Jean Holbrook Mathews
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After fulfilling ten years of servitude to the malicious Lafayette Breaux, Maria flees to New Orleans. Rescued from rescued from drowning by Hank Shroeder, a Mormon, she joins his group and they grow closer. But the malicious Breaux will stop at nothing to reclaim Maria as his own, and relentlessly tracks her--even as she treks West with her fellow Saints. Will she be able to escape her tormentor and find peace when she reaches her promised land?
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The year is 1854, and change is in the air throughout India. Within the walls of her grand home in Calcutta, Sarah McCune anxiously awaits the future. After eighteen months at war, her husband, a sergeant in the Bengal Army of the East India Company, has made an extraordinary proposal: leave all the comforts of their life in Asia for an unknown future in America. As recent converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sarah and her...
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From the dark, dangerous, and deadly pits of the Scottish coal mines, to the crowded and bustling streets of Edinburgh, to the perilous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, to the long and arduous trek across the plains to a "promised land," this is the triumphant story of the Hogge and Kenny families and their faith and determination to join the Scottish Saints in Zion.
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Law student Theo Novak saw what no one else did: a suspicious link between an ongoing environmental lawsuit and the nomination of a new judge that would ensure a victory for the energy companies. He stumbled on a conspiracy that extended to the upper echelons of the US government and wrote a legal brief to kill for. . . After a long and prestigious career, Congressman Max Southland is ready to retire, and as a member of his staff , Mattie Mathis is...
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Forced to endure grueling labor in a cotton mill far from her remaining family, Susanna Thayer and her best friend, Jane, become involved with the Mormon Church and are thus dismissed from employment. Using their meager savings for travel to New York, they join a company of Saints bound for California. Yet Susanna's efforts to build a new life are marked by continued misfortune--and continued encounters with the man who abandoned her in the past....
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Last time Julia Wentworth visited the Philippines, she barely escaped from a terrorist group. Four months later when she is again asked to visit the tropical archipelago to find answers for her company's financial issues, she vows to stay out of harm’s way and tries to convince herself there will be no danger involved in this trip. However, when she arrives in Manila, she discovers that danger is the reason the co-ops are failing. The young daughters...