Anne Flosnik
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Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honorable bachelors and begins correspondence with a gentleman farmer. When her church offers to pay her travels under an unusual arrangement, she jumps at the opportunity. On the ship, she meets Gwyneira Silkham, traveling to meet a New Zealand baron who won her in a game of blackjack. When their new husbands turn out to be...
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Sea of freedom trilogy volume 2
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As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women₂s suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult.
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Elaine inherited her grandmother's feisty spirit, big heart, and love of the land. As she makes her way to New Zealand to take a wealthy sheep baron's hand in marriage, a handsome Irishman walks into her life and she succumbs rapidly to his charms. Only to have her heart broken when her half-Maori cousin Kura arrives and draws William away. Both young women endure hardships as they learn to live with the choices they make, and each discovers their...
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In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The luck of the Irish, however, is not on their side. Soon, they find themselves swept up in circumstances they never could have fathomed. Kathleen is forced to marry against...
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Don't fight the winds of change. Ride them. The dawning twentieth century brings change to New Zealand, and new opportunities for any woman bold enough to grasp them. Atamarie Turei, whose mother fought for suffrage, has enrolled as the first female student at the Canterbury College of Engineering. On a surveying trip she meets Richard Pearse, who shares her passion for aviation. Being part Maori, part white, and thoroughly independent, Atamarie is...