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Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie lives alone in the mountains of Alaska. Clay is totally focused on his goal of being a missionary like his father-- until he meets a young, independent Indian woman with the most striking blue eyes he's ever seen. Will he be forced to choose between ministering to the natives, and the quiet nudging of his heart?
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Lumber baron's daughters volume 1
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English
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"She mixed danger, desperation, and deception together. Love was not the expected outcome. With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother's unfortunate choice in husband until they discovered his plans to marry each of them off to his lecherous friends. Now they must run away--far and fast--to find better matches to legally claim their portion of their father's lumber dynasty and seize...
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Reluctant prophet volume 3
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Despite the adversaries who threaten those closest to her, Allison Chamberlain finds that she has not gone far enough until she gets the divine nudge to care for a young prostitute and learns to love as God does--no matter what the consequences.
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English
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"After one of her patients is murdered, Dr. Megan Bradley has to get away. Away from the crime she saw but couldn't prevent, and away from missionary Gerard Vance, who almost made her trust in love again. Shaken and scared, Megan flees to the one place she can heal--her small Missouri hometown. She never expected Gerard to follow her ... or for danger to find her again. When they discover a murderer lurks in town, Megan will need strength from Gerard--and...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"With her penchant for seeing the best in everyone, Hope Irvine sees a world full of good people in hard places. When her father accepts a position traveling in a chapel car as an on-the-rail missionary, she is determined to join him in his efforts and put her musical skills to good use by serving the mining families of West Virginia, saving their souls, and bettering their lives. Luke Hughes shares Hope's love of music and her love of God, but as...
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Seasons volume 4
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English
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Sylvia Bryan has been feeling weak and tired, but is shocked when her internist finds a malignant lump in her breast. She and her husband canât understand why God is allowing cancer to attack at a time when their missionary work is going so well. As Sylvia undergoes a mastectomy and chemotherapy, the rest of the neighbors pull together to support her, even while coping with the stress of their own lives. Steve and Cathy experience problems with their...
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Willamette brides volume 3
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English
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"After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology. But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed...
8) Hawaii
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Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 83
Language
English
Description
This epic novel traces the origins and history of the islands of Hawaii, from their volcanic birth, through the first arrivals of humans from Polynesia, followed by European sailors and missionaries, then Chinese and Japanese laborers, to the modern blending of cultures.
10) Horse camp
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
12) Scandalous
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Outcasts volume 3
Language
English
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"Straight-laced missionary Sarah Fisher has never met a man like Captain Martin Bouchard. He is the most beautiful person--male or female--she's ever seen. Overwhelmingly masculine, elegantly attired despite months at sea, he is in complete command of everyone and everything around him--everyone, that is, except Sarah. But that's about to change because Sarah has bought Bouchards mercy with the only thing she has to sell--her body. "None at all ....
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Trailblazer volume 11
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1843, twelve-year-old Perrin joins his aunt and uncle, well-known missionaries Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, in the Oregon Territory where they live with the Nez Perce and Cayuse Indians.
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Trailblazer volume 14
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After coming to China to work as a missionary in the early 1930s, Gladys Aylward adopts several orphans and tries to save nearly a hundred more during the war between China and Japan.
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Sometimes the love we've always wanted is the one we've always had. Singer Ginny Marshall is one signature away from a major recording contract--a dream come true for a girl still struggling to bury memories of the past. Wanting to talk to someone with her best interests in mind, she looks up her former fiance, Brett Miller, in Glacier Bay, Alaska. There, the stunning scenery provides a respite from LA's pressures, and Ginny finds community among...
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English
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"In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives. Because Troy Phelan's new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary living deep in the jungles...
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Women of the West volume 1
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English
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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....
19) Christy
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English
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In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. Christy found her faith severely challenged in these primitive surroundings; and confronted with two young men of unique strength and needs, she found her own growing yearnings...
20) Sweet violet
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Series
English Ivy volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When Violet Rosse's father attempts to send her away from India, where she was born and raised, to England for an arranged marriage, Violet takes matters into her own hands and runs away. Mr. Rosse enlists the help of Edmund Sherbourne to find his wayward daughter and escort her back to England. But by the time Edmund brings Violet back, they are thoroughly irritated and enraptured by each other. Somehow Violet and Edmund must come to terms with their...
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