Product Description: Inspiring Conclusion to a Popular Series with a TV tie-in When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever...read more

Faith in God and the determination of youth sustain nineteen-year-old Marty after her husband is killed on their journey westward and she is forced to face the uncertainties of the frontier alone

Product Description: In a dramatic new series, a host of characters is drawn to the rugged Yukon to start life anew. Fleeing an arranged marriage, Grace escapes to Alaska. Peter, a widower, must choose between parenting his young children and following his dream, while Karen chooses to strike out on her own in search of a missing family member...read more

First published in 1986, this title examines a set of English Renaissance texts by Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, Marvell and Milton, within the theoretic framework of postmodern thought. Following an opening chapter that argues for the value of this conjunction as a way of understanding literary history, subsequent chapters draw upon Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of photocentrism and Jacques Lacan’s analysis of the agency of the letter to offer fully theorized readings. Throughout, there is a sustained concern with the transformations of such Ovidian figures as Narcissus and Echo, Perseus and Medusa, Orpheus and Eurydice, and with the echo effects of Virgilian pastoral, as paradigms for the interplay of voice and writing.

She loves her friends and students in the West, but family obligations have called her home. Where does she truly belong?After a year of teaching in the Canadian West, Beth Thatcher returns home to her family. She barely has time to settle in before her mother announces plans for a family holiday--a luxurious steamship tour along the eastern coast of Canada and the United States. Hoping to reconnect with her mother and her sisters, Beth agrees to join them, but she quickly realizes that things have changed since she went away, and renewing their close bond is going to be more challenging than she expected. There's one special thing to look forward to--letters and telephone calls from Jarrick, the Mountie who has stolen her heart. The distance between them is almost too much to bear. But can she give her heart to Jarrick when it will mean saying good-bye to her family once again--and possibly forever? And will she still want to live in the western wilds after the steamship tour opens up a world of people and places she never imagined?Then comes a great test of Beth's faith. Someone in her family has trusted the wrong person, and suddenly everything Beth knows and loves is toppled. Torn between her family and her dreams, will Beth finally discover where her heart truly belongs?A companion story to Hallmark Channel's When Calls the Heart TV series!

Smart and determined Alexandra Bergson belongs to a swedish family in Nebraska. And when her father dies leaving the management of the family farm in her hands, Alexandra dedicates herself solely to making her family's life-business a success. But while the farm rises, where others are falling and being sold out, Alexandra finds herself striving with the discovery of a new love and the obstacles that threaten to drive it away from her life forever.

Product Description: A Spur and Wrangler Award Winner Soon to be a major film directed by Tommy Lee Jones With a new afterword by Miles SwarthoutOn the 1850s frontier, some brave women's hearts and minds were broken by bitter hardship. A "homesman" must escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium, and the job falls to the indomitable and resourceful Mary Bee Cuddy...read more

Product Description: Soon to be a major film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and costarring Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and John Lithgow, this classic Western novel captures the devastating realities of early Pioneers in the American West through the eyes of one extraordinary woman...read more

Shattered by her husband's death at the hand of vigilantes, widow Rachel Yoder seeks refuge on her Montana ranch, unprepared for the lawlessness of the frontier, but her life is changed when she comes to the aid of a mysterious, severely wounded stranger, who stumbles onto her land

Product Description: Horace and Augusta Tabor left Maine to seek their fortune and ended up in the mining camps of Colorado. While Horace panned for gold, Augusta prepared meals for miners. Eventually, she opened a store and became postmistress while raising their young son.

WesternLarge Print EditionThis is elemental storytelling, populated by richly drawn characters and propelled by language that has the force and accuracy of a Cheyenne warriors arrowhead. Publishers WeeklyAt the heart of this intense, often violent novel is the near decimation of Americas vast buffalo herd, which triggered the last and bloodiest Indian War in history. In 1893, Jenny Dousmann heads west to join her brother Otto and friend McKay on the Buffalo Range in an attempt to recoup their fortunes. Instead, she is brutally raped and her brother is crippled. A half-breed leads them up the Big Horn Mountains to salvage their lives among the Cheyenne until one day Yellow-Haired Woman and Wolf Chief begin a quest for vengeance.

Product Description: When new schoolteacher Beth Thatcher is assigned a post in a remote mining community, her courage--and her heart--will be tested in unexpected ways.

Ty MacKenzie comes to take Lucifer, a wild stallion, from Janna Wayland but stays to capture her heart instead; the two join forces to escape from the mountains of the Utah Territory, where El Cascabel and his renegade warriors roam.

Product Description: The brave women who risked it all, endured untold hardships and struggled to the very end of their lives, are the unsung heroines of the settling of the west. This book records the stories of five such women. Letters, diaries, photographs, souvenir programs, carefully preserved over the years, provides research as the author reaches into a family heirloom trunk to bring you the sequel to Forever Friends...read more

Product Description: Elizabeth Martin and her two children have finally reached the Oregon Country. But Eli Kincade, the wagon train scout who captured her heart, has chosen to continue life on the trail. As other pioneer families begin building new homes, Elizabeth has never felt more alone...read more

Yearning to escape her stifling, authoritarian upbringing, ladylike New Englander Clementine Kennicutt elopes with cowboy Gus McQueen to Montana, where she comes face to face with the harsh realities of frontier life.

A portrait of the American West follows May Dodd as she leaves the East Coast asylum to which she had been committed by her high-society family, heads west, and with the help of a government program, ends up marrying a chief of the Cheyenne nation