Jane Kirkpatrick Books In Order

Dreamcatcher Books In Publication Order

  1. A Sweetness to the Soul (1995)
  2. Love to Water My Soul (1996)
  3. A Gathering of Finches (1997)

Kinship and Courage Books In Publication Order

  1. All Together in One Place (2000)
  2. No Eye Can See (2001)
  3. What Once We Loved (2001)

Tender Ties Historical Books In Publication Order

  1. A Name of Her Own (2002)
  2. Every Fixed Star (2003)
  3. Hold Tight the Thread (2004)

Change and Cherish Historical Books In Publication Order

  1. A Clearing in the Wild (2006)
  2. A Tendering in the Storm (2007)
  3. A Mending at the Edge (2008)

Portraits of the Heart Books In Publication Order

  1. A Flickering Light (2009)
  2. An Absence So Great (2010)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Mystic Sweet Communion (1998)
  2. A Land of Sheltered Promise (2005)
  3. The Daughter’s Walk (2011)
  4. Barcelona Calling (2011)
  5. Where Lilacs Still Bloom (2012)
  6. One Glorious Ambition (2013)
  7. A Light in the Wilderness (2014)
  8. The Memory Weaver (2015)
  9. This Road We Traveled (2016)
  10. All She Left Behind (2017)
  11. Everything She Didn’t Say (2018)
  12. One More River to Cross (2019)
  13. Something Worth Doing (2020)
  14. The Healing of Natalie Curtis (2021)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Homestead (1991)
  2. A Burden Shared (1998)
  3. When the Stars Danced (By:) (2001)
  4. A Simple Gift of Comfort (2002)
  5. Aurora (2008)
  6. Promises of Hope for Difficult Times (2013)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. A Log Cabin Christmas Collection (2011)

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Jane Kirkpatrick Books Overview

A Sweetness to the Soul

Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of twelve faces a tragedy that begins a life long search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, young Jane finds herself involved in an unusual and touching romance with a dreamer sixteen years her senior, struggles to make peace with an emotionally distant mother, and fights to build a family of her own. Filled with heart warming insight and glimpses of real life pain, A Sweetness to the Soul paints a brilliant picture of love that conquers all obstacles and offers a powerful testimony to the miracle of God’s healing power.

Love to Water My Soul

Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon’s Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a place of belonging…
only to be cast away from her home.A remakable story of God’s constancy and provision for all lovers of history, romance and faith…
Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon’s Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a pace of belonging…
only to be cast away from her home. In the years that follow, she faces a new life in the world of the white man a life filled with both attachment and loss yet finds that God faithfully unites her with a love that fills all longing in this heartwarming sequel to Jane Kirkpatrick’s award winner, A Sweetness to the Soul.

A Gathering of Finches

Based on historical characters and events, A Gathering of Finches tells the story of a turn of the century Oregon coastal couple and the consequences of their choices, as seen through the eyes of the wife, her sister, and her Indian maid. Along the way, the reader will discover reasons to trust that money and possessions can’t buy happiness or forgiveness, nor permit us to escape the consequences of our choices. The story emphasizes the message that real meaning is found in the relationships we nurture and in living our lives in obedience to God.

All Together in One Place

One of the incidents that made a profound impression upon the minds of all: the meeting of eleven wagons returning and not a man left in the entire train; all had died, and been buried on the way, and the women returning alone. from the journals of Ezra Meeker, 1852THEIR LIVES WOULD BE TEMPERED BY ADVERSITY, EXPANDED BY FAITH, POLISHED BY PERSEVERANCE For Madison ‘Mazy’ Bacon, a young wife living in southern Wisconsin, the future appears every bit as promising as it is reassuringly predictable. A loving marriage, a well organized home, the pleasure of planting an early spring garden these are the carefully tended dreams that sustain her heart and nourish her soul. But when her husband of two years sells the homestead and informs her that they are heading west, Mazy’s life is ripped down the middle like a poorly mended sheet forgotten in a midwestern storm. Her love is tried, her boundaries stretched, and the fabric of her faith tested. At the same time, she and eleven extraordinary women are pulled toward an uncertain destiny one that binds them together through reluctance and longing and into acceptance and renewal. Based on an actual 1852 Oregon Trail incident, All Together in One Place, Book One in the Kinship and Courage series, speaks to the strength in every woman and celebrates the promise of hope that unfailingly blooms amidst tragedy and challenge.

