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标题：Memories Stir the Heart
作者：S. Daniel Smith
期刊名称：Reviewer's Bookwatch
出版年度：2005
卷号：Feb 2005
出版社：Midwest Book Review

Memories Stir the Heart

S. Daniel Smith

Memories Stir the Heart

Barbara K. McDonald

Infinity Publishing.com

1094 New Dehaven St Suite 100, West Conshohocken, PA 19428

1-877-BUY-BOOK

ISBN 0741407388 $13.95 167 pages

History fans and readers of romantic stories will both be blown away by the historical detail and heartwarming plot of Memories Stir the Heart, by Barbara McDonald. Set in the mid-1800s, a time when the Oregon Trail was the primary means of traveling west, Barbara paints a very vivid picture of life in a wagon train. Her main character's personal struggles as a wife of a less-than-decent man keep the reader interested, as does the final companionship found, and lost, between herself and a cattle-driver named Jesse Hoehne.

As she works through the memories in her wooden chest, Molly Hoehne recalls her pain, sorrow, and joy at each item. While the memories stir her heart, the reader sees the longing and the hope for perfect love. It is a hope that drives her, in the last paragraph of the book, to say, "Well, who knows what tomorrow will bring?" The very fact that the reader is left, after all of the trials of the main character, with the hope of a new day is only the first reason to read and enjoy this debut novel.