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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Recounts the experience of Baptist minister Don Piper, who was pronounced dead at the scene of a car accident and experienced the glories of heaven for ninety minutes, but who miraculously came back to life, where he endured a long and painful recovery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious fervor leads him to sue Zoe for custody.
Author
Series
Heaven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie--the little girl he saved on earth--in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom's beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran- turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving...
7) The parting
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As her family breaks away from their church district, Nellie is torn between her family and her beloved Caleb, who is staunch in his Old Order beliefs, but if Nellie waits too long to choose, she surely lose him to another.
Author
Series
Red River of the north volume 5
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Is She Really Leaving Forever? Tracing the difficulties and joys of carving out a life from the Dakota sod in the second half of the 800s, Tender Mercies continues Snelling's Red River saga and will pull your heartstrings and make you feel the joys and frustrations of life on the open lands of the 9th century mid-west. The rich farmlands of the Dakota Territory in 1887 are finally beginning to yield the abundant harvest the pioneers had dreamed about...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
From New York Times best-selling author Karen Kingsbury comes an unforgettable story of love struggling against all odds to snatch hope from the jaws of despair. Annie Warren's concern for her adult son Josh has intensified ever since a drunk driver careened into him. Disabled and in constant pain, Josh has put his life on hold while awaiting an insurance settlement that seems never to come. Yet as Annie sifts through the rubble of Josh's life, she...
10) Prairie Rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hope and love blossom on the untamed prairie as a young woman searching for a place to call home happens upon a Kansas homestead during the 1860s . . . A Town Called Hope, the inspiring series set in post–Civil War Kansas, is the creation of best-selling romance writer Catherine Palmer. In the fast-paced Prairie Rose, impulsive nineteen-year-old Rosie Mills takes a job caring for the young son of widowed homesteader Seth Hunter in order to...
11) Prairie fire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Cornwall has lost everything he's ever fought for and loved--his home, the Confederacy, and his nephew Chipper--and tries to start a new life, settling in a town called Hope, to be near feisty, red-haired Caitrin Murphy.
13) The forbidden
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Longing to marry Caleb Yoder even though Caleb's father has forbidden him to court her, Nellie Fisher struggles with her feelings as she continues to cope with the death of her sister, Suzy.
Author
Series
Red River of the north volume 3
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Taming the land came at great price. Will their love survive the loss?
It has required long, difficult years to tame the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory, but in spite of heartache and back-breaking labor, the hardy immigrants recognize that God has been with them every step. What was merely a dream is now beginning to take shape. And so they face the challenge of proving up their homesteads and building an official town for their growing community.
Hjelmer...
Author
Series
Red River of the north volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. With the coming of the railroad, the small town of Blessing begins to prosper, and the Bjorklund family is reaping the promised harvest that had lured them from their beloved home in Norway.
But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle. After their own fields are harvested, Haakan and the neighboring men take the steam...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
For as far back as he can remember, the dream of becoming a writer has burned brightly in Thorliff's heart. But when he arrives at college, things are not as he had imagined. Thorliff longs for the familiarity and nurture of his loved ones back home. The distance has created a rift between Thorliff and his childhood sweetheart. The only bright spot in his life is his job at the town newspaper. Will he be forced to leave one dream behind to pursue...
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They labored hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers--they have aspirations of their own. Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing stories and plays since he was a young...
18) The tender vine
Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aching from the recent loss of a constant companion, Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to return to the shelter of her close-knit family. Her husband, Quillan, is bent on proving his devotion, and they begin the arduous journey to the home of her youth nestled in the vineyards of Sonoma, California. But their arrival at the DiGratia estate is not the joyous occasion they expected. Will a confrontation with the past pull them apart--or will the love they...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
It has been nearly two years since the day of the mass disappearances. In one cataclysmic instant, millions all over the globe simply vanished, leaving everything but flesh and bone behind. Global war has erupted, and the Tribulation Force sets a suicidal course that places them in direct opposition to the rise of Antichrist. A repackage of the third book in the New York Times best-selling Left Behind series.
20) Sweet boundless
Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Newly married Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to make a home for herself and her husband, Quillan, in the rugged mining town of Crystal, Colorado. Quillan, however, has turned away to confront the haunting pain of his troubled childhood. Out of her loneliness, Carina opens a restaurant, and through its success soon attains the independence and identity she has long sought. When Carina is attacked in retaliation for her kindness to the destitute families...