No Eye Can See

Jane Kirkpatrick has, almost literally, created her own genre of fiction. Her books enfold whisper, Let me tell you about a woman who They find a secret place in each of us and bring it gently to the surface. Salem Statesman JournalSuzanne felt the tears press at her eyes as the dream state drifted away taking with it the sight of the man she loved. Awake, she blinked back the tears. This was her life now. The sounds of the women and oxen, those were real. And the darkness her darkness. She lay inside it, resigned. She was not a wife reaching out for her husband but a widow, a blind widow, wistful and full of desire. FACING CHALLENGES AND LOSS, A COMMUNITY OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN FIGHT TO OVERCOME THE PAIN OF THE PAST AND EMBRACE THE FUTURE. When blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches California with a group of women who have survived tragedy on the Oregon Trail, she sets her mind on doing for herself all that must be done. Though she cannot see, she rejects offers of assistance, unwittingly risking her children’s safety and her own. Her companions blindly falter as well, held hostage by their own pasts. As Suzanne attempts to control her life in Shasta City, Ruth defends against past errors, failing to see how she limits love. Meanwhile, Mazy s vision seems to be permanently clouded by her late husband s betrayal. But when a young stagedriver risks all for a Wintu Indian, his life becomes entangled with the turnaround women and together they are changed forever as they discover that No Eye Can See all the good God has in store for those who love Him.

What Once We Loved

A CIRCLE OF COURAGEOUS WOMEN DISCOVERS THE MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE, FORGIVENESS, AND LOVE Ruth Martin had a dream: to become an independent woman and build a life in southern Oregon for herself and her children. But when her friend Mazy’s inaction results in a tragedy that shatters Ruth s dream, Ruth must start anew and try to heal her tender wounds.

Her friends are also moving on. Mazy wrestles with her understanding of what faith and family really mean; Tipton discovers that marriage requires more than she s ready to give; and Suzanne s challenge is to keep seeing with new eyes. Together, the turn around women travel to arenas of untested promise where they ll find a hope that sustains them and relationships they ll cherish all their days.
THE FINAL BOOK IN THE KINSHIP AND COURAGE SERIES

A Name of Her Own

Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war, protect her sons and raise them well and, despite an abusive, alcoholic husband, keep her marriage together. With two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Louis when her husband heads West with the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition of 1811. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition leader, and her volatile husband, Marie finds that the daring act she hoped would bind her family together may in the end tear them apart. On the journey, Marie meets up with the famous Lewis and Clark interpreter, Sacagawea. Both are Indian women married to mixed blood men of French Canadian and Indian descent, both are pregnant, both traveled with expeditions led by white men, and both are raising sons in a white world. Together, the women forge a friendship that will strengthen and uphold Marie long after they part, even as she faces the greatest crisis of her life, and as she fights for her family s very survival with the courage and gritty determination that can only be fueled by a mother s love.

Every Fixed Star

Continuing the Tender Ties Historical Series, Every Fixed Star brings readers more of the dramatic, fictionalized account of Marie Dorion: the real life woman who was the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest. In Book Two of the series, Marie learns the value of a tender heart, the faith of distant friends, and the act of holding life’s circumstances in open hands.

Following the family tragedy, the great battle for survival, and the test of faith described in A Name of Her Own, Marie relocates her family to the Pacific Northwest territory s Okanogan settlement. The year is 1814 and, as is customary of her life out West, Marie faces constant challenges simply to keep her children clothed and fed.

