18 books like The Cumberland Bride
Tales of Aztlan
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Shares: Pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life
The Bride Blunder
Come visit Buttonwood for a marriage mistake like no other in the third novel of Kelly Eileen Hake’s Prairie Promises series. In the Nebraskan Territory of 1859, Gavin Miller writes home to request the hand of Miss Marguerite Chandler.  Unfortunately, while he never forgot Marguerite was the French word for Daisy, he’d failed to recall that the two cousins shared their grandmother’s name,…
Shares: Romance fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Christian Fiction, Romance & Relationships
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Shares: Christian Fiction, Romance & Relationships
Wildfire
From the book:For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotions - a sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the Ford, yet a haunting remorse that she could not be wholly content - a vague loneliness of soul - a thrill and a fear for the strangely calling future, glorious, unknown. She longed for something to happen. It might be terrible, so long as it was…
Shares: Pioneers, Romance & Relationships
The bride bargain
When dropped from the wagon train along the Platte River for not pulling their load, Clara Fields is determined to find a way to provide for her newly-widowed aunt. So she strikes a bargain with an aging storekeeper that in exchange for finding a bride for his son Clara can have his house to run a boardinghouse. But Dr. Saul Reed is not interested in getting tied down to Buttonwood in the middle…
Shares: Romance fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance & Relationships
The Lone Star Ranger
Buck becomes a Texas outlaw when he kills a man in self-defense. His troubles don’t end there, though. When he is seen trying to rescue a young girl being held prisoner in Mexico, he incurs the anger of her captors. With both the good and the bad on his back, Buck escapes to solitude. When the captain of rangers obtains a pardon for him, he makes Buck take an oath to fight on the side of the law…
Shares: Pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, United States
Jubal Sackett
In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L'Amour's great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and…
Shares: Pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, United States
The Treasure Box
Ee schrijfster van reisboeken beleeft achter haar computer het emotionele verhaal rond de aankoop van een mooi beschilderd schatkistje.
Shares: Christian Fiction, Romance & Relationships
Time for Grace
Pilot Kip Webster usually flew as far as possible from romance. So when one of his passengers caught his eye, it knocked the wind out of him. Recent widow Sarah Bates and her tiny daughter made him long to be a part of a family. But not sure he could offer them a future, Kip worried that he would hurt Sarah in the long run. Yet he couldn't deny their connection--or resist helping her as she…
Shares: Romance fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance & Relationships
Little House on the Prairie
When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to…
Shares: Pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life
Jedidiah's bride
When handsome stranger Jedidiah Lapp saves her twin brothers' lives Sarah Mast offers him her heartfelt thanks but never expects to see him again. When they meet once more at Sunday services, Sarah begins to feel something special for him. Jedidiah is eager to know the blushing beauty and asks permission to court her. Soon, he can see Sarah as part of his future, but her family is in Delaware,…
Shares: Romance fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance & Relationships
The Pathfinder
Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic…
Shares: Pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life
Fifteen minutes
Just as Zack Dylan on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?
Shares: Romance fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance & Relationships
Rainbow's End
To lessen the pain of his wife's death, Keith Michaels headed cross-country. When he reached the Pacific Northwest, he still felt broken, empty and alone. When a sudden storm stranded him on Orcas Island, he sought refuge with the local widow.
Shares: Romance fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance & Relationships
The City of Fire
Lynn Severn, beautiful daughter of a small town minister, is deeply troubled by the barrier which has come between her and her former playmate, Mark Carter.
Shares: Christian Fiction
Learning
Featuring members of the popular Baxter family. Learning, book 2 in the Bailey Flanigan series, picks up where Leaving ended. Bailey Flanigan and Cody Coleman are not only separated by physical distance, they are also faced with great emotional distance. While Bailey grows closer to her dream to be an actress and dancer in New York, Cody coaches a small high school football team, on and off the…
Shares: Christian Fiction
The nemesis of faith
Originally published in 1849, this book is highly significant for its autobiographical content. Refreshing in its honesty, it presents a sincere and emotional account of the spiritual turmoil faced by 19th century thinkers. Froude is at his best here with his powerful and stirring narrative. Thought-provoking!
Shares: Christian Fiction
The Witness
A witness is someone who has first-hand knowledge of something, such as a crime or wedding, and usually by seeing it.
Shares: Christian Fiction