Predestine Romance in the Great Depression

Predestine Romance in the Great Depression
Author: Joe Yancey
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2000-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595142575

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Predestine Romance is a love story of a wealthy family's Christian daughter falling in love with a poor farm boy at their senior prom. He battles the Great Depression to become eligible to marry the girl in a small town's caste society. In a dream she tells boy God's voice appears and ordain they become husband and wife. Despite sweetheart's mother forbiding dates with the boy, they enjoy secret meetings. While working on a yacht for a year's round-the-world trip, the boy writes mother he dances with yacht owner's daughter. Christian sweetheart gets depressed reading letter and allows mother to invite her old boyfriend for dates. Soon mother plans big wedding for daughter to marry old boyfriend. Three days before wedding, daughter leaves home at midnight to avoid the wedding. Daughter says she doesn't love the old boyfriend. The shock causes daughter's mother to suffer light stroke which damages her brain to the extent she has hallucinations. She is placed in a hospital for therapy. Farm boy avoids romance with yacht owner's daughter and returns home to hugs and kisses from sweetheart. Mother is still in hospital and sweetheart's father arranges for their wedding.

Love's Triumph Beyond Hope and Faith

Love's Triumph Beyond Hope and Faith
Author: Ed Marée
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-11
Genre: Clergy
ISBN: 9780999253410

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Historical fiction: A young pastor accepts a position in a country church as Rural America heads toward the throes of the Great Depression in 1932. The pastor's struggles, including a yearning for romantic love, are explored in a story that keeps the mind and heart apprehensive of what lies ahead.

A Song for Matilda

A Song for Matilda
Author: Marcella Taylor Hoffman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012
Genre: Christian fiction
ISBN: 9780977432448

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An inspirational romance chronicling the Alverson family through hard times in the Great Depression.

Books In Print 2004-2005

Books In Print 2004-2005
Author: Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Total Pages: 3274
Release: 2004
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780835246422

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The Patch of Blue

The Patch of Blue
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher: E-Artnow
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2020-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9788027307081

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Natalie and Chris are a young and happy couple who thought that life of joy is upon them. Sudden outbreak of the Great Depression ruins their plans... In the time of despair Natalie's faith and Chris' dedication will push them trough and prove that with pure love all adversity can be overcome. Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories and her characters are most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story. Hill's messages are simple in nature: good versus evil. As Hill believed that the Bible was very clear about what was good and evil in life and had firm faith God's ability to restore everything, the same belief was also reflected in her own works. Even today Hill's novels are widely read and appreciated for their romance and their inspiring life lessons.

Abiding Love

Abiding Love
Author: Wallace E. Clendenen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780595479412

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Like other women growing up during the era of Prohibition and the Great Depression, Ellen learns early on that life is all about sacrifice, and lots of it. Her father dies when she's still a girl, supposedly while hauling moonshine out from the mountains of Tennessee. With the economy in shambles and a family to take care of, Ellen's mother now must take over her late husband's moonshine business. And when that burden grows too much for her and she dies, the family's neighbor, Wes, sees an opportunity to take over her turf. Wes does more than just take over the bootlegging business. He also asks Ellen to be his wife, and she agrees, even though she realizes it's a marriage of convenience. When she accepts that she won't ever truly love her husband, however, she doesn't seem to have any options left. Join Ellen on a heartbreaking yet, at times, uplifting journey as she struggles to gain control of her own destiny while an entire country wrestles with the divisions caused by Prohibition, the turmoil of the Great Depression, and the reality of World War II in Abiding Love.

The Patch of Blue (Musaicum Romance Classics)

The Patch of Blue (Musaicum Romance Classics)
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Natalie and Chris are a young and happy couple who thought that life of joy is upon them. Sudden outbreak of the Great Depression ruins their plans... In the time of despair Natalie's faith and Chris' dedication will push them trough and prove that with pure love all adversity can be overcome. Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories and her characters are most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story. Hill's messages are simple in nature: good versus evil. As Hill believed that the Bible was very clear about what was good and evil in life and had firm faith God's ability to restore everything, the same belief was also reflected in her own works. Even today Hill's novels are widely read and appreciated for their romance and their inspiring life lessons.

Darling, All My Love

Darling, All My Love
Author: Lori Oestreich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781736140017

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How do two wrongs make a right when star-crossed lovers meet? Lily Vanderhoof's poor Catholic family is barely scraping by, and her future holds a precarious relationship with a local farmer. Is that all life offers for her? Why can't she be one of those fancy-dressed passengers connecting to all points beyond Hub City? Then she meets her ideal man at her best friend's wedding. Although she's already engaged, Benjamin is everything she's ever hoped for. Falling in love with him will certainly scandalize the 1933 small town as well as challenge her religious values and her allegiance to family. Will she rise above her station and find true romance through a bit of rebellion? Benjamin Claussen's affluent Presbyterian life is completely planned out. He's next in line to run his father's business and is engaged to a prominent woman. Unfortunately, his parents are the ones who have chosen it all. Feeling increasingly trapped by the gilded-cage arrangement he's been dealt, he luckily meets Lily, the woman he can't forget. He's compelled to pursue her for his own happiness. However, resisting his parents' decisions could change his position in the community, question his family loyalty, and alter his future forever. Will he gamble in the biggest game of his life and bet on love instead of security? Darling, All My Love is the first book in a historical romance series set in a Midwestern town. If you enjoy sweet reads then this spellbinding story of impossible love inspired by the author's family history is for you. A well-researched novel in the Depression-era, its wide cast of characters and surprising plot twists will keep you turning pages until the end. Pick up Darling, All My Love to discover this exciting new series today!

Rising Above It

Rising Above It
Author: Katherine P. Stillerman
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-09-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781088730935

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Hattie Barton's life changes forever on October 24, 1929, the historic day of the New York Stock Market crash. She is suddenly forced to leave her palatial home in Calhoun, relocate to an apartment in her hometown in Greenville, and find work to support herself, her two young daughters Pauline and Alice, and her trusted housekeeper, Georgia. When she takes a job as secretary in a small insurance firm, a potential romance develops between Hattie and her boss, Seth Snoddy However, an unexpected turn causes her to reevaluate whether she can ever settle for a marriage of convenience.Hattie learns that the only way she will rise above her misfortune is to remain true to herself. It is this insight that empowers her to regain her hope in the future and move on. As she does, new possibilities arrive in the form of a letter from her first love, Will Kendrick. The fourth book in the Barton Family Series, Rising Above It, continues the theme of love and reconciliation running through the previous novels.

Tom's Wife

Tom's Wife
Author: Alana Cash
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781449996321

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"She'd gone home once to her mama's house trying to get out of it, but her mama told her that 'a good woman don't go off on her husband'..." [pg. 4] Annie Huckaby is almost resigned to life on the farm with Tom, who works at a coal mine during the week, leaving Annie to take care of the house and their infant son while an ex-convict named Jim takes care of the farm. Twila visits every day and helps Annie make a little money of her own selling eggs to the café. And there's church on Sunday. Annie is not always alone, but still, she's lonely...until one afternoon, a peddler named Jake Stern wanders onto the porch wearing a clean white shirt, selling notions and tenderness."This novel rings true on many levels and women will especially grasp its message" - Alan Caruba, Charter Member of The National Book Critics Circle "Tom's Wife is a compelling read" - Dr. Arthur Dechene, Austin City College"A poignant story of a dirt poor family during the Great Depression" - Kaye Trout Books