Hedlund: 48 books

Readers Await This Dramatic Conclusion to the Beacons of Hope Series Tessa Taylor arrives in 1870s Upper Peninsula, Michigan, planning to serve as a new teacher to the town. Much to her dismay, however, she immediately learns that there was a mistake, that the town had requested a male teacher....

Despite years on the run, Sophie Neumann is determined to care for two young children. She won't abandon them the way she thinks her older sisters abandoned her. But times are growing desperate, and when she falls in with the wrong crowd and witnesses a crime, she realizes fleeing 1850s New York is...

A Christy Award-winning novel chronicling the forbidden romance between Martin Luther and his wife, Katharina von Bora, set against the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. She was a nun of noble birth. He was a heretic, a reformer, and an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire. In...

1865 Windmill Point, Michigan Can She Forgive the Hurting Man Who Costs Her the Role She Loves? After her father's death, Caroline Taylor has grown confident running the Windmill Point Lighthouse. But in 1865 Michigan, women aren't supposed to have such roles, so it's only a matter of...

Living in London's poorest slum, Mercy Wilkins has little hope of a better life. When she's offered an opportunity to join a bride ship sailing to British Columbia, she agrees. After witnessing so much painful heartache and loss in the slums, the bride ship is her only prospect to escape a bleak future,...

‘Voorbij de horizon’ is het vierde en laatste deel van Jody Hedlunds serie rond vuurtorens. Race Point, Massachusetts, 1876. Victoria Cole heeft alles wat haar hartje begeert: ze heeft een fortuin geërfd en een charmante verloofde. Ze heeft al twee verloofdes versleten, maar nu is ze er zeker...

Hij leert haar opnieuw in liefde te geloven Michigan, 1881. De weduwe Annalisa Werner probeert voldoende geld bij elkaar te krijgen om voor het land te betalen dat haar man had gekocht. Maar ze zal een echtgenoot moeten vinden om haar te helpen. De Duitse Carl von Reichart is veroordeeld voor een...

Engeland 1659. Elizabeth Whitbread moet en zal een familie in nood te helpen. John Costin is vastbesloten Gods woord te verkondigen. Maar dan komt de liefde onverwacht tussenbeide. Hoewel Elizabeth probeert te doen wat goed is in Gods ogen, wijst John haar aanbod om te helpen met de kinderen en het...

Massachusetts, 1763. Susanna Smith is opgegroeid met alles wat ze wilde, maar gedraagt zich verre van verwend. Vol overgave zet ze zich in voor de minderbedeelden in de stad. Ze hoopt dat ze een rijke man zal vinden, zodat ze haar werk voor de armen kan voortzetten. Op een dag ontmoet ze de intelligente,...

Michigan, 1880. De houthakkersbazen zijn blind voor het morele verval dat steeds verder oprukt in de stadjes. Bordelen en saloons groeien als paddenstoelen uit de grond. Lily Youngdompelt zich volledig onder in deze gewelddadige en meedogenloze omgeving op zoek naar haar 16-jarige zusje, dat is weggelopen....

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences, and in which the sophisticated analytical models of social science have ceased to be helpful. Illustrations range from the global financial crisis to the...

First published in 1993. How is it possible for the three tiny Baltic republics to gain their freedom from the Soviet Union, without a single shot being fired or a single stone thrown at the oppressor? The topic of this book is the implosion of the Soviet empire. It tells the parallel stories...

The Syrian refugee crisis, which began in 2011, is one of the most pressing disasters in the world today, with its effects reverberating around the globe. By the end of 2015, more than 7.6 million of the country’s people had been internally displaced and 4.3 million were registered refugees. The number...

Russia Since 1980 recounts the epochal political, economic, and social changes that destroyed the Soviet Union, ushering in a perplexing new order. Two decades after Mikhail Gorbachev initiated regime-wrecking radical reforms, Russia has reemerged as a superpower. It has survived a hyperdepression,...