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For Such a Time as This

Ginny Aiken - Thorndike Pr
Format: Hardcover

Drought has forced farmers around the small town of Bountiful in the Hope region of Oregon to mortgage their property. Then word comes of plans for a spur line to run through the area and join the railroad in nearby Milton. Folks with money see an opportunity to fill their coffers by buying...
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To Whisper Her Name

Tamera Alexander - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Inheritance, A Lasting Impression, and A Beauty So Rare comes an exquisite historical novel set against the real history of Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville, TN that explores the struggles of real people of the post-war...
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Where We Belong

LYNN AUSTIN - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The Adventure of a Lifetime for Two Indomitable Socialite Sisters In the city of Chicago in 1892, the rules for Victorian women are strict, their roles limited. But sisters Rebecca and Flora Hawes are not typical Victorian ladies. Their love of adventure and their desire to use their God-given...
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Petticoat Detective

Margaret Brownley - Shiloh Run Press; Gld edition
Format: Book

Pinkerton detective Jennifer Layne is no stranger to undercover work. But posing as a lady companion named Amy at Miss Lillian s Parlor House and Boots is a first for her. She s finally landed a high-profile case and is on the trail of the notorious Gunnysack Bandit, when one of Miss Lillian...
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Westward Hearts

Melody A. Carlson - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author Melody Carlson begins an inspiring new series of adventure and romance on the Oregon Trail.Kentucky, 1854--Elizabeth Martin has mourned her husband's death for three years, but now she feels ready to fulfill the dream they had shared--to take their two children west....
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Blue Moon Promise

Colleen Coble - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A CBA Bestselling Author -- Lucy Marsh has lost everything but her determination to provide for her brother and sister. When she realizes her father's death was no accident, she decides to accept a proxy marriage to get her siblings out of harm's way. But trouble follows her to Wichita,...
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Aiming for Love

Mary Connealy - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

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....
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Love Blooms in Winter

Lori Copeland - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Print book

A romantic new book from bestselling author Lori Copeland that portrays God's miraculous provision even when none seems possible.1892 -- Mae Wilkey's sweet next-door neighbor, Pauline, is suffering from old age and dementia and desperately needs family to come help her. But Pauline...
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The Lady's Maid

Susan Page Davis - Thorndike Press Large Print; Lrg Una edition
Format: Hardcover

Travel along with Elise Finster and her British mistress, Lady Anne Stone, as they search for the new but missing earl of Stoneford. Determined to follow David Stone's somewhat cold trail leading to Oregon, greenhorns Elise and Anne secure livestock and supplies to join a wagon train....
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Love Comes Home: A Novel

Ann H. Gabhart - Revell
Format: Book

Wwii is over, the boys are coming home, and Kate and her sisters are ready to pursue the plans they put on hold. Will their dreams come true?
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Until We Find Home

CATHY GOHLKE - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants to write. But when she finds herself stranded on English shores, with five French Jewish children she smuggled across the channel before Nazis...
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A Vote of Confidence

Robin Lee Hatcher - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

In A Vote of Confidence, the stage is set for some intriguing insight into what it was like during 1915 to be a woman in a "man's world." Guinevere Arlington is a beautiful young woman determined to remain in charge of her own life. For seven years, Gwen has carved out a full...
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With You Always

Jody Hedlund - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

When an 1850s financial crisis leaves orphan Elise Neumann and her sisters destitute, Elise seizes their only hope: to find work out west through the Children's Aid Society and send money home. On the rails, she meets privileged Thornton Quincy, who suddenly must work for his inheritance....
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A Bride for Keeps: A novel

Melissa Jagears - Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Format: Paperback

A Tender Tale of Love on the Prairie Perfect for Cba ReadersAlthough Everett Cline can hardly keep up with the demands of his homestead, he won't humiliate himself by looking for a helpmate ever again--not after being jilted by three mail-order brides. When a well-meaning neighbor goes...
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Holding the Fort

REGINA JENNINGS - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Jennings Winningly Combines Humor, History, and RomanceLouisa Bell never wanted to be a dance-hall singer, but dire circumstances force her hand. With a little help from her brother in the cavalry, she's able to make ends meet, but lately he's run afoul of his commanding officer, so she undertakes...
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Everything She Didn't Say

JANE KIRKPATRICK - Revell
Format: Paperback

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...
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The Tutor's Daughter

Julie Klassen - Bethany House
Format: Paperback

Danger mounts at a baron's remote estate, as a clever tutor's daughter decides which son to suspect and which to trust with her heart.
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A Line in the Sand (The Kane Legacy #1)

