Where hope prevails

Description:

When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. The town's rapid growth means more students. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education -- one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the children who sit under the influence of Robert Harris Hughes, Beth struggles to know how to respond.

subjects: Coal mines and mining,  Philosophy,  Fiction,  Teachers,  Teaching,  Women pioneers,  Marriage proposals,  Religion in the public schools,  Fiction, romance, western,  Canada, fiction,  Fiction, romance, historical, general

Places: Western Canada