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    Rebecca's Reward
    Rebecca's Reward
    Rebecca's Reward
    Audiobook11 hours

    Rebecca's Reward

    Written by Lauraine Snelling

    Narrated by Stina Nielsen

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    Lauraine Snelling, best-selling author of A Touch of Grace, transports listeners to the windswept plains of 1903 North Dakota. Despite disaster, Rebecca Baard still dreams of someday soaring beyond the family farm. "[Rebecca's Reward] will make you laugh, cry and dream as . one woman's future is buried beneath seemingly impossible dreams."-Romantic Times
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 13, 2009
    ISBN9781440709135
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    Lauraine Snelling

    Lauraine Snelling has been writing and publishing books across all genres and for all reading levels since 1980. She received a Career Achievement Award for inspirational fiction from RT Books Reviews and has consistently appeared on the Christina Booksellers Association's bestseller lists. She has written over sixty-five books, and a hallmark of her style is writing about real issues within a compelling story. She and her husband, Wayne, reside in California and have two grown sons.

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    • 4/5
      This is the 4th and final in this series, but just so you know, there are 2 other series before this one and two other series after this one. I have gone back and started from the beginning, and it gives you so much background to the characters in this series.This story is about 19 year old Rebecca Baard, who has lost both her parents and is living with her brother in Blessing, North Dakota in the year 1903. They don't agree on much; Rebecca wants to open up a ice cream parlor in Blessing, North Dakota and her brother thinks her dreams are foolish. She decides to go and visit her Aunt Penny in Bismarck and get her help and ideas. There she meet eligible bachelors in town and discovers her dreams for a ice cream parlor to be a lot of work. She also realizes how much she misses her hometown and one certain gentleman friend, Gerald. When she returns home she will find her life changes quickly, and her love for Gerald grows. But will he admit his love for her help her fulfill her dream? A touching story filled with many engaging characters I have come to know and love.
    • 5/5
      Going home to Blessing, North Dakota is a favorite reading pastime for me. I've been a fan of Lauraine Snelling's books about the Bjourkland family and their friends for well over ten years. I look forward to each new book about the townsfolk and the going ons in their lives as they live out the American dream out in the west. With this book, we get to read the story of Rebecca Baard, cousin of Penny and daughter to Ingeborg's best friend who died several years ago. Rebecca is tired of the life she lives, having to tend an all male house and wants to start a new life. She dreams of opening a soda shoppe in her hometown but needs to find resources and funding to make this dream come true. I really liked her relationship with her friends and cousins. It's good to read about how girl talk was an important part of life even back in the day.My favorite part about this book was the talk of all the ice cream! Rebecca is extremely productive and takes a lot of initiative to make this dream of hers become a reality. There's a lot of planning and research that went into making her decision. I appreciated that she did take the time to learn about what goes into running an ice cream shop and not had it magically happen. There was a lot of things to consider, including the question of who would go get ice cream in the winter time. I really liked it when she went on the behind the scenes tour of the ice cream parlor in Bismarck and then got to eat the ice cream.I also have really enjoyed seeing the Valders boys change and mature throughout the entire Blessing saga. When we first met them, they were ragtags who were troublemakers, stubborn and rude. They eventually got adopted and throughout the books began to change and soften the hearts of the townsfolk and their own parents. With this book the focus is on Gerald and it's wonderful to see him now be a kind hearted man who has definitely grown up from him wild beginnings. I was also really glad to see him take a stand against his mother, who seems to be the ever popular grump of the town.The only thing I felt was a bit odd was that the story of Mr. Jeffers seems to end up abruptly with no conclusion. There was nothing really wrong per se, but I just felt that the story was left hanging and just pushed aside. It's not a big plot but since it affected the main characters it would have been nice to have some closure. Other than this, I really enjoyed reading this book. It's total comfort reading for me, and I love the historical setting. I am dying to read Astrid's story and am excited that the next series about Blessing is going to be based entirely on her. Lauraine Snelling is one of my favorite Christian historical fiction authors and I feel that if you start with the first book in this saga, you won't be able to stop.