Jane Kirkpatrick
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Beneath The Bending Skies
$17.99Add to cartMollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father’s wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. After all, what options does she truly have in 1860s Montana? But providing for her stepfamily during her father’s long absences doesn’t keep her from wishing for more.
When romance blooms between her and Peter Ronan, Mollie finally allows herself to hope for a brighter future–until her father voices his disapproval of the match and moves her to California to ensure the breakup. Still, time and providence are at work, even when circumstances are at their bleakest. Mollie may soon find that someone far greater than her father is in control of the course of her life–and that even the command to “honor thy father” has its limits.
New from New York Times bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick, Beneath the Bending Skies is a sweeping story of hospitality, destiny, and the bonds of family.
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Healing Of Natalie Curtis
$16.99Add to cartClassically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis isolated herself for five years after a breakdown just before she was to debut with the New York Philharmonic. Guilt-ridden and songless, Natalie can’t seem to recapture the joy music once brought her. In 1902, her brother invites her to join him in the West to search for healing. What she finds are songs she’d never before encountered–the haunting melodies, rhythms, and stories of Native Americans.
But their music is under attack. The US government’s Code of Offenses prohibits American’s indigenous people from singing, dancing, or speaking their own languages as the powers that be insist on assimilation. Natalie makes it her mission not only to document these songs before they disappear but to appeal to President Teddy Roosevelt himself, who is the only man with the power to repeal the unjust law. Will she succeed and step into a new song . . . and a new future?
Award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick weaves yet another lyrical tale based on a true story that will keep readers captivated to the very end.
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Something Worth Doing
$17.00Add to cartIn 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When financial mistakes and an injury force Ben to stop working, Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family. What she sees as a working woman appalls her, and she devotes her life to fighting for the rights of women, including their right to vote.
Following Abigail as she bears six children, runs a millinery and a private school, helps on the farm, writes novels, gives speeches, and eventually runs a newspaper supporting women’s suffrage, Something Worth Doing explores issues that will resonate strongly with modern women: the pull between career and family, finding one’s place in the public sphere, and dealing with frustrations and prejudices women encounter when they compete in male-dominated spaces. Based on a true story of a pioneer for women’s rights from award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick will inspire you to believe that some things are worth doing–even when the cost is great.
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1 More River To Cross
$17.00Add to cartBased on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844.
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All She Left Behind (Reprinted)
$17.00Add to cartJennie Pickett is a natural healer, but her dreams to become a doctor in 1870s Oregon put her at odds with the world around her. As she struggles to keep her dream alive, she finds that the road to fulfillment winds past love, heartache, and plenty of surprises along the way.
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Memory Weaver : A Novel (Reprinted)
$18.00Add to cartEliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother’s grave–and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the Nez Perce Indians, dealt with the challenges of life with a sometimes difficult husband and with her daughter’s captivity.
When Eliza is finally given her mother’s diary, she is stunned to find that her own memories are not necessarily the whole story of what happened. Can she lay the dark past to rest and move on? Or will her childhood memories always hold her hostage?
Based on true events, The Memory Weaver is New York Times bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick’s latest literary journey into the past, where threads of western landscapes, family, and faith weave a tapestry of hope inside every pioneering woman’s heart. Readers will find themselves swept up in this emotional story of the memories that entangle us and the healing that awaits us when we bravely unravel the threads of the past.
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Light In The Wilderness (Reprinted)
$16.00Add to cartLetitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read–as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come west with him.
Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she is so deeply in love with her husband that she knows she will follow him anywhere–even when the trek exacts a terrible cost.
Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. She spends her time trying to impart the wisdom and ways of her people to her grandson. But she will soon have another person to care for.
As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover what it means to be truly free in a land that makes promises it cannot fulfill. This multilayered story from bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick will grip readers’ hearts and minds as they travel with Letitia on the dusty and dangerous Oregon trail into the boundless American West.
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Homestead : A Memoir
$19.99Add to cartJoining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush, rattlesnakes, and sand in Eastern Oregon, Jane Kirkpatrick uneasily relinquishes the security of a professional career; the convenience of electricity, running water, and a phone line; and, perhaps most daunting, the pleasures of sporting a professional manicure. But the pull of the land is irresistible, and the couple dreams of gathering their first harvest from a yet-to-be-planted vineyard.
