Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/romantic-suspense/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0007 407520 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/romantic-suspense/engine/rss.php:0 Bo Caldwell - Free Library Land Online - Romantic Suspense https://romantic-suspense.library.land/ ru Bo Caldwell - Free Library Land Online - Romantic Suspense DataLife Engine The Distant Land of My Father https://romantic-suspense.library.land/bo-caldwell/68822-the_distant_land_of_my_father.html https://romantic-suspense.library.land/bo-caldwell/68822-the_distant_land_of_my_father.html The Distant Land of My Father
For Anna, the narrator of Bo Caldwell's richly lyrical and vivid first novel, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s creates a special bond between her and her father. He is the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a millionaire who leads a charmed but secretive life. When the family flees to Los Angeles in the face of the Japanese occupation, he chooses to remain, believing his connections and luck will keep him safe.He's wrong. He survives, only to again choose Shanghai over his family during the Second World War. Anna and her father reconnect late in his life, when she finally has a family of her own, but it is only when she discovers his extensive journals that she is able to fully understand him and the reasons for his absences. With the intensity and appeal of When We Were Orphans, also set in Shanghai at the same time, The Distant Land of My Father tells a moving and unforgettable story about a most unusual father-daughter relationship.]]> Thu, 01 Nov 2001 19:24:10 +0200 City of Tranquil Light https://romantic-suspense.library.land/bo-caldwell/464376-city_of_tranquil_light.html https://romantic-suspense.library.land/bo-caldwell/464376-city_of_tranquil_light.html City of Tranquil Light
"What ardent, dazzling souls emerge from these American missionaries in China . . . A beautiful, searing book that leaves an indelible presence in the mind." —Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist's Daughter

Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth-century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang P'ing Ch'eng— City of Tranquil Light, a place they come to love—and face incredible hardship, will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them?

Told through Will and Katherine's alternating...]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:41:15 +0200 Distant Land of My Father https://romantic-suspense.library.land/bo-caldwell/99654-distant_land_of_my_father.html https://romantic-suspense.library.land/bo-caldwell/99654-distant_land_of_my_father.html Distant Land of My Father
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