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Obras de Mildred Colvin

This Child is Mine (2005) 32 copias
Eliza (2004) 28 copias
Cora (2003) 21 copias
Facing Tessa's Past (2010) 18 copias
Redeeming Sarah's Present (2011) 10 copias
Building Amanda's Future (2011) 10 copias
Cora's Deception (2011) 9 copias
Mama's Bible (2012) 9 copias
Learning to Lean (2011) 8 copias
Deborah (2007) 7 copias
Love Returned (2011) 6 copias

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Two baby girls switched at birth and the truth isn't discovered until they are about 18 months old--old enough to be calling the people who raised them mama and dada. A single mother who loved her late husband so much that she doubts she'll ever find someone to love like that again. A single father whose late wife didn't want to be a mother--so much so that she threatened abortion repeatedly and apparently only didn't go through with it because her husband said he'd divorce her and give her minimal alimony if she harmed their unborn child (she wanted the money and the lifestyle) but who then caused a car accident that took her life, though the child survived.

When the single mother accepts the job of nanny to both the girls so as not to disrupt their lives by exchanging the biological children and ripping them away from the parent they know and recognize, neither realizes that they will also come to care for each other. The author uses the tried and true genre plot of the man thinking all women are like his late wife--only in it for the money/not caring about the child/etc. and insisting that he won't fall for another woman. This goes on far too long and it felt like the author was just marking time to get to the required number of pages.

The little girls are cute. I have no idea if their dialogue is age appropriate. I know some of their antics are. I'm glad they bonded as sisters at such a young age.

When I first saw the name Mrs. Garrett, it reminded me of the TV show "Facts of Life". There was a housemother with that name, who spun off from the TV show "Diff'rent Strokes" where she'd been a housekeeper--except her first name was Edna where this characters first name was Mary. Other than the name and similarity in job titles, there wasn't much in common between the two Garrett characters, but it was a fond memory.
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JenniferRobb | Jun 12, 2018 |
A Cascades Christmas_ four-in-one collection by Davis_ Mary - Lee_ Debby - Welborn_ Gina - Colvin_ Mildred
Love anthologies as I find new authors with a mutual NW theme.
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Like the fact this is based at a lumber mill. The family feeds the workers and on weekends they go to town. Anna is almost 18 but she's been sneaking off to fish with Jeremiah.
They have nicknames for one another and she finds out her parents will send her to a big city to learn modern woman etiquette. He needs to get over the death of his family as they perished in a fire and he knows the workers would help make a house for them.
He's hesitant to approach her...story also follows others who find one another.
Liked learning about statehood of WA, lumber industry and railroad during 1890s as young woman become marriageable ages.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
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jbarr5 | otra reseña | Dec 22, 2016 |
A Trusting Heart by Carrie Turansky is the first novella in this collection of nine stories that as the descriptions notes--celebrate faith and love in the Rocky Mountains. This sweet story begins with Annika leaving her twin sister and only relative to travel from Chicago to Wyoming as a mail-order bride. When she arrives in Laramie, surprises greet her. Just where is her husband to be? Will she be able to become a rancher's wife when she is fearful of horses? With a few twists and turns, a gentle hero, and a sense of strong faith in God woven throughout the author brings the reader a tender story with a satisfying ending. I look forward to reading the rest of the stories in this collection.… (más)
 
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Anne_Rightler | Sep 3, 2016 |
A Cascades Christmas by Mildred Colvin Debby Lee, Gina Welborn and Mary Davis
4 STARS

A Cascades Christmas is four novels in one collection about 4 friends come to a small town in Washington. It's 1888 thier is a logging business, saw mill town. All four books are clean reads and I enjoyed them.

Home for the Holidays by Mildred Colvin

Anna Wilkin loves being a tomboy, she loves to fish and work outside with her father when she gets the chance. She also wears pants outside but her mother does not know about that. Her father does though. Her mother and sister always telling she needs to grow up and be a lady.
At a Christmas party at her's friends house she gets knocked into the new comer Jeremiah Tucker. When fishing is brought up he thinks she is kidding. Jeremiah can't see her putting a worm on the hook. So they make a date to see who will catch the most fish. Jeremiah thinks she will back off.
Anna reminds him a little of his sister and she is tiny so he calls her little bit.
Jeremiah likes Anna but decides to court her sister instead.

One Evergreen Night by Debby Lee

Emma Pearson is a orphan with her only relative her brother. They are working in the lumber camp and she hates it. She knows it is such a dangerous place to work.
Frederick Corrigan has a risky job driving the train and just last week the other train crashed and killed its conductor. Frederick is trying to get a promotion he wants to get his father's house from being auctioned off.
Frederick wants Emma to like him when he rescues a little runt of piggletss he gives it to her. He named it Bacon.

All Ye Faithful by Gina Welborn

E.V. for every week has been asking if Mr Whitworth if he can court his daughter Larkin. He always get told no. He runs a saw mill.
Larkin keeps hoping E.V. will ask her father if he can court her not knowing that he has been doing that for two years.
Mr. Whitworth thinks he only wants to marry her for the family money.
The Whitworth family lost their son a few years ago and are holding tight onto Larkin.
Larkin almost gets brave enough to ask him about courting her.
Another family is trying to use a lumber contract to make his own daughter a better match. E.V. wants the contract so he does escort her to help others to pay more attention to her.

A Carpenter Christmas by Mary Davis

Natalie Bollen wants Willum Tate to ask her father if he can court her. When she turns 18 she lets him know it. Her father is the preacher.
Willum was engaged a few years ago but was left at the alter when his bride ran off with a richer suiter. He has trust issues.
A fire burnt down a couple of businesses and the church. They all hire Willum to build them again. The church building fund was stolen.
Natalie reacted and fainted when she saw the little shack Willum was living in. She accepted a ride in another gentleman buggy after and 'willum saw.
Willum left town after but he kept hearing a voice at night saying build my house. So he went back and paid for the lumber and could not accept help on the church.
Natalie was determined to win his trust back in her.
I enjoyed reading these books. I wish some of them were a little longer but they were a quick read. Thier was no sex scenes in any of them, or swear words.
I was given this ebook to read in exchange for honest review from Netgalley.
09/01/2012 PUB. Barbour Publishing 355 pages
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rhonda1111 | otra reseña | Sep 7, 2012 |

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