Dreamers takes place during one year in the lives of women coming of age in a small, mystical college town in North Florida. The central "dreamer" is Frankie Nolan, a drifter who's not sure where she's heading, but on the way there Frankie copes w...
A Branson Love entices readers to join the lives of Lissa Massey and Brandon Fall, two young people growing up in the Ozarks during the Great Depression. Brandon yearns to be a preacher, and Lissa wants nothing more than to be his wife. But the fear ...
Pa wouldn’t leave me, Ma, and Wanetta alone on this prairie, would he? With rain clouds approaching, Sam leads his mother and sister to a dug out in the creek bank. Wolf howls chill their hearts during the stormy night. Soon Sam and his family move...
Six thousand Kansas coal miners' wives ( called Amazons) march for three days in the winter of 1921, to prevent illegal miners (scabs) from taking their husbands' jobs. Historical -- Action-filled -- Soul- moving....
A young immigrant girl longs for a new life in Kansas. Instead, she faces cold rejection. Can her faith survive as she struggles to live through the horrors awaiting in Florence, Kansas, in the winter of 1875?...
Cherokee Lucy Drake staggers on the Trail where 4,000 died, heart pounding with a desire to live. Leading her injured mother and separated from her father, she crosses treacherous rivers, hoping for peace in Oklahoma. Here Lucy gains a classical educ...
At first, Esther and Gerhard Claassen, as well as sons Chris and Hermann (in the Hitler Youth) are hopeful about the "New Germany." Because Hitler’s cause seems noble, they and other German Mennonites have allowed their traditional commitment to pe...