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Californians volume 4
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English
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When an angry snowstorm forces Marcail Donovan to seek shelter for the night at the town doctors house, the pretty new schoolteacher is thrust into a scandal that threatens her career. The unfortunate but innocent circumstances bring harsh condemnation to Marcail, but the compassionate bachelor doctor offers her a way to remain the towns teacher. Now she must face an inner turmoil worse than any storm. Is Donovans Daughter...
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In the second moving installment of her new "Kinship and Courage" series, bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick weaves a compelling tale of courage and loss, heartache and joy, as demonstrated in a small community of women whose faith and friendship must sustain them on a trip across the Oregon Trail.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jan eEyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence until her father leaves...
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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
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Kensington
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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Widowed on the arduous trek west, proud, passionate Cat Reilly is forced to take whatever work she can find amid the gold-veined hills of Sutter's Fort. Mixing company with the likes of Lt. John Charles Fremont and his legendary scout Kit Carson, she discovers passion with a disturbingly attractive Russian nobleman. As war explodes between the United States and Mexico, the Bear Flag Revolt plunges Cat into the epic battle for California's independence....
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James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...
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