A gown of Spanish lace

Format:

Book

Title:

A gown of Spanish lace

Author:

Sperling, Natasha.

ISBN:

9780764227110

Publication Information:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, 2002.

Physical Description:

176 pages ; 20 cm.

Series title(s):

Classics for girls.

Summary:

First-time schoolteacher Ariana is abducted to an outlaw camp far from home, and her confinement stretches into weeks.

Subject(s):

Women pioneers -- Juvenile fiction.

Kidnapping -- Juvenile fiction.

Teachers -- Juvenile fiction.

Christian life -- Juvenile fiction.

Western stories.

Women pioneers -- Fiction.

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

Teachers -- Fiction.

Christian life -- Fiction.

West (U.S.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

West (U.S.) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Added Author:

Oke, Janette, 1935- Gown of Spanish lace.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Amity Public Library	INSP FIC OKE	Searching... Unknown

A Janette Oke Classics for Girls book. First-time schoolteacher Ariana is abducted and taken to an outlaw camp far from her home. As her confinement stretches into weeks, Ariana learns little of her captors. But the one man assigned to her care doesn't seem to share the temperament of his violent cohorts. He may be Ariana's only chance for escape.

Author Notes

Janette Oke (pronounced "oak") was born in Champion, Alberta, Canada, during the depression years. She graduated from Mountain View Bible College in Didsbury, Alberta where she met her husband, Edward. She and Edward married in 1957 and went on to serve churches in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada, and Indiana.

Oke published her first book, Love Comes Softly, in 1979. The book experienced immediate success because works of fiction were a virtually unknown genre in the Christian publishing industry. Oke has gone on to publish some 36 romance novels, earning her the 1992 President's Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. She is the author of the "Love Comes Softly" and the "Prairie Legacy" series of books.

Oke enjoys a large reading audience primarily comprised of teenagers, homemakers and working women. She recently started writing for young children.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Booklist Review

Using a plot that owes much to Zane Grey, who himself owed a great deal to Walter Scott, Oke places a young schoolmarm, Ariana Benson, in harm's way and then joins her with the man she loves. Ariana is kidnapped and held for ransom by a band of outlaws--turns out though, that the boss' son, Laramie Lawrence, has a conscience and even an incipient faith. He steals Ariana from the outlaws, and on a long trek to Montana, the two fall in love. Laramie becomes a Christian, but a missing cuff on Ariana's inherited wedding gown shows up in Laramie's long-dead mother's trunk, linking the two as brother and sister, separated years before when Indians massacred their parents. Tough break, but further research reveals that they are not related, and so the marriage can proceed. Oke is the grande dame of Christian fiction, and her latest is likely to join The Bluebird and the Sparrow , her previous work, on the evangelical Christian best-seller list. (Reviewed August 1995)1556616902John Mort

1. A Girl and a Boy	p. 9
2. Ariana	p. 18
3. The Snowstorm	p. 24
4. Arrival	p. 35
5. The Dilemma	p. 43
6. Guardian	p. 50
7. Early Trouble	p. 57
8. What Now?	p. 64
9. An Ally	p. 71
10. Explosion	p. 80
11. Escape	p. 87
12. Waiting	p. 95
13. Terror	p. 100
14. At Last!	p. 107
15. End of Journey	p. 114
16. A Joyous Hello and a Painful Good-bye	p. 123
17. Adjustments	p. 132
18. Truth	p. 141
19. Reunion	p. 148
20. Adrift	p. 156
21. The Diary	p. 164

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