Joann A Grote: 15 books
The Immigrant Brides Collection
9 Stories Celebrate Settling in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Seeking Second Chances
Lofty dreams of a new and better life lured untold thousands to America between 1775 and 1906. Among those “huddled masses yearning to be free” are nine displaced individuals dumped upon American soil and trying to figure out how to pursue happiness, make a home, and secure...
by JoAnn A. Grote
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Having waited a year for Frank Sterling to satisfy her father's requirements, Amy Henderson exults in the thought of her courtship--with the only man who has ever captured her heart. That is until Walter Bay demands Amy's hand in marriage. If she refuses, Walter threatens to ruin her father's life....
American Progress
Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Maureen the Detective: The Age of Immigration (covering the year 1903), Maria Takes a Stand:...
The Immigrant Brides Collection
9 Stories Celebrate Settling in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Lofty dreams of a new and better life lured untold thousands to America between 1775 and 1906. Among those “huddled masses yearning to be free” are nine displaced individuals dumped upon American soil and trying to figure out how to pursue happiness, make a home, and secure love. Journey with...
A Prairie Christmas Collection: 9 Historical Christmas Romances from America's Great Plains
9 Historical Christmas Romances from America's Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Experience Christmas on the historical American Great Plains as retold by nine different multi-published authors, including Tracie Peterson and Deborah Raney. Follow pioneers, immigrants, and orphans through their adventures, heartaches, challenges, victories, and romances. You are sure to find more...
The Farmer's Bride Collection
6 Romances Spring from Hearts, Home, and Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Love is in season as you journey into rural America’s history and witness the harvest of romance through six delightful stories. From Minnesota to Florida, New York to Kansas, and Ohio to Louisiana, heroic men and women make sacrifices in order to create a home, nurture the crops, and secure a future...
The Bartered Bride Romance Collection
9 Historical Stories of Arranged Marriages
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Treasure this beautiful collection packed with all the angst of romance founded upon practical arrangements. Four sisters travel in answer to an ad before even corresponding with potential husbands. Two women bend to the will of their parents in taking husbands. A widow commits to a stranger in name...
by JoAnn A. Grote
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Though eight years have passed, Mandy remembers as if it were yesterday the pain of turning down Jason's marriage proposal. But she knows her decision was right, and she's learned to live without him. But when his grandfather's heart attack brings Jason back to their small town in the mountains of...
American Challenge: Revolution, A New Nation, and Westward Expansion
Revolution, A New Nation, and Westward Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Girls are girls wherever they live-and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8-12-year-old girls: Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Massacre (covering the year 1770), Kate and the Spies: The...
by JoAnn A. Grote
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
When the Spanish-American War causes yet another postponement of Frank and Amy's wedding, she vows to marry him when he returns. A severe battle brings Frank home from the Philippines before the rest of his regiment, but Amy is simply glad that her fiance is alive. Frank, however, believes the war...
Kate and the Spies
The American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Time Period: 1775 When Kate Milton and her cousin happen across the Boston Tea Party, they unwittingly step into the midst of the American Revolution. The eleven-year-old girl finds herself pulled deeper into the conflict by members of her own family-by those who support the Patriot's revolutionary...
Anna's Fight for Hope
The Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Time Period: 1931 Twenty-five percent unemployment, food lines, banks and businesses closing. . . The Great Depression was not only a national catastrophe, but a personal one, as well. Follow the fictional story of Anna Harrington to see how this time of upheaval affected a twelve-year-old girl who...
American Rebirth: Civil War, National Recovery, and Prosperity
Civil War, National Recovery, and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Elise the Actress: Climax of the Civil War (covering the year 1865), Janie’s Freedom:...
Emily Makes a Difference
A Time of Progress and Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Time Period: 1893 It's 1893, and technology is making Emily Allerton's world a better place. This fictional twelve year old can hardly believe the inventions displayed at the Chicago World's Fair-unusual things like "automobiles." But soon, an economic depression throws many Americans out of work,...
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