Books like 'Collected Poems 1945-1990'
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The First Lady of Three Rivers Ranch by Liz Isaacson, Elana Johnson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRead how it all started at Three Rivers Ranch in this bonus prequel novel that features Frank Ackerman and Heidi Duffin. Heidi Duffin has been dreaming about opening her own bakery since she was thirteen years old. She scrimped and saved for years to afford baking and pastry school in San Francisco. And now she only has one year left before she's a certified pastry chef... -
Luz En Sion by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 4 in The Zion Chronicles series. Set in April 1948 on the eve of the British evacuation of Palestine... -
The Key to Zion by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe fifth book in THE ZION CHRONICLES, The Key to Zion opens with the British in the final stages of their military evacuation from Palestine. Haj Amin Husseini and the Arab Palestinians have been impatiently awaiting this day, but their power has gradually eroded... -
Tabitha by Vikki Kestell
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTabitha : Girls from the Mountain | Book 1 Available November 2, 2015. From the author of the groundbreaking series, A Prairie Heritage , comes the compelling story of fiery-haired, fiery-tempered Tabitha Hale. Rescued from a life of depravity, Tabitha gives her heart to God and her life to nursing... -
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Crane's Bride by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom a fan favorite author with more than one million books sold, a heartwarming inspirational romance set in beautiful Wild Rose Country: Preparing to travel west to begin a new life, Byler Crane has thought of everything. Everything, that is, except a wife. An impromptu ad placed in the local mercantile brings Maggie Malone into his life--and a whole lot more than he bargained for...Categorized as:
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The Man Born to Be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this popular play-cycle, Sayers makes the Gospels come alive. "Her Jesus can bring tears to your eyes. You will be deeply moved--a powerful experience".--Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy... -
Seasons of the Heart/Four Complete Novels in One Book by Janette Oke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJanette Oke, with over 11 million copies of her books in print, writes with a special feeling about her characters and their time. This heartwarming collection of four novels is a wonderful series of stories about an American family on the prairies of yesterday... -
Under the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTayler Hale is ahead of her time as one of the first women naturalists. She has always loved adventure and the great outdoors, and her remote job location also helps keep her away from the clutches of the man to whom she once made a foolish promise. It seems she must keep running, however, and in secret, her boss from Yellowstone arranges for a new job . . . in Alaska... -
Endless Mercy by Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMadysen Powell has always been a forgiving person, but when her supposedly dead father shows up in Nome, Alaska, her gift for forgiveness is tested. With the recent loss of her mother, she searches for answers, leaning on Granny Beaufort, a neighbor in town, who listens with a kind heart. Still, Madysen is restless and dreams of performing her music around the world...Categorized as:
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A Gilded Lady by Elizabeth Camden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCaroline Delacroix is at the pinnacle of Washington high society in her role as secretary to the first lady of the United States. But beneath the faade of her beauty, glamorous wardrobe, and dazzling personality, she's hiding a terrible secret. If she cannot untangle a web of foreign espionage, her brother will face execution for treason... -
The ThornBearer by Pepper Basham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAshley Dougall has a terminal disease and forgiveness is the only cure. Ashley Dougall’s father stole her innocence, her selfish fiancé stole her heart, and unforgiveness is slowly stealing her life. Drawn by the desire to help others, she tries to escape haunting memories and enlists her services as a nurse in war-torn Europe... -
Half-Deaf Mail Order Bride and her Heartfelt Pastor by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a mere letter from the west be a ticket out of poverty and to love for a… half-deaf mail order bride?Elizabeth Quinn has had to bury her mother and is about to lose her home when a letter from a stranger offers her a way out of poverty: move out west to marry a man she has never met... -
Friends and Enemies by Terri Wangard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChristian Historical Romance set in World War 2 In 1943, widowed seamstress Heidi Wetzel finds new meaning in life by caring for evacuated children on a rural farm in war-torn western Germany. Never a supporter of National Socialism, she takes pleasure in passive resistance, but must exercise caution around neighbors who delight in reporting to the Gestapo... -
Cowboy Bodyguard by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom a fan favorite author with more than one million books sold, a heartwarming inspirational romance set in beautiful Wild Rose Country: Clay Fisher had a reputation as a fast gun, and it cost him his wife and unborn child. Now he only wants to forget the past. If only the past would forget him. Spinster Birdie Howe spent her courting years caring for her ailing mother... -
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The Best of Intentions by Susan Anne Mason
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the aftermath of WWI, Grace Abernathy is determined to reunite with her family, crossing an ocean to convince her widowed sister to return home to England. Yet Toronto holds more tragedy and her nephew Christian is now in the custody of his paternal relatives, the formidable Easton family, who rejected Grace's sister because of her low social status... -
Glamorous Powers by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an Anglo-Catholic monk. In 1940 Darrow returns to the world he once renounced, but faced with many unforeseen temptations he fails to control his psychic, most glamorous powers... -
