Kim Vogel Sawyer
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Cast out of society for her father's crimes, Abigail Brantley takes work tutoring Kansas ranchers to prepare them for their more refined mail-order brides, where she faces skeptical Mack Cleveland, who has reason to distrust the scheme.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After years of separation, English-born Emmaline Bradford is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch and wishes to return to England immediately. But Geoffrey offers a compromise: If Emmaline promises to stay until spring, he'll pay her return fare if she decides to go back to her home country. When spring arrives, will Emmaline return to England, or will she marry Geoffrey and carve out a life with him in Kansas?
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Language
English
Description
In 1930's Kansas, Neva Shilling learns about her husband's secret family with another woman when he and the woman are both killed, leaving Neva to struggle with the question of whether she can accept her husband's other young children and raise them as her own.
4) Blessings
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Trina Muller is passionate about helping animals, but when she makes plans to attend college and earn a degree in veterinary medicine, her parents and prospective husband express their disapproval about her intentions.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The arrival of grieving Mennonite widow Amy Knackstedt and her three children, who have come to Kansas in search of a new start, upsets their neighbor, Tim Roper, who is struggling to forget the faith he left years earlier.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Kim Vogel Sawyer pens an inspiring debut novel whose unforgettable characters resonate with emotional intensity and compelling authenticity. Suddenly all alone in 1894 Kansas, Summer Steadman can't find the employment she needs to settle near the fresh graves of her husband and four children. Bitter against the Lord and refusing to eat, she collapses in despair. Remembering his own painful loss, godly widower Peter Ollenbuger offers her food and shelter...
Author
Series
The Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after having been quietly sent away from her Old Order Mennonite community in Kansas at the age of seventeen by her shamed mother, Suzanne Zimmerman's brother asks her to return and put her nursing skills to use in helping her ailing mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. Langdon Rochester's parents have given him an ultimatum: settle down with...
11) Beginnings
Author
Series
Sommerfeld trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Moving from the city to live in a Mennonite community in the small town of Sommerfeld, Kansas, Beth Quinn finds she doesn't fit in, and tries to reconcile her old life and her new one.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, but as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them.
13) Song of my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Thad McKane, the new sheriff of Goldtree, Kansas, uncovers a connection between the crime he's investigating and singer Sadie Wagner, the woman he's courting, he wonders if she's as innocent as she seems.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years after being separated from her brother and sister when they were adopted by different families in Missouri, Maelle, the orphaned daughter of Irish immigrants, continues to search for her family.
16) A Hopeful Heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Lrg
Physical Desc
431 p.
Language
English
Description
Drawn to the enduring truths of Kim Vogel Sawyer's gentle stories, fans and critics alike have fallen in love with the novels of this ACFW Book of the Year Award winner. Set in 1888 Kansas, A Hopeful Heart tells the story of a young woman from Back East whose convinced she must settle for a life that's second best. But as she struggles to overcome the challenges of a new faith and the hardships of frontier life, she may discover that-for her-the best...
18) Fields of Grace
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
341 p.
Language
English