Hope Irvine always sees the best in people. While traveling on the rails with her missionary father, she attracts the attention of a miner named Luke and a young mine manager. When Luke begins to susp
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"When Karlina Richter discovers that a new shepherd will be sent to her village, she fears that she'll no longer be allowed to help her father with the sheep. She'll be relegated back to kitchen work,
Gretchen Kohler is an Amana storekeeper's daughter with a secret passion for writing. But artistic pursuits are frowned upon in her conservative Amana village, so she confines her poems and stories t
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For many years, Ilsa Redlich has helped her parents run a hotel in South Amana, but as the United States enters the Great War, she can feel her world changing. The residents of the towns surrounding
Johanna Ilg has lived her entire life in Main Amana, one of the seven villages inhabited by devout Christians who believe in cooperative living, a simple lifestyle, and faithful service to God. Altho
When employees of the Pullman Car Works walk out in protest of their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to Pullman Car Works and her love for Fred DeVault, who is the local d
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Several months after fleeing to Chicago and leaving her infant son in Olivia Mott's care, Lady Charlotte runs out of money, but even though a kindly woman offers her shelter and a job, Charlotte conte
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