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Canadian West series volume 2
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English
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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
Language
English
Description
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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English
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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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English
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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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Series
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English
Description
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?
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in Wyoming Territory, this is the story of Kinyan Holloway, who has no idea how she's going to survive when her husband is killed in a range accident and who is torn between the Sioux world where she was raised and her responsibilities to her children and their heritage.
11) O pioneers!
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English
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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...
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In this mesmerizing sequel to "These Is My Words" Sarah Agnes Prine learns her brother and his family are trapped in the Great San Francisco Earthquake. With a heartwarming blend of stubbornness and compassion, Sarah Agnes Prine will once again capture the hearts of readers.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, Wild Life is the story-both real and imagined-of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens dime-store women's adventure stories. One day, when a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search. When she becomes lost in the dark and tangled woods, she finds herself face to face...
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Series
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
16) The outsider
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Throughout the years on her Montana homestead, Rachel Yoder had never been afraid-the creed of the Plain People had been her strength. Then the day came when lawless men killed Rachel's husband in an act of blind greed. Now, at her darkest hour, an outsider walks across her meadow and into her life... Johnny Cain is bloody, near death, and armed to the teeth. A man hardened by his violent past, Cain has never known a woman like Rachel-someone who...
17) The homesman
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A "homesman" must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county's men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy-ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable...
18) A reckless love
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Series
Daughtry House novels volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the fine tradition established by her Southern grandmama, Aurora Daughtry has recently orchestrated the marriage of her eldest sister and facilitated her middle sister's engagement. She also rejoices in her part in transforming the family's dilapidated plantation manor into a luxurious and lucrative resort hotel. Just when it seems there is nothing left to absorb her considerable talent for managing people, in walks federal deputy marshal Zane...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa, she knows that she does not love the man she is to marry there --her fiance Edward, whom she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a small town in the harsh Karoo desert, her only real companions are her diary and her housemaid, and later the housemaid's daughter, Ada. When Ada is born, Cathleen recognizes in her someone she can love and respond...
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