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McKettrick romances volume 4
[McKettricks of Texas volume 4
McKettricks of Texas volume 04
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[McKettricks of Texas volume 4
McKettricks of Texas volume 04
Romantic sounds audio
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English
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"When news arrived of trouble back in Texas, Holt McKettrick left; his mail-order bride on the spot. But that's how it had always been for Holt- trying to do the right thing inevitably got somebody mad at him. He just prayed he'd be in time to keep his best friend from the gallows and save the man who'd raised him as a son. The arduous trip from Arizona to San Antonio wold be rife with rustlers and thieves- both of which Holt; could easily handle....
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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A woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith. It was Marty Claridge's dream to build her new life on the frontier with her husband. But when the courageous pioneer woman is suddenly widowed, she's offered a new opportunity-- to marry a widower in a marriage of convenience. What they did not expect was that the marriage would lead to...
23) June
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiance's vision for an elaborate tabernacle that would befit God's glory, she soon learns that not everyone approves of the plan; some would rather support the local orphanage. June finds herself drawn to the orphanage run by her friend Samantha...
24) Daughter of joy
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Series
Brides of Culdee Creek volume 1
Language
English
Description
Her faith has been her salvation after losing her husband and young son, but when Abigail Stanton goes to work as housekeeper for Conor MacKay and his "capricious little girl," he ruthlessly attacks that faith.
25) Patience
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English
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Patience Smith's life takes an unexpected turn when she is kidnapped and taken into the Colorado mountains where she eventually is able to escape her abductors.
26) Prairie fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Jack Cornwall has lost everything he's everything he's ever fought for, everything he's ever loved. He's lost his home, the Confederacy and its goal for a new and vital nation, and now his little nephew, Chipper.
27) Woman of grace
Author
Series
Brides of Culdee Creek volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Hannah Cutler is invited to move to Culdee Creek Ranch, "Devlin MacKay seethes with anger every time he sees this girl who reminds him of his own guilty past."--Cover.
28) Faith
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Lori Copeland kicks off this historical Western series with this pleasing tale of mail-order brides set in 1872. When their pastor father dies suddenly, leaving little money, three sisters realize that they need to take drastic action to survive. Each answers a newspaper ad soliciting Christian brides. Faith goes to Texas, where her intended, a well-to-do rancher named Nicholas Shepherd, seems to be having second thoughts. While...
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Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Shy, sensitive, and a bit self-conscious, Anna Trent is the oldest daughter of a family of seven. When a young pastor asks Anna to marry him, she agrees despite her feelings of not meeting all the criteria for a minister's wife and feeling guilty about leaving her mother with all the work. Anna must discover that in the sight of the Lord, she truly is "a woman of worth."
30) Rivers of gold
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Series
Yukon quest volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alaska in the late 1800s: Presumed dead, Miranda Colton finds herself in the care of a native Alaskan and English botanist Teddy Davenport, who's studying the Alaskan frontier. Miranda longs to find her friends and continue north, even as a friendship with Teddy blossoms. Then the menacing force from her past returns . . .
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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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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Two years after the death of her husband, Missie knows that it is time to move on. She heads home with her son to be near her parents and to return to teaching. Certain she will never find love again, Missie redirects her feelings and when the "orphan train" arrives in town, she adopts Belinda, a feisty young teenager who's arrived with a secret. As Missie struggles with raising Belinda, she finds she is falling for the local sheriff who might be...
33) Amethyst
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English
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Responsibilty for her father's Pennsylvania farm weighs heavily on Amethyst O'Shaunasy's shoulders. Since her overworked mother died, her father has done little but drink up the money Amethyst earns from selling eggs and cheese. When he sends her west to locate his only heir, the young woman is reluctant to leave. After she reaches the tiny town of Medora, an unusally brutal winter underscores the fragility of life. Yet the residents' sturdy faith...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The story of a pioneer woman who, as a bride, followed the covered-wagon trail to the Nebraska prairies and lived there the rest of her eighty years. A devoted wife and mother, Abbie Deal brought a large and united family through poverty and hardships often denying herself so the children might have the advantages her talented youth had coveted.
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Berta has spent much of her life striving to be the opposite of her adorable sister, Glenna. As Glenna grows into a vivacious and outgoing young wife and mother, Berta carefully molds herself into a prim spinster and dependable member of her family. But her aloofness and pride must exact a price. Soon, Berta will need to examine her soul for the true motives at work in her heart.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Follows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory, [examining] sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder's fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, ... Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds ... context and leads readers through Wilder's growth...
38) Glory
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The fourth book in Lori Copeland's popular historical romance series about mail-order brides. Glory, a young woman whose only relative has just died, joins up with a wagon train of mail-order brides en route to Colorado. Lively adventures, valuable lessons, and a heartwarming romance soon follow
39) Pearl
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English
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Lauraine Snelling's novel, Ruby, delighted readers with its spunky main character who inherits a little Missouri saloon called the Dove House adn turns it into a hotel. Now you'll love meeting Pearl, a young woman who follows her heart to the Western frontier. Pearl was once the apple of her father's eye. Then an accident left Pearl's neck scarred and her heart desperate for her father's love. When her father decides she should marry a widower with...
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