Lessons of the heart
Subtitle: four novellas in which modern teachers learn about love
By: Kristin Billerbeck, Linda Goodnight, Yvonne Lehman, Pamela Kaye Tracy.
Contributors: Billerbeck, Kristin.; Goodnight, Linda.; Lehman, Yvonne.; Tracy, Pamela Kaye.
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Uhrichsville, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Women teachers -- Fiction.; Love stories, American.; Christian fiction, American.; American fiction -- Women authors.; American fiction -- 20th century.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Love lessons.; Beauty for ashes.; Scrambled eggs.; Test of time.
Description: 4 Teachers Find More Than They Bargained for in Their Contracts
 
Something Old, Something New by Kathleen L. Maher
New York, 1840s
Her father’s sudden death makes Gilda Jacobs the new schoolmaster, but to teach Christian curriculum she partners with fire-and-brimstone revivalist Joshua Blake, who learns a lesson in love.
 
Love in Any Language by Susanne Dietze
Kansas, 1870
Mary Clarence teaches English to the children of Swedish immigrants, but when her favorite students’ widowed father, Kristofer Nilsson, is accused of robbery, she’s determined to clear his name.
 
In Desperate Straits by Carrie Fancett Pagels
Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1894
Desperate for work, Margaret Hadley dresses as a young man to secure a dray driver’s position. When soldiers at the fort threaten her, Mackinac Island’s newest teacher, Jesse Huntington, intervenes.
 
A Song in the Night by Rita Gerlach
Virginia, 1904
Karin Wiles longs to share the uplifting power of music with children. But when she seeks to improve a poorly run school and include orphans, Nathaniel Archer delivers harsh words of opposition from the school board.
Table of contents: title: Love lessons / Kristin Billerbeck; title: Beauty for ashes / Linda Goodnight; title: Scrambled eggs / Yvonne Lehman; title: Test of time / Pamela Kaye Tracy.