Sandra Dallas
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Addictive. Highly recommended!"-Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author of News of the World Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master storyteller Sandra Dallas. Except for the way they loved each other, they were just ordinary, everyday folks. Just ordinary. 1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted...
2) Tallgrass
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been predictable and fair. But the winds of change are coming, and with them, a shift in her perspective and a discovery of secrets that can destroy even the most sacred
...3) Little Souls
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America's last deadly flu pandemic Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it's the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flurampant, Denver's schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and nightly horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In a small mining town near Colorado's majestic Tenmile Range, as nine children walk home from school, a spring avalanche thunders down from Jubilee Mountain burying everything in its path. This novel of survival, redemption, and faith skillfully reveals the backstory of each family affected by this tragedy.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
6) True sisters
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
1856. Mormon converts Nannie, Louisa, Jessie, and Anne, all from the British Isles, travel with the Martin Handcart Company, making the 1,300-mile journey on foot from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, while enduring unimaginable hardships. Each woman will test the boundaries of her faith and learn the true meaning of survival and friendship along the way.
7) New mercies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Sandra Dallas, best-selling author of The Persian Pickle Club, weaves an intricate and sophisticated tale in New Mercies. Nora Bondurant is divorced-unfathomable for a woman in 1933-and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would rather help her acquire a new husband than reveal the secrets surrounding her aunt's death.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When her granddaughter June unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling off her wedding, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband and the impending marriages she ran away from before marrying the love of her life"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998, c1990
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author Sandra Dallas spins a moving, memorable yarn that transports listeners from rural Montana to 1940s Hollywood. Buster Midnight's Cafe is a compelling story of longtime friends, a shared past, and an act of violence that shatters innocence forever.
10) Alice's tulips
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2001, 2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Young newlywed Alice Bullock, left on an Iowa farm with only her mother-in-law for company after her husband joins the Union Army, discovers her own hidden strengths and finds unlikely sources of support after she is accused of murder.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Its 1880, and for unassuming seventeen-year-old Nealie Bent, the Brides House is a fairy tale come to life. It seems as if it is being built precisely for her and Will Spaulding, the man she is convinced she will marry. But life doesnt go according to plan, and Nealie finds herself in the Brides House pregnant---and married to another.For Pearl, growing up in the Brides House is akin to being raised in a mausoleum. Her father has fashioned the house...
13) The Chili Queen
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
This Literary Guild and Doubleday Book club alternate by best-selling author Sandra Dallas features a bank robber, a mail-order bride, and a cathouse madam joining forces on a quest for happiness in 1880s New Mexico.