Books like 'Wanderings'
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Journey To Joy by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the country continues to change and shift, everyone finds themselves on a Journey to Joy.America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone…The discovery of a thief leads Anthony and Carrie down a road they never envisioned. Annie creates a miracle for children with no hope.Felicia goes on a journey that will challenge her beyond anything she could have imagined... -
![Silva Rerum by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė]()
Silva Rerum by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOpowieść o historii, która nie dzieli, lecz łączy.Ta powieść stała się już częścią światowej klasyki.Anno Domini 1666. Dwór w Milkontach na Litwie. Mijają lata, odkąd Jan Maciej Narwojsz schronił się tu z rodziną po najeździe kozackim na Wilno... -
![A Treacherous Engagement: A Regency Romance by Laura Beers]()
A Treacherous Engagement: A Regency Romance by Laura Beers
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe was only supposed to find her sister. Falling in love wasn’t part of the agreement.Miss Dinah Ashmore has a problem. Her sister has gone missing, and the constable isn’t taking it seriously. She decides to take matters into her own hands by hiring a Bow Street Runner, not understanding the danger she has put herself in.Nathaniel Calvert, Earl of Hawthorne, is an agent of the Crown... -
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Austin by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAustin Wagoner is a gunman on the right side of the law. As a deputy, he tracked down some bank robbers and in the following shoot out, his bullet killed Colin Martyn, the brother of Mae Martyn, the girl Austin was in love with. Knowing she would never be able to forgive him, he rides out of her life... -
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![Written on the Wind by Elizabeth Camden]()
Written on the Wind by Elizabeth Camden
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNatalia Blackstone is a rarity in Gilded Age America. As a trusted analyst for her father's bank, she is helping finance the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway. From her office in New York City, Natalia relies on a charming Russian aristocrat to oversee the construction of the railroad on the other side of the world... -
![Courage To Stand by Ginny Dye]()
Courage To Stand by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings#19 in The Bregdan Chronicles by Best-Selling Author, Ginny DyeReview: Best Historical Fiction series I have ever read! Keep them coming! ~ DottiAs the country continues to change and shift, everyone is challenged to find Courage to Stand.America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone…Carrie and Janie face the challenge of a horse plague that sweeps through America... -
![Second Touch by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene]()
Second Touch by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe lepers in the Valley of Makoob hear the rumors--that a miracle healer is now walking the earth. Could this be the hope they have waited an eternity for? The healing they have longed for? While Lily, Cantor, and Rabbi Ahava courageously comfort the dying in the Valley, the leper Jekuthiel risks home and family, even when his baby is about to be born, to find out if the rumors are true... -
![The Christmas Journey by Emma Ashwood]()
The Christmas Journey by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis Christmas Violet needs to find a husband before the orphanage finds one for her.Violet had been an orphan all her life and although she is grateful to the orphanage for their care, she knew she couldn’t stay forever. With her eighteenth birthday looming it was only a matter of time before she was turned out to find her own way... -
![All God's Promises by Vikki Kestell]()
All God's Promises by Vikki Kestell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFaith-Filled Fiction at Its Best! So many unanswered questions.Who am I really? Kari wondered again. I am not Kari Hillyer. Not Kari Granger. They tell me my real name is Kari Thoresen Michaels. But who is that person?She frowned. And where are my sister and brother? Who took them? Where are they now?“Lord, my uncle and my cousins urge me to trust you... -
![I'll Be Seeing You by Robin Lee Hatcher]()
I'll Be Seeing You by Robin Lee Hatcher
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGenerations of secrets unfold as a young college student learns the truth about her great-grandmother’s World War II heartbreak and love.Brianna Hastings’s life seems dull and full of disappointment until a handsome young man visits her church. She’s instantly smitten by the charming Greg, who leads an exciting, independent life—the kind of life she longs for... -
