Books by Ken Lord

This is a love story, but not quite the way one would expect it to happen, with a surprise ending. It has gentleness, joy, pathos, and sadness. It puts you squarely into Victorian-era Arizona at a time when the railroad has not yet arrived and travel is by stagecoach.Henry Stratham is a civil engineer, a former Union artilleryman, and a principal investor in a major railroad scandal. Elizabeth (Lizbeth) Truman is the widow of an Arizona logger who has two children. What do they have in common? Not much.Thaddeus Truman, the widow's father-in-law, decides it's time for her to remarry and sets into motion a mail-order-husband effort. While Henry perceives that the opportunity allows him to obtain western employment and land, Lizbeth wrestles with the inevitability of her remarriage, if for no reason other than her children.Campbell Stanley is a Michigan schoolteacher who attracts Naomi Givings, a young Georgia governess who has been ordered by the court to deliver her charges to a New Mexico orphanage. Was it only a chance meeting, or was there some overarching plan to draw her to the western city of Flagstaff, Arizona?Two children, Martha and Jacob, each in search of a father, bring to the story the sadness over the loss of a parent and the consideration of a potential replacement who challenges their relationship with each other.The wealthy traveler (Claude Chana) who rescues the orphanage and the U.S. Government auditor (J.R. Wentworth) who serves a warrant for the arrest of Henry Stratham-where do they fit into the story?And finally, there is Old Wellington-the smartest horse you ever saw.

How should rancher Harlan Graves act when his daughter Bernice runs away from boarding school, arriving home frightened and wanting her mother? He hasn't a clue, and the child's mother is buried on their ranch.How should Angelina Busto, The Cupcake Queen of New York, react when a nun attempts to set her up with a man nearly three thousand miles away? Her mother wants her to marry and bear children... but must it be so far away?This is a story of the pairing of two adults and the assimilation of a child who fears for her future. The principals meet in the mail (early in the 20th Century) and try to find a way to mesh. They meet in person and it doesn't work out. So she goes home.Was it a mislead? Is there a future for these two? Gilbert and Sullivan both have something to say about it. Especially if you like pastrami.Among the unique features of the book is a Godly way to explain menses. The story captures the interest of the mail-order bride stories but includes scriptural guidance in child-rearing and worship.

This book teaches what you need to become a successful Avon representative. I did it. For eighteen years, I was "Ken the Avon Man," and built a $300,000 Avon business. When I was first asked, I said, "I can't sell Avon... I can't sell lipstick." In response, I was told, "You can't sell Avon. A man can't sell Avon."That's all it took. I began with fear. I finished with victory. You can do it, too. It takes some effort, but you can take it just as far as you wish. This narrative nonfiction will give you some ideas how.

A fiery train wreck consumes Binney Cooper's husband, Norris, leaving her to provide for herself and her twin boys. Left penniless by the loss of her teaching position, she asks a court to declare Norris dead, permitting insurance benefits. Bigamist Norris's second wife, Eliza, also wants that money. To give Liza the slip, Binney and her twin boys relocate. But Eliza finds her. So Binney runs again, across the continent, this time to Carson City, Nevada, where Blake Taylor, rancher, attorney, and a former suitor during college days now lives. Their friendship becomes a romance, helped along by widower Blake's twin daughters and Binney's sons. Then Norris, the 'dead' husband shows up to claim his wife and sons. Enraged when he hears of his former wife's interest in Blake, Norris shoots Blake, winging him, while Blake returns fire, killing Norris. How will they explain to Binney's sons that the father they thought was lost in a train wreck was killed by a man they have come to love, Blake?