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  <title><![CDATA[The Captain's Bride (The Northern Lights Series , No 1)]]></title>
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  <default-description>Elsa Anders's dream of marrying Peder Ramstad is about to come true. But as this independent, strong-willed woman discovers her own creative gifts--a love for travel, painting, and the sea--can she find happiness with a captain who insists upon leaving her safely on shore?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a new life in&#160;&#160;with their closest friends, including: Kaatje Jansen, a woman seeking a new beginning for the sake of her marriage and for the child growing within her; Elsa's sister Tora, a sly young vixen who knows exactly what she wants--and exactly how to get it; and Karl Martensen, a man torn between his friendship for Peder and a forbidden, secret love for Elsa, a man tormented by emotions that threaten to ruin them all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the gentle hills of Bergen, Norway, to the rocky coast of Camden, Maine, and across the crashing, danger-filled waves of the open sea--experience an epic saga of perseverance and passion, faith and fidelity, in the Northern Lights series: the new historical series by Lisa Tawn Bergren.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1998</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Captain's Bride by Lisa Tawn Bergren is the first in the Northern Lights Trilogy about Norwegian immigrants to the US in 1880. Elsa Anders has been in love with Peder Ramstad since they were children together back in Bergen. The day of their wedding, they, along with several neighbors, boarded h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58202055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A thoroughly enjoyable historical novel about a group of Norwegian immigrants moving to the US. It was especially heartwarming to hear how proud they were to learn English and to be truly American. The author did a great job of capturing my interest for the story and the characters, but left enough ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62694290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend loaned me all three of The Northern Lights Series.  Once I got into the book it was hard to put down and I couldn't wait to read the second on the servies Deep Harbor.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I'd try out this local author (she's from Monument).  Nothing fabulous, but a good enough storyline that I'll probably pick up the next book in the series at some point.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Trilogy of the Northern Lights series. If you like adventure stories based in late 1880, this is a good read.  Her other books are also very good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of the 3 book series.  I enjoyed the adventure and Norweign roots.  It gets a little predictable, but still enjoyable.  Has Christian faith undertones too.  All books in this series I would rate similarly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We have a large inspirational/Christian romance section in our library system, so I thought I'd give it a go.  This has all the action of a normal romance without any actual bedroom scenes.  I missed the sex.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a fan of historical romance novels at all.  These books are EXCELLENT!!!]]></body>
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