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Her Daughter's Dream (Marta's Legacy) Hardcover – September 14, 2010

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Book two in the bestselling series that has captivated millions of readers around the world!

A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY bestseller

In the dramatic conclusion to the Marta’s Legacy series, the beloved author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece delivers a rich and deeply moving story about the silent sorrows that can tear a family apart and the grace and forgiveness that can heal even the deepest wounds.

Marta’s granddaughter, Carolyn, comes of age during the turbulent sixties, struggling to navigate a tense family life. Though college offers a taste of freedom, tragedy shatters her confidence and she disappears into the heady counterculture of San Francisco. When she reemerges, more lost than ever, she reluctantly turns to her family to help her rebuild a life for herself and her own daughter, May Flower Dawn.

But familiar tensions emerge when Dawn develops a closer bond with her grandmother than her own mother. As she seeks to avoid the mistakes of those who went before her, Dawn determines to become a bridge between the women in her family.

Her Daughter’s Dream is the emotional final chapter of an unforgettable saga about the sacrifices mothers make for their daughters and the very nature of unconditional love.

“Rivers has written another page-turner. . . . This heartfelt and sweeping saga is as ambitious as its central matriarch.” Publishers Weekly

“Engrossing and stunning. . . . The prose is elegant and life changing. . . . This sweeping family saga will touch both the heart and soul.” Romantic Times
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    Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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    September 14, 2010
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    6.19 x 1.63 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1414334095
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    978-1414334097
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Best-seller Rivers completes the five-generation Christian family saga she began in Her Mother’s Hope (2010). It’s 1951, and Hildemara is back in the hospital with recurring tuberculosis, so her mother Marta moves in to care for her grandchildren Charlie and Carolyn. Charlie is the light of their lives while Carolyn is neglected, with unfortunate consequences in her college years, including alcoholism and pregnancy. Single, unemployed, and with a baby to raise, Carolyn moves back home, where the past repeats itself. Her mother lays down the law for her daughter and takes over her granddaughter Dawn’s care, selfishly arranging matters to suit herself and pushing Carolyn away, much as her mother had abused her. It isn’t until Dawn is an adult, heavily pregnant and missing her beloved army husband, who is serving in Iraq, that she realizes how each new generation of women has hurt her forebears. With her stepfather and mother-in-law’s help, Dawn resolves to stop the vicious cycle. The concluding book in Rivers’ drama examines mother-daughter relationships in the context of faith, juxtaposed against a backdrop of world events. --Lynne Welch

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; First Edition (September 14, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1414334095
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1414334097
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.69 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.19 x 1.63 x 9.25 inches
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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers continues to win both industry acclaim and reader loyalty around the globe. Her numerous bestsellers include Redeeming Love, A Voice in the Wind, and Bridge to Haven, and her work has been translated into more than thirty different languages. She is a member of Romance Writers of America's coveted Hall of Fame as well as a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). Visit Francine online at www.francinerivers.com and connect with her on Facebook (www.facebook.com/FrancineRivers) and Twitter (@FrancineRivers).

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O. Merce Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars A Spellbinding Mother-Daughter Historical Novel Grounded in God's Faithfulness Through Life's Storms
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2010
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I just finished reading this amazing book, the sequel to "Her Mother's Hope" (part two of a two part series called "Marta's Legacy"), and it was an unforgettable experience. The entire story (both books) follows family relationships, especially mother and daughter relationships spanning four generations. This second book, covering the time period from the 1950's to today, is even better, I think, than the first book (if that could be possible), as many loose ends are resolved and there are surprising conclusions. You find out what happens to the people you loved from the first book. Although this book was almost 600 pages, I hated for it to end. I felt as though I was so involved with the families and I knew that I was saying goodbye to their lives forever, although not to the lessons I've learned from them.

This is Christian fiction at its best, with fascinating historical details throughout and with events seen from the intriguing perspectives of the women of different generations. The voices change in both books, moving from mother to daughter (not alternating, but moving at a certain point--the first book covering Marta and Hildemara Rose and the second covering Carolyn and May Flower Dawn) so as a reader you have the opportunity to get to really know each of the women. All four of the women are in this second book. The theme of both books shows how imperfect people do their very best to be loving and yet sometimes their beloved family members just aren't able to see that love and misinterpret it. Sometimes, if we are blessed, the misperceptions can be corrected and so much healing can take place, with God's help. Through everything that happens to us, God's love is always, always there.

The two titles are taken from this sentence in one of the womens' journals: "I have lived out my mother's hope and pray I have given wings to my daughters' dreams." Each of the women in this two-book series tried to do this their own way and with God's help. This is a book that you will not be able to put down.

I suppose that it would be possible to just read this second book without the first, but I wouldn't do it. I would miss out on all of the pleasure of understanding the older women in the second book, of being familiar with their lives and of knowing why they were the way they were--how traumas and wounds had made them that way. I would miss seeing how they changed and grew over the years. I wouldn't see how profound it was that mistakes of one generation are passed down to subsequent generations...I would miss the richness of this incredible series. Read both.

