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24963) The golden bride
Author
Series
Daughters of the Mayflower volume 8
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1849. Olivia Brighton finds herself widowed and working her brother's restaurant in San Francisco during the height of the rush for gold. Even though she receives at least twenty marriage proposals a day, she will never marry a gold miner. Her brother's friend Joseph Sawyer has gotten caught up in local politics and the plight of Chinese in forced labor. Together they are doing what they can to clean up the city and share God's love. but the more...
24964) Change of venue
Author
Series
A Texas Ranger Rames C. Blawcyzk novel volume 11
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sixth generation Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk has ruffled the feathers of his superiors at Company F one time too many. He's offered a choice: Either transfer to Company E, and an isolated post in far west Texas, resign, or be terminated. Knowing he'd be a better fit in the wild, wide-open spaces of the Big Bend anyway, Jim accepts the transfer. He and his family prepare to pack up and move west. Any illusions Jim might have had about crime being...
24965) The open road
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After four years of adventure in the frontier, Win Avery returns to his hometown on the edge of the prairie and tracks down his childhood friend, Jeb Dawson. Jeb has just lost his parents, and, in his efforts to console him, Win convinces his friend to travel west with him to see the frontier before it is settled, while it is still unspoiled wilderness. They embark on a free-spirited adventure, but their journey sidetracks when they befriend Meg Jameson,...
24967) Winter wolves
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"One mans quest to lose himself in the West. Roamers long-planned winter snowshoe trek to the high, lonesome peaks of the Bitterroots takes a hard turn when the big loner of a woodsman finds his mentor, cantankerous mountain man Maple Jack, savaged, terrorized, and raving about the Alooknok, blood-eyed demons who absconded with his cold-weather mate, Winter Woman, a no-nonsense healer and midwife. Its up to Roamer to rescue her. He takes to the trail...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Kathryn Ford knows one thing for sure: she will not marry the boring, arrogant man her father has arranged for her since the day she was born, simply as a pawn to enrich his vast holdings. When she discovers she's been disowned for her defiance, the pampered socialite takes her destiny in her own hands. Determined to show her father what a capable woman she is -- without his help or interference -- she signs up to be a mail-order bride, totally prepared...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Inspirational Romance
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After her fiancé abandons her, Rebecca Hilty finds herself beekeeping in Montana and dreaming of inheriting Caleb Graber's farm. But Caleb's great-nephew and heir, Jacob, wants the land all to himself. Forced to work together, Rebecca and Jacob are determined to prove their worth, until Caleb declares an inheritance requirement that shocks them both! Now Rebecca is faced with an impossible choice--marry Jacob or lose the farm for good"--
24973) Redemption's trail
Author
Series
Trails of the heart volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Newly widowed with her second child due in a few months, Lily Johnson has nowhere to go until Toby Grimes, her late husband's boss, asks her to stay on as housekeeper at his ranch. Remaining in the house Mr. Grimes built for her and her husband is an answered prayer. But malicious gossips see her godsend job as a ruse for a sinful dalliance since her employer is a nice-looking, single man. God and a lot of others turned their backs on Toby during...
Author
Publisher
Magna
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
If the young and beautiful Lady Tradescant didn't try to poison her elderly husband, Sir Seymour, then who did? Antonia Darcy and Major Hugh Payne start their enquiries amid the luxury of Claridge's before visiting a residential home for elderly gentlemen, Mayholme Manor. There, they find a possible answer - one that lies deep in the past - with links to the Nuremberg Trials, and a controversial royal figure said to have saved one of Hitler's henchmen...
24975) The escape game
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her university education on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddingtons game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend, American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Waverly gives up a life of privilege to serve as a Civil War nurse and finds herself up against corruption, opposition and wounded men. This historical novel, inspired by the letters and journals written over 150 years ago by a Civil War nurse, Georgeanna Woolsey, offer a thorough look of what pioneering women nurses endured"--
24977) Always and forever
Author
Series
Bayou dreams volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014,c2013
Language
English
Description
"After a run of lousy luck, Phylicia Phillips is finally close to reclaiming her cherished girlhood home in Louisiana. But before she can buy it back, Jamal Johnson beats her to the punch. The renowned architect plans to completely renovate the old place--and he wants Phylicia to help him! She doesn't trust Jamal, but she's helpless to fight the passion building between them. Hiring the home restoration specialist to help convert the stately Victorian...
24978) Annabel Lee: a Coffey & Hill
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen miles east of Peachtree, Alabama, a secret is hidden. That secret's name is Annabel Lee Truckson, and even she doesn't know why her mysterious uncle has stowed her deep underground in a military-style bunker. He's left her with a few German words, a barely-controlled guard dog, and a single command: "Don't open that door for anybody, you got it? Not even me." Above ground, a former Army sniper called The Mute and an enigmatic "Dr. Smith"...
24979) A château under siege
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The town of Sarlat is staging a reenactment of its liberation from the British in the Hundred Years War when the play's hero, Brice Kerquelin, is stabbed and feared fatally wounded. Bruno is tasked with the safety of his old Silicon Valley buddies, in town for a reunion. One friend, a tycoon in chip fabrication, soon goes missing, and Bruno suspects there may be a link to the French government's efforts to build a chip industry in Europe. Wading...
Author
Series
Danforths of Lancashire volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1916, and while William Danforth is in London during Parliamentary sessions, Lady Elizabeth visits a small Baptist church in Liverpool with her head cook, exposing Elizabeth to a less formal approach to Christian worship which she comes to enjoy.