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Sneak Peek
SNEAK PEEK: One Glorious Ambition by Jane Kirkpatrick
One dedicated woman…giving voice to the suffering of many.
Click here to download chapter one of One Glorious Ambition.
Dorothea Dix wasn’t born into a charmed life, but she didn’t let it stop her from finding her God-given purpose. Inspired by Dorothea’s true story, One Glorious Ambition follows the life of a woman who fought for the rights of the mentally ill to give dignity and grace to these outcasts of society.
Click here to download chapter one of One Glorious Ambition.
PODCAST: Goals for One Glorious Ambition by Jane Kirkpatrick
Jane Kirkpatrick shares her goals and motivations behind her upcoming Spring 2013 historical fiction title, One Glorious Ambition. The fictionalized story of Dorothea Dix’s compassionate crusade to improve the conditions of the mentally ill.
NEWS: Historical Novel Society Recommends “Where Lilacs Still Bloom”
The Historical Novel Society “…enjoyed Where Lilacs Still Bloom and recommend(s) Kirkpatrick’s gentle tale of persistence and imagination….” To read the full review, click here
NEWS: An Up Close & Personal Interview with Author Jane Kirkpatrick
Where Lilacs Still Bloom author Jane Kirkpatrick interviews with Ungrind. Click here to read where Jane’s love for writing began, if she grows lilacs, her next upcoming book, and much more!
NEWS: Author Jane Kirkpatrick Featured in Oregonian
Historical fiction writer Jane Kirkpatrick, author of Where Lilacs Still Bloom, is featured in the Oregonian. To learn more about Kirkpatrick’s own real-life history and how she started writing novels, click here.
SNEAK PEEK: What Once We Loved by Jane Kirkpatrick
A circle of courageous women discovers the meaning of independence, forgiveness, and love.
Click here to download the first chapter of What Once We Loved now.
Ruth Martin had a dream: to become an independent woman and build a life in southern Oregon for herself and her children. But when her friend Mazy’s inaction results in a tragedy that shatters Ruth’s dream, Ruth must start anew and try to heal her tender wounds.
Her friends are also moving on. Mazy wrestles with her understanding of what faith and family really mean; Tipton discovers that marriage requires more than she’s ready to give; and Suzanne’s challenge is to keep seeing with new eyes. Together, the turn around women travel to arenas of untested promise where they’ll find a hope that sustains them and relationships they’ll cherish all their days.
Click here to download the first chapter of What Once We Loved now.
SNEAK PEEK: A Name of Her Own by Jane Kirkpatrick
Marie fights for her family’s very survival with the courage and gritty determination that can only be fueled by a mother’s love.
Click here to download the first chapter of A Name of Her Own now.
Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war, protect her sons and raise them well and, despite an abusive, alcoholic husband, keep her marriage together.
Click here to download the first chapter of A Name of Her Own now.
READING GUIDE: Where Lilacs Still Bloom by Jane Kirkpatrick
When an unlikely book by famous horticulturalist Luther Burbank motivates turn-of-the-century housewife Hulda Klager to become a self-taught plant cultivator, she humbly seeks to share beauty through her creations. But growing flowers in a time of practicality isn’t easy, and overcoming the skeptics, seasonal floods, and a series of family tragedies challenges every part of Hulda’s determination. She ultimately creates over 200 new varieties of lilacs by passionately pursuing the dream that God gave her—and by living a life of generosity and hope despite many trials.
SNEAK PEEK: No Eye Can See by Jane Kirkpatrick
Facing challenges and loss, a community of extraordinary women fight to overcome the pain of the past – and embrace the future.
Click here to download the first chapter of No Eye Can See now.
When blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches California with a group of women who have survived tragedy on the Oregon Trail, she sets her mind on doing for herself all that must be done. Though she cannot see, she rejects offers of assistance, unwittingly risking her children’s safety – and her own.
Her companions blindly falter as well, held hostage by their own pasts. As Suzanne attempts to control her life in Shasta City, Ruth defends against past errors, failing to see how she limits love. Meanwhile, Mazy’s vision seems to be permanently clouded by her late husband’ s betrayal. But when a young stagedriver risks all for a Wintu Indian, his life becomes entangled with the turnaround women – and together they are changed forever as they discover that No Eye Can See all the good God has in store for those who love Him.
Click here to download the first chapter of No Eye Can See now.
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