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At sixteen, Madeline traveled to Shady Cove, Missouri when her grandfather sent word that Grandma was sick and they needed help. Momma couldn't go because she was carrying another baby and Madeline pleaded to send her... See More
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(239 reviews)
At sixteen, Madeline traveled to Shady Cove, Missouri when her grandfather sent word that Grandma was sick and they needed help. Momma couldn't go because she was carrying another baby and Madeline pleaded to send her... See More
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Learning to play the hand she was dealt, Carlotta looked forward to her twenty-first birthday when she would no longer be under the authority of her Aunt and Uncle. She had been used as their whipping boy when their own... See More
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Lian returned home from her first solo business trip to Nashville to discover that some vandals destroyed her home and place of business. She ran a laundry service started by the people that took her in as a street urchin... See More
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What is a better life? When your parents send you with an unfamiliar family to go west where opportunities are supposed to be better, Ellen wondered better for whom. Times were hard, that was true, but to leave her family in... See More
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Rebecca Morgan Elizabeth Talbot grew up more than privileged; she had everything except what she wanted most. Love eluded her. First from her parents, then from a guardian that only saw her wealth as a means to improve his... See More
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A child is Born. Where she came from nobody knows and yet she has been given the gift of life. But what kind of life will she have? She could be anyone except she didn't even have a last name. After escaping the planned... See More
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Who knows where a child's fantasy will take them, Natalie's dreams as a child influenced the rest of her life with the help of a kindly old jeweler named Mr. Guilders. She was only eight years old when she was given a... See More
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You couldn't say Johanna was raised by her mother, she lived in the same house, but did more of the providing than her mother did when she had a bottle to keep her distracted. A bottle and male friends is the most Johanna... See More
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Life On The Water 1895 Heather, barely sixteen years old, had already been deserted by her father, orphaned when her mother died, and now faced with an orphan home when Aunt Betty was killed in a freak accident. With her... See More
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Down, But Not Out in Chicago. Caroline finds herself without a home in the slums of Chicago. Her parents sent her to live with Aunt Ruth, but when she arrived, their circumstances had changed and they sent her back home. She... See More
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Enduring the Lie: Ashley's Triumph Even with cooperation and agreement, the best plans can go sour. Ashley Thompson found that when she agreed to marry the man her parents thought would make a good husband. She had... See More
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Rae Young makes the choice to take the deed to Grandfather Lapeer's farm in Arkansas rather than follow the expected path for young women and marry. Her father sold the house they lived in planning to move him and Momma to... See More
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1887 Virginia, a young woman finds herself alone after her mother's passing with a promise to look after Mrs. French, a longtime family friend. It was natural for Meri to assume the responsibility of caring for Mother's... See More
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Jane was the fifth of five girls in the Grunewald family, but treated as if she did not exist until she started to change from a girl into a young woman. From then on, she did everything she could to avoid her father's... See More
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Ella was less than two years old when she wandered away from her wagon when her family stopped for a break in their journey from Ohio to Milwaukee. How long they traveled thinking their daughter was sleeping in her sleep... See More
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Allison Mortenson was not a twin, but she did show up as Al Mortenson on occasion. Raised by her father and brother, Allie did not understand why she could not do all the things boys could do making her childhood reputation... See More
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Nell lived all her life in the Townsend Orphan Home and at thirteen; she faced a difficult decision. Move to yet another Orphan home, one that had a poor reputation, or set out on her own with all the supplies she could... See More
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Olivia found herself working for an older woman she called Aunt Trudy after narrowly missing her father's choice husband for her, one of his old cronies. She was barely eighteen with a learned mistrust of men she got from... See More
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Maddie, a young girl worked with her mother to keep the farm afloat after her father deserted them. It would be years before they realized he was not coming back. After her mother died, Maddie, now an adult, packed what few... See More
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A young girl finds an empty gatehouse where she can hide from her brother and his friends and play quietly with her dolls until she is discovered by the mean old man that owns the property. Her delightful personality quickly... See More
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Lost and alone when the ship she was sailing on broke apart in a storm, Danielle had two choices, curl up her toes and die, or find a way to survive on the island she woke up on. After weeks of waiting and hoping for... See More
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Lucinda felt like she was jumping from the frying pan into the fire, but the frying pay scared her enough to take the chance. Avoiding a marriage to a known womanizer, she fled to the west to find an uncle she always heard... See More
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As a young girl, Lorelei Gray Anderson wanted more out of life than pouring tea and stitching pillows. When she complained about learning only housekeeping tasks, her father tried to show her the difference between woman's... See More
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Eddie - Home Where I Belong Edwina Stone was whisked from her home in Pleasantville, Colorado after the tragic death of her parents when she was six years old. After twelve years living with her Uncle Edward, who she was... See More
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Eve Piccolo felt like a broken cookie, you know the ones; they are left on the plate until all the perfect cookies are taken. It wouldn't be so bad except there was always someone in school to point out the fact that she... See More
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Pieper North was one in a million. She and her father lived in Philadelphia in an exclusive neighborhood. She was not a typical rich girl; an attentive father and friends that were not impressed with social posturing... See More
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Rocambolesco (fantastic, adventure) is a story about a young woman trying to avoid her drunken stepfather until she reaches the age of majority, which at that time was 21. She works in a hotel laundry that she calls home... See More