Yet inside each challenge awaits a gift to be unwrapped. Countless times, Marie has proven herself a survivor. Incredibly, she must now endure further realizations of a woman s fears: an abrupt ending to love, distance from friends, the disappearance of one child, the consequences of another s poor choices.

Through it all, Marie is tempted to believe that she doesn t deserve God s love in the everyday places. When blessings arrive, she struggles to accept them, fearing they will be followed by more difficult challenges. But ultimately, the threads of past friendships and their prayers, a faithful love, and her own service to others all lead her to God s gift of a full and abundant life.

Hold Tight the Thread

BASED ON A TRUE STORYIn a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by confusion and conflict, a mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that will not tear. Their Lives Were Woven by Wars and Wilderness Places, and Tied by the Peace of Family and Faith. As the 1840s bring conflict to the Pacific Northwest’s rugged Columbia Country, new challenges face Marie Dorion Venier Toupin: the wife, mother, and Ioway Indian woman who crossed the Rocky Mountains with the Astor Expedition, the first big fur trapping expedition after Lewis and Clark s. On French Prairie in the newly forming Oregon Territory, Marie strives to meet the needs of her conflict ridden neighbors: British settlers and Americans, missionaries and disease stricken natives, fur trappers and French Canadian farming families, and the surviving natives of the region. At the same time, as a mother, Marie must weave together the threads of an unraveling family. One daughter compares and judges as she seeks to find her place; another reaches for elusive evidence of her mother s love. Marie s memories are threatened with the emergence of a figure from the past. In the midst of this turmoil, Marie discovers an empowering spiritual truth: Unconditional love can shed light on even the darkest places in the heart.

A Clearing in the Wild

Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue and often doesn’t even try to do so, fueling the animosity between her and the colony’s charismatic and increasingly Autocratic leader, Wilhelm Keil. Eventually Emma and her husband, Christian, are sent along with eight other men to scout out a new location in the northwest where the Bethelites can prepare to await ‘the last days.’ Christian believes they’ve found the ideal situation in Washington territory, but when Keil arrives with the rest of the community, he rejects Christian’s choice in favor of moving to Oregon. Emma pushes her husband to take this opportunity to break away from the group, but her longed for influence brings unexpected consequences. As she seeks refuge for her wounded faith, she learns that her passionate nature can be her greatest strength if she can harness it effectively.

A Tendering in the Storm

Emma Giesy, a strong willed German American, believes her young family will thrive in the light of their newfound freedom, after she and her husband branch off from their close knit and repressive religious community in the spring of 1856.

A Story of Tender Truths
About a Woman’s Desperate Efforts
to Shelter Her Family

Determined to raise her children on her own terms, Emma suddenly finds herself alone and pregnant with her third child, struggling to keep her family secure in the remote coastal forest of the Washington Territory. With loss and disappointment as her fuel, she kindles a fire that soon threatens to consume her, making a series of poor choices that take her into dangerous relationships.

As clouds of despair close in, she must decide whether to continue in her own waning strength or to humble herself and accept help from the very people she once so eagerly left behind.

Based on a True Story

Rich with historical details and vivid characters, A Tendering in the Storm poignantly gives voice to a mother s fears for her family and a woman s search for her truest self.

A Mending at the Edge

Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most.

So begins this story of one woman’s restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award winning author Jane Kirkpatrick shows how landscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman s desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life. While set in the historical past, it s a story for our own time answering the question: Can threads of an isolated life weave a legacy of purpose in community?

A Flickering Light

Returning to her Midwest roots, award winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother’s photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman s pursuit of her dreams.

She took exquisite photographs,
but her heart was the true image exposed.

Fifteen year old Jessie Ann Gaebele loves nothing more than capturing a gorgeous Minnesota landscape when the sunlight casts its most mesmerizing shadows. So when F.J. Bauer hires her in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom, her dreams for a career in photography appear to find root in reality.

