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    When Calls the Heart

    Written by Janette Oke

    Narrated by Nancy Peterson

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    About this audiobook

    Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care. She's also just as determined not to give her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. But then she meets Wynn Delaney, a member the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJan 30, 2018
    ISBN9781520099569
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    When Calls the Heart
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    Janette Oke

    Bestselling author Janette Oke is celebrated for her significant contribution to the Christian book industry. Her novels have sold more than 30 million copies, and she is the recipient of the ECPA President's Award, the CBA Life Impact Award, the Gold Medallion, and the Christy Award. Janette and her husband, Edward, live in Alberta, Canada.

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    • 4/5
      Predictable but delightful to read
    • 5/5
      This is the first book in the Canadian West series. I love this book!!1 The main character is bound to make it on her own.
    • 3/5
      Read this book because I had seen part of the television series. Varied from the series but I decided to persevere. Worth a read.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book more than I thought I would! It was a "nice" book - nothing too heavy for summer reading! It is the first in a series, and I will probably read the rest of the series.
    • 4/5
      This is my first experience with Janette Oke, which had a lot riding on it because of the recommendations from my sister-in-law as well as the making of the movies, etc. I was pleased. It was a quick and enjoyable read. At first I did not like how it was write as a Dear so-and-so letter perspective, but I think that it works well, as if it is Elizabeth telling you the story, as to children or a friend. Love, patience, and waiting for God's will not your own are very valuable lessons learned here, as well as to get out of your comfort zone to see what he has in store for you. I look forward to the rest of the series and then others.
    • 5/5
      The narrator is pleasant to listen to and the story is wonderful!!! My daughter and I loved listening together!
    • 5/5
      U LOVE this book, so well written and give God the glory thru it. I see why my mother always said that you were her favorite author. You are mine now too. Thank you for keeping the story clean and easy to listen to. I am a seamstress and listen to books being read to me all day long.....I love it. The gal that read the story is excellent at reading....good job!!
    • 3/5
      [SPOILERS BELOW]I'm not a fan of the description on the back of this book. ["Beth discovers that [Wynn] also has determined never to marry." Okay, we don't get to that part until page 164 (out of 221). It doesn't make sense for this information to be made known before reading it. To make things worse, for a portion of the book, we are supposed to believe that Wynn is already married (though it's obvious he isn't, even without the poor description, which brings me to my next point).It was frustrating how naïve Elizabeth could be. [First she couldn't figure out that Higgins was planning on marrying her, despite his aggressive flirting. Then she took ridiculous precautions to protect herself from "wolves" -- they're animals; not zombies! Next she couldn't stand the mice in her house, but couldn't stomach any methods of getting rid of them. Then she couldn't figure out why a man named Wynn Delaney would have an interest in a child named Phillip Delaney. And when she finally realized that there was a family connection, she couldn't imagine any other connection between the two beside father and child. Like, she thought Wynn was married with children and flagrantly flirting with her in front of everyone in town including his wife, despite otherwise being a respectable man. How is it that she's so sensitive to flirting except when it came from Higgins, anyway?[END SPOILERS]Also, normally, I hate it when people complain about a book (or movie) being "preachy" because I feel like they're being overly sensitive and acting like they were tricked into reading a "Christian" book despite the fact that the description of the book was very open about the spiritual content. However, in the case of When Calls the Heart, "preachy" is an accurate description. Whether that's a bad thing or not, I don't know. I felt like it was a bit unnatural, like it switched to the author speaking directly to the reader instead of conversations within the story.I did still enjoy it. Though I couldn't tell you why. I do love Wynn Delaney's name. There's one good thing. Haha. Doesn't it just roll off the tongue? Anyway, I'll continue the series, but there are other Janette Oke books I'd recommend rather than this one.
    • 5/5
      I've read this series many times, and these audio versions are wonderful! As simple as the stories are, Janette Oke, through the character of Elizabeth Delaney, has taught me things. I love all her work!

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    • 5/5
      "I'm quite happy to meet your friends," I announced firmly, "but I do want to make one thing clear: I came west to teach, not to wed. Had I been interested in matrimony, I could have stayed in the East and found an acceptable spouse."As a longtime fan of one of my all-time favorite authors, Janette Oke, I've had her Canadian West series in my sights for about a good two decades. After reading and enjoyng almost fifty of the books she's written and co-written over the years, it's more than fair to say that I came to When Calls the Heart with plenty of preconceptions and high expectations.And I wasn't disappointed.This prairie novel just happened to be first published the year I was born, and I found it to be a thorough pleasure: warm, humorous, sobering at times, and wrapped in faith. Even with the romantic storyline between young and cultured Elizabeth Thatcher and the Canadian Mountie Wynn Delaney (two characters now becoming increasingly iconic on account of their Hallmark television series--a series I have refused to watch before reading Oke's original novels), this tale isn't strictly a romance. Its primary focus is Elizabeth's adventure in tackling the challenge of a teaching position and a new life on the frontier.Oh, I did feel that she becomes a bit too much of the damsel in distress after a point and cries more times than is interesting, but she does have ambition, compassion, and a backbone. And what's more, it was this author's blessed simplicity that I was looking for and found, as not all writers can write as simply and still manage to make the reader care and reflect. It's a gift.I'm absolutely looking forward to reading the next book in this series, hopefully sooner than later.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this story and will be continuing with the series. It reminds me a lot of stories/TV shows like Sarah Plain and Tall, Christie and Dr. Quinn because the are set in the same time period and share the same basic story line. I know there was a TV movie made and a TV series on Hallmark. I look forward to watching them!

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    • 4/5
      Elizabeth Thatcher is a city girl from Toronto. She finds herself agreeing to teach in a new frontier town in Alberta to please her mother and become better acquainted with her half-brother Jonathan and his family. Elizabeth is somewhat reluctant and not sure what to expect, but soon finds herself quickly learning to love her new family and the students she teaches in a small one-room school all by herself. Enter Wynn, a handsome and loyal member of the North West Mounted Police. Elizabeth is determined not to be matched up with anyone and Wynn is determined that his job is too demanding to ever be able to marry. Elizabeth begins to have feelings for Wynn, but can't get Wynn to respond. It will take a drastic move to get him to admit his love.I haven't read any of Janette Oke's books for quite a few years, but enjoyed her writing style once again in this story. It was an easy read, and made me want to begin the next book in this series to find out what happens next!

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