Download or read book Lizzie and the Guernsey Gang written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's Christian Historical Fiction, ages 7-12, Ideal for homeschoolers **2012 Selah Award Winner** In the shadows of the Nazi occupation, four Guernsey children plot a path to freedom. Lizzie Browning loves her tiny, island home of Guernsey. It's quaint and peaceful, but when Germans drop bombs on her beautiful beach, the island becomes a prison. For months, the big war in Europe has been nothing more than stories in the paper, but as the enemy marches in, those dreadful stories become her own. For Lizzie, younger brother Andre, and Cousin James, the time to escape is now, and they know just how to do it. Phillip Seifert, the odd boy from down the street, has all the makings of a genuine Nazi-lover. Lizzie knows better than to trust him, but somehow, he manages to worm his way into James's favor. With Hitler Youth menacing them, Lizzie can do little more than pray that Phillip doesn't get them all shot. Soon though, Lizzie learns her prayers aren't always answered the way she expects. God might actually plan for them to live under Nazi rule...forever.
Download or read book Lizzie and the Guernsey Gang written by April Gardner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzie Browning loves nothing more than her tiny, island-home of Guernsey, but when German bombs drop on her crystal beach, her peaceful world explodes. For months, the big war in Europe has been nothing more than stories in the paper, but as the enemy takes over Guernsey, the war rushes to her doorstep. For Lizzie, younger brother Andre, and cousin James, the time to escape is now, and they know just how to do it. Phillip Seifert, the odd boy from down the street, has all the markings of a genuine Nazi-lover. Lizzie knows better than to trust him, but he somehow manages to weasel his way into James' good graces. Phillip joins the gang in their audacious escape plan, and Lizzie can do little more than pray he doesn't get them all shot. But Lizzie soon learns that God doesn't always answer prayers in the way she expects. He might actually plan for them to live under Nazi rule...forever.
Download or read book Beautiful in His Sight written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack is her freedom. Silas, her salvation. God? He's the building that buries her. It's 1917, and Halifax is at war. Silas Quinn, street sweeper and army reject, remains on the home front, shunning God and society as religiously as they shun him. But the night he stumbles across a half-frozen prostitute, his eyes blink open, and his greater purpose is born: preserve and protect. There'd been a day when Helen Fraser was desperate enough to believe a few nights in a brothel would cure her troubles. By some miracle, Major Jack Gordon deemed her worth saving, but Helen knows her meticulously recreated identity cannot last. What she doesn't expect is for its destruction to come about, not by a john or one of the madam's goons, but by a force great enough to flatten a city and bury her alive. Set against the backdrop of the Halifax Explosion, Beautiful in His Sight is a Christian historical romance that explores unequivocal grace and identity in Christ.
Download or read book Love the War Woman written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the DEFIANCE of a nation. For the DEFENSE of a tribe. For the LOVE of a war woman. War woman Fierce Mink has loved Tall Bull as long as memory. He is beauty and power, but in the secret pockets of her spirit, he is vastly more. He is the brave to whom she swore her heart, the friend to whom she owes her life, and the chief to whom she will never be bound. Soon, he will be required to take a wife, but lamentably, Mink is severe, intimidating, hard-bitten by war—qualities a man appreciates in combat, not so under the bearskins. But perhaps it’s best he’s blind to her, for he clings viciously to the Beloved Path, and unbeknownst to him, she has joined her fire with Jesus. Since his youth, Chief Tall Bull has treasured Mink. Even now, in their turbulent refugee world, she is comfort; she is home. Better yet, she shares his passion to preserve the Beloved Path and his fight to start anew in a land where they are no longer hunted. Then, a startling omen: before the blood moon, Tall Bull must make restitution for his transgressions, or the spirits will take payment. From her. A tragedy he would die to prevent. Another portent looms—that of a horde of bluecoat soldiers pecking at their borders, threatening to drive the Red Stick Defiance into uninhabitable swamps. The Defiance will not go quietly, and as Tall Bull prepares for a brutal strike, he realizes the bluecoats aren’t his only enemy, and Mink’s life isn’t all he stands to lose.