With the infamous hazards of the explosive powder used for lighting and the toxic darkroom chemicals, photography is considered a man s profession. Yet Jessie shows remarkable talent in both the artistry and business of running a studio. She proves less skillful, however, at managing her growing attraction to the very married Mr. Bauer.

This luminous coming of age tale deftly exposes the intricate shadows that play across every dream worth pursuing and the irresistible light that beckons the dreamer on.

An Absence So Great

Did photography replace an absence in her life or expose the truth of her heart’s emptiness?

While growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele’s personal life is at a crossroads. Hoping she’s put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her as ‘water under the bridge,’ she exiles herself to Milwaukee to operate photographic studios for those owners who have fallen ill with mercury poisoning.

Jessie gains footing in her dream to one day operate her own studio and soon finds herself in other Midwest towns, pursuing her profession. But even a job she loves can’t keep painful memories from seeping into her heart when the shadows of a forbidden love threaten to darken the portrait of her life.

Mystic Sweet Communion

Set in turn of the century Florida, this frontier saga traces the life of Ivy Cromartie Stranahan, the first English speaking teacher in the region, as she struggles to teach school in the Seminole Nation and lead Indian families to Christ. Ivy is disliked by tribal leaders in spite of her obvious love for their children, yet she eventually overcomes their resistance and serves as their spokesman in negotiations with the U S government. Already scarred by her mother’s tragic death in childbirth, Ivy overcomes her husband’s suicide and other devastating disappointments to share her faith with her adopted people and eventually earn their love. In 1900, Ivy Cromartie Stranahan gives up a promising teaching career to join her husband at the remote New River trading post in south Florida but she doesn’t give up her love for learning or her passion for righting wrongs. In this remarkable story of God’s faithfulness and one woman’s commitment, Ivy becomes a friend to the Seminole people, their teacher of forbidden English and the Christian faith, and finally, their spokesperson in a time of turmoil. Like all of us who search for meaning, Ivy yearns to experience the power of faith, understand the limitation of human protection, and learn the importance of perseverance in caring for those we love. She finds them in Mystic Sweet Communion.

A Land of Sheltered Promise

Out of the Wilderness Three Women. Three Eras. Three Miracles. 1901Plagued by loneliness on the Big Muddy Ranch, a sheepherder’s wife awaits the outcome of her husband s trial for murder. He is sentenced to life in prison and she to life without him. But a startling event could redeem their pasts and transform their future. 1984Against a backdrop of attempted murder, federal indictments, and the first case of bio terrorism in the U.S., one woman seeks to rescue her granddaughter from within the elaborate compound of a cult that has claimed the land. 1997On the much reviled, abandoned cult site, one woman s skepticism turns to hope when she finds that what was meant to destroy can be used to rebuild and in the process realizes a long held dream. For three women seekers united across time, a remote and rugged stretch of land in the Pacific Northwest proves to be a place where miracles really happen and the gifts of faith, hope, and charity are as tangible as rocks, rivers, and earth. Based on True Stories.

The Daughter’s Walk

A mother’s tragedy, a daughter’s desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year old daughter Clara, the two made their way on the 3500 mile trek by following the railroad tracks and motivated by the money they needed to save the family farm. After returning home to the Estby farm more than a year later, Clara chose to walk on alone by leaving the family and changing her name. Her decisions initiated a more than 20 year separation from the only life she had known. Historical fiction writer Jane Kirkpatrick picks up where the fact of the Estbys walk leaves off to explore Clara’s continued journey. What motivated Clara to take such a risk in an era when many women struggled with the issues of rights and independence? And what personal revelations brought Clara to the end of her lonely road? The Daughter’s Walk weaves personal history and fiction together to invite readers to consider their own journeys and family separations, to help determine what exile and forgiveness are truly about.

