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Once Upon a Thanksgiving: Season of Bounty\Home for Thanksgiving
(Knotty Pines #4)
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Season of Bounty by Linda Ford
At first glance, privileged Kathleen Sanderson and cowboy Buck Donahue couldn't be more different. Yet the bond between Buck and his adopted son awakens a wish in Kathleen for a family of her own--and a future they can build together.
Home for Thanksgiving by Winnie Griggs
All that stands between Ruby Anne Tuggle and a fresh start is an escort t ...more
At first glance, privileged Kathleen Sanderson and cowboy Buck Donahue couldn't be more different. Yet the bond between Buck and his adopted son awakens a wish in Kathleen for a family of her own--and a future they can build together.
Home for Thanksgiving by Winnie Griggs
All that stands between Ruby Anne Tuggle and a fresh start is an escort t ...more
ebook, 288 pages
Published
October 1st 2011
by Love Inspired Historical
(first published January 1st 2011)
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Nov 25, 2019
Theresa
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
historicals-mystery-and-romance,
thanksgiving
These two novellas set at Thanksgiving in the Old West were surprisingly heartwarming and pleasurable reading.
In Season of Bounty we meet kind, gentle Kathleen, the lonely daughter of the town's richest most powerful man, and Buck, a lonely and honorable man whose life is spent running from family tragedy and notoriety. Buck's adopted half-breed son is gravely ill, forcing Buck to seek help from his married sister whom Kathleen has befriended against the wishes of her social class conscious pare ...more
In Season of Bounty we meet kind, gentle Kathleen, the lonely daughter of the town's richest most powerful man, and Buck, a lonely and honorable man whose life is spent running from family tragedy and notoriety. Buck's adopted half-breed son is gravely ill, forcing Buck to seek help from his married sister whom Kathleen has befriended against the wishes of her social class conscious pare ...more
Season of Bounty:
Buck doesn't feel like he can ever settle down. His family's past has caused him and his sister much suffering. But there's something special with Kathleen.
I loved this story! It was so sweet and so romantic. The drama with Kathleen's father kept me wanting to read. I felt that everything was wrapped up a bit too nicely, but I still loved the story!
Five Stars
Home for Thanksgiving:
I could not even finish this one. Actually, the truth is I didn't want to finish this one. There wer ...more
Buck doesn't feel like he can ever settle down. His family's past has caused him and his sister much suffering. But there's something special with Kathleen.
I loved this story! It was so sweet and so romantic. The drama with Kathleen's father kept me wanting to read. I felt that everything was wrapped up a bit too nicely, but I still loved the story!
Five Stars
Home for Thanksgiving:
I could not even finish this one. Actually, the truth is I didn't want to finish this one. There wer ...more
Sep 14, 2012
Minivanmom2four
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
love-inspired-books
The first story was just ok...but I loved the second one!!
Two inspirational historical Thanksgiving novellas comprise this book. Linda Ford's story involves a well off daughter of a town leader and a cowboy with an adopted half-breed son and a shady family history finding a way to solve each other's loneliness and make a better future. Winnie Griggs' story involves a young woman who has been a town's obligation most of her life, reaching out to make a fresh start and finding an escort to take her to a new city who then gets extremely sick along the way
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Rating is for the first story, Season of Bounty by Linda Ford. This story was fantastic! The characters were detailed and seemed genuine. I'm impressed by the author's ability to tell such a dynamic story in so few pages. I loved the commentary about social class and racism against Native Americans during the time period.
I got through 2.5 chapters of the second story and gave up. The writing style was not for me and everything seemed dragged out, with a predictable romance brewing. I wasn't inv ...more
I got through 2.5 chapters of the second story and gave up. The writing style was not for me and everything seemed dragged out, with a predictable romance brewing. I wasn't inv ...more
SEASON OF BOUNTY Linda Ford
What an incredible story! I love how we're all missing something, yet God can answer with such a bountiful gift!
