Ruby

Name: Ruby
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lauraine Snelling
ISBN: 9781440799778

Author: Lauraine Snelling

Series: Dakotah Treasures #1

Narrator: Alexandra O'Karma

Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2008

Categories: Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Award-winning author Lauraine Snelling delivers her first installment of the Dakotah Treasures series. Ruby, a Crossings Book Club Main Selection, is the story of a young woman who must leave behind the life she has grown accustomed to in order to start a new life in the bleak Dakota Territory.

About Lauraine Snelling

Lauraine Snelling is the award-winning author of over fifty books, including Blessing in Disguise, Song of Laughter, and Believing the Dream. She won a Silver Angel Award for An Untamed Land and a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart for Song of Laughter. She also writes for a wide range of magazines and teaches at writers' conferences across the country. Lauraine lives in California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shoujo85 on December 06, 2012

** This is just a QUICK REVIEW of my thoughts on the book ** I read this several years ago now, but I remember I wasn't impressed with it. It was fairly preachy, largely boring and the main character was sanctimonious and un-interesting. (I'd actually forgotten I'd read it until I brought it home fro......more

Goodreads review by Randy on August 07, 2017

Ruby Torvald and her sister, Opal have received an inheritance from their long-lost father who left the family years prior to seeking his fortune in the Black Hills. They leave Chicago and arrive at the mining town of Medora to claim their inheritance. Ruby is shocked at what their father has left th......more

Goodreads review by Abby on April 02, 2014

I should say "half" read. I gave it to stars because I hope this book got better later on. I love this author but I found this book to inappropriate and dull for me. It had a sweet beginning like first chapter but went off from there. Saloon? "Working girls"? Drinking? Romance? Please NO!......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 05, 2022

This is not her best series. Had a hard time getting interested in this story......more