Rather than the simple life they had envisioned, Jane and Jerry find themselves confronting flood and fire, government bureaucracies, and runaway calves, among other disheartening setbacks. Jane frequently questions the sanity of pioneering in this remote area, known as Starvation Point, and she fights against panic with each trip they make down the seven-mile, boulder-strewn, rut-carved “driveway” she calls “the reptile road,” which threatens to spill them into the ravine with every lurch of the truck.
But as she learns to navigate her new life, this novice rancher discovers that disappointment, isolation, and danger can’t compete with the generosity of their rural community, the strength of family bonds, and the faithfulness of the God who planted in their hearts the dream of carving a refuge out of an inhospitable land.
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Flickering Light : A Novel
$13.99Add to cartJane Kirkpatrick, known for her distinctively vivid protrayals of real women pioneering their way through a man’s world, renders a fascinating novel from her own grandmother’s experience in flouting convention to pursue the career of her dreams.
This Jane Eyre-like coming -of-age tale deftly reveals the intricate shadows that play across every dream worth pursuing – and the irresistible light that beckons the dreamer on.
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Love To Water My Soul
$18.00Add to cartFor Lovers of History, Romance, and Faith Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon ‘s Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a place of belonging…only to be cast away from her home. Over the years, she faces a new life in the world of the white man – a life filled with both attachment and loss – and discovers it’s God who faithfully unites her with a love that fills all longing. This heartwarming story is perfect for lovers of history, romance, and faith.
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Land Of Sheltered Promise
$19.00Add to cartThree women. Three eras. Three miracles! Journey to the Pacific Northwest and meet a lonely sheepherder’s wife who awaits the outcome of his trial for murder; a mother who seeks to rescue her daughter from a cult; and a woman who reclaims the cult’s abandoned buildings for a Young Life Christian camp. Based on true stories!
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Every Fixed Star
$19.00Add to cart385 Pages
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Travel West with real-life American heroine Marie Dorion–a strong-willed mother who refused to be left behind when her husband joined the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition! In Every Fixed Star, Marie struggles to keep her children safe, warm, and fed while practicing the art of trusting God through all life’s twists and turns. -
Name Of Her Own
$18.00Add to cart21 Chapters
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During the fur-trapping era of the early 1800’s, with two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorionr refuses to be left behind in St. Louis when her husband heads west. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition leader, and her volatile husband, Marie finds that the daring act she hoped would bind her family together may in the end tear them apart.
History records that on the journey, Marie meets the famous Lewis and Clark interpreter, Sacagawea, who- like Marie- is pregnant, married to a mixed blood man of French Canadian and Indian descent, and raising a son in a white world. Together, the women forge a friendship that will strengthen and uphold Marie long after they part, even as she fights for her children’s very survival. With courage and faith that can only be fueled by a mother’s love, she endures. Her story reminds us that women are ground together in history, now and forever. -
What Once We Loved
$18.00Add to cartRuth Martin had a dream to become an independent woman and build a life in southern Oregon for herself and her children. But when her friend Mazy’s inaction results in a tragedy that shatters Ruth’s dream, Ruth must start anew and try to heal her tender wounds. Her friends are also moving on. Mazy wrestles with her understanding of what faith and family really mean, even as she is propelled toward one man she could possibly come to love; Tipton discovers that marriage requires more than she’s willing to give; and Suzanne’s challenge is to keep seeing with new eyes. Together, the turn around women travel to arenas of untested promise where they’ll find a hope that sustains them and relationships they’ll cherish all their days.
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No Eye Can See
$18.00Add to cartIn 1852, a close-knit community began their westward trek along the Oregon Trail. Only 11 women survived the journey–this is their remarkable story. In No Eye Can See, the women courageously begin rebuilding their lives in Shasta City, California. Blind Suzanne Cullver refuses offers of assistance–unwittingly risking her children’s safety! Can a young stagedriver help them all see God’s providence?
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Mystic Sweet Communion
$18.00Add to cartBased on real events that unfolded in steamy turn-of-the century Florida, this powerful love story chronicles the triumphant life of Ivy Stranahan, a missionary who overcame unimaginable obstacles—including her husband’s suicide—in her struggle to share God’s love with the Seminole Indians. Discover, in Ivy’s story, a love the Bible calls “as strong as death.”