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Westward dreams volume 4
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Following the death of their parents, twenty-four-year-old Sunniva Lyndall and her younger brother, Tracy, leave the comforts and safety of their Ohio Valley home to travel west to California, With excitement, determination, and the money they received from the sale of the family farm, they head for Missouri and the wagon train that will take them west. But Sunny and her brother quickly learn the ways of the West the hard way when a con-man swindles...
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Westward dreams volume 3
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Penny Sayres' red hair, freckle-splashed skin, and fierce independence drew the attention of some of the region's most eligible bachelors. One by one, they've been disappointed - because romance and marriage are the last things on Penny's mind! Since her childhood, she has sensed an unknown destiny beckoning from the horizon. When Penny's brother, Brad, invites her to join his family on their wagon train to California, Penny's dream of adventure comes...
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Lone star legacy volume 2
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Nineteen years ago, Deborah Stoner stood on the gallows of Stoner's Crossing, Texas, awaiting execution for the murder of her husband. Miraculously, she escaped...but now the past has caught up with her, and history threatens to repeat itself. And this time the stakes are higher. She could lose not only her life, but the love and respect of her daughter Carolyn as well. As the secrets of Deborah's past begin to unravel, Carolyn is thrust into the...
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Profiles of ten courageous women who helped shape history are told in this inspiring and entertaining book. These high-spirited women left conventional roles behind, becoming America's early feminists. Some were BOLD and REBELLIOUS like Belle Starr and Ann Eliza Young. Many, such as Sarah Winnemucca and Abigail Duniway, were DEDICATED to their causes; others, like Jessie Benton Fremont, to the people they loved. Demanding acceptance on their own terms,...
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Elizabeth Thatcher is a young teacher accustomed to high society, so she experiences culture shock when she gets her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley. Life in the small mining town is filled with challenges. A recent explosion has killed more than a dozen of the town's miners, compelling the widows of those men to work in the mines to earn money.
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A widowed homesteader is determined to make a life in the unforgiving mountains of late 19th century Oregon in this “powerful novel of struggle and loss” (Dallas morning News).
Acclaimed author Molly Gloss drew on pioneer diaries and old family stories to write this modern Western classic of a solitary woman’s frontier life. In the 1890s, Lydia Sanderson leaves her old life behind and journey’s to Jump-Off
...12) The homesman
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Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
14) Jessica
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Springwater seasons volume 4
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Outspoken spinster Jessica Barnes arrives in Springwater to help her ailing brother run the Springwater Gazette, only to find her family in upheaval with the newspaper nearly bankrupt and to clash with Gage Calloway, the strong-willed, opinionated mayor of Springwater.
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A handsome cowboy with laughing eyes. Gus McQueen sweeps like a Western wind through Boston's staid stifled by fear of her stern father. When Gus proposes marriage, Clementine impulsively accepts. Montana is all Clementine has dreamed it could be...and far, far more. The harsh realities of frontier life are a shock, but it is Gus's ne'er-do-well brother Rafferty whose raw masculinity steals her breath away. Gus is the man she married, though, and...
20) Honor's pledge
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Rocky Mountain legacy volume 1
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Abigail Martin, a woman of the western frontier, is a headstrong young woman who believes frontier life in the rugged Colorado Rockies possesses all the world she could ever want. As a woman who listens to her heart, Abbie is determined to wait for the best -- even if it means dashing the hopes of her childhood friend and holding out for a love as consuming as her beloved mountains. Montgomery Farrel is a handsome, refined Southern gentleman who sees...