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Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Eliza was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now her husband wants to make a new start in another territory—the land of her captivity. Can she lay the dark past to rest and move on? Or will her childhood memories always hold her hostage?
Author
Language
English
Description
"A young woman torn between duty and her own happiness defies her father to become the wife of a man with few prospects. Based on a true story. Mollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father's wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. After all, what options does she truly have in 1860s Montana? But providing for her stepfamily during her father's long absences doesn't keep...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Classically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis isolated herself for five years after a breakdown just before she was to debut with the New York Philharmonic. Guilt-ridden and songless, Natalie can't seem to recapture the joy music once brought her. In 1902, her brother invites her to join him in the West to search for healing. What she finds are songs she'd never before encountered - the haunting melodies, rhythms, and stories of Native Americans....
Author
Language
English
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"Based on a true story, pioneer Abigail Scott denies herself the joys of a simpler life to achieve her dream of securing rights for women. But running a controversial newspaper and leading suffrage efforts in the Northwest carry a great personal cost. A tender, powerful story of a woman's conflicts--with society and herself"--
Author
Series
Kinship and courage series volume 3
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A circle of courageous women discovers the meaning of independence, forgiveness, and love, as they learn that God heals old wounds and prepares a way for those who seek him, call his name, and give themselves over to his service.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Clara Estby is hauled by her mother, Helga, on a 7,000-mile walk from Spokane, Wash., to New York in 1896. The fashion industry is looking for promotion of the new, shorter dress for women; Helga is looking for a cash prize to save the family farm from foreclosure ... and Clara dreams of becoming a businesswoman.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Tabitha Brown's son makes the fateful decision to leave Missouri and strike out for Oregon, she refuses to be left behind. Despite her son's concerns, Tabitha hires her own wagon to join the party. Along with her reluctant daughter and her ever-hopeful granddaughter, the intrepid Tabitha has her misgivings. The trials they face along the way will severely test Tabitha's faith, courage, and ability to hope. With her family's survival on the line,...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through. German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education--and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda's driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844.
12) No eye can see
Author
Series
Kinship and courage series volume 2
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In this second in her Kinship and Courage series Kirkpatrick weaves a compellining tale of courage and loss, heartache and joy, as demonstrated in a small community of women whose faith and friendship sustain them on a trip across the Oregon Trail.
Author
Series
Tender ties historical volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
A novel based on the true story of Marie Dorion, Ioway woman, and her husband Pierre as they join the Astorian trading party on its historic trek from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in 1811.
Author
Language
English
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"Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s doesn't approve of such innovations as women attending medical school. To leave grief and guilt behind, as well as support herself and her challenging young son, Jennie cares for an elderly woman using skills she's developed on her own. When her patient dies, Jennie discovers that her heart has become...
Author
Series
Portraits of the heart volume 2
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
Jessie Ann Gaebele pursues her dream of owning her own photographic studio as she tries to put the shadow of a forbidden love behind her.
Author
Series
Portraits of the heart volume 1
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Serving as an assistant in F.J. Bauer's studio, fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele is trained in the artistry and business of photography, but she is unnerved by a growing attraction to her married tutor.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
For three women seekers united across time, a remote and rugged stretch of land in the Pacific Northwest proves to be a place where miracles really happen - and the gifts of faith, hope, charity are as tangible as rocks rivers and earth.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Experience Christmas through the eyes of adventuresome settlers who relied on log cabins built from trees on their own land to see them through the cruel forces of winter. Discover how rough-hewed shelters become a home in which faith, hope, and love can flourish. Marvel in the blessings of Christmas celebrations without the trappings of modern commercialism where the true meaning of the day shines through.