Al Lacy - Multnomah
Format: Paperback

The Kane Legacy: faith, love, courage, and strength. In nineteenth-century Texas, theyre going to need it.In 1835, Alan Kane and his family come to the Circle C Ranch in Texas, little dreaming what the future holds in both blessing and danger. Beautiful Julia Miller, daughter of a Louisiana...
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Jordan's Star

Gilbert Morris - Zondervan
Format: Print book

It is Jordan's special star--a celestial token of hope for the life and love she dreams of. How brightly will it shine in the night's darkest hour? A host of stars crowds the desert sky, arching from the east, with its thriving towns, to the western mountains and an unknown future....
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How Do I Love Thee?

Nancy Moser - Bethany House
Format: Paperback

The year is 1845. Elizabeth Barrett is a published poet--and a virtual prisoner in her own home. Blind family loyalty ties her to a tyrannical father who forbids any of his children to marry. She has resigned herself to simply existing. That is, until the letter arrives... "I love...
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Where Courage Calls

Janette Oke - Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Format: Paperback

When new schoolteacher Beth Thatcher is assigned a post in a remote mining community, her courage--and her heart--will be tested in unexpected ways.
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Love's First Bloom

Delia Parr - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Ruth Livingstone's life changes drastically the day her father puts a young child in her arms and sends her to a small village in New Jersey under an assumed name. There Ruth pretends to be a widow and quietly secludes herself until her father is acquitted of a crime. But with the emergence...
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The Briton

Catherine Palmer - Center Point Publishers
Format: Large print book

Lady Bronwen, proud inheritor of the ancient ways of the Britons, had lost all she held dear. She had been widowed in war, then robbed of the ancestral home that was her birthright. And now her last hope was a stranger—one with whom she'd shared a single tender kiss.The foreign...
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Bachelor's Puzzle

Judith Pella - Bethany House
Format: Paperback

He never intended to stay... The women of the Maintown church ladies society eagerly await the arrival of the new circuit-riding preacher--a bachelor, they've been told. To welcome him, they and their eligible daughters decide to make him a "welcome" quilt. The project turns...
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A Treasure Concealed

Tracie Peterson - Bethany House
Format: Print book

Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Launches Exciting New Series Set in 1890s MontanaEmily Carver wants a home where she can put down roots instead of following her gold-hungry father from one mining camp to another. She also longs for tenderness and love, both of which are missing in her life....
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Bridge to Haven

Francine Rivers - Macmillan Reference Usa
Format: Large Print Hardcover

To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she's paid to finally feel like she's somebody.To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little...
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Courting Miss Amsel

Kim Vogel Sawyer - Bethany House
Format: Hardcover

Edythe Amsel is delighted with her first teaching assignment a one-room schoolhouse in Walnut Hill Nebraska Independent headstrong and a strong believer in a well-rounded education Edythe is ready to open the world to the students in this tiny community But is Walnut Hill ready for her Joel...
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The Promise of Dawn

LAURAINE SNELLING - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Beloved Author Lauraine Snelling Launches New Immigrant SeriesWhen Signe, her husband, Rune, and their three boys arrive in Minnesota from Norway to help a relative clear his land of lumber, they dream of owning their own farm and building a life in the New World. But Uncle Einar and Aunt...
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Daughter of the Regiment

Stephanie Grace Whitson - FaithWords
Format: Paperback

Irish immigrant Maggie Malone wants no part of the war. She'd rather let "the Americans" settle their differences-until her brothers join Missouri's Union Irish Brigade, and one of their names appears on a list of injured soldiers. Desperate for news, Maggie heads for Boonville,...
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The Best of Lori Wick . . .

Lori Wick - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to this special gathering of heartwarming scenes from bestselling author Lori Wick's celebrated novels. Each turn of the page unveils an inspired moment -- a tender prayer shared between a mother and daughter, a first kiss filled with longing and hope, the infectious laughter...
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The Mayflower Bride: Daughters of the Mayflower

KIMBERLEY WOODHOUSE - Barbour Books
Format: Paperback

Can a religious separatist and an opportunistic spy make it in the New World?A brand new series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. Mary Elizabeth Chapman boards the Speedwell in 1620 as a Separatist seeking a better life...
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The Solace of Water: A Novel

Elizabeth Byler Younts - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

In The Solace of Water, Elizabeth Byler Younts tells the story of two women, one white and one black, in racially charged 1956, who fight personal battles of freedom and form a friendship that neither expected.After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher's wife...
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