Child Westerns

“I am afraid of the dark, and this fear is gaining power over me with every moment I spend in the cellar. My stepmother is perfectly aware of this fear; I even used a nightlight to go to sleep when I lived upstairs. If she wanted to punish me, click, off it would go, leaving me to cry in the dark. Fear is not always rational, it is powered by your imagination, or an accumulation of past experiences that teaches you to be afraid. In this cellar I have an abundance of fears to choose from, be it the creations of my own mind or the reality of where I am.” It began with the purchase of an ...

Finding love is never easy for a single mother listing herself as a mail order bride. But it is necessary. Eliza Buell has just given birth to her second child. Now a single mother after the death of her husband, she finds herself alone and desperate for a way to help her children survive the coming winter. With no other option, Eliza opts to become a mail order bride. Arthur Wells is eager to prove his merit in the west, especially when his promotion is stifled solely because he is not married. And there is no better way to get a wife from the mail order bride catalogue. When Eliza arrives...

“Your children sent for a bride.” Jacob rubbed his jaw. “They should’ve asked the groom first.” Olivia thought she knew what she was agreeing to when she answered a mail-order bride advertisement. But when she arrives in Wyoming, she realizes the man waiting at the ranch never sent for a wife at all… his children did. “You didn’t write those letters,” she says. “No,” his voice is steady. “But you’re here now.” Widowed rancher Jacob Hale never planned to remarry. His life is his children, the ranch, and the promise he made to the woman he lost. But when a stranded...

The author of the stunning New York Times bestseller The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense. As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it’s a story...

When Ruth Bellamy discovers her charming fiancé is the ruthless leader of the Iron Spur Gang, her world collapses. The truth arrives with a terrified boy who is kidnapped, orphaned, and the only witness to murder. Refusing to leave him with killers, she flees in the night and accepts a stranger's offer of a fake marriage. Caleb Harrow is a hardened bounty hunter chasing the gang that murdered his brother. When he sees a frightened woman begging for passage, he offers a practical solution: a fake marriage for cover. But protecting Ruth and the boy awakens something in him he thought long ...

The royal family is under attack! At the royal baby naming ceremony, King Roland, Queen Rose, and their new baby are captured by an evil fairy queen named Agrona. It's up to Drake and his friends to rescue them! The Dragon Masters soon discover that a spell had been keeping Agrona asleep for many years. But that spell has now been broken, and three magical dragon gems are needed to recapture the evil fairy queen. Drake, Worm, Bo, and Shu travel to the Land of Peace to find a Ruby Dragon. But it won't be easy to obtain the dragon's special heart gem.

Across the country, children are disappearing. Claire Lalich knows it is not random. Claire’s hidden valley was built to survive the collapse everyone else refused to see coming. Families have found shelter there. Trusted friends have become a community. Supplies are growing, defenses are ready, and for the first time in months, safety feels possible. Then two starving boys are found hiding in an abandoned bookstore. Their story exposes a darker truth. The same forces tearing the country apart are targeting children, stripping families of their rights, seizing homes and businesses, and ...

The Duke's Children is the sixth and final audiobook in the Palliser series. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires. Sent down from university in disgrace, his two sons quickly begin to run up gambling debts.

Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses.

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Eleven-year-old Molly Turner has decided her papa needs a wife. Widowed rancher Jacob Turner would strongly disagree. Jacob insists he and Molly are doing just fine on their Wyoming ranch. Molly knows better. Papa works too hard, cooks badly, and worst of all, he has forgotten how to laugh. So Molly places an advertisement. WIFE WANTED For a good papa who has forgotten how to smile. Must be kind. Must like children. Cooking helpful but not required. In Boston, Charlotte “Lottie” Hayes recognizes immediately that no grown man wrote the unusual advertisement. Amused by the determined ...

After a tragic loss, nurse Winifred "Winnie" Lawson flees West with a five-year-old girl, desperate to hide her from the child's ruthless father—a dangerous gang leader who will stop at nothing to find them. Posing as a widow with a young son, she prays the distance will keep them safe. The only available shelter though belongs to a mysterious rancher who makes her heart race despite his cold demeanor… Levi Burke wants nothing but solitude. After losing his wife and infant in a devastating accident, he's buried himself in grief and silence on his isolated ranch. When a brave young widow...

A blacksmith with a quiet heart. A candy maker with big dreams. A matchmaking child who believes in miracles—and a town where danger hides behind friendly smiles. In Cedar Ridge, Montana, Emily Harper is known for two things: her sweet shop’s famous candy, and her steady determination to grow the family business. Love isn't on her radar—especially not with so much on her plate. But when a tumble off a ladder lands her in the arms of the town’s brooding blacksmith, everything changes. Thomas Benton never planned on falling again. As a widower raising a spirited six-year-old and ...

Ann Hamilton's family has moved to the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and she misses her old home in Gettysburg. There are no girls her age on Hamilton Hill, and life is hard. But when the Hamiltons survive a terrible storm and receive a surprise visit from George Washington, Ann realizes...

The go-to guide to getting infants and toddlers to fall and stay asleep, completely revised and updated Kim West, LCSW-C, known to her clients as The Sleep Lady, has developed an alternative and effective approach to helping children learn to gently put themselves to sleep without letting them...

The five children have grown up and World War I has begun in earnest. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories... until, for the first time in 10 years, he suddenly reappears. Before this last adventure ends, all will be changed; the two younger children will have seen the Great War from...

She doesn’t believe in magic. He is magic. But when they meet, a spark is lit, and neither will ever be the same—in this charming new stand-alone in the Witches of West Harbor series from New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot. Frankie A trained therapist, Francesca Giovanni knows...

An eye-opening historic guidebook that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to put a light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest. The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native...

In the first book in this series, eight-year-old Drake is snatched up by King Roland's soldier and taken to the castle. He is to be trained as a Dragon Master. At the castle, he is joined by three other young Dragon Masters-in-training: Ana, Rori, and Bo. The Dragon Masters must learn how to connect with and train their dragons - and they must also uncover their dragons' special powers.

In book six, the Dragon Masters have to save the prime Dragon Stone - or they will lose their connections to their dragons forever!