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In Heart of the Lonely Exile, Book Two of BJ Hoff's acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series, readers will find heroine Nora Kavanagh struggling to build a new life for herself and her son Daniel in America. With help from a wealthy American family and friendship and support from a British gentleman, Nora nevertheless finds herself caught in a conflict of the heart. Michael Burke, a strong, dedicated Irish policeman, desperately wants to keep his promise to his best friend Morgan show more Fitzgerald to marry Nora and protect her. But Nora's instincts urge her to resist Michael's proposal and follow her heart in a different direction....More troubling still, in the midst of her personal struggle, the heartaches from her homeland continue to plague her. Heart of the Lonely Exile continues the saga of the Kavanagh pilgrimage—a journey of the soul in a strange new land, where all those who are exiles and aliens seek to finally find their true home.. show less
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How everything would work our wasn't a foregone conclusion til end! Learned that Morgan Fitzgerald was a historical person, some of his poems were quoted.
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Christian author B. J. Hoff was born in 1940. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was a church music director and a music teacher. She spent several years writing devotional and gift books before attempting to write fiction. She is the author of Cloth of Heaven, Ashes and Lace, the Emerald Ballad series, the American Anthem series, and the show more Mountain Song Legacy series. She has received the Critics' Choice Book Award for fiction from Christianity Today as well as numerous Excellence in Media Silver Angel awards. She was also a Gold Medallion Award finalist and is currently a member of the Authors Guild, the Irish American Cultural Institute, and the Appalachian Writers Association. She currently lives in Ohio with her husband. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Heart of the Lonely Exile
- Dedication
- To the Family of God - at Bethany House Publishers - for whom I am deeply thankful...by whom I am greatly blessed
- First words
- Donal the Twin, son of Eoin Kavanagh, sneaked away from his nephew's cottage before dawn on Sunday morning.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)As they rode, a soft voice came singing to Morgan's heart. Like an echo from the upper air, it whispered: ride, Morgan! Ride with the wind! I will not let you fall...
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- Fiction and Literature, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3558 .O34395 .H4 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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