Download or read book Finding Pretty Wolf written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man was hers for a season. The other, for a lifetime. Many moons have passed since the spirits threw Pretty Wolf together with a scrawny brave and left them to scratch out an existence in a deserted, war-torn village. Though he became dear to her, duty to the People lured her away. Back now with her fugitive clan in faraway Spanish Territory, she lives at the trade post with her longtime betrothed, the Englishman called Iron Wood. When their war party returns with captive enemy warriors, Pretty Wolf is ill-prepared for one of them to be the boy she abandoned in the north. Neither is she prepared for that boy to have donned a generous spread of muscles. Or for him to have no trouble calling her master. Night is falling on the Defiance, and it promises to be burial-black. But as Creator Path Maker promised, Strong Bear has found his Wolf. All that’s left is to pray that when the bluecoats invade and rip at the last shreds of her beautiful spirit, there will be something left of her for Strong Bear to love. Scroll up and click BUY NOW to experience the romance of Creek country!
Download or read book Strike of the Water Moccasin written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Moccasin limps home from battle only to discover the Bluecoats have gotten there first. He’s the sole warrior to have escaped their net, but one other has eluded the enemy—Birdie, a former slave, his only love, and the woman who has repeatedly rejected his advances. When the worst comes to pass and they are caught, he is given an ultimatum—labor at the Bluecoats’ behest or see Birdie returned to slavery. The strikes land hard, but for Birdie, Water Moccasin would dance at the end of the Bluecoats’ strings until his feet are bloody and torn. When he learns her reason for spurning him, he realizes working for the enemy is by far the least devastating circumstance. No matter the obstacle, he will fight to his death for her, even as she places herself wholly outside his reach. Will Water Moccasin and Birdie ever find freedom? Will the unwelcome assignment ruin his chance to prove that his love is unconditional? Strike of the Water Moccasin is a historical romance set in the Drawn by the Frost Moon world. If you like Native American themes, characters awakening to the Christian faith, and tales of impossible love, then you’ll delight in Water Moccasin’s quest for happily ever after. Buy Strike of the Water Moccasin to witness unshakeable love today! Drawn by the Frost Moon reading order: Bitter Eyes No More Love the War Woman Finding Pretty Wolf Strike of the Water Moccasin
Download or read book Bitter Eyes No More written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man of abiding honor, tested by a woman of ruinous passion. A woman of unspeakable sins, pursued by a God of unquenchable mercy. Spanish Florida once sheltered Lillian McGirth from her fears. Now, it feeds them. Mercy is for the deserving; for Lillian, an unwed mother accused of treason, there is only battering and defeat, but her fall breaks softly in the arms of an unexpected arrival, a man too beautiful of soul to stain with her lost character. Captain Marcus Buck sails in on a pledge to save Miss McGirth from herself and from her child's father, a ruthless don. All the while, he’s to regard her as virtuous and worthy of protection and to guard said virtue from pilfering. But the terms are flawed since he must first guard her from himself. Regardless, he is determined. He will free her, repair her name—simple labor compared to dodging the army’s noose, mending wounds three years deep, and navigating a host of rebel Natives bent on inflicting more. Through the steady crumble of his pledge, their friendship becomes a consolation, for she knows his pain as no other can or will. Their scars are one; their paths, however, might irrevocably become two… Bitter Eyes No More is a single, complete story and is for those who enjoy saga-length Christian historical romance.
