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Canadian West series volume 2
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Elizabeth Thatcher accepts a teaching post in the western frontier. Now, after a year of learning the ways of frontier life, she has fallen in love with Wynn, a Royal Canadian Mountie, and will face the difficult task of braving life in the far north.
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
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When May Dodd journeys west into the unknown, it's a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for loving a man beneath her station, May's only hope of freedom is a secret government program sending "civilized" women to become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. This is the story of May's breathtaking adventures caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives.
3) My Ántonia
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Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by
...4) My Antonia
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Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daugher of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
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Leaving behind their friends in Beaver River, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive Mounted Police outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself once again isolated because of the local Indian women's fear of communicating with her. The Delaneys thought they had already faced their greatest hardships and disappointments, but this new village brings an even greater test of their faith, courage, and dedication.
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Elizabeth's eastern upbringing in a well-to-do family has not prepared her for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. But she takes on her formidable task with love, humor, and determination not to become romantically involved with a frontiersman. When she meets Wynn, Beth discovers that he would ''never ask a woman he loved'' to share the perils in the life of a Royal Canadian Mountie! Can Beth change his mind? Will Wynn listen...? BRODART...
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Love comes softly series volume 1
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"Heading west with her adventurous husband to claim land, tragedy intervenes and Marty is left alone with her great loss and no way to return home. After his wife's death, Clark and his little girl are also in great need. His proposal to Marty comes with good intention, but will courage and faith be enough to bring them true love?"--
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Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges, make new friends, start a new school and are presented with a new posting. Will their love for each other, hope for the future and their faith in God carry them through a crushing disappointment? The lovely young schoolteacher from the east has become a frontier woman - or has she?
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Love comes softly series volume 3
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2003.
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After all their dreaming and planning, Missie and her beloved Willie are actually on the trail west in a covered wagon, leaving behind her also-beloved family. Her memories are bittersweet as she faces the hardships of the westward trek--the rain, the mud, the impassable rivers, and even death. Will their love for each other and faith in God survive the bewildering surprise at journey's end?
10) O pioneers!
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Alexandra Bergson is the eldest child of a Swedish immigrant family newly arrived in the harsh untamed landscape of the American West. An original, determined child, she is driven by two forces: her fierce protective love for her younger brother, and a deep love of the beautiful country she has come to regard as her own. When her father dies, it is she who becomes the head of the family and struggles to soften the wild overgrown soil that surrounds...
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