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In 1888 Mary Edwards Gerritse is a witty and confident young woman who spends as much time as possible outdoors on the rugged Oregon coast where she and her husband, John, have settled. The two are a formidable pair who are working hard to prove their homesteading claim and build a family. But as Mary faces struggles of young motherhood and questions about her family of origin, she realizes that life is far from the adventure she imagined it would be.

In the hills of Tennessee, two women work at a Manhattan Project site during World War II and uncover truths that irrevocably change their lives in this captivating new story from award-winning Southern fiction author Michelle Shocklee.

In Warrior Woman, acclaimed Christian author Summer Lee unfurls a standalone adventure romance that expands Biblical history into a fantasy of epic proportions. Achsah, a young woman, is assigned the divine mission of saving her people from the most evil giant of all. When the adventure begins, Achsah is chosen as official lookout for all of Israel. Her job is to alert her father, a military chief, when she sees the enemy coming.

Books one through three in the Texas Women of Spirit series. Clean Christian fiction set in 1890s Texas. Zillia Bright never dreamed she’d be orphaned at 16 and left to care for her baby brother and Papa’s farm. With only a mule and a 100-year-old shotgun, she must fight to protect what's hers. Countless dangers lurk on the Bastrop, Texas, riverside. Zillia must rely on the help of her best friends, Soonie and Wylder, to hold her world together. With Zillia’s struggles come unexpected miracles, and proof that God might just listen to the prayers of a river girl.

Married less than a week, Delicious (Delly) Williams, watches her new husband die, leaving her to raise his five children under the age of 13. He also left her a deed to property in Oregon. His dying wish: for Delly to get the deed and the children to his brother in order for them to be protected. Zeke Williams wants to marry Delly in order to keep her safe. Another marriage is the last thing Delly wants. Can these two come together and forge a love and a new life in an untamed land?

The Civil War took everything from Ruth Stallings except for her grandmother and sisters. Now without a home or funds, they take the White River as far as it will go and end up in Painted Bluff, Arkansas, a town populated mostly by men out looking for a wife. Sheriff John Powell wants nothing to do with the pretty women or the trouble they bring, especially when a gang of marauders show up looking for Ruth. Can Ruth and John overcome their differences and find love?

Broadview is attired for Christmas. Garland encircles the front pillars. Wreaths grace the doors. Candles glow in the windows. And bangles sparkle on the tree. Rather than travel to Europe or perform in a grand city or entertain dignitaries in her ballroom, Adelaide is hosting two dear young girls in Broadview. These youngsters declined a Colorado Christmas in lieu of spending the holiday with their Auntie Addie. Unmarried and childless, she must give these girls a Christmas like no other.

Beside every beloved prophet, there is a strong, incredible woman that works and sacrifices alongside her husband. Meet Abi, the brilliant, capable wife of Alma the Younger, and experience the events of the Book of Mormon through her unique lens as a wife and mother. From Korihor’s trial to the war with Amlici, “ABI” allows you to see and feel your favorite stories of the scriptures through the eyes of the families and heroines you never knew.

Pennsylvania, 1940s. The only life Brighton Friedrich has ever known is the one she has endured within the dreary walls of Riverside Home—the rural asylum where she was born. A nurse, Joann, has educated and raised Brighton, whose mother is a patient at the hospital. But Joann has also kept vital information from Brighton—secrets that if ever revealed would illuminate Brighton’s troubling past and the circumstances that confine her to Riverside.

Esta historia fue inspirada en una amplia recopilación de pasajes de la biblia sobre la vida de María Magdalena, donde cada uno de estos pasajes aporta de manera acústica a esta hermosa historia de renovación para el alma; desde sus inicios como una mujer pecadora hasta su transformación al camino de Dios.

Listen to the fictionalized account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie from 1868 to 1888. This historical fiction is based on the actual Swedish woman who homesteaded the author's childhood home and is the first of the four book Butter in the Well series.