Wise Words: Family Stories That Bring the Proverbs to Life by Peter J. Leithart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the tradition of Grimm's fairytales, Peter Leithart has produced a wonderful collection of whimsical, yet meaningful, bedtime stories. The characters in each story are as varied as the biblical proverbs they reveal. Meet a chatty squirrel with a secret, or find out what happens when you run up against the Ministry of Nasty Smells... -
A Quilt for Jenna by Patrick E. Craig
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJerusha Springer has spent months making the most beautiful quilt anyone in Apple Creek, Ohio has ever seen, and she knows it is going to take first prize at the Quilt Fair in Dalton. The prize money will be her ticket out of the Amish way of life—away from the memories of Jenna, the daughter she lost a year ago and Reuben, her tormented husband, who has been missing since Jenna’s death... -
Hope by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHope Sanders is a no-nonsense girl who believes her straight-shooting ways will keep her single for the rest of her life. She has a fast-paced job, working for the only doctor in Nowhere, Texas. When her doctor’s nephew comes to apprentice with her, she is immediately frustrated, because they see things so very differently. Stephen Bennett has a great deal of compassion for others... -
Mail Order Bride Box Set - Sun River Brides - 9 Mail Order Brides Story Collection: Clean and Wholesome Historical Western Romance Box Set Bundle by Karla Gracey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLimited time offer, 9 Mail Order Bride Romances, sweet, clean & inspirational just 0.99 Come along for the ride to meet feisty Boston city girls who know what they want, and rugged Montana men who just need to be loved. It's 1900, and things are changing fast in sleepy Sun River. As the town begins to expand, its inhabitants are getting restless, looking for love and adventure... -
Dorothy by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDorothy Sanders absolutely adores her life in Nowhere, Texas with her sisters and their devoted, eccentric adoptive parents. When she is hired by a young lawyer to do his bookkeeping, she is immediately drawn to his sharp intellect and good looks. Carter Reeves simply wanted a girl to help out with his filing for the summer... -
The Paris Housekeeper by Renee Ryan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of The Secret Society of Salzburg comes a powerful and moving story of bravery and resilience in World War II Paris, and one woman who must face impossible choices to survive…Paris, 1940German tanks rumble through the streets of Paris, forcing frightened citizens to flee. But not everyone has the luxury to leave... -
A Worthy Heart by Susan Anne Mason
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan an Irish Lass with a Dreamfor America Find True Love? Maggie Montgomery's long-held wish to see America is finally coming true. She'll visit her beloved brother Rylan and his wife, Colleen, and at the same time, escape Neill Fitzgerald's unwanted attention. In addition, Maggie has a secret! She plans to remain in America to seek her fortune and to hopefully find love... -
Cross My Heart by Robin Lee Hatcher
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo broken paths lead toward God’s redemption in the next installment of Robin Lee Hatcher’s Legacy of Faith series. Ashley Showalter and Ben Henning have so much in common. Both were raised by single moms. Both want to help where they see a need. And both work with horses in the Idaho valley... -
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Ultimate Prizes by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe third in Susan Howatch's Church of England novels, ULTIMATE PRIZES begins in 1942 with the world at war, as narrator and archdeacon Nevill Aysgarth finds himself falling into a hopeless obsession over Dido Tallent, beautiful celebrity, and finds himself pursuing her through a swamp of guilt and the destruction of his valued moral compass....From the Paperback edition... -
Scandalous Risks by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1963, when traditional values are coming under attack, a young woman in her twenties, Venetia Flaxton, becomes disastrously involved with her best friend's father, the powerful, dynamic but ultimately mysterious Dean of Starbridge Cathedral. Yet, as a married man and a senior Churchman, Aysgarth has nothing to offer her but an admiration which spirals out of control into an obsessive love... -
Carved in Stone by Elizabeth Camden
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGwen Kellerman is an heiress to the infamous Blackstone family, whose history of scandal nearly destroyed her. She now lives a quiet life at the idyllic college founded with her family's fortune and hopes to keep the tragedies of her past safely behind her.Patrick O'Neill survived a hardscrabble youth to become a lawyer for the downtrodden Irish immigrants in his community... -
The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions, and other photos, including a portrait photo of Esenin and his wife Isadora Duncan, American dancer (v. 2, p. [7])... -
A Dare and a Prayer by Julie Lessman
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s a hotshot who takes up a dare.She’s an aspiring missionary who wants to beware.But will love become a gamble with a dare and a prayer?Lieutenant Henry Dennehy is a cocky and carefree fighter pilot in the Pacific Theatre of WW2, known for scoring big, both in the sky and on land... -
A Hope and a Prayer by Julie Lessman
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s in love with her best friend.He’s in love with her cousin.But when the war reveals a gift so rare, will they be saved by a hope and a prayer?As Head Nurse at 2d Hospital in Nancy, France, Lieutenant Hope Dennehy is known for her healing touch, especially when it comes to mending the wounds and spirit of her best friend, Lieutenant Bren O’Neill... -
Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home... -
Pregnant Mail Order Bride And Her Troubled Rancher (A Western Historical Romance Book) (Evergreen Frontier) by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mail order bride who refuses to give in to despair heads further down the pit of despair.Annabelle Buckley suddenly finds herself widowed after the passing of her villainous, abusive husband.She’s free from abuse. But she’s unwanted.When a weaker woman might have given up, Annabelle decides to do the unimaginable. Be a mail order bride.But what decent man would want her? A man who needs help... -
