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Jennifer Miller is a young woman who is making a big transition in her life. She moves to a new state to be closer to her family and start a new career. As Jennifer reconciles her past and present, life takes her down paths that she never expected. On this journey, Jennifer will discover Gods power to rebuild broken relationships and create new love.
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From the moment Dave Silverbrand's wife was struck and killed in the crosswalk in front of their house, he has embraced forgiveness and joy. He does it with heart and humor. A lifelong story-teller, Dave weaves an engrossing story of his life and loves including his relationship with his brother, in prison for an execution-style homicide and with his families struggling with addiction and dysfunction. HIs story is at once an absorbing tale of California...
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On camera. Up close. In denial—but not for much longer...
After a relationship gone bad, Lucy Finch is leaving everything behind. Her old home, her old job, her old insecurities. Even Sebastián Castillo, her protective but intensely private friend of almost twenty years. Before she moves halfway across the country, though, she has one last request for Seb: She wants him to help her choose a tiny house on cable television.
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Jobless and out of options, an unexpected inheritance seems like the answer to a prayer for Renata Barkely. When she meets the seductive and enigmatic caretaker, Kenrick Giles, and discovers the Southern estate is haunted, she realizes her good fortune might be worse than being broke. Caught between her increasingly erotic dreams of Kenrick and a vengeful ghost-witch who wants her for her own dark purposes, Renata must face her feelings before all...
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Brooke has only loved one man, her late husband. Owen's rebuilding after a painful divorce. Can a mysterious house bring them together for a second chance at love?In the charming town of Smithville, Texas, Brooke Holloway is raising two young children on her own, supporting them by running the family hardware store. The last thing on her mind is falling in love. But she's intrigued when a stranger moves to town and buys the old Hadley mansion. She's...
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Cynthia James, is just a naïve and compliant little girl growing up in Texas when one day her life is drastically altered when she and her two siblings are abruptly relocated from their peaceful life and thrown into a tumultuous existence on the Southside of Chicago. Forced to live with relatives who inflict incomprehensible abuses upon them, Cynthia finds God in the midst of the turmoil and tries to rely on her faith to keep her sane. But never-ending...
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Based on a real family that was, built in a very extraordinary way.
The Brumfields grow not only in size, but in Love. Their different eyes, unique noses, and special hair and skin display the beautiful array of God's personality and intentional design. Through this family, children will discover that you don't have to match to be a family, that every child is special and wanted, and that God is the Love that glues a family together.
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Lynette Harper is having one of the most trying days of her life. She goes to the place where she knows that she will find solace, her church. Little does she know that her life is about to change forever. At Hillside Church, her past and her present collide when she meets Army colonel, David Miller. Lynette doesn't know it, but David is a man on a mission. Their meeting is not a coincidence, but part of a divine plan.
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Ron and Jill, after six months together, discovered the house of their dreams: a landmark Victorian row house that had belonged to a notorious fraternity in Baltimore. Unfortunately, it was now a condemned, abandoned property. But Jill wanted the house and Ron wanted Jill. Beyond the wall-to-wall graffiti, collapsed fireplaces and banisters, and three dumpsters worth of trash, the couple envisioned this as their future dream home. So Ron bought the...
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"The nine stories collected in this volume are all populated by seekers-of holiness, illumination, liberation, meaning, love. Their journeys unfold in the U.S., Israel, Poland, China, often in the very heart of the Jewish world, and are rendered with an insider's authority. The narrative voice bringing all this to life has been described as fearlessly satiric and subversive, with a moral but not moralizing edge, equally alive to the sacred and the...
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Silence is often as therapeutic as conversation.
Sometimes more, when there really isn't anything to say. Healthcare with people experiencing a life-threatening or terminal illness brings daily life into a new, sharp focus. Dr. Lee takes us along on her House Calls with Jesus where she learned the art of companionable, healing visits. Her willingness to pray with her patients in an open, non-pressured manner allows that act to be helpful and, indeed,...
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Bestselling novelist Tracie Peterson joins Karen Witemeyer, Regina Jennings, and Jen Turano in this collection of four novellas, each featuring a Harvey Girl heroine. From Kansas to Texas, the Grand Canyon to New Mexico, the stories cross the country with tales of sweet romance and entertaining history. In Karen Witemeyer's "More Than a Pretty Face," a young woman works her hardest to escape poor choices from her youth. Tracie Peterson offers "A Flood...
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Through all of life's trials and tribulation, how do we hold things together instead of drowning in our tears? We go to the place that taught us to fear less and forbear. The place where comfort came from prayer and taking leaps of faith were encouraged. Front Porch Love reminds me that the home I grew up in was a place to relent and always find mama and God.
As my life spins out of control, I give the reigns to God. When we let Him lead the way,...
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Coming of age in rural Pennsylvania in the late 1940s, Rhue slides into a heart-warming romance with Thomas when her younger brother Hank, who is considered "odd," makes a connection with recent widower George following the death of his wife and life-long love Maggie. Rhue hesitantly becomes a party to this connection and begins to dislike Maggie when she laments the time that already slipped by without the opportunity to know George because of Maggie's...
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Constructed in 1651, the Dwight-Derby House stands as the centerpiece of the Medfield town common and at the heart of the town's history. Contained within the walls of this 350-year-old time capsule are the stories of two prominent families: the Dwights and the Derbys--united in their deep connection to the home. To this day, the house remains a testament to the dedication and fortitude of the community, which banded together and succeeded in preserving...
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"Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in a family where love was plentiful but alcohol wreaked havoc. In this candid memoir, Grassle reveals her journey to succeed as an actress even as she struggles to overcome depression, combat her own dependence on alcohol, and find true love. With humor and hard-won wisdom, Grassle takes readers on an inspiring journey through...
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Travellan...Her father's ancient Cornish home is the only constant in Jennie Veryan's young life, and Mark Curnow is her only love-though it seems she must lose them both. A proud and old family, the Veryans break up her romance with the land agent's son, for Jennie is the heiress to the estate.
Or so it seems. In 1950 an incredible rumour draws Jennie to Singapore, scene of her father's disappearance in the maelstrom of the Japanese occupation....
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House of Miracles is about love-the romantic love of days gone by, first love, unrequited love, and the fragile intimacies of a couple living in the last part of the twentieth century. In these delightful, at times unsettling stories, we meet two very different women: baby boomer Janet MacDonald, who, despite a blossoming career in San Francisco, feels sure that she is cursed, and her elderly, eccentric neighbor, Mrs. von Meurs. When Janet's relationship...
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