Homestead

Joining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush, rattlesnakes, and sand in eastern Oregon, Jane Kirkpatrick uneasily relinquishes the security of a professional career; the convenience of electricity, running water, and a phone line; and, perhaps most daunting, the pleasures of sporting a professional manicure. But the pull of the land is irresistible, and they dream of gathering their first harvest from a yet to be planted vineyard.

Rather than the simple life they had envisioned, Jane and Jerry find themselves confronting flood and fire, government bureaucracies, and runaway calves, among other disheartening setbacks. Jane frequently questions the sanity of pioneering in this remote area, known as Starvation Point, and she fights against panic with each trip down the seven mile, boulder strewn, rut carved driveway she calls the reptile road, which threatens to spill them into the ravine with every lurch of the truck.

But as she learns to navigate her new life, this novice rancher discovers that disappointment, isolation, and danger can t compete with the generosity of their rural community, the strength of family bonds, and the faithfulness of the God who planted in their hearts the dream of carving a refuge out of an inhospitable land.

A Burden Shared

Gently shaped to a woman’s back, the traditional Native American burden basket was intended to carry only the essentials. If a heavy load proved wearying, a friend could share the weight. In just the same way, we are called to bear each other’s burdens. The Burden Basket helps us care for others even when we don’t know what to say. Over 120 short, real life essays all in a Western theme share God’s loving care with those who are facing difficult times. This gorgeously illustrated book is the perfect encouraging gift for hurting people.

When the Stars Danced (By:)

Picking up where MY SEARCHING HEART leaves off, this book continues Crying Wind’s story of sorrow turned to laughter and mourning to dancing. Feel her pain as she encounters the painful traumas along her journey. Crying Wind’s whimsical writing has endeared her to her readers. ‘…
we humans are all so much the same and our families everywhere come home at night and ask the same thing, ‘Well, what’s for supper?”

A Simple Gift of Comfort

Bestselling and award winning author Jane Kirkpatrick reaches out once again to touch readers everywhere, this time by befriending those who are wounded by the many heartaches of life. Here she writes gentle words of comfort, wisdom, and joy; words of endurance, inspiration, and faith. These pages hold tender stories, thoughtful meditations, and insightful Scriptures readers will feel as if they ve found a safe and quiet place to set their burdens down, listen to the words of a dear and trusted friend, and gain strength to resume the journey. This book is tenderly written from the author’s heart to the reader s heart. It is intimate and genuinely compassionate. The sweet design invites the reader to linger a while and allow the healing to begin. The weary of heart will truly embrace this book as A Simple Gift of Comfort.

Aurora

A fantastic journey. A remarkable commitment. And a simple faith.

Wrap yourself in a riveting American tale told in beautiful stitches and craft

Master storyteller Jane Kirkpatrick extols the beautiful treasures, unknown to a wider public, rediscovered in the Old Aurora Colony of Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley. The people and legacy of Aurora, a utopian community founded in the mid 1800s, will stir your imagination, hopes, and dreams; and remind you that every life matters every daily task, love, aspiration, and endeavor.

Featuring
Unique and treasured quilt pattern variations
More than 100 photographs many never before published from 1850 to today
Cherished stories from Aurora descendants
Discoveries of fine crafts from the Colony and private collections
With an introduction by renowned American Artist John Houser

Aurora is about the difference every ordinary life can make and a beautiful celebration of a time and place in which people expressed their most cherished beliefs through the work of their imagination and hands.

A Log Cabin Christmas Collection

Experience Christmas through the eyes of adventuresome settlers who relied on log cabins built from trees on their own land to see them through the cruel forces of winter. Discover how rough hewed shelters become a home in which faith, hope, and love can flourish. Marvel in the blessings of Christmas celebrations without the trappings of modern commercialism where the true meaning of the day shines through. And treasure this exclusive collection of nine Christmas romances penned by some of Christian fiction’s best selling authors. 20110831

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