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Series
Shaker novels volume 4
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
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It is 1844 and Lacey Bishop's life is a tangled mess. Estranged from her own family, at age 16 she went to work for a preacher and his wife. When his wife died, the preacher convinced Lacey that the only decent thing to do was to marry him. That way she could continue to act as mother to the little girl who was left on his doorstop. But Lacey never expected he would decide to take them all off to a Shaker village.
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Description
Gabrielle Hope has a special gift of "knowing" the future. When she and her mother join the Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1807, the members embrace her ability, although it sometimes frightens quiet Gabrielle. But when one vision comes true, a chain of events and an unlikely love challenge her loyalty to this chaste community.
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 2
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Duncan has nowhere to turn. In charge of her younger brother and sister after their parents die, her options are limited. When she hears that the Shaker community in the next county takes in orphans, she presents herself and her siblings at Harmony Hill. Despite the hard work and strange new beliefs around her, Elizabeth is relieved to have a roof overhead and food to eat. But when she feels a strong attachment to a handsome young Believer...
4) The gifted
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 5
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Jessamine Brady loves her Shaker sisters and brothers, but can't stop imagining life and love in the outside world.
6) The innocent
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 7
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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She longs for peace--for her land and her heart--but can it truly be found at Harmony Hill? Carlyn Kearney has spent two lonely years not knowing whether to mourn or to hope after she receives word from the Union Army that her husband is missing. When the war ends without further word, Carlyn finds herself penniless, in debt, and forced from her home. With nowhere else to go, she seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill. The Shakers profess...
Author
Series
Shaker volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Dumbfounded when the man she planned to marry joins the Shakers, Kentucky gentlewoman Charlotte Vance aims to win back her man by also joining the Shaker community, but instead finds another unexpected love.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After killing her abusive father in an intentionally-set fire, Polly Kimball and her younger brother seek refuge in a Shaker community in 1840s Massachusetts and unexpectedly become involved in a wave of mystical visions sweeping the Northeast religious communities.
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 6
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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It is 1864 and the nation is still torn apart by civil war when Heather Worth discovers she is with child. She has been working as a laundress with her husband's army unit, but when the army gets orders to march south to Tennessee, Gideon insists Heather go home to have their child under safer conditions. Heather agrees, but returns home to another kind of devastation--deaths in the family and a father who refuses to forgive her for marrying a Yankee....
Author
Series
Shaker volume 4
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
It is 1844 and Lacey Bishop's life is a tangled mess. Estranged from her own family, at age 16 she went to work for a preacher and his wife. When his wife died, the preacher convinced Lacey that the only decent thing to do was to marry him. That way she could continue to act as mother to the little girl who was left on his doorstop. But Lacey never expected he would decide to take them all off to a Shaker village.