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Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Quaker Hannah Sunderland must decide whether to help her imprisoned twin brother, disobeying those she loves--and abandon a bedrock of her faith--by gaining access to the men in prison, whom a spy ring led by Jeremiah Jones is seeking to free.
Author
Series
Quaker Café volume 1
Publisher
Lake Union Pub
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A free-spirited liberal marries into a conservative Quaker family and comes upon secrets from the past that threaten to destroy the racial harmony in the town.
8) Blessing
Author
Series
Quaker brides volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
United by a common foe Blessing Brightman and Gerard Ramsay are drawn together by an attraction neither can deny. Can two people worlds apart find love?
9) Honor
Author
Series
Quaker brides volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Honor Penworthy finds herself wedded through an arranged marriage to a hearing impaired man. As she becomes involved with the Underground Railroad Samuel must decide whether to support Honor in this pursuit.
Author
Series
Quaker Café volume 2
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
After a betrayal ends in tragedy, Katy seeks refuge from her abusive husband, Hank, in her quiet hometown of Cedar Branch, North Carolina. Taking up residence on the old family farm and landing a job at the local Quaker Café, she hopes to leave her troubled past behind.
11) Centaur rising
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
14) Anna's boy
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anthony Wolff recalls the fear that paralyzed his prosperous, postwar prairie town after the savage murder of two boys. When Anthony’s parents hurry their son away to the safety of a Quaker boarding school, he meets Steve Booth, an inquisitive fifteen-year-old who stumbles on a connection between the murders and an illustrious alumnus of the school. By term’s end, Anthony has become known to the killer.
Author
Series
Forever freedom volume 1
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As tensions between North and South simmer over slavery, Sheriff Clay Dalton's path collides with a plainspoken yet passionate young abolitionist named Rebecca Albright, and the two find themselves propelled on a journey to discover just who God has called them to be, soon realizing that each holds a key to the other's answer. --Publisher
Author
Series
Quaker midwife mystery volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders leave her fearing for the well-being of her loved ones.
18) Life goes on
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a prominent citizen's arrest for larceny, lawyer-turned-coffee shop owner Deena pursues a relationship with a visiting doctor, while Delores becomes fed up with her know-it-all husband and his crackpot ministry schemes.
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. "Is nothing on this island as it appears to be?" he whispers in despair.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Amateur astronomer Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised. Then she meets Isaac Martin, a young, dark-skinned whaler from the Azores who, like herself, has ambitions beyond his expected station in life. Drawn to his intellectual curiosity and honest manner, Hannah agrees to take Isaac on as a student. But when their shared interest in the...
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