Category: Contemporary Fiction
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1 More Tomorrow
$23.99Add to cartKatie Banks is still waiting to get over the hurt inflicted by a past love. Not even Justin Burke, her university classmate, has been able to erase the hurt Aiden Ford inflicted, or weaken Katie’s resolve to never date a man who doesn’t share her faith. Will the walls Katie’s built to protect herself keep love a distant dream?
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Tinderbox
$15.99Add to cartOn the day before her Amish parents’ twentieth wedding anniversary, Sylvia Miller stumbles across the key to the old brass tinderbox her father keeps in his Lancaster County watch repair shop. Piqued by curiosity, Sylvia unlocks the cherished heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life.
Once Sylvia overcomes her shock, she confronts her father about the contents of the box. To her amazement, the respected convert to the Old Order admits that he is not fit to be a member of the Hickory Hollow Amish church–in fact, he never was.
Burdened by the weight of his deception, Earnest Miller reveals the details about his past to Sylvia–and to his wife, Rhoda. The long-kept secret alters everything for the close-knit family, and when word of Earnest’s deceit reaches others in the community, the truth pits Amish neighbors against one another and threatens to dry up Earnest’s livelihood–as well as to break up Sylvia’s engagement to the preacher’s grandson.
Can the Millers find a way forward through the turmoil to a place of forgiveness and acceptance?
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1st Love
$17.00Add to cartIn the summer of 1952, eighteen-year-old Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. Sweet-spirited and uncommonly pretty despite struggling with a debilitating illness, she is accustomed to being treated kindly by the young men of her Old Order Amish church district. Yet no one but Jimmy Beiler ever asks her out, and she always declines, certain he only pities her.
To make matters worse, Dat has recently remarried, less than a year after Maggie’s mother died. And while her stepmother is kind, she’s much younger than Mamm, and she simply doesn’t understand Maggie or her illness the way Mamm did.
Strong in her faith, Maggie has been taught to accept her lot in life as God’s will. But with declining health, an unsettled family situation, and few future prospects, any sense of hope seems elusive.
When tent revival meetings come to the area, Maggie attends out of curiosity, but the words of the evangelist begin to stir something deep inside her. Dare she hope for a brighter future?
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Undeniable
$11.99Add to cartFrancine Moonie is a sensitive, awkward, and anxious young girl. Born in Indiana in the 1950s, she is raised in a middle-class Catholic family which has a history of mental illness. Like many teenagers, Francine yearns for freedom and an escape from heartache and emptiness. Finally facing her breaking point, Francine descends on to a path of darkness, which for some is a point of no return.
Continually questioning God’s existence and goodness, she leaves a trail of chaos and uncertainty in her wake. As her life unravels around her, she must confront a key question: are the most bizarre, insignificant experiences of one’s life being silently woven together toward a greater purpose… or can those experiences be disregarded as mere coincidences?
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Heavenly Appointments : A Novel About Abortion Healing And Forgiveness
$14.99Add to cartPure Heart Publications
This story will carry you down a road of heartbreak and healing with a mother and daughter who suffer great loss, until they discover the source of recovery and wholeness.
The father’s untimely death throws the family into chaos. Overwhelmed with grief, the mother, Suzanne, is unable to help her struggling daughter cope. Unfortunately, Erin reaches out for comfort in the wrong place and ends up pregnant-twice. The dark cloud of abortion overshadows their home and almost destroys any hope of a peaceful or meaningful life.
Years later, when Suzanne takes her final breath, she wakes up in heaven. Guided by an angelic being, much to her surprise, she gains a new perspective and discovers that the most grievous earthly disappointments can miraculously become “heavenly appointments.”
As you walk with Suzanne and Erin, you too will find healing for the pain of your past.