![Adoring the Architect by George H. McVey]()
Adoring the Architect by George H. McVey
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAileen McRae took one look at the handsome man at her brother’s wedding and knows he is the man for her. Only one problem: her brother forbids the man from even talking to her. What’s a woman supposed to do to get courted by the man of her dreams? Break the rules, of course. Sterling McCormick is the most unlucky man in the game of love in all of Creede... -
![Ivy by Kit Morgan]()
Ivy by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIvy Pembrooke has a problem. With her brother gone, she's now the heir to the Pembrooke fortune and estate. That is, if she lives long enough. After over hearing a plot to kill her, she does what any other heiress would do. She makes a run for it... -
![When Stars Fall at Midnight by Tess Thompson]()
When Stars Fall at Midnight by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1921EstelleCast out and alone, I lost everything weeks before my wedding—my betrothed, my family, my future. With nowhere to turn, I accept the help of a compassionate stranger, not knowing it may lead me towards a path I swore never to tread.PercivalAfter my wife succumbed to a psychotic break, I placed her in an asylum, a decision that haunts me as I raise our daughter alone...Categorized as:
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![The Tomb: A Novel of Martha by Stephanie Landsem]()
The Tomb: A Novel of Martha by Stephanie Landsem
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this captivating retelling of a classic biblical story, Jesus shocks the town of Bethany with Lazarus’s resurrection from the dead, leading Martha—a seemingly perfect woman trapped by the secrets of her past—to hope and a new life. Everyone in Bethany admires Martha—the perfect Jewish woman... -
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![No Dukes Need Apply by Gemma Blackwood]()
No Dukes Need Apply by Gemma Blackwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Selina Balfour would make the perfect duchess. But the Duke of Caversham is far from her idea of the perfect husband.Malcolm Locke is everything Selina hates about powerful men – reckless, arrogant, and all too aware of his own chiselled jaw. Which makes it all the more important that Selina’s candidate beats his in the upcoming election. Someone needs to teach the duke to behave... -
![The Rumor by Hannah Miller]()
The Rumor by Hannah Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEli Schrock’s life is pleasant enough. He likes his work as a farrier in his father’s smithy. He likes the girl he’s courting, Rebecca Hochstettler. Yet there is no passion for what he does or where he lives, and part of him yearns to see more of the world and get more of an education than the standard Amish eighth grade.When he meets Susanna Wittmer, though, everything changes... -
![Drawing Mr. Darcy: A Faithful Portrait by Melanie Rachel]()
Drawing Mr. Darcy: A Faithful Portrait by Melanie Rachel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEver since Mr. Bingley and his party arrived at Netherfield, Elizabeth’s pleasant sojourn at Longbourn has been upended. For the first time, drawing someone’s portrait has not been enough to understand his character. Although Elizabeth Bennet Russell has sketched Mr... -
![Wagon Train Matchmaker: Christian historical romance by Linda Ford]()
Wagon Train Matchmaker: Christian historical romance by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom an award-winning author with more than one million books sold, a new series of four heartwarming historical romances about life on the Santa Fe trail. Note: each book can be read as a stand-alone. Mary Mae Clark has learned the hard way not to trust what a man says. Broken promises have made her wary and now she only wants to return to Santa Fe to help her friend Sophia keep her wee son... -
![The Trespasser by Jennifer Spredemann, J.E.B. Spredemann]()
The Trespasser by Jennifer Spredemann, J.E.B. Spredemann
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSingle mother Kayla Johnson embarks on a journey to Pennsylvania in search of her daughter's biological family. But when a storm forces them to turn in to an abandoned home in a small Amish community, Kayla must come to terms with her past disappointments and her distrust in God. Amish widower Silas Miller has always dreamed of owning his own property... -
![Levi's Blessing: Cowboys of Coulee Crossing by Linda Ford]()
Levi's Blessing: Cowboys of Coulee Crossing by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom a fan favorite author with more than one million books sold: Four brothers find love in unexpected places in this western historical series. Levi Hooper is the youngest brother and tired of being ‘the kid.’ No one takes him seriously. Not even the girl he hoped to marry. Zola Minor needed an escape from a controlling relationship. She found one by moving west with her parents... -
