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North and South by John Jakes
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsPart history, part novel, this book chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Though brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards and the Mains are torn apart by the storm of events that has divided the nation...Categorized as:
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![The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes]()
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
From the author of the forthcoming Someone Else’s Shoes, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era America Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England... -
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![The Daybreakers by Louis L'Amour]()
The Daybreakers by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTyrel Sackett was born into trouble but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace...Categorized as:
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![The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks]()
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago... -
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![Calder Grit by Janet Dailey]()
Calder Grit by Janet Dailey
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA Romeo and Juliet romance with shades of Legends of the Fall powers the intense drama of this beautifully written and researched saga from a legendary New York Times bestselling author. Return to early twentieth century Montana with this compelling book that pits farmer against cattleman and brother against brother, in a story of America's westward expansion...Categorized as:
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![The Shack: Reflections for Every Day of the Year by William Paul Young]()
The Shack: Reflections for Every Day of the Year by William Paul Young
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe powerful story found in The Shack written by Wm. Paul Young stole the hearts of millions and rocketed to fame by word-of-mouth, making it a phenomenon in publishing history. Now, THE SHACK: REFLECTIONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR provides an opportunity for you to go back to the shack with Papa, Sarayu, and Jesus...Categorized as:
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![Hope by Lori Copeland]()
Hope by Lori Copeland
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe best-selling Brides of the West series continues with book 3, Hope. Federal agent Dan Sullivan shelves his retirement to infiltrate a band of payroll thieves. But he didn't expect to meet stubborn mail-order bride Hope Kallahan, who gets kidnapped by the gang and held for ransom, or that she would be a veritable magnet for danger...Categorized as:
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![When Calls the Heart by Janette Oke]()
When Calls the Heart by Janette Oke
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsNothing in her cultured East Coast upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. Yet, despite the constant hardships, she loves the children in her care. Determined to do the best job she can and fighting to survive the harsh land, Elizabeth is surprised to find her heart softening towards a certain member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...Categorized as:
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![Finding Stefanie by Susan May Warren]()
Finding Stefanie by Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEveryone around Stefanie Noble is content, but it seems that her “happily ever after” has passed her by. Then two troubled girls and their older brother, Gideon, show up in town and clearly need help... -
![Grace be a Lady by Heather Blanton]()
Grace be a Lady by Heather Blanton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings... Think like a lady. Act like a man. Banished to the dusty cow town of Misery, Wyoming for an alleged affair, Grace Hendrick is facing the hardest decisions of her life. If she tries to return to Chicago, her husband promises to whisk their four-year-old son off to a boarding school and Grace will never see him again. She has no choice but to play along, at least temporarily... -
![The Wedding Promise by Susannah Calloway]()
The Wedding Promise by Susannah Calloway
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsClara Goodwin is desperate to get out of Boston. With no work and no money to her name, she takes the first option she can becoming a Mail Order Bride in Mine’s Place, Colorado.Shane Ellis is in dire straits. With a ranch to run, his brother’s children to take care of, and nothing but tragedy in his romantic life, he’s got his hands full...Categorized as:
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![When the Meadow Blooms by Ann H. Gabhart]()
When the Meadow Blooms by Ann H. Gabhart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWidow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home... -
![Head in the Clouds by Karen Witemeyer]()
Head in the Clouds by Karen Witemeyer
Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind...Categorized as:
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![Weathered Too Young (Evans Brothers) by Marcia Lynn McClure]()
Weathered Too Young (Evans Brothers) by Marcia Lynn McClure
Lark Lawrence was alone. In all the world there was no one who cared for her. Still, there were worse things than independence -- and Lark had grown quite capable of providing for herself. Nevertheless, as winter loomed, she suddenly found herself with no means by which to afford food and shelter -- destitute.Yet Tom Evans was a kind and compassionate man... -
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![Mail Order Bride: Christmas Hope and Redemption: Clean Western Historical Romance by Indiana Wake]()
Mail Order Bride: Christmas Hope and Redemption: Clean Western Historical Romance by Indiana Wake
