KlappentextWalnut Hill - ein beschauliches Städtchen in Nebraska. Ein Städtchen, dessen Bewohner Weizen anbauen und glücklich sind, wenn alles so bleibt, wie es ist. Allerdings nur, bis die junge Lehrerin Hannah Robin dort ihre erste Stelle annimmt. Für sie ist es ihr Traumjob: eine Schule, eine ...
This was a sweet story and I quite enjoyed it. :) It was a light read. I love when I can set a book down and look forward to picking it up again later, expecting only to be able to relax and not think overmuch about the contents. Sometimes you just need a break from the heavier subjects.This is t...
This was a quick easy read. I loved the premise but initially hated one of the main characters. Emmaline rubbed me the wrong way from the first chapter. Her stubbornness was extremely annoying but I suppose that if she wasn't stubborn there would be no story. But despite some characters' flaws i ...
This book was well written and an easy read. But it is also very predictable and ends with an amazing happily ever after type ending. The main character travels to America to marry her sweetheart but it has been 5 years since she has seen him and doesn't want to marry him when she arrives. You se...
I found this book to be a very good read! I loved the author's style of writing as well as the storyline/plot. It is an intriguing story of a couple who fell in love when young teenagers but then are separated for five years while he is building a life for them in America. The characters are r...
When Sadie Wagner receives news from her cousin Sid that his new hometown of Goldtree, Indiana has need of a clerk in a female-owned store and there's also an opera house in need of a singer, it seems like an answer to her prayer. Her beloved Papa is bedridden with an injury and the family needs ...
Libby is a young woman full of imagination, passionate and ready to act, able to see worlds and stories arise from even rocks that once were the foundation of a building. Pete was thrown out of his home at a young age, but his new parents loved him and taught him well; he is the thinker and prefe...
I have really enjoyed the other Kim Vogel Sawyer books I have read so I was looking forward to this Alaskan adventure. Sadly, I was disappointed. I didn't agree with their approach to missions, I thought it was reaaaaaallly slow, and it made a flip reference to a MASSIVE theological heresy. I can...
"When Hope Blossoms" by Kim Vogel Sawyer is a book that I must have read shortly after it came out last year, and for the last few weeks the story has been haunting me, but couldn't remember the name or author. Today I found "When Hope Blossoms" at the library and read the blurb on the back, I k...
It's always sad to lose your best friend. But to lose them and be left with the promise of continuing with "Their life and making it Your own". That is what Tarsi is faced with. I can imagine adopting children, but I don't know if I could ever imagine stepping into the role of being wife to a man...
After reading `A Hopeful Heart' by Kim Vogel Sawyer, I was keen to check out another of her books. While overall I enjoyed `A Home in Drayton Valley', there were a few things that I had mixed feelings about.The book is based in Drayton Valley, Kansas, during a time when there was a divide between...
Dr. Micah is a doctor in New York. He felt a calling from God to help the immigrants. But when he receives a letter about an old co-worker, he rushes to Boston. Things aren't exactly as they seem and Micah finds himself working with Lydia to bring families together no matter the risks. Set during...
First, let me say I have never read Sawyer before. Her website advertises “gentle stories of hope” and Waiting for Summer’s Return certainly delivered. The writing is also excellent. Bostonian Summer Steadham is stranded in a Mennonite town in Kansas after the deaths of her husband and four child...
Her heart aches for his return... but is the distance between them measured by more than miles? Anna Mae isn't sure her husband is being completely honest about his job with the Works Progress Administration. They're building a castle? In Kansas? Harley promised he'd be at the worksite only long ...
New York City 1886. Die Geschwister Maelle, Mattie und Molly Gallagher verlieren bei einem Brand ihre Eltern. Als Einwandererkinder haben sie keine Verwandte zu denen sie Geschickt werden könnten. So werden sie, wie 150 000 Tausend andere Waisenkinder zwischen 1854 und 1929, in den sogenannten "W...