![The Brides of Wicklow: Mail Order Bride 5-Book Box Set by Maddie Walker]()
The Brides of Wicklow: Mail Order Bride 5-Book Box Set by Maddie Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet the brave Brides of Wicklow... Seven young women venture West to find love and adventure in 5 Mail Order Bride sweet and inspirational romance stories. Book 1 - The Prospector's Bride Meet Lily Madsen and Etta Oakley who leave their home town of West Ridge, Georgia, when Etta becomes the mail order bride of Jeb Parkhurst, a wealthy prospector in Wicklow, Montana... -
![Angels of the West Collection (15 Book Box Set) by Emma Ashwood]()
Angels of the West Collection (15 Book Box Set) by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLose yourself in these clean romance stories of fifteen brave and beautiful angels who travel West to find love, hope and family. Fifteen courageous young women travel to what they hope will be a better future, but they face many struggles and heartbreak along the way... -
![Finding Faith at Christmas by Emma Ashwood]()
Finding Faith at Christmas by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbigail lost her faith around the same time she lost both her parents, Can she rediscover it as well as true love this Christmas?When Abigail’s father was lost during the civil war, life became even harder for her and her mother. Living in Five Points and working in a factory was not the life she had envisaged for herself. After scarlet fever robbed her of her mother, Abigail had no one... -
![A Valentine's Sorrow by Emma Ashwood]()
A Valentine's Sorrow by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Mary Beth life has been nothing but cruel, becoming a mail-order bride is her last hope. Or would it be another cruel disappointment? After her mother passed, Mary Beth spent her entire childhood taking care of her alcoholic father. His last act as a father was to marry Mary Beth off to the man to whom he was indebted due to his gambling addiction... -
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![Scarred Mail Order Bride and her Lonely Bachelor by Florence Linnington]()
Scarred Mail Order Bride and her Lonely Bachelor by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat can a scarred mail order bride do when she is stranded in the west with no one to get married to? Leanne Robinson has hit rock bottom – her father is gone, her life is in ruins, and she has no hope for the future. Until… she receives a letter from a man in Colorado, inviting her to marry him and live out west. With no other options, she accepts... -
![A Mail Order Bride for the Cattle King and Other Western Bride Stories: Boxed Set by Charlotte Dearing]()
A Mail Order Bride for the Cattle King and Other Western Bride Stories: Boxed Set by Charlotte Dearing
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA three-story collection from Charlotte Dearing, featuring clean, inspirational stories. A Mail Order Bride for the Cattle King Jake Kerr can have anything money can buy. What he wants is a sweet, docile bride. Instead he gets a feisty, stubborn girl who vows to tame his rawhide heart. A Bride for the Texas Ranger Levi Calhoun never met a more exasperating woman than the lovely Pearl... -
![Falling for the Cowgirl by Jody Hedlund]()
Falling for the Cowgirl by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the only girl in her family, and with four older brothers, Ivy McQuaid can rope and ride with the roughest of ranchers. She's ready to have what she's always longed for--a home of her own. She's set her heart on a parcel of land south of Fairplay and is saving for it with her winnings from the cowhand competitions she sneaks into... -
![Silver Creek by G.L. Snodgrass]()
Silver Creek by G.L. Snodgrass
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll alone, her uncle killed, their ranch stolen, Rebecca Johnson turns to the only person she can trust. Luke Parker. But, their childhood friendship was a lifetime ago. Would he come? And could he save her uncle’s dreams? Her home? Four years of war have hardened Luke Parker’s heart. But a plea for help from the girl he thought he’d lost might be his only hope of redemption... -
![Glory and the Rawhide Preacher by Linda Ford]()
Glory and the Rawhide Preacher by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLevi and God have a deal: Levi will devote his life to preaching and reaching people with God's word, and God will bring Levi's outlaw brother Matt back into the fold. It sounded easy enough at first, until Levi rode into Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and straight into the path of britches-wearing, horse-riding, independent Glory Hamilton... -
