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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Carlyn Kearney has spent two lonely years not knowing whether to mourn or to hope after she receives word from the Union Army that her husband is missing. The war ends without further word. Now penniless, in debt, and forced from her home, Carlyn seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill ... [and] is just settling into life as a sister in the Shaker village when she receives a devastating letter confirming her worst fears. As she wrestles...
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Series
Virgin River volume 4
Language
English
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"Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she wants to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport four years ago, then disappeared once their unit arrived stateside. Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian have gone unanswered. Marcie tracks Ian to the tiny mountain town of Virgin River and...
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 5
Language
English
Description
In the space of a few months Vanessa buried her husband, Matt, and gave birth to their son -- breaking her heart while filling it with a whole new kind of love. But the one man she longs to share this love with now acts as if she doesn't exist. Paul Haggerty lives by the marine motto: Semper Fi. Ever faithful to his best friend, he's done right by Matt's widow as best he can ... considering he's been secretly in love with her for years. Now, just...
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Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In Sixteen Brides, Civil War widows living in St. Louis are lured west by promises of prime homesteads in a booming community. When the unsuspecting women arrive at Plum Grove, Nebraska, sparks fly as they meet bachelors convinced they've come to marry them. The widows will need all the courage and faith they can muster to survive these unwanted circumstances-especially since appearances are so deceiving.
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Series
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Melody Carlson captures hearts with a beautifully written romance set just after World War II. It's almost New Year's 1946, a perfect time for Caroline Marshall to start a new chapter in her life. Widowed three years ago when she lost her husband in the war, she has decided to move with her nine-year-old son to join her sister's family in sunny California. Her sister's new house has a basement apartment for Caroline to rent, and...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Synopsis: With its tree-lined streets, vibrant downtown and curbside planters of spring bulbs, Amberley, Massachusetts, seems a good place for Cate Saunders to start over. It's been two years since her husband, John, was killed in Iraq and life has been a struggle. But when she meets a Holocaust survivor, Cate feels a deep connection and finds an unexpected way forward" --
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English
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"A grief that knows no boundary. A love without any limit. A need that doesn't end at death. Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero when she vowed to spend her life with him. She just didn't expect her hero to sacrifice his life taking on an Iraqi suicide bomber. Six months after Jarrod's death, Corrie retreats to the family home her husband inherited deep in the...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Anna Harvik travels to Norway in 1946 in order to visit the family of her late husband, the country is only just recovering from five cruel years of Nazi occupation. So it is with surprise that she finds in this cold and bitter country the capacity for new love and perhaps even a new home.
12) The lie
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"Suddenly alone and left with a lie, a resolute young woman wages the injury of truth against the protection of a lie as she shapes a place for herself in a world manipulated by war. In rural America during World War II, as the fabric of society is wrinkled and torn by patriotic efforts and perils of place, navigating survival of self and community is a creative endeavor."--Goodreads
Author
Publisher
Pasque Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Like many Americans, Civil War widow Katie Rose Kelly was determined to make a new life for herself after the devastation of war. She was drawn to the Dakota frontier, where she claimed 160 acres and became a sheepherder. But that was just the beginning of her journey. As a woman alone on the wide-open prairies, she fought nature as well as powerful cattle ranchers who saw sheep as competition for grazing lands. With grit and determination, Katie...
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Language
English
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A journalist and essayist traces the difficult process of picking up the pieces of her life after it was shattered by the death of her husband, a Texan soldier whose Apache helicopter crashed in Iraq. His death mirrored the death of her own father in a military plane crash when she was five, leaving her own mother a young widow.
Author
Publisher
Taylor-Fox Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1943 and World War II is raging when 22-year-old Nina Raff learns that her Army pilot husband has been killed while transporting supplies over the Himalayas. To escape her grief, she instantly quits her job, moves across the country, and totally changes her life. When the war ends, Nina connects with a man she hardly knows and finds herself plunged into a dysfunctional marriage. Her alcoholic husband won't allow any talk of her first marriage,...
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Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The holidays are stamped for love in Christmas, Florida. While keeping her eye open for her next job lead, will nomadic event planner Stella find romance instead? How will one retired major change war widow Randi's postcard-sending mission? Can photographer David Levine draw shy Gabi Archer out of her shell? Will retired police officer Rick Stanton be able to steal postmistress Edie Hathaway's heart?"--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a Union soldier, David Brainard Griffin, during the Civil War and the Minnesota homestead family he left behind during his service and after his death. Based on surviving letters written by Griffin to his wife and children. The author is the great-great-grandson of Griffin.
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