Janette Oke
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Series
When hope calls volume 1
Language
English
Description
As a young girl, Lillian Walsh lost both her parents and a younger sister. Now in her twenties, after enduring the death of her adoptive mother, Lillian must find her place in the world. Just as her adoptive father is leaving for an extended trip to his native Wales, a lawyer appears at the door to inform Lillian that she has inherited a small estate from her birth parents--and that the sister she had long believed dead is likely alive. When she discovers...
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Canadian West volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Janette Oke's beloved story of a young teacher moving west finds the newly married Elizabeth carving out a new life. Canadian West book 2.
Author
Series
Canadian West volume 1
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care. She's just as determined not to give her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Until...
Author
Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After teaching in a 1920s mining town in western Canada, Beth Thatcher no longer feels at home among her wealthy family in the East, and her heart is torn between two very different worlds.-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
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...
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Series
When hope calls volume 2
Language
English
Description
So much has been accomplished. Lillian Walsh has stepped out courageously beyond what she'd ever dreamed of being able to achieve. She and her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, have settled three children from England into new Canadian homes and are prepared to place two more just after the New Year, when it happens--another painful disruption. A white lie the sisters used to protect some orphans has resulted in an official complaint and a letter...
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Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 7
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Beth Thatcher has spent her entire life in the safe, comfortable world of her family, her friends, and the social outings her father's wealth provides. Now she is about to leave it all behind to accept a teaching position in the rugged foothills of western Canada, resolved to put her trust in God and bravely face any challenges that come her way. But the conditions in Coal Valley are even worse than Beth had feared. And as she works to make a difference...
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Series
Prairie legacy volume 1
Language
English
Description
A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny.
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Song of Acadia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Learning of their beloved father's precariously ill health, Anne and Nicole make separate plans to visit him in Georgetown, in spite of the dangerous instability of the times. Nicole travels from Massachussetts with her fiancé, while Anne and her husband must brave an arduous transatlantic crossing from England. But the hazards of travel are not to be compared to the events or struggles with which each of these "sisters of the heart" must ultimately...
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Series
Women of the West volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Donnigan, who dreams of having a wife and helpmate, lives on the western frontier, while Kathleen, who yearns for adventure, lives thousands of miles away, but their love develops through letters.
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Series
Women of the West volume 5
Language
English
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Description
There had never been a reason to think of any other life...until he walked into hers. The only daughter of a noted Montreal physician and educator, Cassandra Dell Winston enjoys all the opportunities of Eastern society and affluence. She has never dreamed of any other life. Then a serious and conscientious young doctor begins coming to dinner, turning her world upside down. As Mrs. Samuel Smith, Cassandra agrees to move with her husband to the frontier....
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Love comes softly volume 5
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English
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Description
Home! I want to get home! Although Marty had enjoyed her stay with Missie at her ranch out West, the tragic accident that cost Clark his leg had extended their visit to nearly a year. Now she and Clark are eager to go home to the rest of their family and their farm. In Marty's absence, the family has grown in maturity and independence. Luke, the "baby of the family," is studying to become a doctor. Ellie has blossomed into a lovely and capable young...
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Series
Women of the West volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
With the closing of the Calder Springs' timber mill, most of the town's residents are left unemployed. Several families, realizing the lack of a future in the small mountain town, soon decide to relocate. But not the Harrigan family. Although John has lost his job at the mill, he and his wife, Julia, make the decision to stay in their beautiful home with their twin daughters. Eastern-educated Julia searches for a way to bring business and people back...
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Series
Song of Acadia volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In 1753, the French settlers named the region Acadia, or 'beloved home'. The British arrived and fought with the French, and both settled in Acadia, rarely speaking to anyone from the other side. Then there was a chance encounter in a meadow of wildflowers.
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Series
Canadian West volume 4
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated when the local Indian women are afraid to even communicate with her. The Delaney's thought they had already faced the most crushing disappointment of their lives when they saw little Sammy disappear from view in the arms of his father. Would they be able to survive the...
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Series
Women of the West volume 1
Language
English
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Description
She feels God nudging her toward ministry, but what options are there for a young single woman? Emily Evans has a hard time getting herself to class on time, much less figuring out God's will for her life. Then, to her surprise, she feels that God is calling her into fulltime Christian service. She expects the Lord will also provide her with a companion to share her life and ministry, but Emily does not want to marry any of the available young men....
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Series
Seasons of the heart volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Josh faces questions about life, love, and God.
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Series
Prairie legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Virginia Simpson's faith is tested when troubles come her way at the end of her time in college, including the medical problems that complicate her sister's first delivery and the Dear Jane letter she receives from her boyfriend.
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Series
Canadian West volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Henry--a Canadian Mountie like his father--struggles between the call of duty and the call of his heart. When he informs a young logger's wife of her husband's death, the memory of that loss haunts him for years. Assigned to a new beat five years later, he rediscovers Amber and gains her trust ... and eventually her heart.