![Tanner by Cheryl St. John]()
Tanner by Cheryl St. John
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's focused on the future...The past is all she knows.Together they're forced to face today. His months in Salisbury prison taught Union Captain Tanner Bell to detest a southern drawl, and Widow Cranford's exaggerated Dixie twang has him gritting his teeth. His plans for a ranch are threatened when his orphaned newborn niece is delivered to him, and he desperately needs her help...Categorized as:
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![Keeping Her Billionaire Cowboy CEO by April Murdock]()
Keeping Her Billionaire Cowboy CEO by April Murdock
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs new CEO of Bolton Farms, Adam Tucker is in his element. Running a billion-dollar corporation is what he was meant to do. He’s been working to make it to this point his whole career and he knows this business inside and out.Faye Wilson loves life on a ranch. She's anything but a city girl. She isn’t impressed by any man who can’t hold his own on a horse, either... -
![Saving Her Billionaire Cowboy Hero by April Murdock, Josephine Blake]()
Saving Her Billionaire Cowboy Hero by April Murdock, Josephine Blake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDakota Johnson has a bit of a chip on her shoulder. Her true calling is working with horses but not in a way an old school veterinarian might hold in high regard. She’s often accused of not being a “real” vet.Brady Shipley owns Hickory Hollow Ranch with his brother. They’d worked hard, made good decisions, and it had all paid off. In a huge way... -
![RNWMP: Bride for Calvin by Amelia C. Adams]()
RNWMP: Bride for Calvin by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFaith Hansen is eager to head into the wilderness and take up residence at Reindeer Rock as the new wife of a Mountie. She can't imagine anything better than the chance to meet new people and learn about their ways... -
![Captivating the Carpenter by Sara Jolene]()
Captivating the Carpenter by Sara Jolene
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fiercely independent Kara Dobbs lives a privileged life in the heart of New York City, but that privilege comes with a price. When tragedy strikes, she takes her sister and they flee New York. They go west to hide as far from their pasts as possible... -
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![Capturing the Cook by Kirsten Osbourne]()
Capturing the Cook by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen eighteen-year-old Ashleigh Steepleton loses her parents, she has nowhere to turn but to her male cousins, whom she has always looked to as brothers. She goes along with her cousins’ plan to move to California, hoping that life will be better there as her cousins believe it will be... -
![Trusting the Tycoon by Marianne Spitzer]()
Trusting the Tycoon by Marianne Spitzer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDelia Warrington ran from New York and the prospect of marrying her stepmother’s insufferable brother. Delia ran without understanding why except she trusted the young maid who warned her for reasons Delia couldn’t explain. Wesley Satterfield left New York to scout out new business opportunities for his father’s business empire... -
![Hannah's Home by Pamela M. Kelley]()
Hannah's Home by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHannah Keane is tired of being on the road. She's eager to move home to Quinn Valley and live a quiet life, writing music and teaching workshops and classes at the local kids' center. But there's also another reason she doesn't want anyone, especially the media, to know where she is... -
![A Promised Tomorrow by Sylvia Price]()
A Promised Tomorrow by Sylvia Price
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Yoder Family Saga follows widow Miriam Yoder and her four unmarried daughters, Megan, Rebecca, Josephine, and Lillian, as they discover God’s plans for them and the hope He provides for a happy tomorrow. The Yoder women struggle to survive after Jeremiah Yoder succumbs to a battle with cancer. The family risks losing their farm and their livelihood... -
![The Wayward Heart by Nerys Leigh]()
The Wayward Heart by Nerys Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA heart isn't always the best thing to follow.Lizzy Cotton dreams of excitement, adventure, and falling madly in love with a cowboy, and she knows she's perfect to be a cattle rancher's mail order bride.But dreams don't always turn out as planned... -
![A Winter Chase by Mary Kingswood]()
A Winter Chase by Mary Kingswood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle.Julia Fletcher is the unimportant daughter of the Fletcher family, with neither beauty nor wit nor accomplishments, but always in a scrape. Somehow she never manages to get through the day without breaking or spilling or tearing something...Categorized as:
