Women Of The West
1 primary work • 12 total works
Book 11
A Janette Oke Classics for Girls book. First-time schoolteacher Ariana is abducted and taken to an outlaw camp far from her home. As her confinement stretches into weeks, Ariana learns little of her captors. But the one man assigned to her care doesnbt seem to share the temperament of his violent cohorts. He may be Arianabs only chance for escape.
Responding to an advertisement, Kathleen O'Malley crossed the sea to become a stranger's mail-order bride.
Abused by an alcoholic father, Damaris Withers plans her escape in hopes of starting a new life.
After struggling for years, denying herself basic necessities, to supply the funds to send her daughter to a proper boarding school, Sarah Perry is delighted to finally have Rebecca home, but she soon discovers that a vast distance lies between them.
A young Indian girl must choose between the old ways of her people, the man she loves, and the white man's religion. A Women of the West book.
The only thing she has left is her faith in God...Is it enough? With the closing of the Calder Springs' timber mill, most of the town's residents are left unemployed. Several families, realizing the lack of a future in the small mountain town, soon decide to relocate. But not the Harrigan family. Although John has lost his job at the mill, he and his wife, Julia, make the decision to stay in their beautiful home with their twin daughters. Eastern-educated Julia searches for a way to bring business and people back to Calder Springs--a task she feels God leading her to accomplish. Will her faith and determination carry her through the challenges and setbacks she'll face?
Overshadowed by the vivacious and outgoing Glenna, dependable and serious Berta must come to terms with her relationship with her sister and her feelings of being plain and ordinary.
The story of a young Bible college student who feels God's call to start a church on her own.
Anna Trent, the oldest child in a family of six brothers, finds it difficult to overcome her feelings of inadequacy.
As the daughter of a successful Montreal physician, Cassandra Dell Winston is used to city life, so when she falls in love with a conscientious young doctor who intends to practice in his hometown on the frontier, she can only hope that life out west will prove to be temporary.
The Petersons moved west in hopes of improving Mrs. Peterson's health, but when it is clear she has only months to live, Angela, fourteen, knows that the other children will become her responsibility.