Orem Library

An historically rich novel that brings to life the fascinating story of America's first female state senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a doctor, suffragist, and champion of public health in the frontier territory of Utah in the late 19th century.This is the first historical fiction novel based on the real life of Martha Hughes Cannon, a woman whose extraordinary life as a pioneer woman paralleled the life of the nation, struggling to grow...

When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. But the town's rapid growth brings many challenges. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education--one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the...

He was etched by the deserts howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.

"Clarissa Yeager never imagined a more terrifying reality than being abandoned by her husband in a harsh wilderness, then recieving word of his death. But as she takes a heroic stand to saver her homestead for herself and her unborn child, she discovers she must do much more than just face an uncertain future. She must battle the demons of days past. A profound story of one woman's courage in the face of overwhelming challenges and the hope offered...

This is "the tale of one family torn apart by mob violence in Nauvoo, making their way West across lifeless plains in the dead of winter. . . . The Richards' face impossible odds as they head for the basin of the Great Salt Lake. Faced with the spine-chilling possibility of being scalped by the Blackfoot and the sober reality of meeting members of the Missouri mob out on the plains, the Richards' struggle to go the way of their God" -- book jacket....

Detailing the extraordinary life of an extraordinary woman, this unique memoir trails the world travels of Cécile Doward. Born into a flamboyant family in 1911, the young Cécile married a middle-aged professor of philosophy, mixing with intellectual superstars of the day such as Russell, Moore, Huxley and Haldane. At 58 she began touring the world solo in a camper van, and became widely known as the world's oldest hippy. She traveled until she was...

This popular national seller recounts the amazing life of one of the Old West's most famous and courageous women. Katherine Horony, also known as "Big Nose Kate," her love and devotion to John Henry "Doc" Holliday, D, D.S., a colorful icon of the wild and dangerous times in Tombstone, Arizona of the 1880's. Re-live Kate's life as only the gifted Ms. Jane Candia Coleman could possibly portray; who has been called "America's Chekov." Also, experience...

Nearer to Thee continues the beautifully written account of young musician Mima Hough, based on the true story of a nineteenth century pioneer from England. In this thrilling sequel to The Water is Wide, Mima and her mother turn their eyes westward to the Salt Lake Valley, but to get there, they must follow a trail marked with cholera graves, treacherous rivers, and Native American tribes weary of invaders. Mima's journey across the plains is one...

When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa, she knows that she does not love the man she is to marry there --her fiance Edward, whom she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a small town in the harsh Karoo desert, her only real companions are her diary and her housemaid, and later the housemaid's daughter, Ada. When Ada is born, Cathleen recognizes in her someone she can love and respond...

Here is a magnificent human drama based on the memories of one who lived it, filled with facts history books omitted. Orphaned at an early age, Allie and her brothers and sisters were parceled out to foster families. She eventually moved in with her married sister, who was operating a boarding house. It was there that Allie met Virgil Earp who was working for a stage line. They were married without benefit of clergy and so began a life of itinerant...