Highly recommended.
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EllieMae
5.0 out of 5 stars So good, so real...
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2010
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I finished last night. It's a must read. It was so good and so real. I want to cry every time I think of it and probably will for awhile. Funny how a book can do that to you. I have never been a reader and at a women's retreat a few years ago, at which I was struggling, one of the ladies suggested I read "Redeeming Love" I have been a reader ever sense. Especially this summer. After reading the 1st of these 2 books I was so looking forward to this one.
It makes me wish I could sit with my mother and really ask her about her life. She had "manic depression" and growing up around her was not easy, we did not get along. She died with only a hint of repair between us. I found out things after she passed away and more after my Dad passed that made things a little clearer. But I don't have her to confirm or deny. So anyway this book was so real as to assumptions that are made and actions taken because of those assumptions. Bitterness and anger are hard to let go of and forgiveness does not come easy. All of these things are told so well in this book.
I have to say I got almost to the end and gasped -- Something May Flower Dawn said let me figure out the ending and I just sat and cried for awhile and almost left the book to do something else for awhile. I finished it to find I was right, and I cried some more it was a bittersweet ending.
I love the run through history, sometimes it went so fast but realized why she had to do that. It's a joy to read so I highly recommend it.
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M. Ackerman
5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner for Francine Rivers
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2010
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WOW. After reading Her Mother's Hope, I couldn't wait for September to roll around so I could get my hands on the sequel! Francine did not disappoint!! Once I started, I couldn't put it down.

This book continued the story of Marta and Hildemara and their strained relationship. This overflows into each of their relationships with Carolyn, Hildemara's dauighter, and then each of their relationships with May Flower Dawn, Carolyn's daughter. I love the men in this book, even though they are not the focus of the story. Beautifully written, you feel the pain, sorrow, determination, shame and love that each of these women experience. It's hard not hate or get irritated at some of the events, but hey....isn't that what a good writer does? Makes you really feel for the characters, good or bad?

These 2 books definitely made me think about my relationship with my mother, and my grandmother when she was alive. Where we've been, how far we've come, and imagining what God has in store for us. I don't want to spoil the book, so I'll just leave it at this - I HIGHLY recommend this book:-) An amazing read that confirms Francine Rivers is still (and probably will always be) my favorite author!
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cllane2
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book!
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2011
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While many sequels aren't as good as the original, this book is just as good or even better as the first book (Her Mother's Hope) in Marta's Legacy. Picking up right where Her Mother's Hope left off, Her Daughter's Dream follows Hildemara and her family. Hildemara is in the hospital with tuberculosis. Because of this, Marta moves in to care for Hildemara's children. Carolyn, Hildemara's daughter, feels rejected because she can't see her mother because of the tuberculosis which she doesn't understand. So Carolyn connects with Marta. As Carolyn grows up, she tries to find herself in college, but only finds more problems. Returning home pregnant, Carolyn relives her childhood in that her daughter, May Flower Dawn, connects more with her grandmother, Hildemara, rather than with her mother, Carolyn. As Dawn discovers more about her family, she struggles to avoid the mistakes of the women in her life and seeks to be teh peacemaker in her family.
Her Daughter's Dream is a very satisfying sequel to Her Mother's Hope. It is a book you will want to read again and again!
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Jerry
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book.
Reviewed in Canada on March 12, 2021
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rothkehlchen
5.0 out of 5 stars Deep and strong
Reviewed in Germany on July 21, 2020
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Four generations, the life of 4 women, told in two books. You will feel deeply with each of them, and identify with the one you will like most, as I did. But I won't tell which one. People are different, and so are these 4 women. To know the whole story, You will have to read both books, and You will read them with pleasure, I assure You. Rivers books surely are not just light entertainment, they show real existing, hard problems, that may be shocking for some people. Please don't read it, if You just seek light entertainment. But read it, if You are interested to be a friend to people, who suffer from hardship in their life. You will understand them better, you will understand yourself better und hopefully, you will understand Gods Grace better.
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Jean Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a super read, a great sequel to Mart's Lagacy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2014
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I absolutely loved Her Daughters Dream, it was a super sequel to Marta's Legacy. It covered a 100 years of one branch of the family with snippets of the other sibling's lives from time to time. They are both an excellent read and I would recommend then to anyone wanting an honest portrayal of family life with all its twists and turns and all of human nature displayed. I couldn't put either of them down. I wholeheartedly agree with you Kate. I couldn't read it fast enough and was then was sorry when I had finished them!!!
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Jean Crossan
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable reading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2021
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A continuation of the family saga
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Connie Coombs
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended!
Reviewed in Canada on May 17, 2016
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Wonderfully written book! Must read the first book of the series to fully understand this one and it takes a bit of time before the happy times come. It is a great book about the women in a family through the generations. Francine Rivers has a wonderful grasp of relationships. I highly recommend this book/series!
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