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Sixteen Brides
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Sixteen Brides (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Stephanie Grace Whitson (Author) (edit contributors)

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Fifteen women living in St. Louis respond to a series of meetings conducted by a land speculator who lures them west by promising "prime homesteads" in a "booming community." Another woman joins the group as she is escaping her past. Unbeknownst to them, the speculator's true motive is to find... read more

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Sixteen women were led on a quest for a better life. Some of them got land and some of them got husbands. At least eight of them found faith, courage and love.

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  • “Press on to hope.”
    Mama
  • “Hope On * Hope Ever”
    Katies Needlework
  • “"I think, that what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman ans she should make up her own mind and not change it when the wind starts to blow. I think a woman should be who she is, not what others expect her to be. And if she wants to go to a dance looking for a man, she should go and not feel like she has to explain herself."”
    Ella
  • “"The only thing certain in life is that things aren't certain."”
    Matthew
  • “"'Carissima,'" means beloved. It's Latin."”
    Ruth
  • “"...God was a thorny topic for everyone when life didn't give what they'd come to expect from love."”
    Hettie's thoughts
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  • God answers our prayers with what we need, not necessarily what we ask for.”
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  • If God meant for life to be all sorrow, he wouldn’t have created laughter,
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  • if a body let people from the past ruin today, didn’t it do just what Zita said—give snakes more power than they deserved? In a sense, it let them win.
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  • Was this how it worked? A man carried the burden of grief, and for a while it obscured everything else around him, until slowly, the burden started to shrink until it could fit inside his heart instead of blocking out everything else in the world. And finally, it folded in on itself. And while it still remained a part of you, and you knew it always would, it made room in your heart for hope. You woke up one morning and there was no pain behind the enjoyment of the sunshine. Memories stopped slashing their way into your consciousness. Instead, they floated in, welcome and comforting.
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  • In games of cat and mouse, there must be no doubt to either party as to which player has the claws. Using those claws, however, is always a lady’s last resort.
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  • For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7
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  • “I think,” Ella said, “that what a woman does or doesn’t do should be up to the woman, and she should make up her own mind and not change it when the wind starts to blow. I think a woman should be who she is, not what others expect her to be. And if she wants to go to a dance looking for a man, she should go and not feel like she has to explain herself. And if she wants to have her own farm, she should do that and not feel like she has to explain that, either.
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  • It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. PSALM 118:8
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  • Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. HEBREWS 11:1
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  • A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. PROVERBS 16:9
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As the carriage pulled away from Union Station, Caroline Jamison almost panicked and called out to the driver, "Wait! Don't go! I've changed my mind! Take me home!"

Table of Contents edit see section history

About the Author
Chapters 1-30
Note From the Author "Attractive Widows"

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Heartache: Whether the ladies were widowed, divorced and just hurt; they were all trying to heal a heartache in their lives.

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  1. Stephanie Grace Whitson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Bethany House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-61664-363-8
Page Count: 348

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Reading Level: Ages 9-12

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