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    Tender Mercies
    Tender Mercies
    Tender Mercies
    Audiobook8 hours

    Tender Mercies

    Written by Lauraine Snelling

    Narrated by Callie Beaulieu

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The rich farmlands of the Dakota Territory in 1887 are finally beginning to yield the abundant harvest the pioneers had dreamed about so long. The establishment of the railroad has brought significant changes to the small town of Blessing as well as prosperity to the Bjorklund family and their neighbors.
    Among the townsfolk is reverend John Solberg. The reverend, rejecting the persistent efforts of matchmaking mothers, develops a friendship with Mary Martha through their common love of books. But then the message arrives that she must return home to care for her ailing mother. When she leaves, she says that she'll write. Reverend John and the other townsfolk are left to wonder, is this good-bye forever?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 29, 2015
    ISBN9781494587468
    Tender Mercies
    Author

    Lauraine Snelling

    Lauraine Snelling has been writing and publishing books across all genres and for all reading levels since 1980. She received a Career Achievement Award for inspirational fiction from RT Books Reviews and has consistently appeared on the Christina Booksellers Association's bestseller lists. She has written over sixty-five books, and a hallmark of her style is writing about real issues within a compelling story. She and her husband, Wayne, reside in California and have two grown sons.

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    • 5/5
      This is a story that has much depth and love. It was a wonderful read!
    • 5/5
      I love the characters and the way they learn trust in God. Their lives are hard, but they keep growing.
    • 4/5
      Another good story in this saga of the people who have come to live along the Red River in the Dakota Territory. This book begins in the year 1887 and has Mary Martha MacCallister coming from Missouri to visit her brother (Zeb) and his new wife (Katy). To fully understand this family you really need to read the previous stories, which will help you catch up with what has been happening.Mary Martha finds herself helping the pastor (who is not married) of Blessing, who teaches the children in their one room schoolhouse. Although they don't really get off to a good start, they will eventually come to care for each other. But Mary must return home to her dying mother. While gone tragedy will hit the community very hard and when Mary returns to Blessing, she will try to help pick up the broken pieces in her brother's life. She will also find true love with a man she cares for greatly.
    • 3/5
      I did not read the books in order. I finished the prelude then read this. With that in mind, the community setting is what attracts me to read the book, but also makes it hard for me to keep everyone straight. Lauraine does a good job at putting a tag or a reminder with the characters to help keep them straight---but I must have read too fast in places to keep them organized.

      She presents a lot of processes, i.e. cheese making, butchering, cooking, in detail---gets me bogged down in the process rather than the plot. (although interesting, I find myself skimming over it.)

      I enjoyed the time frame, the community atmosphere, and the bits of history.
      I wish there wasn't such a fight between women vs men---as if we have to be on opposite sides of issues.
      I grow weary of seeing feminism encouraged in Christian books.