Carrie Mays knows that to whom much is given much is required. That's why she has to figure out what to do with the large inheritance she's about to receive. She doesn't want people to look at her and see dollar signs; she just wants to be loved for being Carrie. But when she is rejected because ...
Following her drug-related arrest, Angela finds herself out of rehab and in God's family. She's working at New Beginnings to fulfill her community service hours, but beyond that, she's never felt more alone. Her old friends only want her the way she used to be, and her newest Christian friend, Be...
Andrew waved his cousin over.“Ready for your check?” She removed the little order pad from her pocket.“I’m done, but I think I want to take a sandwich over for Beth.” He fidgeted under Trina’s speculative look. “She didn’t take a lunch break, but she needs something to eat.”“That’s nice of you,” ...
Joseph had made his bed in the opposite corner, with a trunk containing their clothes forming a barrier between the two simple beds. A second trunk, which held his collection of books and Jakob’s items—things Ma cherished— huddled next to the wood-framed opening to the newly constructed hallway. ...
“Devlin, you—” “Reb!” Tolly jogged toward them, his face glistening with perspiration in the early-evening sunlight. “Go tell all the guides to meet in my cabin. We gots somethin’ impo’tant to talk about.” Rebekah wrung her hands. She had something important to talk to Devlin about. “But, Tolly, ...
Annamarie, too. We’ll catch the earliest train.” Tears of relief filled Caroline’s eyes. She knew Noble wouldn’t be able to resist offering assistance. His compassionate heart never failed to astound her. But to bring Annamarie. Caroline cringed. “Are you sure? It’s a lengthy journey, and Annamar...
She didn’t want to accidentally make eye contact with Bryce. She avoided him in the hallway by rushing out of the room before anybody else, and she kept her face aimed straight ahead. By lunch she felt — borrowing one of Gramma Ruthie’s expressions — like a wrung-out mop. She got her tray and fel...
Through the lace-covered window, she could see stars twinkling like diamonds in a black velvet sky. Although the dark sky should have lured her back to sleep, thoughts of the upcoming courting party—and all the work Mrs. Wyatt had said must be done in preparation for it—prevented her from relaxin...
A month ago he would have presented Trina with the red ear then given her a possessive kiss that would make clear to everyone his intentions regarding her. But now? He held the ear against his thigh while whistles and cheers sounded, and Trina stood twelve feet away on the straw-covered barn floo...
She yearned for her bed—between the ball and staying up to write her letter to Mr. Ackerman, she’d gotten very little sleep the night before. She also yearned for Sunday, when she would see Mr. Ackerman again, would sit beside him in church service, and would exchange a missive with him.As she wo...
His seeking hands found a post, and he sank down, leaning his shoulder against the sturdy wood and stretching out his legs. The air was cool, still a little dewy, but heat from the sun soaked through his britches to his legs underneath. A bird sang from somewhere nearby. Wind whispered in the tre...
Like a tomb. Abigail lay in her bed in her dark room, eyes open, staring at nothing. Although the windows were cracked to allow in the cool night air—something she did year-round because she couldn’t bear a stuffy room—her body was bathed in sweat. She gave the covers an awkward toss, and they sl...
Daisy Forrester slapped the brush onto the scarred top of the bureau and glared at her reflection in the mirror. Why hadn’t she left it alone? All the brushing, intended to tame her flaming-red coils into a sleek, smooth cap, had instead created a wild, fuzzy mess. Turning from the mirror, she du...
Koeppler to move fully into the room, to return Beth’s greeting. But the man stood as if rooted to the tile floor, glaring at his daughter. Marie stood slowly, her palms on the tabletop as though she needed its support. She licked her lips and blinked several times. “H–hel...
She’d expected more enthusiasm from her cousin. Obviously she had a knack for decorating, and she must enjoy it to have tackled enormous projects like Aunt Abigail’s house and the summer kitchen. Maybe she just didn’t like being with Anna—Grace. The last three nights of sharing a room hadn’t brou...