leaders of her 1850s colony in Bethl, Missouri, she finds new opportunities out West to pursue her dreams of independence, but later discovers she misses the warm embrace of community. "A Tendering in the Storm": Determined to raise...
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