Snelling, Lauraine.
Summary: Certain she can't live without Hamre Bjorklund, the impetuous Sophie Knutson rejects her father's request to postpone her marriage until after graduation and convinces Hamre to elope. But far from her family, Sophie finds that life as a fisherman's bride in Ballard, Washington, is not all she had envisioned. Pregnant and lonely while Hamre is away at sea, she hires on at a fish cannery, only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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Summary: Return to Blessing, North Dakota, with the story of Andrew Bjorklund and Ellie Wold. After graduating in May of 1900, the two make plans to marry once the harvest is over and their new house is finished. They spend the summer working hard, and the Lord seems to shine on and in them in a special way. Everyone rejoices in their happiness. Everyone except for Toby Valders, who is determined to ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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Summary: Life in Blessing, North Dakota, becomes difficult when courageous and gentle Grace Knutson is presented with an agonizing dilema.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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Summary: Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing, and advising her in the use of her feminine wiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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Summary: "In the early 1900s, Miriam Hastings leaves Chicago after burying her mother and returns to Blessing, North Dakota, to carry on her nursing studies. Despite her continued resistance, Trygve Knutson continues his pursuit of her heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2015Jefferies, Dinah
Summary: An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise... A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-colored walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFByrd, Sandra.
Summary: A romance set in Victorian England, "Bride of A Distant Isle "is the story of Annabel Ashton, who fights to save her family home and her mother's honor while trying to figure out if the man she loves wants her or just wants to use her to achieve his own ambitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2016
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Summary: "As the kingdoms of Greece clash on the shores of Troy and the gods choose sides, Daphne must user her wits, her training, and her precarious relationship with Apollo to keep her queen safe, stop the war, and uncover the true reason the gods led her to Troy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: High school senior Lei unexpectedly finds love amid the student protests in Beijing in 1989, forcing her to choose between her family and its legacy or her future with a revolutionary leader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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Summary: In 1667, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet whether in the fledgling city of Quebec or within one of the native tribes, every woman’s fate depends on the man she chooses—or is obligated—to marry. Although Claudine Deschamps and Gabrielle Giroux both live within the settlement, their prospects are very different. French-born Claudine has followed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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Summary: Carley Marek takes a hiatus from her job to visit a friend in Amish country, Pennsylvania. When her time is up, Carley must make a life-changing decision: stay and face the path that is set before her, or flee and leave the only love she's ever known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: "My father's ships will be at the sirens' mercy. We will be the ones to reach the island first and claim its treasure for ourselves. Alosa's mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Riden, still unfairly attractive, is a constant distraction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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Summary: Alosa is the daughter of the Siren Queen, and her mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Now Alosa and her crew are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION LEVBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Abby Miller leaves her successful quilt shop and patient fiance in Ohio to help her newly remarried and now pregnant mother in Lancaster County. While she's away, Abby's world is shattered in one fell swoop. How can God make anything good come out of this tragedy? With shaken faith, Abby is forced to look for answers away from friends and family. Will she find them in the ashes of the past, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2005
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Summary: "A recent widow from Norway settles with her children in the early 1900s community of Blessing, North Dakota, where her growing friendships with two men in the community bring her to a challenging choice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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Summary: When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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Summary: After years of not being willing to commit to Deborah MacCallister, Toby Valders watches as sparks fly between her and the new schoolteacher Anton Gendarme, leaving Toby to wonder whether it is too late to win her over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2016Lessman, Julie
Summary: As the Great War rages overseas, a smaller war brews in the O'Connor household as Faith O'Connor struggles to handle the jealousy she feels when the roguish Collin McGuire tries to win her sister Charity's hand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2008
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Summary: In the first decade of the twentieth century, "Miriam is in Blessing [N.D.] to get practical training to become an accredited nurse. She's been promised a position in the Chicago women's hospital that will enable her to support her siblings and her ailing mother. Although eager to return to her family, Miriam is surprised to find how much she enjoys the small town of Blessing. And her growing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2014Jefferies, Dinah
Summary: "What price will they pay for their bravery? In an old stone cottage, on the edge of a beautiful French village, three sisters long for the end of the war. Hélène, the protector, vows to keep her sisters safe. Elise, the rebel, is determined to help the Resistance, whatever the cost. And Florence, the dreamer, just yearns for a world where France is free. When the Allies come knocking for help,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Canada, Limited 2021
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Summary: Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her-- less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed Rebecca's name, home and incomes-- and died within months of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYRCrosby, Tanya Anne
Summary: Fearing her "gifts" will be used to defeat her sister Matilda, Elspeth Pendragon escapes the Black Mountain priory that has sheltered her and her sisters since their father's death, only to find herself indebted to, of all men, a Scotsman, whose loyalties are in question... Left to face the wrath of a new sovereign, Malcom Scott is forced to swear fealty to Stephen of Blois to keep the castle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver-Heber Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROLawton, Wendy.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Olive Oatman's wagon train is raided by outlaw Indians, she and her sister are captured, only to be ransomed later by a band of Mohaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAWMagras, Diane
Summary: In 1210 Scotland, twelve-year-old Drest is on the run with a price on her head after rescuing her brothers and father, the Mad Wolf of the North, from captivity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kathy Dawson Books 2019