Marian Wells
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Preacher's daughter Amy Randolph finds her beliefs and values challenged when her father moves them from the comfort and familiarity of their home in the East, to a Colorado mining town in the midst of the Gold Rush.
2) Morning star
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Out of her dark childhood memories, her fascination with the spirit world and her conversion to Mormonism, Jenny has been slowly but surely groping toward spiritual light and truth. Her young husband Mark has gone through his own sometimes painful spiritual journey and been soundly converted to Christ. His faithful witness, more through his life than actual words, brings Jenny to the choice which helps to break the chains of spiritual bondage and...
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Description
Seared into Rebecca's memory were her mother's final words, "The trunk, guard it carefully. There is in it your only hope." Orphaned while still a young girl, Rebecca's only tangible heritage was a trunk which contained a wedding dress and a small black book. Concluding that her only hope was associated with the dress and the future marriage it symbolized, her life became a search for the one man who would make her dream come true. A trip west in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Jenny's search for truth and for power to control her own destiny continue even into her marriage to the young lawyer, Mark Cartwright. Her happiness and security with Mark are often shadowed by dark thoughts and frightening memories. The very beliefs which seemed to have brought them together are now pulling them apart... In the historical framework of Mormonism's roots, here is the powerful continuation of Jenny's story.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Amy's commitment to her husband, an elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, is strained by the system of circuit-riding which keeps him away from home, and their faith is further tested by the rigors of the Civil War.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1985
Description
Jenny, living in the frontier districts of New York and Ohio in the early 1800's, is a bright and unusually inquisitive young girl. Though living in poverty with limited schooling and spiritual guidance, and tough viciously mistreated by a drunken father, quick-minded Jenny becomes an avid reader. Her father's forbidden book holds an overwhelming fascination for her. Will she find the truth, or is she on a dangerous road with no end in sight? Here...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Jewel of Promise begins in late 1860 with newly married Olivia and Alex Duncan ending their long anticipated honeymoon amid the rumbles of discontent in the pro-slavery southern states. Alex's honeymoon gift to Olivia, a black onyx and gold filigree broach, is destined to symbolize a promise of hope they never dreamed possible. When Lincoln wins the presidential election, they decide to visit Alex's family in South Carolina. Over the course of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
North meets South with a mighty clash of wills, each side clinging stubornly to political ideals destined to separate families, ruin fortunes, and touch off a war that would devastate an entire nation. Some men and women, driven by principle, joined together, risking everything in order to protect a race of people that were considered to be less than human--a race that could be bought and sold as slaves, subject to the whims and abuses of their masters....
Author
Series
Starlight trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Sequel to: The wishing star. Jenny's search for truth and for control of her destiny continues into her marriage to lawyer Mark Cartwright. Her happiness and security with Mark are often overshadowed by dark thoughts and frightening memories.
Author
Series
Starlight trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c1985
Description
Jenny, living in the frontier districts of New York and Ohio in the early 1800s, is surrounded by poverty and an abusive drunken father. Yet in spite of limited schooling and spiritual guidance, curious and quick-minded Jenny reaches out for something different.