Stephanie Grace Whitson
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English
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"Enter a historic Nebraskan prison where three women find betrayal, love, and ultimate truth. Jane Prescott is serving a ten-year sentence for murder. Can a broken spirit be healed behind bars? Matron Mamie Dawson feels called to help the wounded women in her charge. Will a guard's attentions keep her from her mission? Warden's wife Ellen McKenna has changed her preconceptions about these female prisoners. Will it be enough to save her from a life-or-death...
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Series
Quilt chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Juliana Sutton has just about everything a woman could want. Her husband is riding a crest of success in the bustling capital city of Lincoln, and Juliana leads various philanthropic endeavors. Once finished, their new home, a spectacular mansion on five acres, will be the envy of all. Then a devastating scandal erupts... Cass Gregory, the foreman overseeing the Sutton mansion construction, has spent recent years trying to untangle the disastrous...
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English
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Sixteen Civil War widows living in St. Louis respond to a series of meetings conducted by a land speculator who lures them west by promising "prime homesteads" in a "booming community." Unbeknownst to them, the speculator's true motive is to find an excuse to bring women to the fledging community of Plum Grove, Nebraska, in hopes they will accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival! Sparks fly when these unsuspecting widows meet the men...
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English
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She is a self-centered woman from a privileged family. He is a preacher with a sense of duty to love the unlovable. She is determined to solve a family mystery. He is on a mission to reach the rejects of society in the remote regions of Montana. On a steamboat journey up the Missouri River, Miss Fannie Rousseau and Reverend Samuel Beck find themselves opposite in every way ... except in wondering if their paths will ever cross again.
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Quilt chronicles volume 3
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English
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Emilie Rhodes was taught to think for herself, but doing so makes her want to write the "real news." This offends her newspaper editor father, who fires her. When Emilie begins writing anonymously for her father's competition, she finds herself falling in love with lecturer and dramatist Noah Shaw. Noah in turn seeks answers to stories tied with his grandmother's quilts, even though the truth may lead to brokenness-- or hope and healing.
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Pine Ridge portraits volume 3
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English
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"Historical novel set in Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during WWII. Romance is in the air on the prairie and it latches onto the hearts of a bitter sergeant, a lonely widow, and a broken POW. What seems to be a typical U.S. Army post proves to be anything but regimented daily routine"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Imogene Marshall has everything a girl could want--and she's miserable. To her, the perfect life is made of horses and cowboys and round-ups. When she's sent east to finishing school, Imogene disembarks on the way and ends up convincing Buffalo Bill himself to give her a chance in his Wild West Show. Imogene Marshall becomes "Liberty Belle," trick rider, and the object of attention from two cowboys who have very different ways of trying to win her...
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Pine Ridge portraits volume 1
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English
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In 1878 Nebraska, widowed soldier Nathan Boone rescues young Laina Gray, raped, half-crazed, and left for dead, and struggles with painful memories and his lapsed faith in God as his feelings for her grow.
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Prairie winds volume 1
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
12) Red bird
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Prairie winds volume 3
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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English
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"The motto, 'It is never too late to be what you might have been,' haunts Mary Davis. Newly widowed, she has the notion that if she can return to Paris with her increasingly distant daughter, perhaps she?ll be able to reconcile with the past and find a new future"--Provided by publisher.
15) Soaring Eagle
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Prairie winds volume 2
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
x, 297 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Keepsake legacies volume 1
Language
English
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Abandoned at a New York orphanage and left in charge of her crippled younger brother, Sarah Biddle finally finds a family when an orphan train takes them to Lincoln, Nebraska. To help deal with her feelings of disappointment, loss, and fear, Sarah uses her quilting skills to "stitch the tears of the past into a treasure for tomorrow."--Page 4 of cover.
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Keepsake legacies volume 2
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
xix, 266 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Keepsake legacies volume 3
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
xxii, 275 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nora O'Dell's skill as a seamstress brings her success in the frontier town of Lincoln, but not happiness.