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"Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest. A frontier woman now, Elizabeth had triumphed over the worst life could offer, or had she?"--Provided by publisher.
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Song of Acadia volume 2
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Book 2 in the Song of Acadia series. In this sequel to The Meeting Place, the shoreline of America means hope for some and tragedy for others.
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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...
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As a young girl, Lillian Walsh lost both her parents and a younger sister. Now in her twenties, after enduring the death of her adoptive mother, Lillian must find her place in the world. Just as her adoptive father is leaving for an extended trip to his native Wales, a lawyer appears at the door to inform Lillian that she has inherited a small estate from her birth parents--and that the sister she had long believed dead is likely alive. When she...
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Song of Acadia volume 4
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While Anne settles into life in Britain, Nicole sets sail for America to manage her uncle's holdings and finds her heart and loyalties tested by the Revolution.
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Prairie Legacy volume 1
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A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny.
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Prairie Legacy volume 3
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Virginia Simpson has endured her share of struggles on the Great Plains, but she faces more trials after she marries as she balances relationships in her household and tries to build a house with her new husband.
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Song of Acadia volume 1
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In 1753 as the French and British are fighting for the North American land known as Acadia, two women, one English and one French, develop a friendship among a field of wild flowers.
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Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care. She's just as determined not to give her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Until...
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Prairie Legacy volume 2
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Virginia Simpson is about to graduate from high school and continue her education at college when a family crisis derails her plans. Virginia soon discovers that the rest of the world is moving on without her. Her best friend, Jenny, discovers the freedom of college, and Virginia's boyfriend begins to grow away from God and then away from Virginia.
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"Christine and her older brother, Henry, grew up in the Delaney family as loved and nurtured as if they had been born to it. Now adults, they are ready to make new lives for themselves. Henry has found love and is planning a wedding. Christine is delighted for her brother, but sill carries scars from a broken relationship. And the war in Europe causes uncertainty at every turn, while the Northland still calls to her heart. Amid this instability, more...
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Kyle Adams novels volume 1
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After a heartbreaking loss, a woman finds herself searching for a family she never knew and a faith she's only beginning to understand.
17) The beloved land
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Song of Acadia volume 5
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Nicole's return to the New World and to her uncle's estate in Western Massachusetts is not the homecoming she had imagined. But with Gordon Goodwind at her side, she is gradually discovering that her dreams of a home of her own may be taking a turn she had not foreseen. Anne, now married to Thomas, has settled into life with Charles and his wife, Julia, in England. With Charles' spiritual awakening, the manor has come to represent something new in...
19) The Hidden Flame
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Acts of faith volume 2
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2010
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A sweeping drama of the spread of the early church through the eyes of a young woman who has suffered much but found hope in the Messiah.
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