HOME FOR THANKSGIVING Winnie Griggs
The perfect complimentary story! God has a special way of bringing two halfs together to make both of them complete! I loved how they were both confusing each other's reactions! ...more
What an incredible story! I love how we're all missing something, yet God can answer with such a bountiful gift!
HOME FOR THANKSGIVING Winnie Griggs
The perfect complimentary story! God has a special way of bringing two halfs together to make both of them complete! I loved how they were both confusing each other's reactions! ...more
Nov 22, 2020
Chelsea
rated it
liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
christian-fiction,
historical-fiction
Season of Bounty - 2.5 stars It was too unrealistic and saccharine sweet.
Home for Thanksgiving - 3.5 stars It was lovely and sweet with endearing characters.
Home for Thanksgiving - 3.5 stars It was lovely and sweet with endearing characters.
Thanksgiving
This was a great book, by two great authors
How two couples find love. And they both have happy endings
This was a great book, by two great authors
How two couples find love. And they both have happy endings
I loved the two stories in this book.
Review coming soon!
Sweet stories
The writing wasn't spectacular but it wasn't horrible--extremely mediocre and easy to read. The first story by Linda Ford was definitely the definition of sweet. A little too sweet. A little too cliche. I was entirely uninterested in the plot by the end.
The second story, by Winnie Griggs, was better, and the reason I gave the overall rating three stars instead of two. Griggs has a better mastery over characterization. Since these are romance stories the plot is pretty much set in the beginning. ...more
The second story, by Winnie Griggs, was better, and the reason I gave the overall rating three stars instead of two. Griggs has a better mastery over characterization. Since these are romance stories the plot is pretty much set in the beginning. ...more
I liked both the sweet stories in this book. I liked the Thanksgiving themes and found both to be inspiring and well written. I liked Linda Ford's contrast of the wealthy and poor families and God's forgiveness bridging the gap between Buck and Kathleen.
I am a Winnie Griggs fan and always enjoy the comfortable tone of her stories,like friends enjoying a cup of tea. I really liked Ruby Tuggle and her adopted cat, Patience. I particularly liked reading about Ruby's courage in taking control of her ...more
I am a Winnie Griggs fan and always enjoy the comfortable tone of her stories,like friends enjoying a cup of tea. I really liked Ruby Tuggle and her adopted cat, Patience. I particularly liked reading about Ruby's courage in taking control of her ...more
I liked the first well enough - rich girl finding meaning in life and a spine with bonus love interest - but I didn't feel that we got to know either of them very well at all. It was sweet, but not much more than that. The second - girl trying to start a new life asks gentlemen to be her escort to the new city and they end up taking care of each other - flowed so smoothly and I loved the main characters so much. It took a lot of remembering to realize I'd read another story in the series, though
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This book contains two sweet stories, one by Linda Ford and one by Winnie Griggs. I liked them both, particularly the one by Ms. Griggs! Her style of story-telling is easy to read and has a lovely flow to it. Her characters were believable and the story had just the right amount of tension in it.
Both stories were positive and left me feeling inspired.
Both stories were positive and left me feeling inspired.
I like to read holiday stories not around the holidays, as it helps me to remember that being thankful is not something just for Thanksgiving! These two cute stories were perfect for such a reminder! So much in life to love and appreciate...
There are two books in this one book, one called Season of Bounty by Linda Ford and the other ne called Home for Thanksgiving by Winnie Griggs. I liked them both, but really enjoyed the second one best.
Enjoyed both of these stories about the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
Very good reading.
I loved this story. The characters become personal friends. I also loved how God's unconditional love for us is intertwined in the story.
...more
Both stories were good, but I definitely preferred the second story. It was the hero that got to me in the second story. It does make me want to read the first of the Hawk's Creek stories.
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Linda Ford grew up devouring books and making up stories in her head—often late at night when she couldn't sleep. But she hadn't planned to write. Instead, she dreamed of running an orphanage. In a way, that dream came true. She married, had four homemade children, adopted ten and lived (at times, endured) the dream.
Writing first took her to non-fiction human-interest articles for newspapers and ...more
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