A Fireproof Home for the Bride (Hardcover)

from BettyTaylor56

This book started fairly slow for me, and I wasn't quite sure of where it was going. But after it "set the stage" giving some background on the people and families involved, it really took off then. It went down a road I never would have suspected. Set in the mid-west in the 50s, the story revolv...

from nbmars

Emmaline ("Emmy") Nelson, 18, is living in a rural area of Minnesota in 1958 under the thumb of her mother Karin, a strict Lutheran who is "cold and firm, hardworking and driven, serving Jesus with her every breath." But Karin's idea of serving Jesus had nothing to do with a love of life or even ...

from flourgirl49

This story takes place in the mid-1950s in Minnesota/North Dakota and is about a young girl about to graduate from high school who is expected by her family to get engaged immediately and marry a neighboring farm boy. Unfortunately, that boy turns out to be a budding member of the Ku Klux Klan (M...

from muddyboy

I really loved this book. It is a novel about Emmaline Nelson a teenager growing up in small town North Dakota in the 1950's. It is a well written coming of age story in which she struggles to overcome a very restrictive mother to become a well rounded and assertive young lady. She learns about t...

from muddyboy

I really loved this book. It is a novel about Emmaline Nelson a teenager growing up in small town North Dakota in the 1950's. It is a well written coming of age story in which she struggles to overcome a very restrictive mother to become a well rounded and assertive young lady. She learns about t...