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Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:15 AM PST
by Brooke Williams
Jed Leida enjoys his job as a taxi driver as he pays his way through law school. He picks up a lot of interesting people and drives them to locations all over New York. But when pregnant Sadie Walker jumps into his cab one morning, he instantly feels a connection with her as he looks into her eyes through the rear view mirror. After a few moments of their drive, however, Sadie goes into labor and has her baby right there in the back of his cab. When Sadie is carted off to the hospital without Jed ever catching her name, he figures that is the end of their story...
by Jacqueline Hopper
Keren Joel has a phobia and, without realizing it, she's passed it on to her son, forcing her to seek professional help. What she doesn't expect to find is the man who'd been her best friend, twenty years earlier, and his shrine to a moment that forever changed the adults they became.
by Lorna Seilstad
When spunky Marguerite Westing discovers that her family will summer at Lake Manawa in 1895, she couldn't be more thrilled. It is the perfect way to escape her agonizingly boring suitor, Roger Gordon. It's also where she stumbles upon two new loves: sailing, and sailing instructor Trip Andrews. But this summer of fun turns to turmoil as her father's gambling problems threaten to ruin the family forever. Will free-spirited Marguerite marry Roger to save her father's name and fortune? Or will she follow her heart--even if it means abandoning the family she loves?
Set against the backdrop of the picturesque Ohio Valley in 1880, the
Davidsons of Wildrose meet the challenges of the new decade.
Jacob, youngest son of the influential Davidsons of Lancaster Ohio, is
devastated
when the law of sowing and reaping come to his doorstep, dashing any
hope of a future with Caroline, and unknowingly leaving a child alone
and unwanted. As Jacob of old, he wrestles with God and finds the touch
of God that cripples, becomes his strength...
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by Grace Livingston Hill
This
story centered around Margaret Halstead and her half brother - Stephen.
She traveled all the way from her Eastern home to Stephen's place, with
only one mission in mind......
MARGARET
Halstead stood alone on the narrow board platform that seemed to float
like a tiny raft in a sea of plains and darkness. The train on which she
had come her long and interesting journey had discharged her trunks,
and taken up some freight, and wound its snakelike way out into the
darkness, until now even the last glimmer of its red lights had faded
from the mist that lay around....
What
is Love is a Bible based picture book that is designed to help children
understand what love is. In the story, twins Kar’Leigh and Kar’Moni
have just learned what the Bible says about love. Come join them as they
bring to life 1 John 3:11, 16-18 and 1 Corinthians 13:1-8a & 13 in a
way that is easy for children to understand. Each page includes a Bible
verse and there are links in the back of the book to download free
handwriting pages.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:54 AM PST
by Kathryn Cushman
When a car accident kills two teens from opposite sides of the tracks, the aftermath threatens to tear a community apart. On one side, Melanie Johnston--a grieving single mother--is convinced her son will be forgotten. On the other is Andie Phelps, a reserved woman who retreats even further into herself with grief. Readers' emotions are torn between these two sympathetic characters as each fights her way through grief and pain--sometimes wisely and sometimes with choices that have the power to divide family, church... Check out: Tomorrow's Promise Collection Books
Emma
Stolzfus has never been courted or kissed, and now that she's 30, it
has become her place as the unmarried daughter to look after her elderly
mother. But in the dark hours when her mother is asleep, Emma writes
letters and essays to Amish periodicals, short stories, and even a novel
she's been working on for the last five years.
When
a New York literary agent, Tyler West, takes an interest in her work,
Emma secretly goes to meet him. When she returns, something about her is
different-and the men of her Amish community take notice. But how can
she settle for second best when her heart made its choice years ago-to a
man she can never have?...
by Pat Patterson
In
this First Responders novel, Paramedic Jim Stockbridge responds to an
EMS call in the ghetto and finds his best friend brutally stabbed and
shot. Consumed with rage he hunts down Sid Drake’s killers and renders
his own form of justice. But soon Jim finds himself lost, tangling with a
vicious street gang and its ruthless warlord, William “J-Rock”
Jackson.
And so it begins, a long dark journey
that pushes Jim deep into his own personal world of bitterness and
revenge, and ultimately to the brink of disaster....
Breezy
Jones is crazy about the weather, rain or shine, which makes her job as
the local television station’s meteorologist perfect. She’s even hoping
the new buyers of her Aspen Grove station will make some positive
changes.
That’s before she meets the
attractive new general manager, Noah Drake, who is determined to
repackage everything including Breezy’s down-home delivery and casual,
girl-next-door appearance that seems too
Pollyanna for him. He replaces her with a high-powered diva weathercaster and makes Breezy her off-screen assistant....
VOTED FAVORITE HISTORICAL BOOK AND FAVORITE HISTORICAL COVER IN 2002
As
a widow, struggling to raise two boys and keep her Nebraska farm
operating, Lena Walker knows the pang of loneliness. None of the nearby
men meet her expectations, so she decides to advertise for a husband in
newspapers back East.
After all, she figures,
men find wives that way. In Philadelphia, Gabe Hunters has spent his
life buried in books, believing every question can be answered from the
printed page - especially of the Bible...
Deliver
Me From Negative Self Talk: A Guide to Speaking Faith-filled Words is a
quick read, but it packs a lot of punch and can literally change your
life.
Negative self talk destroys lives, but it doesn't have to.
Deliver
Me gives examples of negative self talk and offers a guide to stopping
negative self talk by replacing them with positive faith-filled words.
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