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One small problem…Helen is absolutely terrified of all animals! Especially dogs. If it has four legs, she runs in the opposite direction. Once Todd finds out, he’s less than happy, of course, and it’s questionable whether the brand-new relationship will survive Helen’s omission of a key detail about herself while they exchanged letters. Then, when, she finds herself abruptly fighting for her life with only an old adversary at her side, Will Helen’s perspective on matters might just change completely? Read all the books in the Six Sisters For Bear Creek Romance series by ...

You may think you are the only one, but nearly everyone wonders about God's love for them. This story is a tale that could be your own. It is a passionate and personal fictional allegory about one person's search for Divine acceptance and love. Romancing the Divine is everyone's struggle with weakness and inadequacies while longing to know they were born with a purpose. The Traveler grapples with attempting to understand Divine destiny while trying to gain the favor of the One who created him. He is looking for true love.

Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia: for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression...

Alice Augustine runs the oldest bookstore in the historic district of Natchitoches and believes technology is the root of most problems. If only more people would turn off the TV and shut down the computer, the world wouldn't be in the mess it's in. She wishes she could get the teens she loves to step away from the screens and hold on to their Creole culture. The only person who seems to understand her passion for classic literature is the mysterious website owner, Browning Wordsworth Keats.

Matt Loman was a young man looking for a way to help his parents and village find a way out of a severe famine. What he didn't know was that his selfless demeanor would lead him into a supernatural world where he would discover his life's destiny. Along the way Matt receives guidance from a sage named Jedidiah, the mentor who offers the choice between honor and dishonor. Matt's opportunities and potential are limitless, but will he choose the pathway to greatness or settle for a wasted life? Will he pass the tests of the Treasure Tree? Would you?

With a vast and callous army pressing down on them fast, there is nowhere else for Desire and the other Young Revolutionaries to run. Her situation is desperate. This is not how her journey is supposed to end, certainly not before it has even truly begun. The legend is strong. Desire knows it offers escape and hope. More than that, it promises fullness and abundance. That is, after all, why she set out. But what will Desire do when faced with the choice of pursuing her dreams when some close to her stop and settle?

In this terrifying fable of a world without faith, first there were the changes in weather. Lack of rain was turning the plains of Iowa, Kansas, and Idaho into arid blocks of parched earth. In the North, it was already January, and no sign of snow. All over the world, the seas were shrinking, and creeks and rivers looked like dried scars. But for Pete, the terrified son of a Midwestern farming family, the first great omen came one unseasonably warm winter night when the moon simply vanished from a cloudless sky and the clocks stopped.

In Come to the Garden, the main character, Jenn, wakes up on her birthday to discover an angel in her backyard garden. The angel, who calls herself Margaret, is charming and funny, and she knows that Jenn has been questioning a lot of things about God recently. Is he really there? How is anyone supposed to believe that God truly cares for us when we see so many bad things happening in our world, and we experience the disappointments and tragedies of life? But Jenn suspects that God has been trying to speak to her in mysterious ways.

Seeker’s Progress explores the world that John Bunyan created in his classic book, The Pilgrim’s Progress. There is another man from the City of Destruction who follows after Christian also seeking to find truth. With the help of Evangelist, Seeker follows the King’s road on his way to the Celestial City. Along the way, he visits many of the same places that Christian visited and meets several of the same people that Christian met all the while trying to catch up to his friends, Christian and Faithful. His experiences are very different than his predecessors.

THE INSTANT NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of global phenomenon Tuesdays with Morrie 'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern ____________ Adrift in a raft after a terrible shipwreck, ten strangers try to survive while they...

The Complete Series for adventure and excitement in this Four Books, series full of love, and the joys of the season in one boxed set! Four brave brides. Four men, each in need of a wife to walk with them through life, raise children, chase dreams, leave a legacy for the generations to come. But the West is wild even in the late 1800s, and the challenges are many. Shadows of the past will arise and try to mar the couples’ newfound happiness, but as Christmas approaches, miracles are in the air. Grab a cup of hot chocolate and curl up with each of the four books in this heartwarming series...

This Yuletide collection of stories, poems, and essays has been rescued from obscurity by the editor, who has also edited and annotated them to make these wonderful classics more easily accessible to modern listeners. While some of these authors may be unknown to you, their works have been included in this collection because of their capacity to instantly intrigue and delight. Give them a try, and don't be surprised if a few of them make their way onto your list of all-time personal Christmas favorites!

Stone the builder who erects a house that falls on its occupants. Sever the hands of the criminal who pilfers livestock or grain or another's garment. Whip the child who defies an elder. For such is the law and the law must be obeyed. For generations, these ironclad rules had governed the people...

Charles Dickens' famous tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who has devoted his life to becoming wealthy. he values nothing apart from money - neither friendship, love nor enjoyment. But one night before Christmas, Scrooge receives some unexpected anad ghostly visitors who try to...

Joshua ben David—tech prodigy, billionaire heir, and king of Manhattan’s concrete Olympus—has everything the world worships: power, privilege, precision-engineered perfection. From penthouses above the clouds to yachts slicing through moonlit seas, his life is a frictionless masterpiece of indulgence. But when an otherworldly vision shatters his meticulously crafted empire, Josh is thrust into a spiritual free fall that money can’t cushion. In one night, the gilded veneer cracks, revealing a soul starving for meaning beneath mountains of wealth. The man who once manipulated markets ...

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 191 This book is the fruit of nearly six decades of engagement with the Divine Comedy, a poem that has captured and held the imagination of Christians for seven hundred years. The author describes how Dante’s journey through the three realms, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso maps onto the inner spiritual journey of all Christians. The dark wood in which the poem begins sums up Dante’s own mid-life crisis—moral, political and financial—and the beginning of a sometimes humiliating journey to self-knowledge. The questions that Dante addresses, attempting to ...

It's beginning to look a lot like love . . . As her thirtieth birthday approaches, deputy Jill Flaherty decides it's time to live a little. When she walks into Sawyer Anderson's bar in her sexiest dress, she's not thinking that he's her brother's best friend or about the many women he dated...

Teacher Callie Alberts has built a good life for herself in Harmony, Idaho. She was happy and content until the day she learned her former boyfriend, Dr. Eli Webster, was moving back to town. A past betrayal looms large and Callie is determined to keep her distance from the handsome doctor. That proves impossible when Eli moves into the cottage right next door! When a baby is left on his doorstep with a note pinned to the blanket indicating he’s the father, Eli asks her to watch the child while he tracks down the mother. It’s not only the neighborly thing to do, Callie desperately ...

Amid the final battle for Jerusalem, twelve generals defending the ancient city meet for their last meal. When they hesitate on resuming battle, the Angel of the Lord appears.

This will be a Christmas to remember for the railway girls. Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts, she is desperate to return to work on the railways. Margaret's job in the engine shed is demanding. But when a friend finds herself in crisis, she knows she must do everything she can to help her. Alison is overjoyed at the prospect of organising a Christmas wedding until a long-held secret is revealed. Knowing the truth, can she find the strength to forgive those she holds most dear?