Kirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2011
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Summary: When three generations of Brown women take to the Oregon Trail with separate goals in mind, hardship and obstacles test their faith and threaten their survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2001
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Summary: 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 support herself and her young son, Jennie cares for an elderly woman. When her patient dies, Jennie discovers that her heart has become entangled with the woman's widowed husband,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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Summary: "As a child, Eliza Spalding Warren was taken hostage by Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her husband wants to move, which will mean returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza must face her childhood trauma and find peace with what's left"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: Emma and her husband leave a close-knit religious community to work in Washington Territory, but when Emma finds herself alone and pregnant with her third child, she is left wondering if an angry God has abandoned her to the consequences of her willfulness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2007
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2009
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Summary: When Eliza Spalding Warren's impulsive husband wants to start over in the territory where Eliza was taken hostage by Cayuse Indians years before, she responds by delving into her mother's diary to learn from how she dealt with struggle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2015
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Summary: "When Tabitha Brown's son makes the fateful decision to leave Missouri and strike out for Oregon, she refuses to be left behind and hires her own wagon to join the party along with her reluctant daughter and her ever-hopeful granddaughter to travel the deadly and enticing Oregon Trail"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: The dramatic story of a freed slave who has lost her husband and her freedom papers and must find a way to survive in the wilderness of the Oregon Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Chronicles the harrowing journey of eleven women across the American west and their efforts to settle in California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2001
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Summary: 1844. The Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land. When a heavy snowstorm hits in October, the party separates in three directions. Now young Mary Sullivan, newlywed Sarah Montgomery, widowed Ellen Murphy, and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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Summary: In the early 1900s, housewife Hulda Klager develops over 200 new varieties of lilacs that she gives away or sells to individuals as a way of sharing beauty. In a time of great need, the people who Hulda gifted with beauty return to her life to help her start over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012