Snelling, Lauraine
Summary: Nilda Carlson and her younger brother Ival come to America to join her older brother Rune and his family on the Strand farm in Minnesota. Uncle Einar Strand refuses to help rune build a house for his family and forbids the community to come onto his land. Can the tragedy that reveals Einar's anger and isolation bring the Carlsons and Strands together into a true family?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2018
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Summary: When Signe, her husband, Rune, and their three boys arrive in Minnesota from Norway to help a relative clear his land of lumber, they dream of owning their own farm and building a life in the New World. But Uncle Einar and Aunt Gird are hard, demanding people, and Signe and her family soon find themselves worked nearly to the bone in order to repay the cost of their voyage. At this rate, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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Summary: When a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives in the small mountain town of Pineville, Minnesota, Doctor Esther Hanson struggles to help her patients without giving in to overwhelming emotions triggered by a long-suppressed memory and U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James, grieving the tragic loss of his wife, rushes an abandoned baby to Esther's clinic. Brought together by the life of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "As the last will of a close friend is read, three women discover that they have inherited a legacy from her: the funds to take a dream trip to Florence, Italy, in her memory. With plenty of hilarious travel mishaps along the way, this book is a story of deep friendship, of making room in our lives to celebrate and remember, of grief, of the realization that friendship keeps the memory alive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: Keira Johnson, a 50-year-old mother of two grown sons, believes she lives a good Christian life without secrets -- until she discovers a life-jarring fact her late mother kept hidden all her life. Kiera was born out of wedlock, and the man she had always known as her father had adopted her as an infant. Meanwhile, Keira's beloved 17-year-old niece, Kirsten, has just discovered an unwanted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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Summary: "When three grieving women find themselves at crossroads in their lives, they move to a lakeside retreat to seek healing--together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: " In 1910 Minnesota, Nilda Carlson's dreams are coming true. Though her first few months in America were difficult, her life now resembles the images that filled her daydreams in Norway. She and her younger brother Ivar live in their own house, just a short distance from her older brother and his family. Together they work the farm and fell trees for lumber. They plan to grow a dairy herd,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: "A heartfelt story of a couple who, when their son becomes missing in action on a military assignment, put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: Dinah Taylor has an orderly life that is just how she likes it. A perfectly furnished luxury apartment, a satisfying career as a scientist and CEO of her own company, and an uncomplicated personal life. But all of that changes when she meets seven-year-old Jonah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She is receiving hands-on training from Dr. Elizabeth, the local doctor in the town of Blessing, North Dakota, and Astrid's sister-in-law. When Dr. Elizabeth encourages her to pursue formal training in Chicago, Astrid is torn between finally realizing her dream and leaving her family and friends behind in Blessing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009