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A Trail of Crumbs

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Necessary Lies

Diane Chamberlain · 370 pages

Caring for her family on their mid-20th-century tobacco farm after the loss of her parents, 15-year-old Ivy connects with Grace County social worker Jane, who strains her personal and professional relationships with her advocacy of Ivy's family, whose dark secrets test Jane's resolve against racial tensions and state-mandated sterilizations.

Working-Class ProtagonistRural FarmHistorical FictionFirst Person Narrator
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With You Always

Jody Hedlund · 368 pages

Christian FictionWorking-Class ProtagonistHistorical FictionSeries
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Daughter of the Loom

Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller · 495 pages

The mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, comes to life with intrigue and drama from the creative writing team of Judith Miller and Tracie Peterson. Young women at the end of the 19th century seek employment from driven men intent on transforming America's textile industry. Daughters of the Loom features Lilly Armbruster, who is forced to work in the mills as her only means for survival. But Lilly's

Christian FictionWorking-Class ProtagonistHistorical FictionSeries
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Short-Straw Bride

Karen Witemeyer

No one steps on Archer land. Not if they value their life. But when Meredith Hayes overhears a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off their ranch, a twelve-year-old debt compels her to take the risk. Fourteen years of constant vigilance hardens a man. Yet when Travis Archer confronts a female trespasser with the same vivid blue eyes as the courageous young girl he once aided, he can't brin

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Secrets of Sloane House

Shelley Gray · 336 pages

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Daughter of Joy

Kathleen Morgan · 406 pages

Christian FictionRural FarmHistorical FictionSeries
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Sixty Acres and a Bride

Regina Jennings

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A Promise for Ellie

Lauraine Snelling · 320 pages

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The Sacrifice

Beverly Lewis · 392 pages

The Abram's Daughters saga encompasses the lives of three generations of Ebersols, an Amish family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Opening with The Covenant at the end of WWII and continuing into the Fifties with The Betrayal, Leah and Sadie Ebersol have made very different choices with consequences that have left them many miles apart, both physically and emotionally. Having already suffered u

Christian FictionRural FarmHistorical FictionSeries
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The Miner's Lady

Tracie Peterson

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No Place for a Lady

Maggie Brendan

Christian FictionRural FarmHistorical FictionSeries
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Daughters of the Witching Hill

Mary Sharratt · 333 pages

Working-Class ProtagonistRural FarmHistorical FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Miss Katie's Rosewood

Michael R. Phillips · 343 pages

Christian FictionRural FarmHistorical FictionSeries
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Demelza

Winston Graham · 304 pages

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Irish Meadows

Susan Anne Mason · 455 pages

"At the renowned Irish Meadows horse farm in New York, 1911, sisters Brianna and Colleen O'Leary struggle to reconcile their own dreams with their father's plans for the farm and his demanding marriage expectations"--

Christian FictionRural FarmHistorical FictionSeries
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They Called Her Mrs. Doc

Janette Oke · 224 pages

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Wonderful Lonesome

Olivia Newport · 498 pages

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A Promise for Spring

Kim Vogel Sawyer · 329 pages

England-born Emmaline Bradford pledged her life to Geoffrey Garrett and then bid him farewell when he boarded a ship for America. Though Geoffrey planned to send for her within a few months, five long years have slipped by. And now Emmaline barely remembers her fiance. Having Emmaline finally living on the sheep ranch he’s built on the north fork of the Solomon River is a dream come true for Ge

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Christy

Catherine Marshall · 496 pages

The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her — and her one-room school — as a t

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After a Fashion

Jen Turano · 346 pages

"In 1882, Miss Harriet Peabody is a shop girl with high hopes in New York City, but her love of fashion isn't enough to smooth her launch into fashionable society on the arm of businessman Mr. Oliver Addleshaw, especially in light of their unusual arrangement"-- 1882, New York City. Harriet dreams of the day she can open up a shop selling refashioned gowns to independent working women like hersel

Christian FictionWorking-Class ProtagonistHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Borrowed Light

Carla Kelly · 410 pages

Julia Darling breaks off her engagement, they didn't really have the same outlook. she has been to a well known cooking school. She goes to cook for cowboys in Wyoming. Very good story about how the girl grows in her life and beliefs...

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The Bride Bargain

Kelly Eileen Hake · 317 pages

When dropped from the wagon train along the Platte River for not pulling their load, Clara Fields is determined to find a way to provide for her newly-widowed aunt. So she strikes a bargain with an aging storekeeper that in exchange for finding a bride for his son Clara can have his house to run a boardinghouse. But Dr. Saul Reed is not interested in getting tied down to Buttonwood in the middle o

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The Husband Tree

Mary Connealy · 315 pages

"Standing over her third no-account husband's grave, Belle Tanner makes a vow--no more men. Now all she needs to do is get her cattle to market before winter sets in. But there's no one around except the drifter Silas Harden, and Belle is such a poor judge of men that she can't decide if he is worth hiring on. Silas just escaped a shotgun wedding--only to lose his money, his ranch, and his pride.

Christian FictionRural FarmHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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So Not Happening

Jenny B. Jones

Forced to move from Manhattan to an Oklahoma farm when her mother remarries, sixteen-year-old Bella relies on her faith while investigating a deadly, secret organization for the school newspaper, as she slowly realizes how shallow and spoiled she has been.

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