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![Comfort and Joy by Anngela Schroeder]()
Comfort and Joy by Anngela Schroeder
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhile visiting Lambton with the Gardiners three weeks after Mr. Bingley has vacated Netherfield Park, Elizabeth Bennet takes her two young cousins Victoria and Emily and their swooning friend Katie Joy Harris on a holiday ramble through the Derbyshire countryside... -
![The Well by Stephanie Landsem]()
The Well by Stephanie Landsem
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the rich tradition of Francine Rivers’s Lineage of Grace series, comes a beautiful retelling of the biblical story of the woman at the well—bringing to life this poignant young woman struggling to survive love and heartbreak... -
![The Family of Jesus by Karen Kingsbury]()
The Family of Jesus by Karen Kingsbury
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAmerica’s favorite inspirational novelist offers a fictional view of six of the family members of Jesus, all anchored by Scriptural truth, creating a life-changing and unprecedented emotional connection to the Bible.Through The Family of Jesus, readers will develop an emotional connection to the family members of Jesus, learning about their lives and falling in love with Scripture along the way... -
![A Penny Shines by Kari Trumbo]()
A Penny Shines by Kari Trumbo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPenny Hanover had everything a girl in 1892 could want; a good job, a handsome man, and a ring as a promise. A normal night at the sweet shop turns terrifying as a gunman and a single shot rips her world apart. Penny wakes to find she can’t remember that day…or the love of her life. Josiah Williams has a big secret and the residents of Cutter’s Creek love to speculate... -
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![Elli Mail Order Brides of Trace Hollow Book 1 by Cj Samuels]()
Elli Mail Order Brides of Trace Hollow Book 1 by Cj Samuels
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinchester, Ohio -- Elli Gray wants a family to call her own. Her life at the orphanage is coming to an end. The pastor and his wife have a solution. Elli agrees to travel to Trace Hollow as a mail-order bride to a man they have picked... -
![The Purchased Bride: Montana Sky Series by Kit Morgan]()
The Purchased Bride: Montana Sky Series by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJess Jones was tired of being compared to his father, Ryder. So when his cousin Anson invited him to come to Morgan’s Crossing in the Montana Territory to help with his horse ranch, he jumped at the chance. But life in Morgan’s Crossing was different than that of his home in Clear Creek, Oregon, and he began to wonder if he’d made the right choice... -
![Mail Order Bride's Baby And Her Mismatched Rancher by Florence Linnington]()
Mail Order Bride's Baby And Her Mismatched Rancher by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mail order bride with a baby mismatched to a rancher with no interest in children… Abbie Hustley thinks her future is secure when she becomes a mail order bride for a rancher in the west. There will be no more singing in saloons, no more late nights. Sam Sayler has everything he wants, a ranch of his own, loyal ranch hands, and a life under the wide Colorado skies. All he needs now, is a wife... -
![Becoming a Family by Annie Boone, Cutter's Creek]()
Becoming a Family by Annie Boone, Cutter's Creek
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpecial launch price of 99 cents! Price will increase to $2.99 soon! Jemma Braithewaite is dealing with tragedy, injury, and a desire for a different life. She's forced to make a heartbreaking journey to The Idaho Territory to bring her orphaned niece and nephew home. Just when she needs a friend the most, God puts Janine Hewitt in her life... -
![RNWMP: Bride for Wesley by Kirsten Osbourne]()
RNWMP: Bride for Wesley by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLisa Allen has spent her entire life being different, and being different was perfectly fine with her as long as her two best friends were at her side. But now both of her friends have gone West to marry Mounties, leaving Lisa without their constant companionship... -
![The Rancher’s Second Chance Bride by Maya Stirling]()
The Rancher’s Second Chance Bride by Maya Stirling
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Reunion Leads to a Test of Faith and Love 1875 Former sweetheart to a rancher, Honora MacLeish suffers a terrible tragedy and returns to the ranch where she grew up. She aims to renew her life and find healing with the help of her faith and the kindness of her relatives...
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