Download or read book A Hope Fulfilled written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Hebrew slave’s courage and faith opens the gate on Edom’s demise. Tikvah, a Hebrew slave in Edom, lives in hope of once again seeing Jerusalem, the Holy City. When a Babylonian general and his dashing Jewish liaison arrive at her master's house, whispering plans of Edom’s destruction, she senses Yahweh at work. After all, there’s a prophecy foretelling His justice upon the kingdom. Tikvah clings to that promise while obediently following the call of service into the heart of danger. If only there were a promise she would come out the other side alive. A Hope Fulfilled is a novella inspired by the Old Testament prophecy of Obadiah. Through the eyes of a Hebrew slave woman, experience the rugged heights of Edom moments before it fell to the Babylonians. Find hope in God's promises through this "what might have happened" account of fulfilled prophecy. Purchase your copy now! Then read the rest of the series... Series: A Fire and a Flame Read in any order. A Hope Fulfilled, a novella of biblical Edom and Obadiah's prophecy. Knowing Obadiah, a Christian women's Bible commentary. Experience the excitement of Biblical prophecy with this down-to-earth and captivating exploration of Obadiah. But in Mount Zion, a companion study for Knowing Obadiah. Apply the lessons of Obadiah to your life with this interactive workbook. Stay in touch. Sign up for April's NEWSLETTER at https://www.aprilgardner.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/april.gardner1
Download or read book The Sacred Writings a Christian Native American Historical Novel written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Warrior Totka Hadjo enters his toughest battles yet—the fight for love, the invasion of fear, and the inescapable ashes of each. (Part 2 in Beneath the Blackberry Moon) The war has ended, and now, Totka Hadjo must endure eleven moons and twenty-six sleeps without his beloved Copper Woman. But he has a two-fold task to keep him occupied: establish a lodge deserving of her and challenge her Jesus Creator to a vision, to prove his existence. Totka leaves the white settlements with Copper Woman’s holy book, an object with medicine strong enough to keep at bay the hounding ghosts of his unavenged ancestors. But the sacred writings cannot restrain the Bluecoat who has returned from the dead, the one who first owned her heart. From the far reaches of the Muscogee Confederacy, Totka is powerless to stop the onslaught of events that conspires to take his beloved from him forever. Leaping Waters, Totka’s old passion, is a constant presence he cannot escape, but she might be able to unlock the spiritual mysteries found in the holy book’s talking leaves. While he wades through the confusing symbols, the Choctaws, his ancient enemy, are determined to seize prime Muscogee hunting lands. In the process, they aggravate wounds that might never heal and expose him to a truth too bitter to swallow. Denial and revenge go down much easier. Author’s Note: My goal as a writer is to create a pleasing blend of the historical romance and historical fiction genres. Part 1: the Red Feather is my hearty tribute to romance. Isn’t Totka dreamy? Part 2: the Sacred Writings, while giving a respectful nod to romance, delves into the cultural aspect that history buffs yearn for. It is also a memorial to the Native American tribes who for centuries dominated our Southeastern United States. If you live in Alabama or Georgia, pause for a moment, touch that gorgeous red earth beneath your feet, and remember that this land was not always ours. It first belonged to the Muscogees. Books in Beneath the Blackberry Moon, a Christian Historical Romance Series (must be read together) Part 1, The Red Feather Part 2, The Sacred Writings Part 3, The Ebony Cloak The Untold Stories (bonus reading for fans!) Other romance books in the Beneath the Blackberry Moon world: Drawn by the Frost Moon Series (standalones) Bitter Eyes No More Love the War Woman Finding Pretty Wolf Strike of the Water Moccasin
Download or read book The Red Feather written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of 1 of Beneath the Blackberry Moon He makes war to protect his clan. She braces for attack. Amidst a bloody conflict, will either survive the inevitable collision? American frontier, 1813. On a moonless night, settler’s daughter Adela McGirth encounters a band of native intruders on her family’s land. A member of the party shows her mercy, but when they return for a brutal attack, she learns their mercy ends where her terrifying captivity begins. Creek warrior Totka Hadjo is eager to prove his worth. But when his faction’s raid leads to a beautiful redhead being placed as a slave in his household, everything he believes gets called into question. Especially when the young woman begins to evoke powerful feelings he should not entertain. As Adela adjusts to life in the village, she continually searches for opportunities to escape and track down her missing father. Totka will not lose her, but with bluecoat soldiers in pursuit him, a longtime rival in pursuit of her, and the woman herself in pursuit of home, he fears the only way to protect her is to let her go. The Red Feather is part one of the addictive Beneath the Blackberry Moon trilogy of Christian women’s historical fiction. If you like sweeping sagas, strong women of faith, and romantic overtones, then you’ll adore April W Gardner’s moving 3-book journey of heart and spirit. Buy The Red Feather to conquer fear today!
