Janette Oke

After years of schooling, Beth Thatcher has graduated and is determined to become a teacher....

As a young girl, Lillian Walsh lost both her parents and a younger sister. Now in her 20s, after enduring the death of her adoptive mother, Lillian must find her place in the world....

Beth Thatcher returns home from her first year as a schoolteacher in the mining town of Coal Valley and steps into a whole different world....

"You see, somethin' had to be done! I couldn't just sit back and watch our special family get broken up....

A little girl grows into womanhood, unaware of the forces that swirl around her past and her future....

A young Jewess of mixed heritage in first-century Palestine is caught up in an unlikely romance and betrayals from unexpected sources which will test her loyalties....

Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest....

Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters....

Elizabeth, the cultured young schoolteacher from the East, has braved the Western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. Now, she and Wynn are planning their wedding and their new life together....

The fledgling church is being scattered by persecution....

Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away....

Lillian Walsh shares a large home with her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, and the orphaned children to whom Grace has devoted her life. But then the letter arrives - an official complaint revoking the sisters' permission to manage their little children's home....

Though life seems to be moving others ahead, Josh appears to have come to a dead standstill. What does the future hold....

Christine and her older brother, Henry, grew up in the Delaney family as loved and nurtured as if they had been born to Elizabeth and Wynn....

On the brink of manhood, Josh was facing important questions about life, about love, about himself....

Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges. They are presented with a new posting....

In this book, the third in the Prairie Legacy series, Virginia dreams that having a home of her own will surely satisfy the longings of her heart....

As a youth, Henry had been rescued from terrible circumstances by the Delaneys, whose loving care helped to heal his painful memories....

Three-time Christy Award winner Davis Bunn collaborates with Janette Oke to evoke the tumult of first-century Judea in the wake of Christ’s crucifixion....

Best-selling author of Too Long a Stranger and Julia's Last Hope, Janette Oke is loved for her inspirational novels. In Once Upon a Summer, Oke weaves the tender tale of 12-year-old, Joshua, who has been raised by his 18-year-old aunt and their grandparents. He has grown accustomed to their...