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Because Of Gracia
$15.99Add to cartChase Morgan would love to live up to his name and pursue something great. It’s his senior year and he’s still as insecure as ever, but Eastglenn High’s newest student is about to turn that around. Gracia is a girl with charisma, intelligence and conviction, but she’s not as “together” as Chase and his best friend OB might think. A dark past gives her a unique connection with Bobbi, a misunderstood classmate with a strained home life and an all-too-cute boyfriend as her means of escape. As Bobbi struggles with a life-and-death decision and Chase risks rejection, Gracia challenges her friends, teachers and even herself to experience the transformative power of grace. Based on the award-winning film starring Moriah Peters and Chris Massoglia, Because of Gracia follows the stories of Chase Morgan, Gracia Davis, and their fellow high school seniors as they face life-altering decisions on their journeys of faith, friendship, and love.
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Harvest Of Lies
$19.99Add to cartDeception, lies, revenge, and forgiveness entwine the lives of Spencer and Dianne Ralston. When Dianne is diagnosed with early-onset dementia at fifty-eight, Spencer’s demand for accountability for his wife’s recently discovered betrayal is rather moot. Only when he is confronted with the consequences of his own betrayal does he understand true forgiveness and what happens when it is refused.
Harvest of Lies is a story that captures your attention immediately and keeps you guessing about what is going to happen next. After each page of reading, I was compelled to turn to the next. I could not put the book down!
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Lifelines : A Novel
$17.99Add to cartLife had been going swimmingly until biologist Dr. Robert Fielding was bewildered by a squall that still threatens to shipwreck him. Tormented by the losses in his life, he finds a dozen reasons why he doesn’t need the friendship of his new neighbour, Anna Fawcett. After all, the senior and her disabled son aren’t exactly in his league.
But how is he supposed to turn down fresh cinnamon buns? And Robert hasn’t bargained on his neighbour’s innocent, probing questions. They erode his faith in naturalism and collide with his assumptions about life, love, and truth. Have his foundational beliefs been the cause of his personal losses? As he searches for answers, Anna’s example of loving integrity keeps him coming back. Or maybe it’s her homemade pies. Yet to risk re-thinking his core convictions for a chance at personal peace would expose his soul and tear open an old wound.
Others in the neighbourhood, too, are under Anna’s thrall – a teacher facing a crisis pregnancy, a crusty cat-lady, a cancer-ridden conspiracy theorist, a Cambodian immigrant family. Each is touched by the power of her obscure and ordinary life.
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Challenge
$12.99Add to cartTwo families face circumstances that will change their lives. Roy and Reanna are devastated when they discover Livy had planned to end her life. Lola, a young woman bound to her wheelchair due to an accident, can identify with Livy’s desire to die. But she is also the only one capable of giving Livy the will to live again.
Grady is in possession of his mother, Sophie’s, medical directive, and makes the decision to have life support removed. He is not prepared, however, for his sister-in-law, Dinah’s wrath, when she discovers what he has done. Can Elliott, already upset by Grady’s careless attitude to their mother, find a way to comfort Dinah in this darkest moment?
Holly, a housekeeper with a longing for Dr. Kimball to find happiness, shares her cheerful attitude with all around her. But another doctor on staff is in sharp disagreement with Dr. Kimball about how they care for their patients, and this debate could change the way they approach their medical careers forever.
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Driftwood Tides
$14.99Add to cartHe made himself an island until something unexpected washed ashore.
When Holton lost his wife, Adele, in a freak accident, he shut himself off from the world, living a life of seclusion, making drifwood sculptures and drowning his pain in gin. Until twenty-three-year-old Libby knocks on his door, asking for a job and claiming to be a friend of his late wife. When he discovers Libby is actually his late wife’s illegitimate daughter, given up for adoption without his knowledge, his life is turned upside down as he struggles to accept that the wife he’d given saint status to was not the woman he thought he knew.Together Holton and Libby form an unlikely bond as the two struggle to learn the identity of Libby’s father and the truth about Adele, themselves, and each other.
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Prayer Box : A Novel
$17.99Add to cartWhen Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola’s rambling Victorian house.
Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola’s walls, but everything changes with the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, spanning from Iola’s youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper–the hopes and wishes, fears and thoughts of an unassuming but complex woman passing through the seasons of an extraordinary, unsung life filled with journeys of faith, observations on love, and one final lesson that could change everything for Tandi.
