Mona Gansberg Hodgson

"A lesson in inner beauty. Emma and Abby are playing with friends. But Emma is more concerned with how she looks than having fun. Will she learn what's more important?"--p. [4] of cover.

Kat and Nell Sinclair are headed west - away from the manicured lawns of Maine to the booming mine town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, to start new lives for themselves as mail-order brides. Romantic dreamer Nell imagines an exciting and love-filled future, while pragmatic Kat resigns herself to marriage as a duty. But when the ladies disembark at the train depot neither fiancé awaits them, leaving the sisters unexpectedly alone in the wild, frontier...

"In the early 1840s, emigrants from the Eastern United States began traveling overland by covered wagon to escape grief, persecution, and poverty. Driven by desperation, curiosity, and greed, several hundred thousand people sold the bulk of their possessions, bid family and friends adieu, provisioned a covered wagon and took bold or timid steps toward what they hoped would be their promised land. A land of boundless opportunity. They'd heard stories...

"Full of resolve, young widow Willow Peterson decides to pursue her dreams to be an artist as she settles into a new life in the growing mountain town of Cripple Creek. When she lands a job working as a portrait painter with handsome entrepreneur and photographer Trenton Van Der Veer, the road before Willow seems to be taking a better-than-anticipated turn. With questions tugging at several hearts in town, including the Sinclair Sisters' beloved Miss...

Various desert animals have different ways of trying to avoid bedtime.

"Four historical women, their lives in transition ... find joy in the memory, discovery, or receiving of a treasured heirloom and the love it represents. Betsy is brokenhearted to lose an heirloom watch, and its buyer won't return it. Wren cautiously welcomes back the boy-turned-man who disappeared four years ago. When Clara's father is injured, she borrows a neighbor's son to help on the farm. Darla returns to her hometown determined to recover both...