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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Alone, the beautiful young Anna immigrated to America from an Island in the North Sea at 16, running from cruelty. Honor forced her to leave her first love, whom she met on her way to America. Alone again and stranded in New York, she found herself running away for a second time in her young life, this time from love. Anna worked her way across America, bringing her work ethic, honor, and love with her. On a Dakota homestead Anna finally found lasting love, but with it and her life there came an abundance of hardship, sometimes taking her faith and courage close to the breaking point.This novel follows Anna's true life story, continuing where Honoring Anna left off. Life on a prairie homestead was often harsh and the country and it's perils could prove to be unyielding, but it also had its heartwarming and rewarding moments and its' triumphs.Honoring Anna, The Winds of Time is a love story that is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. It masterfully takes you through the Dirty Thirties, The Great Depression, the year of the wolves, WWII, and homesteading hardships like none other ever written, through the eyes of those that experienced these trying times. It is a piece of American history that will make you cry one minute and stand up and cheer the next, and will inspire you to reach for the levels of courage and honor that these amazing immigrants possessed and brought with them to America.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Alone, the beautiful young Anna immigrated to America from an Island in the North Sea at 16, running from cruelty. Honor forced her to leave her first love, whom she met on her way to America. Alone again and stranded in New York, she found herself running away for a second time in her young life, this time from love. Anna worked her way across America, bringing her work ethic, honor, and love with her. On a Dakota homestead Anna finally found lasting love, but with it and her life there came an abundance of hardship, sometimes taking her faith and courage close to the breaking point.This novel follows Anna's true life story, continuing where Honoring Anna left off. Life on a prairie homestead was often harsh and the country and it's perils could prove to be unyielding, but it also had its heartwarming and rewarding moments and its' triumphs.Honoring Anna, The Winds of Time is a love story that is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. It masterfully takes you through the Dirty Thirties, The Great Depression, the year of the wolves, WWII, and homesteading hardships like none other ever written, through the eyes of those that experienced these trying times. It is a piece of American history that will make you cry one minute and stand up and cheer the next, and will inspire you to reach for the levels of courage and honor that these amazing immigrants possessed and brought with them to America.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Even at the tender age of nine, Anna Ingevich knows her life will never be the same when her mom, Karin, dies at the age of thirty.Anna's father, Bjorn, is a hard man-but that is what living in Norway requires. Life does not get any easier for her when he marries Marion, who already has three children of her own.As the days go on, she begins to ask herself one question, over and over: "How do I escape Norway and get to America?"Iver Olson loves his family in Norway, but as a boy at the docks, he begins to hear about a faraway paradise called America. A land of milk and honey, they say, where farm ground was so abundant that the government just gave it away. He knows he must go there.Rasmus Johnson was born to love wood and to create not just homes or pieces of furniture, but works of art and family heirlooms. As a young man, he falls in love with his childhood friend and sweetheart, and tells her of his dream to start a new life in America.Follow three Norwegian immigrants circa 1900 on their journeys of love, courage, and honor in Honoring Anna.…

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.