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChristmas Hope & Redemption – Can the Lord find love for three lonely couples and one baby lost in a storm? – FREE on Kindle Unlimited or $0.99 for a limited time only – usually $2.99 Three western romances in one interlinked story. When Grace and Hopes pa dies he asks them to write to two men he has picked out of the paper, and that they must promise to marry them soon...Categorized as:
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![Colter's Journey by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone]()
Colter's Journey by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTHE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In this thrilling epic of the American West, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone capture the human side of the frontier experience in all its glory, grit, and grandeur—through the eyes of one remarkable teenage boy ..Categorized as:
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![Garden of Madness by Tracy L. Higley]()
Garden of Madness by Tracy L. Higley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe untold story of King Nebuchadnezzar's daughterFor seven years the Babylonian princess Tiamat has waited for the mad king Nebuchadnezzar to return to his family and to his kingdom. Driven from his throne to live as a beast, he prowls his luxurious Hanging Gardens, secreted away from the world.Since her treaty marriage at a young age, Tia has lived an opulent yet oppressive life in the palace... -
![The Queen's Handmaid by Tracy L. Higley]()
The Queen's Handmaid by Tracy L. Higley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the servant halls of Cleopatra’s Egyptian palace to the courts of Herod the Great, Lydia will serve two queens to see prophecy fulfilled. Alexandria, Egypt 39 BC Orphaned at birth, Lydia was raised as a servant in Cleopatra's palace, working hard to please while keeping everyone at arm's length. She's been rejected and left with a broken heart too many times in her short life...Categorized as:
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![Edge of Honor by Gilbert Morris]()
Edge of Honor by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsQuentin Larribee is a surgeon--one of the best. But in the confusion of one of the Civil War's last, desperate skirmishes, the hands devoted to healing bring death to William Breckenridge, an enemy soldier in the act of surrendering. Now the deed haunts Quentin... -
![Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray: A Novel by Dorothy Love]()
Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray: A Novel by Dorothy Love
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA general’s wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucible of Civil War.Mary Anna Custis Lee is a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of Confederate General Robert E Lee, and heiress to Virginia’s storied Arlington house and General Washington’s personal belongings...Categorized as:
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![Colorado Cowboy: Includes a bonus novella by Sara Richardson]()
Colorado Cowboy: Includes a bonus novella by Sara Richardson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCome home to Topaz Falls, Colorado where a down-on-her-luck bull rider falls for the cowboy she can't resist in this heart-warming western romance! As a champion barrel racer, Charity Stone has learned to hold her own in the male-dominated rodeo world. There's no cowboy she can't handle...except for one. Officer Dev Jenkins has made it clear he doesn't look at her like one of the guys... -
![The Edge of Town by Dorothy Garlock]()
The Edge of Town by Dorothy Garlock
Julie Jones is a plainspoken girl working on her father's hardscrabble farm. She's not prepared for the Jazz Age roaring through America, sweeping a flapper named Birdie Stuart and war veteran Evan Johnson into her Missouri town. As the summer heats up, life turns explosive. A wave of terrifying crimes threatens Evan's courtship of Julie, and Birdie's schemes begin to tear her family apart...Categorized as:
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![Bladestay by Jackie Johnson]()
Bladestay by Jackie Johnson
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBe careful who you root forWhen a violent, decades-long feud between two powerful men comes to a head in the small settlement of Bladestay, Colorado, cunning resident Theo Creed must use her wits to stay alive. Disguising herself as a young boy, seventeen-year-old Theo bluffs her way into the inner circle of August Gaines, the magnetic leader of the ruthless gang that has descended on her town... -
![Undercover Amish by Ashley Emma]()
Undercover Amish by Ashley Emma
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 11 ratings*Buy the paperback and receive the Kindle eBook for free!* Detective Olivia Mast would rather run through gunfire than return to her former Amish community in Unity, Maine, where she killed her abusive husband in self-defense and witnessed her family’s murder... -
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![Ménage A Cowboy by Jenny Klaire]()
Ménage A Cowboy by Jenny Klaire
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"If you are looking for a cowboy sandwich with lots of action, a bit of suspense, a few family issues and lots of hot, steamy $ex, make sure you read this! Wow!" When Grace offered to work at the animal clinic the summer between college and vet school, she did not expect her very first day to involve a sexy, shirtless cowboy, a misunderstanding of embarrassing proportions, or her arm...Categorized as:
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![The Homeplace by Gilbert Morris]()
The Homeplace by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. “God,” she finally said, “I’ll do my best, and if you’ll help me, that’s all I ask... -
![The Lightkeeper by Susan Wiggs]()
The Lightkeeper by Susan Wiggs
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 23 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs sweeps readers away to the past in this classic tale of buried secrets and second chances.Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from everything but his bitter memories... -
