O Pioneers!

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Janette Oke

Three years later, we rejoin the Davis family in the pages of Love's Enduring Promise, the sequel to Love Come Softly. Missie is now five years old, and quite excited about the prospect of a school being built in town. Marty is expecting a third child, while Clare is growing into a healthy young boy. As hardships are placed upon the shoulders of neighbors and friends, Marty and Clark reach out their hands to help in any way they can. And when the community finds a need for a teacher, and a pastor, will they find who they are looking for, or will all their hard work be in vain?

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Dori Sanders

"Traces the life and times of Mae Lee Barnes, a black woman from rural South Carolina ... including her challenges as a single parent on a working farm, her life after her children are grown, the realities of racial integration in the South, and the realization that her memory is slipping away"--Back cover.

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Thomas Hardy

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.

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story by SuAnn Kiser

When everyone in her large family seems too busy around the farm to pay any attention to her, a young girl decides to run away to find someone who will watch her do her new trick.