Download or read book The Ebony Cloak written by April W Gardner and published by Big Spring Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Christian Historical Romance) In the wilds of 1816 Florida, a beautiful slave is free game for depraved men. But for an honorable man, she is a military objective, an asset to be protected, a love that should never be pursued. (Part 3 in Beneath the Blackberry Moon) Milly’s pale skin provides her with special privileges, but every luxury comes with a command. And Milly is done yielding. On the run, she can pass for white only as long as no one demands she lower her hood. But there’s hope. It lies in the Floridas in a refuge commanded by an army of runaways. Negro Fort. The first sweet taste of freedom convinces Milly that surrender is not an option. But the U.S. Army is keen on the fort’s conquest, and when it accomplishes the unthinkable, Milly must decide whether life is worth fighting for. Major Phillip Bailey has orders to subdue the uprising and return the runaways to their masters, all the while being forced to fight alongside Creek warriors—the same who etched the scars into his mind and flesh. The same who, in a storm of flame and blood, ripped out Phillip’s heart and took her for himself. And then came Milly... While musket balls fly, a war of another sort rages inside Phillip—perpetuate a crumbling dream or pursue the forbidden; follow orders or follow his heart. Love untamed settings from America's past? How about strong heroes in historical romance? Do they make you sigh? Drawn to know more about our Native American tribes and African American history? Then journey into Part 3, The Ebony Cloak, and come away the richer for it. About the Beneath the Blackberry Moon, a Christian Historical Romance Series: Beneath the Blackberry Moon is one story consisting of three complete parts plus a novella-length compilation of bonus scenes. (must be read in order) Part 1, The Red Feather Part 2 The Sacred Writings Part 3 The Ebony Cloak The Untold Stories (supplemental reading) Other romances in the Beneath the Blackberry Moon world: Drawn by the Frost Moon Series (standalones) Bitter Eyes No More Love the War Woman Finding Pretty Wolf The Ebony Cloak is based on a tragic yet little-known portion of African American history. Its characters are real and raw and broken. Its setting is gritty and vibrant. Its story is equally so, holding nothing back. Phillip and Milly's journey will open your eyes to love's potential. On the whole, this saga will sweep you away to an enchanting bygone world where cultures collide, romance is breathtakingly tangible, and love is hard-won. Open the pages and see for yourself. But be warned--once opened, there's no closing until The End.
Download or read book The Pursuit of Pleasure written by Elizabeth Essex and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Say "Never" To Passion. . . Lizzie Paxton's dream in life is to be a widow--if only she could skip the wedding and the husband. When her childhood friend Captain James Marlowe proposes a marriage in name only, she accepts, knowing she'll have the independence she craves once he sets sail. Though James is the only man Lizzie trusts, she doesn't trust the scintillating desire he evokes in her. James knows he shouldn't get involved with anyone, especially with his uncertain future. But he just can't help himself when he overhears Lizzie's declaration. Though he's promised her a marriage of convenience, he wastes no time in seducing her and taking her over the precipice of desire. Yet not even his beautiful wife can deter him from his cause. But when Lizzie discovers her husband has deceived her, James must choose between devotion to duty and loyalty to the woman he cannot live without. . . "Intrigue, sensuality and romance collide." --Jenna Petersen "Elizabeth Essex's The Pursuit Of Pleasure is elegant, evocative, and absolutely dangerous to a good night's sleep." --Courtney MilanWhen not re-reading Jane Austen, sipping tea or mucking about her garden, Elizabeth Essex can be found at her computer, making up stories about people who live far more interesting lives than she. It wasn't always so. Elizabeth graduated from Hollins College with a BA in Classical Studies and Art History and then earned her MA from Texas A&M University in Nautical Archaeology, also known as the archaeology of shipwrecks. While Elizabeth loved the adventurous life of a working archaeologist, after writing and reading all those dry, dusty reports on ship construction, she would daydream about how lovely it would have been if only someone had fallen in love on just one of those ships. And so now she writes stories about just that. Elizabeth lives in Texas with her family.
Download or read book West Virginia and Its People written by Thomas Condit Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Island of Wings written by Karin Altenberg and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling debut novel of love and loss, faith and atonement, on an untamed nineteenth-century Scottish island. Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of extreme hardship and unearthly beauty. Everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie when they arrive at the St. Kilda islands in July of 1830. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie-bright, beautiful, and devoted-is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life at the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and babies perish mysteriously, their marriage-and their sanity-are soon threatened.
