18 books like These Is My Words

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St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares Historical Fiction, History

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares Historical Fiction, History

One Thousand White Women

One Thousand White Women Jim Fergus · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's… Shares Diary fiction, Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, Historical Fiction

A time to love Al Lacy · 1998 · ★ 4.3 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Moderate At the altar Linda Forrest discovers her fiancee has eloped -- with her own sister! Starting a new life as a mail order bride she finds her husband has a sinister secret, but that no danger can place her beyond God's love.From the Trade Paperback edition. Shares Women pioneers, Historical Fiction

Faith Lori Copeland · 1998 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Prolific author Copeland kicks off another historical Western series with this pleasing tale of mail-order brides set in 1872. When their pastor father dies suddenly, leaving little money, three sisters realize that they need to take drastic action to survive. Each answers a newspaper ad soliciting Christian brides. Faith goes to Texas, where her intended, a well-to-do rancher named Nicholas… Shares Women pioneers, Historical Fiction

Sarah's Quilt

Sarah's Quilt Nancy E. Turner · 2005 · ★ 4.5 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Arizona Territory pioneer Sarah Prine struggles with drought, starving cattle, and a neighbor's unwelcome advances, a situation that is further complicated when her brother's family is devastated by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Shares Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life

Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Historical Fiction with this book.

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

Vengeance Moon

Vengeance Moon Charles G. West · 2007 · 357p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A fugitive is trapped between a rock and a hard place in this action packed Western from Charles G. West.On the run for a murder he didn’t commit, Matt Slaughter is lying low in the badlands with a new life, and a new woman. But old troubles are right behind him: her name is P.D. Wildmoon, a hard-drinking bounty huntress armed with a .44, a rawhide horsewhip, and three wild-eyed sons bred to… Shares Frontier and pioneer life

The Hostile Trail

The Hostile Trail Charles G. West · 2006 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate BLOODRED RAGE In the winter of 1866, trail partners Matt Slaughter and Brister are hunting elk in the high lonesome of the Bighorn Mountains. But a clash with a Sioux-led by the dreaded Iron Claw-turns the knee-deep red snow red with blood. Only the deadly fire of Matt's Henry rifle-*the feared spirit gun*-gets Ike and him out alive. With Iron Claw raiding any whites using the Bozeman Trail,… Shares Frontier and pioneer life

They Called Her Mrs. Doc Janette Oke · 1992 · ★ 4.1 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, Historical Fiction with this book.

London

London Edward Rutherfurd · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 829p · ≈ 27h · Challenging “A TOUR DE FORCE . . . London tracks the history of the English capital from the days of the Celts until the present time. . . . Breathtaking.”—The Orlando SentinelA master of epic historical fiction, Edward Rutherford gives us a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years. He brings this vibrant city's long and noble history alive through his saga of ever-shifting… Shares Historical Fiction, History

Redeeming Love Francine Rivers · 1991 · ★ 4.5 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s… Shares Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, Historical Fiction

A gown of Spanish lace Janette Oke · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When a young woman is faced with being kidnapped, she is forced to resort to her only hope--God. A young woman among many burly robbers, Ariana is unsure of who to trust, but she must make risks if she ever wishes to leave and go back to the family she dearly loved. This book was one of my top favorites of Janette Oke, it not only showed Ariana's apparent Spiritual strength, but also contained… Shares Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life

Roses for Mama Janette Oke · 1990 · ★ 4.2 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate She's cared for her siblings as best she could . . . but is it enough? Instead of the new life she and her family expected to forge out west, seventeen-year-old Angela is thrust into the role of caring for her three younger siblings after the death of their parents. With the help of her older brother, and trust in God, Angela is determined to raise the children as her mother would have wanted.As… Shares Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, Historical Fiction

My Ántonia Willa Cather · 1818 · ★ 3.9 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.My Antonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Antonia. The… Shares Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, History

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