Abbie Ann by Sharlene MacLaren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbbie Ann Kane, the youngest of Jacob Kane's three daughters, is a busy woman. Between running the Whatnot, the family's general store, being active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and assisting the elderly citizens of Sandy Shores, Michigan, she has little time for frivolous matters. And those include matters of the heart... -
Sarah Jane by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSarah Jane Jefferson never felt like she was important to anyone. Just one of the fifteen orphaned girls Edna Petunia Sanders adopted, she spent her days working in an orphanage. She had no real talent other than cooking, but she knew how to love. Needing someone to play Santa Claus for the orphans' Christmas party, she approached the handsome young pastor, Micah Barton, the new man in town... -
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Hester on the Run by Linda Byler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket... -
A Picture of Hope by Liz Tolsma
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Photojournalist Risks Her Life to Save ChildrenFull of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this new series celebrates the unsung heroes—the heroines of WWII. Journalist Nellie Wilkerson has spent the bulk of the war in London, photographing pilots taking off and landing—and she’s bored. She jumps at the chance to go to France, where the Allied forces recently landed... -
A Touch of Scarlet by Renee Ryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNever was there a more charmed debutante than the impeccable Elizabeth St. James. Her sterling reputation makes her a favored guest in the most exclusive homes in New York City. But behind the gilded curtain of turn-of-the-century society, Elizabeth despises being her mother’s perfect “specimen” and refuses to forgive the woman for her treacherous family betrayal... -
Mail Order Husband Frank by Rose Jenster
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCharlotte grew up in New York and was always been fascinated by the penny novels about the wild west. She sacrificed a great deal for her family after her father's death and wanted to take a chance to find love out west before it was too late. Charlotte wrote her former teacher for advice since she herself moved to Montana after answering a mail order bride advertisement...Categorized as:
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The Lady of Tarpon Springs by Judith McCoy Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMuch to the dismay of her Greek family, Zanna Krykos makes a living as a lawyer in Tarpon Springs, Florida. When her friend Lucy needs legal advice about the business she inherited upon her father's passing, she ends up asking Zanna to run the business instead so she can focus on her medical career...Categorized as:
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Collected Poems by Primo Levi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoems deal with the experiences of concentration camp prisoners, and nature, science, and... -
A Spider Thread by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLet us suppose the Buddha Sakyamuni was taking a morning stroll in paradise one day and happened by a lotus pond whence the flowers shone brilliant white as jewels, their golden centers effusing an ineffable perfume everywhere thereabouts... -
One Night With a Rock Star by Chana Keefer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGood, Country-bred girl meets the Rock Star of her dreams and worlds collide.For Esther Collins, struggling journalism student and mediocre print model, international singing star Sky has been the ultimate male since she sported frizzy hair, braces and too-skinny legs. She has dreamed of meeting this icon countless times. But life has a way of happening when you least expect it.. -
Bamboo & Lace by Lori Wick
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBestselling author Lori Wick sails readers to an exotic island1/4and an intriguing romance.Lily Walsh has spent all of her 24 years as a missionary's daughter on the Asian island of Kashien. Isolated from the western world, she devours the letters she receives from her brother in Hawaii. When her father reluctantly allows Lily to visit Jeff, she is thrilled-until he is called away...Categorized as:
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Spies & Sweethearts by Linda Shenton Matchett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA secret mission. A fake bride. A run for their lives.According to the OSS training manual, the life expectancy of a radio operator in Nazi-occupied France is six weeks. Partnered with one of the agency’s top spies, Gerard Lucas, newly-minted agent Emily Strealer plans to beat those odds. Then their cover is blown and all bets are off...Categorized as:
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Band of Sisters by Cathy Gohlke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMaureen O'Reilly and her younger sister flee Ireland in hope of claiming the life promised to their father over twenty years before. After surviving the rigors of Ellis Island, Maureen learns that their benefactor, Colonel Wakefield, has died. His family, refusing to own his Civil War debt, casts her out... -
The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeftly combining the sacred and the profane—the unmistakable hallmark of her fiction over the past decade—Susan Howatch gives us a spellbinding, suspenseful and psychologically intense new novel. The financial heart of London—the City—is an adrenaline-charged square mile deep in recession in the 1990s, a place where sex is just another commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace... -
The Song by Calvin Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Singer quickly became a favorite of evangelists, pastors, artists, students, teachers and readers of all sorts when it was originally published in 1975... -
The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHome is where your people are. But who are your people?Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia, where she and her family are the only white people she knows. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964.Adelaide promises she'll return to Ethiopia and become part of the village for good...Categorized as:
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