![Spurs & Stilettos by Ashley Johnson]()
Spurs & Stilettos by Ashley Johnson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings**Mature Content Warning** Recommended for ages 17+ due to language and sexual content. Who knew two separate events would turn Hope Trahan’s life completely upside down? After losing her sister in a tragic car accident and finding her fiancé cheating on her, Hope thought she’d never be the same again. That was, until her best friend drug her down to the rodeo to help clear her head...Categorized as:
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![The Bewitching of Amoretta Ipswich by Marcia Lynn McClure]()
The Bewitching of Amoretta Ipswich by Marcia Lynn McClure
The spirit of adventure and curiosity that dwelled within her bosom was passionate with excitement! It was obvious there was something wildly interesting inside the gristmill, and Amoretta silently swore to herself she would discover what it was no matter what. She promised herself that nothing short of torture could keep her from seeing what was inside now that her feet were set on the path...Categorized as:
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![Shot Gun Grooms: Lucas's Convenient Bride / Jackson's Mail-Order Bride by Susan Mallery, Maureen Child]()
Shot Gun Grooms: Lucas's Convenient Bride / Jackson's Mail-Order Bride by Susan Mallery, Maureen Child
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSHOTGUN GROOMS by Susan Mallery and Maureen Child Lucas's Convenient Bride Lucas MacIntyre stands to inherit half of a saloon, gold mine, and ranch, but there’s just one problem: his uncle created a clause in his will, stipulating that he and his brother must marry if they want to claim their property...Categorized as:
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![WILD WEST WIFE by Susan Mallery]()
WILD WEST WIFE by Susan Mallery
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturn to 1800s Whitehorn, Montana, in this fan favorite from New York Timesbestselling author Susan Mallery.All Haley Winthrop wants is a chance at building a home and family. So, aftercorresponding with a wealthy rancher, Lucas Stone, she finds herself in a stagecoach boundfor Montana, where she will become Lucas's wife. But before she even arrives her coach isheld up by a bandit... -
![Jacob's Way by Gilbert Morris]()
Jacob's Way by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratings'The army makes a man hard sometimes. I remember a young girl no more than ten who gave me a glass of buttermilk just outside of Chancellorsville. I still remember that. I guess that's all my life is. Some pictures fading out behind me, and there's not much before me.'Reisa listened as he spoke... -
![Hired To Love by Jordan Lynde]()
Hired To Love by Jordan Lynde
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFor Bennett, the plan was simple. Hire a girl to pretend to be his girlfriend, keep the facade up for six months, stage a break-up and then claim he was too heart broken to move on. For Henley, things were a bit more complicated. After all, who could just sign on to be someone's pretend girlfriend? And how could she keep up with someone like Bennett? Wealthy, successful, handsome, arrogant..Categorized as:
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![Wild Ride: A Novel by Octavia Wildwood]()
Wild Ride: A Novel by Octavia Wildwood
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGood girl Maggie Avery lives a quiet life in rural Minnesota. Sure, her life isn't going exactly the way she'd hoped, but that's a dumb reason to go running off with a gorgeous, brooding biker...isn't it? He's so kind and protective of her that it's hard to believe he's part of a criminal organization - but he is. Angel Rodriguez is tough by necessity, not by choice... -
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![Wanted by Kelly Elliott]()
Wanted by Kelly Elliott
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsVerbally abused by her mother for years, 18 year old Ellie Johnson always believed she would never be loved or wanted by anyone. She focused all of her attention on her grades and getting into the University of Texas to start a new life away from her mother... -
![Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson]()
Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to be a reporter, knowing full well that a few pieces published in the Arlington News will not suffice. Real reporters must go to Grand Places, and do Grand Things, like Hattie's hero Nellie Bly... -
![Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge]()
Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsCapturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"-educated Navajo...Categorized as:
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![Little Love Affair by Lexy Timms]()
Little Love Affair by Lexy Timms
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKnox Township, August 1863. Little Love Affair, Book 1 in the Southern Romance series, by best selling author Lexy Timms Sentiments are running high following the battle of Gettysburg, and although the draft has not yet come to Knox, “Bloody Knox” will claim lives the next year as citizens attempt to avoid the Union draft... -
![The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden]()
The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsRachel Linden’s newest contemporary women’s fiction story speaks to the universal struggle of what it means to live a meaningful life where the passions we have meet the needs of the world. At 26, idealistic baker Mia West has her entire life planned out: a Craftsman cottage in Seattle, baking at The Butter Emporium, and the love of her life, her boyfriend Ethan, by her side... -
![Faithful by Janet Fox]()
Faithful by Janet Fox
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSixteen-year-old Maggie Bennet's life is in tatters. Her mother has disappeared, and is presumed dead. The next thing she knows, her father has dragged Maggie away from their elegant Newport home, off on some mad excursion to Yellowstone in Montana...
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