Snelling, Lauraine
Summary: "Though she has known hardships in her life, Ingeborg Bjorklund chooses to focus on all she has been given. Blessed with children and grandchildren, she enjoys the friendship and support of the entire Blessing, North Dakota, community. And after several years of widowhood, she has reached a place of contentment with her life. Meanwhile, her stepson Thorliff is raising two children alone since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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Summary: "1790s, Maine. In the depths of winter Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. During the search Will Rees finds her struggling through the snow and woods without shoes or a coat. Hortense claims to have been kidnapped, but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. After two young men begin stalking the community in search of her - including targeting Rees's own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: In Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years before the Civil War, Dorothea Granger agrees to sew an unusual quilt to fulfill her uncle's deathbed request, realizing later that the quilt pattern contains an Underground Railroad map.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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Summary: "At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desperate to escape her own demons, rashly joins the Flower Children flocking to California--just as two businessmen are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2015
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Summary: Farmer and part-time constable Ned Parker teams with the mythical sheriff John Washington to track down a murderer that may be targeting Ned's family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2011
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Summary: Augusta Bjorklund, after discovering her intended bridegoom married someone else, decides to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1999
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Summary: It had taken four long, difficult years to tame the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory , Looking back through all the heartache and the body- breaking labor , Ingeborg Bjorkland knew that God had been with them every step of the way. Dreams that had turned into veritable nightmares had been reshaped with the promise of a new day rising , and her marriage to haaken had been its sure sign.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1997
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Summary: Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2006
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Summary: Hjelmer travels west to work on the railroad, but after sending only one letter to Penny, who has agreed to wait for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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Summary: Ever so slowly the Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmlands. Finally the Bjorklund family and their neighbors are reaping the promised harvest that had drawn them from their homes in Norway to cross the Atlantic. Withthe coming of the railroad and shipments of wheat to larger markets, the small town of Blessing beings to prosper in 1886.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1998
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Summary: In the Dakota Territory of 1883 Ingeborg Bjorklund's husband disappears in a winter storm. In the spring her late husband's brother and cousin arrive to help her, and Ingeborg finds love again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1996
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Summary: The fertile prairies of Dakota Territory have finally begun to yield the bountiful harvests the pioneers have dreamed about since leaving their homes in Norway. The tiny community of Blessing is beginning to expand and thrive, its hardy citizens at last enjoying a measure of prosperity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1999
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Summary: "Miss Permilia Griswold may have been given the opportunity of a debut into New York high society, but no one warned her she wasn't guaranteed to "take." After spending the last six years banished to the wallflower section of the ballroom, she's finally putting her status on the fringes of society to good use by penning anonymous society gossip columns under the pseudonym "Miss Quill." Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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Summary: "Will Rees is back home on his farm in 1796 Maine with his teenage son, his pregnant wife, their five adopted children, and endless farm work under the blistering summer sun. But for all that, Rees is happy to have returned to Dugard, Maine, the town where he was born and raised, and where he's always felt at home. Until now. When a man is found dead - murdered - after getting into a public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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Summary: Miss Gertrude Cadwalader hoped her position as the paid companion to Mrs. Davenport would be easy. But as she becomes acquainted with her employer, she realizes the wealthy Mrs. Davenport has a strange tendency to be a bit light-fingered with other people's trinkets. Gertrude is relieved when Mrs. Davenport decides to have a quiet summer away from the social scene--until the woman changes her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Company 2017
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Summary: "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- derailing the War between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Negro and Native Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLAForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: Captain Horatio Hornblower and the undaunted crew of the Sutherland set sail to rival the exploits of Napoleon's ships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999