Ruth Ann Phimister
Author
Series
Love comes softly series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
This story of a frontier family begins where "Love Comes Softly" left off, telling the heartwarming tale of a marriage that began in tragedy but flourished due to the couple's devotion to one another and to God. The husband and wife, Marty and Clark, have been blessed with children, and now it's time for a school to be built for all the town's youth.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
She thought she had already been pushed to the limits of her endurance . . . 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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
When tragedy strikes Dynah, a devout Christian with a bright future, the Carey family struggles to cope. In considering the question of abortion, Dynah and her family must come to terms with God's provision and goodness and what it means to live out the truth even when the cost is high.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil. An Independent Bestseller Winner of the 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award! Tracy Chevalier...
Author
Series
Southern Sisters mysteries volume 1
Description
Country Western is red hot these days, so overimpulsive Mary Alice thinks it makes perfect sense to buy the Skoot 'n' Boot bar -- since that's where the many-times-divorced "Sister" and her boyfriend du jour like to hang out anyway.
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 2
Description
From her favorite hilltop perch, the unadorned beauty of Montana fills Dianne Chadwick with serenity and purpose. But fear gnaws at that peace, for her fiancé, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. When accidents and illness threaten those at the Diamond V ranch, Dianne searches for a haven from the storm that surrounds her. But with Cole's fate uncertain and another man proclaiming his love for her, Dianne's faith is a tenuous anchor...
Author
Series
Description
Heirs of Montana book 3. Though the Diamond V ranch is flourishing and their own family growing, Dianne and Cole Selby find their hard-earned success threatened as a band of Indians on the warpath inch closer to the valley they call home. When a new family settles in the area with ambitions to establish an empire in Montana, it quickly becomes apparent that they will stop at nothing to uproot Dianne's family from the land they've nourished and come...
Author
Series
Love comes softly series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"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...
9) Raney
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Raney and Charles were drawn together by their mutual love for bluegrass music. Though their love is strong, their cultural differences sometimes seem monumental.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Formats
Description
A deep yearning for home had led Eliza to Wyatt Orchards ten years ago. Now widowed with three young children, she faces mounting debts and the realization it is all up to her. But she has no idea how to run an orchard alone. When a stranger appears at her doorstep, Eliza guesses he is no different than the other out-of-luck characters searching for work during the Depression. But the familiarity with which Gabe tends to the farm raises unanswered...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Just back from vacation where Patricia Ann spent quality time with her married daughter Haley and Mary Alice spent money on a pair of outrageously sexy hot purple boots, the sisters are greeted by cousin Pukey Lukey who's in a terrible state. Pukey got his nickname from his childhood addiction to carsickness, but now poor Luke's problem is heartsickness. His wife of forty years, Virginia, has run off with a housepainter/preacher.
Author
Formats
Description
Amelia, the new owner of a musty antique store filled with merry-go-round horses and hurdy-gurdies, finds a scrawled, mysterious note inside a barrel organ. Armed only with the strange woman's first name and a note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past where fear is second nature, and where dark secrets just might uncover murder -- even her own! -- from publisher description.
14) Comanche moon
Author
Series
Comanche moon series volume 1
Formats
Description
"Orphaned after her parents were killed by Comanches, Loretta Simpson still lives in terror that the warriors will return, her fear so powerful, she is no longer able to speak a word. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. But Loretta can only see him as the enemy who has kidnapped her, and she refuses to succumb to his control, or his touch. Despite the hatred between their peoples, Loretta and...
15) Comanche Heart
Author
Series
Comanche moon series volume 2
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson comes the second novel in the Comanche series—a stirring story of courage, passion, and unforgettable love...
Years ago, Amy Masters escaped the fury of the Texas plains for a new life as a teacher in the golden hills of Oregon, where she found contentment—if not happiness. Then, out of the shadows, comes Swift Antelope, the Comanche warrior to...
Years ago, Amy Masters escaped the fury of the Texas plains for a new life as a teacher in the golden hills of Oregon, where she found contentment—if not happiness. Then, out of the shadows, comes Swift Antelope, the Comanche warrior to...
16) Sixteen Brides
Author
Formats
Description
Sixteen Civil War widows travel from St. Louis, Missouri to Plum Grove, Nebraska, with dreams of owning land and finding love on the prairies.
17) Ellen Foster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
19) Black and blue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When Frances' husband punches her again, she believes he's crossed the line--that the next time he will kill her. She decides to put her life--and that of her son--in the hands of a network which helps women start over. She becomes Beth and begins a new life in Florida with her son. It could be wonderful ... but she lives in fear of being found by Bobbie.
Author
Formats
Description
Callie Webber is a business investigator, but now her employer wants her to hunt for a murder. It seems the family of the murdered man has some secrets they would rather not have uncovered. Callie soon learns she is in serious danger. Her only hope is that God will use her investigative skills to discover the identity of the killer before she becomes the next victim.