Paper Roses (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• Mrs. Canfield: Add a description of this character.
• Klaus
• Sarah Dobbs: Was a mail order bride who went to Texas to marry her future husband, but found he was dead. Sarah limped due to being in an accident while riding a horse.
• Heidi
• Frau Steiner
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Clay Canfield: Sarah's dead fiancee's brother, who'd been a Boston doctor with a Mass. degree, before settling in Texas. A widow, formerly married for a short while to Patience. who had been pregnant with their first child. Daughter of Daniel and Prudence Morton.
• Austin Canfield: Supposed to be Sarah's new husband, killed after a poker game.
• Steven Dunn
• Mama
• John Tallman
• Michel Ladre: Mayor and self appointed sherriff of Ladreville, the founder of this small town in Texas.
• Thea Dobbs: Sarah Dobbs' younger, 2 year old sister
• Madame Rousseau
• Miguel
• Joseph
• Frau Bauer
• Frieda Lehman
• Père Tellier
• Martina and Miguel: Workers at the Bar C ranch
• Isabelle Rousseau: Daughter of the owners of the town's only mercantile; Sarah got work there and they became friends.
• Leon Rousseau: Isabelle's brother, eventually worked for Karl Friedrich on his ranch
• Miss Sarah Dobbs
• Karl Friedrich: A German immigrant, a neighbor of Clay's, owned a ranch.
• Herman Adler: The town's only doctor
• Martina
• Frau Friedrich
• Pierre Berthoud
• David Bramble: Closest friend of Austin, son of Mary Bramble, lived beside the Bar C ranch
• Mary Bramble: Mother of David, owner of The Lazy B ranch. Mary took care of Thea for a while.
• Robert Canfield: Clay and Austin's father; he'd served in the Mexican war and survived. Now bedridden after suffering a stroke a year ago.
• Jean-Michel Ladre: Son of Michel (the mayor); handsome,
• Nora
• William Goetz
• Pere Tellier: Pastor of the French church
• Frau Reismueller
• Madame Ladre
• Dr. Herman Adler
• Papa
• Léon Rousseau
• Thea
• Gunther Lehman: A tall German man, town miller, widow; had been married to Frieda
• Eva Lehman: Gunther's daughter; no education. 6 or 7 years old, motherless
• Daniel Morton: Lived in Boston, was former father-in-law of Clay. He was hoping Clay would come back to Boston to take over his practice.
• Pastor Sempert: Pastor for the German townsfolk
• Leah Dunn: A woman in Ladreville who needed a doctor immediately; married to Steven, the postmaster.
• Granny Menger: The town midwife
• Zach Webster: An old friend of Pa Canfield, served in the Mexican war with him and spent time in a Mexican jail.
• Olga Kaltheimer: Gunther began courting her. She was in charge of t he children's program at the new school.

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• San Antonio, Texas: The capital of the state; where Sarah and Thea had met Clay.
• Philadelphia: Where Sarah and Thea had lived before moving to Ladreville, Texas
• Ladreville, Texas: Smal, spotlessly clean and prosperousl town with 2-story half-timbered buildings with steeply pitched roofs. There were two churches, because two natioalities lived there: French people and German, mainly from Alsace in Europe. Each group wanted to remain separate from the other.
• Canfield ranch: Near the Medina River, called the Bar C, rough-timbered and smaller than the neighbors'
• Lazy B ranch: Owned by the Brambles, it was larger than the Bar C, had a 2-story home and several outbuildings. The main room in the house held femine touches.

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1. Amanda Cabot (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.6

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