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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...
22) Steadfast heart
Author
Series
Brides of Seattle volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1880s Seattle, Washington, Lenore Fulcher desires love while so many around her are finding it; when lawyer Kolbein Booth arrives searching for his sister at a finishing school for mail-order brides, he and Lenore face danger and uncertainty amidst their growing attraction"--
23) Her secret song
Author
Series
Brides of Hope Mountain volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for his terrible choices. He was hired to drive out the Warden family and now knows he was duped. But when he's wounded...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Sheriff James McPherson was eager to hire a schoolteacher, but Dr. Molly Whitcomb isn't what he expected. His instincts about people--which rarely miss the mark--tell him she's hiding something. And when Molly's secret is revealed, her reinvented life begins to unravel. What's more, she risks losing her newfound relationship with the sheriff and her renewed faith in God.
Author
Series
Journey to Pleasant Prairie volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When young Hannah Yoder is courted by two men with very different plans, she faces a decision that will make her choose between the settled life of her local Amish community, and following God's call westward.
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
27) Aiming for love
Author
Series
Brides of Hope Mountain volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world--a world she's been raised to believe killed her parents. When David Warden, a rancher, brings in a herd much too close to the girls' secret home, her older sister especially is frightened, but Jo is too interested...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
30) A moment in time
Author
Series
Lone Star brides volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"With so many obstacles in her path, will Alice Chesterfield find sanctuary in her new life on the 1890s Texas frontier--and a chance at love?"--
Having survived an attack that left her scarred and her father dead, Alice Chesterfield is never free from the fear and memories of the man who is responsible. Texas seems to be an answer to Alice's prayers, and when she has the opportunity to relocate to a ranch near Dallas, Robert Barnett captures her...
Author
Series
Brides of Hope Mountain volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren and her sisters provide refuge for members of the Warden family, who have escaped from a land-grabbing cattle baron. The last thing Mitch Warden expects is to be smitten with Ilsa, a strong-willed, dark-haired woman who dresses like Robin Hood and defends herself better than most men. Mitch vows to help his family reclaim their land, but first he must draw away the hired killers who...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1815, a painter's daughter on the north Devon coast agrees to marry a stranger to avoid scandal, but her choice is complicated by the return of a former lover and a growing affection for the husband she barely knows."--
1815. Sophie Dupont assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. Along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets, she meets Wesley Overtree, the first man to tell her she's beautiful. Captain...
Author
Series
Virtues and vices of the old west volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope of romance. The man she yearned to marry is dead and her dreams are gone with him. Now she is consumed with the restoration of a dilapidated boarding house in order to support herself. Despite her desire for solitude, Jedediah Jones, the local sheriff with a reputation for hanging criminals, becomes an ever-looming part of her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ainslee McKay's world is upended when her twin sister secretly elopes and leaves Ainslee alone to move to Weston, West Virginia, to fulfill their obligation at the McKay family's new tile works. While her brother, Ewan, agrees to travel with her and help her learn the ropes, she still intends to sell this business she no longer wants if a buyer can be found. When the talented Levi Judson arrives to show Ainslee his designs for new tiles, she's impressed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed scientists who in the name of healing have turned to homicide. The monomaniacal Rand brothers-Magnus, a cunning doctor, and Hamilton, a genius chemist-are ruthless in their pursuit of a cure for what was then known as the fatal "white-blood disease." In Londons Royal Naval Hospital annex, Hester is tending...
Author
Series
Colorado cowboys volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publisher Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Traveling the Santa Fe Trail on a botanical exploration, Linnea Newberry longs to be taken seriously by the other members of the expedition. When she is rescued from an accident by Flynn McQuaid, her grandfather hires him to act as Linnea's bodyguard, and Flynn soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all-falling for a woman he's determined not to love"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader, and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
38) Rainy day dreams
Author
Series
Seattle Brides volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When the Burgert family moves from San Francisco to Seattle in 1852, Kathryn is convinced her father has destroyed her life, until she meets Jason, a lumberjack with dreams for a bright future.
39) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Commander William Monk has learned to live with the fact that he cannot remember the events of his life prior to a horrific carriage accident years ago. But when a ghost from his past, a man he has no recollection of, attempts to frame him for a series of murders, he must rely on the help of his wife Hester and his close friend Oliver Rathbone in order to free himself--from both the charges, and the demons that have haunted him since the accident."--...
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