Lauraine Snelling
41) Amethyst
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Amethyst Colleen O'Shaunasy travels west to find her father's heir. But when she discovers Joel in Dakotah Territory, she uncovers shocking news. How will she be able to tell her overbearing father? And how will he react when he learns she's not coming home? Major Jeremiah McHenry has retired from the army and returns to Dakotah Territory to make a new life. Amethyst is touched by his kind and gentlemanly manner, and soon he's captured her heart....
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Return to Red River volume 3
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Thorliff's desire to become a writer fills his mind and heart as he attends college. He earns his way writing newspaper articles - good experience on the way to his goal. Then catastrophe upon tragedy hits his beloved hometown of Blessing, North Dakota, and family and friends are left reeling from incredible losses. Thorliff returns home to help shoulder the burden and assist in the recovery efforts, and too soon his writing seems only a distant dream....
43) Wake the dawn
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2013.
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When a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives in the small mountain town of Pineville, Minnesota, Doctor Esther Hanson struggles to help her patients without giving in to overwhelming emotions triggered by a long-suppressed memory and U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James, grieving the tragic loss of his wife, rushes an abandoned baby to Esther's clinic. Brought together by the life of a child, Ben and Esther become each other's reason to change....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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After finding her expected safe haven destroyed, Jesselyn Highwood must decide where to turn next. With no place left to go, Jesselyn decides to head west on the Oregon Trail. Here she encounters hardship, danger on the journey--and love. Meanwhile, her sister, Louisa, smuggles desperately needed supplies for the hospital in Richmond where she helps care for wounded soldiers. As both sisters face the ravages of war, one remains strong in her faith...
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Return to Red River volume 1
Pub. Date
c2001
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing since he was a young boy and now longs to attend college to study journalism. But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree. Thorliff dreads going against his father's wishes and cannot imagine any honorable way to leave home. To make matters worse, the threat of a crop failure may mean there'll be no money for college anyway. Elizabeth Rogers has been raised in a life of privilege, yet she has an...
47) A heart for home
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Home to blessing novels volume 3
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[2011]
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Astrid and Joshua discover God's plans for them through difficult circumstances in the conclusion to this prairie romance series set in South Dakota.
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2014.
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"Dinah Taylor has an orderly life that is just how she likes it. A perfectly furnished luxury apartment, a satisfying career as a scientist and CEO of her own company, and an uncomplicated personal life. But all of that changes when she meets seven-year-old Jonah. The boy shows up one day, a scruffy dog by his side, in front of her office building. Dinah knows nothing about kids and even less about animals, but after she buys him breakfast, he shows...
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Secret refuge volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War. Jesselynn is also fleeing a cruel man in Confederate uniform who has pledged to take revenge against her for refusing his hand in marriage. No...
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Secret refuge volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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When a disastrous decision by the new wagon master forces Jesselynn Highwood and her companions to separate from the wagon train, she races back to Fort Laramie to find a guide to take them to Oregon. But the guide has a far different plan, and following her heart, Jesselyn agrees to join him, her rag-tag band in tow. The ensuing journey is fraught with hardship and danger. Back in the East, Louisa Highwood and brother Zachary are captured by Union...
52) Saturday morning
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Hope Benson's determination to help the women at the Casa de Jesus shelter is tested when a difficult pregnancy forces her to relinquish control. Then she finds support and strength from an unlikely group of women.
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2004
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After a local mountain becomes a deadly and imminent threat, three strikingly different women become linked in a desperate mission. Children's author Katheryn Sommers is searching for her depressed husband, David, and their son Brian, camping together on Mount St. Helen's tumultuous north slope. Mellie Sedor seeks her husband, Daniel, who has taken a logging job to pay for their daughter's chemotherapy. Fashion photographer Jenn Stockton comes to...
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2 stories in 1 : "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" revolves around two successful, self-employed workaholics in California who meet by accident when their beloved basset hounds rendezvous. An unexpected development in Thane Davidson's life causes love interest Blythe Stensrude to face some hidden fears, and Thane must choose whether or not he will judge someone he loves. In "'Twas the Week Before Christmas," a handsome, slang-talking Cajun is...
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Golden filly series volume 6
Pub. Date
c1993
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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As sixteen-year-old Tricia grieves over the death of her father, she loses interest in horse racing and begins to question the wisdom of God.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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Ingeborg, her husband Roald, and their son immigrate to America with high hopes in 1880. When New York doesn't measure up to their expectations, they continue westward until reaching the Dakota territory. The family must struggle to achieve their dream.
58) Letting Go
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High hurdles volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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DJ tries to decide whether to replace her horse Major with a better one.
59) The race
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Pub. Date
c1990
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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Tricia learns to trust in God as she deals with the problems of her father's serious illness and her mother's disapproval of Tricia's involvement with horse racing.
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Dakotah treasures volume 4
Pub. Date
c2005
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"Jeremiah McHenry returns to Medora to make a new life. Will he be able to convince Amethyst that he is the kind of man she's been looking for?"--Provided by publisher.