Tender Mercies

Name: Tender Mercies
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Lauraine Snelling
ISBN: 9781494587468

Author: Lauraine Snelling

Series: Red River of the North #5

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/29/2015

Categories: Fiction, Christian Fiction

Synopsis

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?

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 Victoria on April 04, 2023

Loved it as much as the others, though it is especially heartbreaking. Life on the prairie test the characters in truly difficult ways. On to No 6…😍......more

Goodreads review by Mary E on February 08, 2021

Tender Mercies by Lauraine Snelling is the fifth novel of the “Red River of the North” series. As with the others, I thoroughly enjoyed this account of the founders of Blessing, Dakota Territory. The series describes the lives of Norwegian immigrants who first homesteaded Dakota Territory in 1880. T......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on April 30, 2021

Mary Martha MacCallister comes to Blessing to visit her brother Zeb at his invitation. When some of the community suggest she help the Pastor John Solberg in his school, she decides to make herself useful and finds she enjoys the children and working with the Pastor. When she is called home to help......more

Goodreads review by Linda Y. Shaw on January 04, 2018

Appropriate title Inspiring as always. I have come to love the characters as you do a treasured friend. You root for them, cry for them, and thank God for their example.......more

Goodreads review by R on August 25, 2024

**MINOR SPOILERS** This is part of the Red River of the North series about immigrants. The series follows the struggles and successes of the Bjorklund family and their neighbors who settled in North Dakota around 1880. It is now 1887. The author continues this series with a few other series, the next......more