Contemporary Fiction
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Short Life Well Lived
$16.99Brian O’Connor is a successful lawyer, loving husband, and devoted father. He also happens to be blind. Driven his entire life to be independent, Brian has achieved much, but he has been so busy proving his triumph over blindness that he hasn’t stopped to consider how his carefully crafted life can all come crashing down in an instant. When his young son is diagnosed with cancer, the long ensuing battle brings Brian to his knees as he comes to terms with his own limitations and his need for faith.
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She Makes It Look Easy
$14.99Ariel Baxter has just moved into the neighborhood of her dreams. The chaos of domestic life and the loneliness of motherhood, however, moved with her. Then she meets her neighbor, Justine Miller. Justine ushers Ariel into a world of clutter-free houses, fresh-baked bread, homemade crafts, neighborhood playdates, and organization techniques designed to make marriage better and parenting manageable.
Soon Ariel realizes there is hope for peace, friendship, and clean kitchen counters. But when rumors start to circulate about Justine’s real home life, Ariel must choose whether to believe the best about the friend she admires or consider the possibility that “perfection” isn’t always what it seems to be.
A novel for every woman who has looked at another woman’s life and said, “I want what she has,” She Makes It Look Easy reminds us of the danger of pedestals and the beauty of authentic friendship.
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Broken Wings : A Novel
$31.41Onstage, the singing duo of Gabe and Mitzi Steiner captured America’s heart for more than two decades. Offstage, their own hearts have throbbed as one for sixty years. Only now, Gabe has retreated into the tangles of Alzheimer’s, leaving Mitzi to ponder her future alone.
On the other side of Tulsa, everyone believes Brooke Woodson has found the perfect man–a handsome lawyer with sights on becoming Tulsa’s next District Attorney. If only Brooke felt more sure. If only her fiance could control his anger. If only love didn’t come with so many scars.
When an accident lands Brooke in the hospital where Mitzi volunteers, the two women quickly develop an unlikely friendship birthed by providence and bathed in grace. And with Mitzi’s help, kindness, and insight, Brooke learns how to pick up the broken pieces of her life.
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Learning
$17.99The book millions of fans have been waiting for from New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury. Learning is the second volume in a new series that features members of the popular Baxter family and finally completes the Bailey Flanigan/Cody Coleman story.
Bailey Flanigan is growing closer to her dream to be an actress and dancer in New York while Cody coaches a small high school football team … on and off the field. But neither feels complete without the chance to share their dreams with one other.
Can distance truly make the heart grow fonder? Or will Cody learn to turn to others to share in his happiness? And when tragedy strikes? Who will be there to provide comfort in the face of loss?
As Cody’s past catches up with him, he must learn to reach out for help or risk withdrawing permanently inside himself. Both Bailey and Cody find themselves learning significant life lessons in this poignant love story, featuring members from Karen Kingsbury’s popular Baxter family.
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Protector : What Would You Protect Above All Else
$18.99Ella is forced to auction off her family’s farm after the deaths of her parents. Loyal Weaver, the golden boy of her close-knit Amish community, buys the farm and secretly hopes she will occupy the farmhouse again–as his wife.
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In Front Of God And Everybody
$9.99If God wanted April Grace to be kind to her neighbors, He should have made them nicer! Growing up in the country is never easy, but it sure is funny-especially if you happen to have a sister obsessed with being glamorous, a grandma just discovering make-up, hippie friends who never shower, and brand new neighbors from the city who test everyone’s patience. From disastrous dye jobs to forced apologies and elderly date tagalongs, you’ll laugh ’til you cry as you read the Confessions of April Grace! Here are just a couple of April’s thoughts: On her sister, Myra Sue: “How anyone can be that dumb and still be able to eat with a fork is beyond me.” On senior citizen lovebirds: “What if they started smooching right at the table in front of God and everybody?” In spite of all the loony characters in her life, April Grace is able to learn from her parents as they share the love of God-to even the craziest of characters!
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Relentless Pursuit : A Novel
$23.75Rich with the Cajun flavors of south Louisiana, this final book in the Secrets of Roux River Bayou Series is a story of what it means to find true peace in an uncertain world.
Sax Landry left home at seventeen to escape his father’s abuse, leaving his mother and sister to fend for themselves. Now, twenty-eight years later, both parents are dead, and guilt compels him to find his sister and make peace. His search leads to Les Barbes, Louisiana, where authorities fear a bio-terrorist has injected cyanide into juice cartons and fresh produce at the grocery store. People are dead. It’s not safe. Sax stays, fearing death less than living another day without peace. A divine appointment is about to change all that forever.
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I Beg To Differ
$13.26I Beg To Differ – is a young woman’s journey to self-rediscovery in the midst of chaos. This journey marks a slow and at times painful self-examination and analysis of the world around her. She is driven by the fact that rediscovering herself is key towards reaffirming her Faith. As she progresses through her journey, she finds that her passion to uncover the seemingly elusive truth that is life; is starting to have an effect on the darkness around her. The more she sits down and examines the questions that are nagging at her conscience, the more she starts to recognise her old self. This is important to her because she has always prided herself on staying true to her values. With the revelation of her old self, also comes the knowledge that the Truth is still relevant today and can most definitely overcome the darkness.
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Griselda Takes Flight
$17.99Now that her sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably dieting at the Greenbrier Nursing Home, Griselda has time to fly – literally. A handsome pilot named Cliff Cardwell makes an emergency landing and creates quite a ruckus, especially when Griselda takes him up on his offer of flying lessons.
On other fronts, Stella Hughes Kincaid receives word that her brother, Walter, a recent lottery winner, is in a coma. On her first hospital visit she meets Gilda Saucer, a woman claiming to be Walter’s fiancee. Stella intuitively smells a rat but is at a loss until Chief of Police, Mildred Blessing, does some crafty investigating. When everyone finds out that Stella is actually married to Cliff Cardwell, Griselda’s flight instructor, hilarious shenanigans ensue!
However, all is not lost because, as Joyce Magnin so delightfully revealed in her two previous volumes, miracles still happen occasionally in the whimsical, quirky little hamlet called Bright’s Pond.
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Life Entwined With Lilys
$15.23A Caritas Press Title
Life Entwined with Lily’s A dark day in Beth Lovely’s past casts a mournful shadow over her entire future. And although Beth has revealed her unspeakable secret to no one, her Aunt Lily is unwittingly responsible for a resuscitating breath of new hope. And so comes an unpredictable and satisfying conclusion to a trilogy that chronicles Lily’s impact on three generations of family.
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Wherever Lily Goes
$15.23A Caritas Press Title
Wherever Lily Goes Terry Lovely isn’t expecting any great rewards for her decision to uproot her family, move halfway across the country and take care of her sister Lily, who has Down Syndrome. What Terry will eventually discover, however, is that Lily will give more than she will ever take, including a certain something Terry doesn’t even know is missing.
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Abigails New Hope
$23.73As an Amish midwife, Abigail Graber loves bringing babies into the world. But when a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn, Abigail is faced with some of the hardest choices she has ever had to make. Despite all her efforts, the young mother dies-but the baby is saved.
A heartless judge confines Abigail to the county jail as the investigation begins, and the possibility of prison and separation from her husband, Daniel, and young children looms. Abigail’s younger sister, Catherine, comes to care for the home and kinner while Daniel works in the barn and fields. Catherine makes a difference in all their lives, but in return her life is completely changed. She meets Daniel’s cousin Isaiah, and an unexpected birth of another sort takes place in Wayne County.
A deeply moving look at some of life’s most tender and rewarding moments from beloved author Mary Ellis.
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