Janette Oke
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Serious and dependable, Berta is very different from her pretty, outgoing sister, Glenna. This makes Berta sad and envious until she learns to accept and cherish her own uniqueness.
22) Love takes wing
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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In stretching her wings, did she leave more than her home and family? Belinda Davis is restless. As her friends get married and have children of their own, she wonders what God has in store for her. Her life as a nurse seems dull and routine. She craves excitement and adventure. When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to travel to Boston, a large, vibrant city so unlike the little prairie town where...
23) The Birthright
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Song of Acadia volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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The only living relative of Lord Charles Harrow, Nicole journeys from Nova Scotia to England at the onset of the Revolutionary War, to accept her duty as his heir. Filled with a desperate longing for home, Nicole invites her sister Anne to join her in England. Drawn by her deep love for Nicole, Anne and her infant son join her at the Harrow estate. But with war waging between England and the American colonies, a tragic secret threatens to surface...
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Song of Acadia volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Englishwoman Catherine Harrow and Frenchwoman Louise Robichaud, both newly married, meet accidentally in a meadow between their two villages in 1753 and begin a friendship that thrives despite the looming war between their two countries.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 8
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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When young Kendra, an orphan living with her Indian grandmother and trapper grandfather in the wilds, is sent away for schooling, she must make some very difficult choices about her future. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
26) Drums of change
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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In Alberta, the star-crossed romance between Martin Forbes, a young white missionary, and Running Fawn, an Indian maiden. She is one of his most promising pupils, but so is Silver Fox and it is he who gets her in the end.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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She feels God nudging her toward ministry, but what options are there for a young single woman? Emily Evans has a hard time getting herself to class on time, much less figuring out God's will for her life. Then, to her surprise, she feels that God is calling her into full-time Christian service. She expects the Lord will also provide her with a companion to share her life and ministry, but Emily does not want to marry any of the available young men....
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Damaris runs away from an abusive father, with only the strength from her mother's love and two heirlooms, and her name. She must come to terms with her past, learn to live in her present circumstances, and trust her future to another Father.
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Kyle Adams novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Martha Rimes gave up her child for adoption believing her husband was killed in World War II. Kyle Rothmore grows up accustomed to wealth and privilege not knowing that she is adopted and unaware of the conflict that surrounds her inheritance, her biological family, and the man she loves.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Responding to an Advertisement, She Crossed an Ocean to Meet a Total Stranger and Became a Mail-Order Bride...Kathleen O'Malley stood on the deck of the Barreth Lily and watched the land she'd called home for more than a dozen years slip from her view. She had thought she would be glad to see the last of it, but she was not. Emotions in turmoil, her whole being yearned to slip from the ship and return to what she knew. Even though Kathleen had not...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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She came from the East to teach, but can she survive the frontier? Nothing in her cultured Eastern upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching position in the Canadian West. Despite the many hardships, she cares deeply for the schoolchildren, but she is determined not to open her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Then she meets a certain member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. . .
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Love comes softly series volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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"She ventured west with the man she loved, but in one day her whole world had crumbled around her& Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish husband, Clem, seeking to claim land and hoping for good fortune. But when the venture turns suddenly to tragedy, Marty is left alone with her great loss. And coupled with her grief and heartache is the grim reality that there is no way to return home. Clark Davis and his little...
33) Tomorrow's dream
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Kyle Adams novels volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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When a medical diagnosis shatters Kyle's joyful expectations for the future, she finds herself isolated from the emotional and spiritual anchors in her life.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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With her husband's death, Sarah is left to raise her baby, Rebecca, alone. She resolves to continue to run their freight business, and send her daughter to the best schools. When Rebecca finally returns home, mother and daughter find themselves viewing each other from two different worlds.
35) Roses for Mama
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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A captivating story of a young girl who must assume responsibility for raising her younger siblings. As the challenges intensify, she is determined in her faith to raise them as her mother would have wanted.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 6
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Anna Trent, a shy, sensitive, self-conscious young woman who loves to learn, captures the attention of a young seminarian. Their relationship grows through the years, as they exchange books and correspondence.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Jodie Harland and Bethan Keane had little in common before the plight of a homeless dog brought them together, but from that day on the two young girls were bound together as best friends. As different as night and day in personality and interests, their friendship grows strong through shared joys, trials, and, finally, a devastating loss faced together.
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Return to the Canadian West volume 3
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When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. But the town's rapid growth brings many challenges. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education--one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the...
39) Where trust lies
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"After teaching in a 1920s mining town in western Canada, Beth Thatcher no longer feels at home among her wealthy family in the East, and her heart is torn between two very different worlds"--
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Belinda Davis's move to Boston had introduced her to a life she never could have imagined growing up in the West. But even the opportunities of wealth, literature and travel left her feeling empty. Realizing her faith had been pushed into the background, she once again invites God to have first place in her life. But now she faces new life decisions that seem even more difficult than before. Torn between two contrasting ways of life, one full of fascinating...