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An ounce of courage. A split-second leap of faith. Together, they propel two young women to chase a new life--one that's reimagined from what they might have become. In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond the confines of a quiet life on the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures to call her own, Mable steps away from all she knows, seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago...
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2006
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Lori Wick's bestselling Tucker Mills trilogy concludes with Leave a Candle Burning about a widowed physician, Dannan MacKay, who creates a new life for his daughter but longs for the faith to love again.
Lori Wick's bestselling Tucker Mills trilogy concludes with Leave a Candle Burning about a widowed physician, Dannan MacKay, who creates a new life for his daughter but longs for the faith to love again.
Lori Wick is a multifaceted author of Christian...
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For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage in the late 1890s, so much depends on her social season debut. Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city's most eligible bachelor. Her hard work and training pays off when celebrity's spotlight turns Clara into a society-page darling. Yet Clara wonders if this is the life she really wants - especially when her best friend also sets her sights on Franklin De Vries....
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Pub. Date
2011
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Rebekah Hendricks dreams of a life far beyond her family's farm in Oklahoma, and when dashing aviator Arthur Samson promises adventure in the big city, she is quick to believe he's the man she's meant to marry. Waiting for the end of the Great War and Arthur's return, Rebekah travels to Texas to care for her ill Aunt Adabelle, sure that her glamorous and exciting life is about to start. But the Spanish flu epidemic changes everything.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
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Fleeing an arranged marriage, debutante Elizabeth Manning exchanges places with a mail-order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. Life on the frontier can't be worse than forced wedlock to pay her father's gambling debts. But Ted Logan's rustic lifestyle and rambunctious children prove more challenging than Elizabeth expects. She doesn't know how to be a mother or a wife. She doesn't even know how to tell Ted the truth about her past as her feelings...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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The "orphan train" seemed like small-town spinster Adelaide Crum's last chance to know the simple joys of family life. So many lost children, every one of them dreaming only of a caring home -- the home she longed to offer. And yet the narrow-minded town elders refused to entrust even the most desperate child to a woman alone... . Newspaperman Charles Graves believed his heart was closed forever, but he swore to stand by this lovely, lonely woman...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
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"It's disgraceful how St. Louis's orphans are treated. And Mary Randolph plans to do something about it. She's lost her faith, but she still has compassion and a drive to help innocents in need. If she has to battle with by-the-book police captain Samuel Benton to protect them...well, she'll give him a challenge he'll never forget. A poverty-stricken childhood left Sam hungry for the social acceptance now within his reach. All he has to do is follow...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Bestselling novelist Tracie Peterson joins Karen Witemeyer, Regina Jennings, and Jen Turano in this collection of four novellas, each featuring a Harvey Girl heroine. From Kansas to Texas, the Grand Canyon to New Mexico, the stories cross the country with tales of sweet romance and entertaining history. In Karen Witemeyer's "More Than a Pretty Face," a young woman works her hardest to escape poor choices from her youth. Tracie Peterson offers "A...
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Young socialite Anna Nicholson is having trouble focusing on her upcoming marriage due to lingering questions about her birth mother. After hiring detectives to learn more about the past, Anna decides that some secrets are better left hidden. Her choice to seek God's purpose for her life also isn't as simple as she had hoped. But Anna knows she can turn to her grandmother, Geesje de Jonge, back in Holland, Michigan. Geesje's been helping new Dutch...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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A Kentucky woman finds herself in an unexpected and difficult situation. When love comes knocking, will she be able to see it in the daily stresses she endures? After leaving the mountains of her childhood, widow Molly Pierpont returns to help raise the children of her dead sister. Jonas McLean lost his heart when he lost his wife, and he's not sure how he feels about his spirited sister-in-law. Will God soften their hearts to let love in?
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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San Francisco, 1904. Shy and unattractive as a child, Megan was teased by her classmates. After her senior year in Paris, the wallflower has blossomed into a beauty. With ambitions to become a lawyer or doctor, Megan accepts an internship at the district attorney's office only to discover that she will be working with Devin Caldwell, a boy who mercilessly mocked her at school -- and with whom she was hopelessly enamored. She turns to her dear friend...
12) A bride idea
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
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In historic West Virginia, love comes on a wave of desperate times that challenge the deepest of faiths. To give his grandmother her dying wish, Neil McCoy must marry, but he has little hope that a sane woman would respond to an ad for a bride in 1916. Olivia Easton decides that posing as a bride would make a good way to earn money for acting school. Will either be able to walk away when the ruse is over? Can love with stand the battles that rage...
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