Bøger af Jane Carlile Baker

Gwen Murphy intends to put a fine point on her final year teaching third grade. However, the new, and decidedly unsupportive, principalher firefighter husband who coughs worse every passing dayher colleagues who decide it's Gwen who should take on the inadequacy of state testingJemma, head of the mean girls' club's, accusation that Gwen bruised her armmay thwart Gwen's plan. With the challenges life throws at her, can she apply grace and truth in her solutions? When she thinks things can't get worse, a wildfire hits her Sierra Nevada town. Raging flames chase the students and staff out of the school, and her husband's cell goes to voicemail. How will she deal with it all? Or can she?

Nellie Cashman climbed from the poverty of the Potato Famine of Ireland to the mining camps of the Western U.S. She determined to use her fortunes to look out for others, and never to depend on someone who could take what was hers, or to follow the conventions of society. A mining woman seeking fortunes in a man's world, she faced the wilds of Alaska with the same pluck as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Witness Nellie's finest hour, braving Canadian blizzards for months to trickle lime juice into the bleeding mouths of mining friends down with scurvy. Could you face the infamous Chilkoot Pass in the dead of winter at 53 years old, the Apaches of Arizona Territory with your sister's five orphaned children in tow, or mining above the Arctic Circle in your old age, as Nellie did? What will win out - money or people - for a mining woman who grew up in poverty?

Bonnie O'Sullivan turns to put apples in her shopping cart to find her daughter, Fallon, smiling toothlessly-but her best friend's daughter vanished. Disappeared into nothing, and never found. Bonnie rescues sea otters as a biologist at Monterey Bay Aquarium, but her love of adventure doesn't extend to her daughter as Fallon matures. Haunted by the kidnapping, Bonnie confines Fallon to Seascape, their ranch stronghold. Red-headed Fallon responds by perfecting rebellion. Now a shadowed gunman has fired at Bonnie from a ridge on the ranch. Who is he? Why is he shooting at her? Quinn, Bonnie's ocean-hopping Irish husband, is no help. He easily dismisses Bonnie's fears and believes it's time to give their daughter more freedom. After the shooting, he and Fallon find a gold coin where the gunman stood on the ridge. What does it mean?-Does Graciela Castaneda, Fallon's beloved nanny, have any part in the mysteries?-Will Fallon barrel race herself to freedom? -What will a courageous, but overprotective, mother risk to provide her daughter a safe harbor?Rogue Wave, the first novel in the Seascape Saga, answers the question, "How do we find the courage to face fear?Jane Carlile Baker loves Morgan horses, the Pacific Ocean, and sea otters. Baker has previously published four biographies: My Father's Love; Triumphs and Tragedies, Corregidor and Its Aftermath; Image of a Black Father; and Toughnut Angel, The Tale of a Real-Life Adventuress of the Old West. She blogs at janecarlilebaker.com and lives in Northern California with her husband, Art, and her therapy dog.