KlappentextWalnut Hill - ein beschauliches Städtchen in Nebraska. Ein Städtchen, dessen Bewohner Weizen anbauen und glücklich sind, wenn alles so bleibt, wie es ist. Allerdings nur, bis die junge Lehrerin Hannah Robin dort ihre erste Stelle annimmt. Für sie ist es ihr Traumjob: eine Schule, eine ...
This was a sweet story and I quite enjoyed it. :) It was a light read. I love when I can set a book down and look forward to picking it up again later, expecting only to be able to relax and not think overmuch about the contents. Sometimes you just need a break from the heavier subjects.This is t...
This was a quick easy read. I loved the premise but initially hated one of the main characters. Emmaline rubbed me the wrong way from the first chapter. Her stubbornness was extremely annoying but I suppose that if she wasn't stubborn there would be no story. But despite some characters' flaws i ...
This book was well written and an easy read. But it is also very predictable and ends with an amazing happily ever after type ending. The main character travels to America to marry her sweetheart but it has been 5 years since she has seen him and doesn't want to marry him when she arrives. You se...
I found this book to be a very good read! I loved the author's style of writing as well as the storyline/plot. It is an intriguing story of a couple who fell in love when young teenagers but then are separated for five years while he is building a life for them in America. The characters are r...
When Sadie Wagner receives news from her cousin Sid that his new hometown of Goldtree, Indiana has need of a clerk in a female-owned store and there's also an opera house in need of a singer, it seems like an answer to her prayer. Her beloved Papa is bedridden with an injury and the family needs ...
Libby is a young woman full of imagination, passionate and ready to act, able to see worlds and stories arise from even rocks that once were the foundation of a building. Pete was thrown out of his home at a young age, but his new parents loved him and taught him well; he is the thinker and prefe...
I have really enjoyed the other Kim Vogel Sawyer books I have read so I was looking forward to this Alaskan adventure. Sadly, I was disappointed. I didn't agree with their approach to missions, I thought it was reaaaaaallly slow, and it made a flip reference to a MASSIVE theological heresy. I can...
"When Hope Blossoms" by Kim Vogel Sawyer is a book that I must have read shortly after it came out last year, and for the last few weeks the story has been haunting me, but couldn't remember the name or author. Today I found "When Hope Blossoms" at the library and read the blurb on the back, I k...
It's always sad to lose your best friend. But to lose them and be left with the promise of continuing with "Their life and making it Your own". That is what Tarsi is faced with. I can imagine adopting children, but I don't know if I could ever imagine stepping into the role of being wife to a man...
After reading `A Hopeful Heart' by Kim Vogel Sawyer, I was keen to check out another of her books. While overall I enjoyed `A Home in Drayton Valley', there were a few things that I had mixed feelings about.The book is based in Drayton Valley, Kansas, during a time when there was a divide between...
Dr. Micah is a doctor in New York. He felt a calling from God to help the immigrants. But when he receives a letter about an old co-worker, he rushes to Boston. Things aren't exactly as they seem and Micah finds himself working with Lydia to bring families together no matter the risks. Set during...
First, let me say I have never read Sawyer before. Her website advertises “gentle stories of hope” and Waiting for Summer’s Return certainly delivered. The writing is also excellent. Bostonian Summer Steadham is stranded in a Mennonite town in Kansas after the deaths of her husband and four child...
New York City 1886. Die Geschwister Maelle, Mattie und Molly Gallagher verlieren bei einem Brand ihre Eltern. Als Einwandererkinder haben sie keine Verwandte zu denen sie Geschickt werden könnten. So werden sie, wie 150 000 Tausend andere Waisenkinder zwischen 1854 und 1929, in den sogenannten "W...