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Rode Rivier van het Noorden

Deze saga vertelt de levens van de familie Bjorklund, wiens lot onlosmakelijk verbonden is met het ruige landschap en de veranderende stromingen van de Red River of the North. De verhalen bestrijken generaties, vol liefde, verlies, veerkracht en de zoektocht naar een thuis te midden van een barre maar prachtige omgeving. Het is een emotionele reis door het leven, die de kracht van familiebanden en de blijvende menselijke geest onder uitdagende omstandigheden verkent.

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An Untamed Land

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    An Untamed Land

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    She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would never look back. The promise of free land lures Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway, and after three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, they finally arrive at the docks of New York City. This new land promises a rich heritage for their children, and here they hope to build a good life.After a long journey by train and then by covered wagon, the Bjorklunds finally arrive in Dakota Territory, where they settle on the banks of the Red River of the North. But the virgin prairie refuses to yield its treasure without a struggle. Will Roald and Ingeborg be strong enough to overcome the hardships of that first winter?Proud of their heritage and sustained by their faith, they came to tame a new land.

    An Untamed Land
  • The Long-Awaited Prequel to the Red River Of The North SeriesTwenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined to be an old maid. She's had several suitors but none she deemed worthy of spending her life with. That is, until she meets a university student from Oslo, and feelings stronger than friendship begin to develop between them. But tragedy strikes, and the future begins to look bleaker than ever.Grief settles heavily over Ingeborg, and her mother suggests that she leave Norway and start afresh in America, as so many others have done before her. But how will she accomplish that with little money and no one to accompany her?It isn't long before she meets Roald Bjorklund, a widower who has been planning to go to America for some time, lured by the promise of free land. He's a good man, a hard-working man--and he has a young son who desperately needs a mother. He's clearly interested in Ingeborg, but is he the answer to her prayers? And what about love? This isn't how she's always imagined it.Ingeborg Strand has a heartrending decision to make...

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