Tag: Contemporary Fiction
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Almas De Alambre – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartHan pasado ocho aos y Alex ya ni lo recuerda. Para el solo fueron bromas de patio de colegio, pero no fue lo mismo para Dick… todo se mantiene fresco en su memoria. Para el no fueron bromas, sino una tortura que marco su vida para siempre. No ha olvidado lo que Alex le hizo, y en especial no le ha olvidado a el. Ahora Dick regresa, pero no ya como el nio indefenso que se encogia asustado en el patio del colegio, sino como un joven que, a fuerza de odiarse, odia a todo el mundo y vive para desquitarse de quienes arruinaron su niez y su autoestima. Alex y sus amigos planean un divertido dia en un circuito de paintball. Pero les acechan las sorpresas mas espeluznantes y peligrosas jamas imaginadas. Sobreviviran o pagaran por lo que hicieron?
Eight years have passed and Alex doesn’t even remember. For him it was only schoolyard jokes, but it wasn’t the same for Dick . . . everything is still fresh in his memory. For him it was no joke but torture that marked him for life. He hasn’t forgotten what Alex did to him, he certainly hasn’t forgotten Alex. Now Dick is back, not as the helpless child who cowered in the school courtyard, but as a young man who, hating himself, also hates everyone else and lives to get back at those who ruined his childhood and his self-esteem. Alex and his friends are planning a fun day in a paintball course. They never thought that a paintball fight could be dangerous, but with Dick there, it will be. More surprises will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Amish Hawaiian Adventures
$16.99Add to cartJoin Mandy and Ellen on a trip of a lifetime to Hawaii in this two-novel collection. Will the discoveries these Amish girls make forever change the direction of their lives?
The Hawaiian Quilt
Mandy Frey has always longed to see Hawaii, so before joining the Amish church and settling into family life, she convinces three friends to join her on a cruise of the Hawaiian Islands. When Mandy and Ellen miss the ship after a port of call on Kauai, they get a room at a bed & breakfast where they make new friends, learn about local history, and participate in Christian church. But when it is time to fly home, Mandy feels torn between feelings for Ken Williams, an organic farmer on Kauai, and Gideon Eash, her boyfriend who has been waiting for her in Indiana.The Hawaiian Discovery
Ellen Lambright thought she was going back to Hawaii only to help her best friend through multiple challenges, but she also befriends a man who has been hiding from his past. Reuben Zook works on the Williams family’s organic farm, far from his past mistakes and burning regrets. The attraction is mutual, but Ellen’s commitment to the Amish faith stands between them. Could a heartfelt discovery lead to forgiveness, reunion, and love? Or is Ellen’s destiny waiting for her in Indiana? -
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.
