Fiction, Women
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Saddles & Sawdust
True story about a city-bred family on a cattle ranch in the 1950s by Ann Eden
This is a true story about the adventures of the author and her family on their cattle ranch and sawmill in the early 1950’s. It is compelling because this family left an opulent lifestyle in Vancouver, B.C. where the author’s parents were...
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Big & Fabulous
The Life and Times of Brenda Cankles by Randi M. Sherman
Imperfect, impervious and improving, Brenda Cankles is an unlikely heroine. Unfazed by the enduring censure of society, she is determined to realize the fabulous life that she has always believed is her destiny. Brenda’s story—written in the...
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Rough Cut
by Gail Sinclair
Rebecca Lamond is traumatized by the vicious murder of her husband during their honeymoon in Paris. She is shocked to learn that his last request is that she journey to the war-torn nation of Sierra Leone, in West Africa, to locate some medical...
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Homing
by Carol Eckhardt
In the second of the Bear Valley series, Anna Royer and her daughter Elizabeth abandon successful professional lives to restore the derelict ranch homestead that shaped their early lives. The Spirit of the land, its wild and human residents, and...
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Coming Home
by Laurel Pardy
Dr. Marin Rose is a veterinary surgeon. When her husband, Sandy, dies in a stable fire and threatening incidents happen to her, she leaves home to find work abroad. Years later, she returns home to accept her family responsibilities and prove, at...
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River of the Stick Wavers
by Gillian Andrews
Following the premature death of her husband in the later winter of 1963, Grace Irwin discovers that she no longer fits in to the world she knew. Always a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, the widow is unmoored by her loneliness, fearing the...
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Our Lady of Happy Endings
by Jenifer McVaugh
In the snow-drenched Canadian winter of 1995, poet Mimi Clement succumbs to writer’s block. She will do anything to summon enough faith to get her through another cold, drab day, even if she has to pray for it. Her brother Damon tells her she...
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From a Distance
by Susan LeGrow
Kate Taylor is lost. What she once believed crumbled around her, affecting not only herself but her beloved daughters, causing heartbreaking damage and estrangement. Nick Mercer is tormented. How can he repair his son's latest disappointment and...
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Black Widow
by Wendy Claire
They say there’s a fine line between love and hate. For Diana Loren, that line is roughly the size of the beloved switchblade she never fails to carry in her pocket. By day, she’s a businesswoman in a short skirt. And at home afterhours, she...
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Mother Tongue
by Helen May
In Mother Tongue, Helen May brings us the courageous and compelling story of Madelaine, a Scottish girl born in South Africa on the brink of World War II and the apartheid era. Raised by the Zulu people who work in her family’s household and on...