Pioneer Delight


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Her best friend. His heart’s desire. When a misunderstanding tears them apart, will he survive letting her go? Henrietta Foyle is grateful for the life she’s building with the O’Rourkes. Thankful for her second chance, she consoles herself with friendship with the man she secretly loves, Niall O’Rourke. Her best friend, she knows he’ll never see her as anything more than dependable Hettie. When she has the chance with another, Hettie faces the hardest choice of her life: abandon her dream or be courageous and fight for her heart’s desire. Niall O’Rourke lives a charmed life working in his family’s saloon with his best friend and brother. Life is how he’s always dreamed it would be and he hopes it will never change. When his dreams for his future with Hettie are threatened, he realizes he must act, or lose the woman of his dreams forever. As old ghosts return to threaten their future, will Niall and Hettie be brave or will they risk the love growing between them? Discover the O’Rourke Family Montana Saga set in the frontier town of Fort, Benton, Montana Territory! Follow as each sibling forgives childhood heartbreak, discovers love, and finds their happily ever after! The O’Rourke Family Montana Saga Pioneer Dream (OFMS, #1) Kevin and Aileen Pioneer Desire (OFMS, #2) Ardan and Deirdre Pioneer Yearning (OFMS, #3) Niamh and Cormac Pioneer Longing (OFMS, #4)—Eamon and Phoebe Pioneer Bliss (OFMS, #5)—Declan and Lorena Pioneer Devotion (OFMS, #6) --- Maggie and Dunmore Pioneer Ardor (OFMS, #7)--- Lucien and Samantha Pioneer Redemption (OFMS, #8)—Finn and Winnifred Pioneer Delight (OFMS, #9) Niall and Henrietta




Pioneer Redemption


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A shocking return. A forbidden love. A union destined to destroy his family’s unity. Finn O’Rourke is a patient man. A loyal man. He loves his family and would never do anything to harm them. But he has one weakness. Winnifred Mortimer. Winn. The woman drives him mad. With longing and bitterness that she never loved him as he did her, he watches her waltz through town with a triumphant sway of her hips, a baby in her arms. She’s back, but she’s different. Humbled. Meeker. Irate that he still wants her, even after all she’s done, Finn refuses to forgive her. Rebuffs every opportunity to speak with her and to hear about her time away. He will not be played for a fool. Not again. From the moment of her return, Winnifred Mortimer wreaks havoc. None celebrate her arrival. None have any faith that her attempts to atone for her past transgressions are sincere. Her sisters and the O’Rourkes spurn any overture for reconciliation, and she realizes what true loneliness is: living in a town with family, where no one wants her. After two years away, Winnifred has learned the value of family, love, and loyalty. However, none believe in her repentance. Not even Finn, the man she’s loved since she first met him three years ago. Destitute and friendless, Winnifred is forced to make a devil’s bargain. Will Finn forsake her, or will he discover the truth in time? Discover the O’Rourke Family Montana Saga set in the frontier town of Fort, Benton, Montana Territory! Follow as each sibling forgives childhood heartbreak, discovers love, and finds their happily ever after! The O’Rourke Family Montana Saga Pioneer Dream (OFMS, #1) Kevin and Aileen Pioneer Desire (OFMS, #2) Ardan and Deirdre Pioneer Yearning (OFMS, #3) Niamh and Cormac Pioneer Longing (OFMS, #4)—Eamon and Phoebe Pioneer Bliss (OFMS, #5)—Declan and Lorena Pioneer Devotion (OFMS, #6) --- Maggie and Dunmore Pioneer Ardor (OFMS, #7)--- Lucien and Samantha Pioneer Redemption (OFMS, #8)—Finn and Winnifred Pioneer Delight (OFMS, #9) Coming Soon!




Pioneer Pamphlets


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The Bay View Magazine


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A Pioneer History of Becker County, Minnesota


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A historical book providing a brief account of Becker County's natural history, along with numerous articles written by various early pioneers relating to the history of the county.




A Pioneer’s Search for an Ideal Home


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Phoebe Judson was a young bride in 1853 when she and her husband crossed the plains from Ohio to the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory. She was ninety-five when this book was first published in 1925. The years between were spent in “a pioneer’s search for an ideal home” and in living there, when it was finally found at the head of the Nooksack River, almost on the Canadian border. Phoebe Judson’s account of the journey west is based on daily diary entries detailing her fear, excitement, and exhaustion. At the end of the trail, the Judsons encountered hardships aplenty, causing them to abandon a farm and business in Olympia before their arrival in the Nooksack Valley. During the Indian Wars they holed up in a fort at Claquato. In time, Phoebe overcame her fear of the Indians, learned the Chinook language, and won their friendship. All this is told in vivid detail by a woman of great dignity and charm whom readers will long remember. Susan Armitage, professor of history at Washington State University, calls A Pioneer’s Search for an Ideal Home a “classic pioneering account,” important for its woman’s point of view.







The Power of Delight


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I: English literature. The genius of Shandy Hall : Laurence Sterne ; Double life : Jane Austen ; Best and worst : Charles Dickens ; Living with Trollope : Anthony Trollope ; Eminent Victorian : George Eliot ; The two Hardys : Thomas Hardy ; The King's trumpeter : Rudyard Kipling ; Life in the head : John Cowper Powys ; Nothing nasty in the woodshed : P.G. Wodehouse ; Like ink and milk : D.H. Lawrence ; Baby face : William Gerhardie ; The last Puritan : George Orwell ; Mr. Toad : Evelyn Waugh ; God's Greene : Graham Greene -- II: The English poets. Family man : William Wordsworth ; Unmisgiving : John Keats ; The all-star Victorian : Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; An art of self-discovery : Edward Thomas ; Fun while it lasted : Rupert Brooke ; Gallant pastiche : Cecil Day Lewis ; The best of Betjeman : John Betjeman ; The flight of the disenchanter : W.H. Auden ; The last romantic : Philip Larkin -- III: Mother Russia. Cutting it short : Alexander Pushkin ; Under the overcoat : Nikolai Gogol ; The strengths of his passivity : Ivan Turgenev ; An excellent man : Anton Chekhov ; The backward look : Ivan Bunin ; Poems with a heroine : Anna Akhmatova ; A poet's tragedy : Marina Tsvetaeva ; On the horse parsnip : Boris Pasternak ; The hard hitter : Isaac Babel ; A prig of genius : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- IV: American poetry. Songs of a furtive self : Walt Whitman ; Mothermonsters and fatherfigures : E.E. Cummings ; Lowellship : Robert Lowell ; "One life, one writing" : James Merrill ; Richly flows contingency : John Ashbery -- V: Out of Eastern Europe. The power of delight : Bruno Schulz ; Something childish : Witold Gombrowicz ; Poet of holy dread : Paul Celan ; The art of austerity : Zbigniew Herbert ; Return of the native : Czeslaw Milosz -- VI: Aspects of novels. The point of novels ; Gossip in fiction ; Little green crabs : Marcel Proust ; The order of battle at Trafalgar ; In which we serve : Patrick O'Brian ; Seer of the ego : Stendhal ; What will you do to keep the s




Pioneer Collections


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