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Archive: White Picket Fences
SNEAK PEEK: The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner
We understand what we want to understand.
Leaving her privileged life and family behind, Lauren Durough learns the consequences of misguided perceptions as she uncovers the story of a seventeenth-century victim of the Salem witch trials.
Click here to download chapter one of The Shape of Mercy.
Congratulations to our Christy Award finalists!
We couldn’t be more excited for our Christy nominated authors! Did you miss them when they first released? Find out more about them below.
(Contemporary Romance category)
About the Book:
Everyone in Redford, Colorado, has a secret—even Police Chief Jonah Westfall and the woman who loves him. Will the revelations drive them apart? Or make them indivisible?
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(Young Adult category)
About the Book:
Lies and ugliness are his living, but the charlatan’s boy is forever on the lookout for the truth about where he comes from. Owing more to Twain than to Tolkien, The Charlatan’s Boy is a rollicking fantasy novel about a boy’s desire to belong.
(Contemporary Standalone category)
About the Book:
Two women, separated by nearly five hundred years, face feeling powerless over their fates before finally discovering they’ve always had the ability to choose.
Read the starred Publishers Weekly review
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(Visionary category)
About the Book:
After her remote village is annihilated, a cryptic message vaults Abby Caldwell into the seemingly-impossible task of re-introducing the Christian faith in late twenty-first century, secular America—and rescuing the planet from spiritual oblivion.
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SNEAK PEEK: A Sound Among the Trees by Susan Meissner
A house stuck in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss.
Click here to download chapter one of A Sound Among the Trees.
As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion, looking for a pardon but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past.
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PW REVIEW: Lady in Waiting by Susan Meissner
09/27/2010 Fiction
Web Exclusive Lady in Waiting
Susan Meissner, WaterBrook, $13.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 9780307458834Veteran author Meissner (White Picket Fences) blends past and present in this compelling novel about making choices. Jane Lindsay never thought she’d be alone, but after her husband leaves her, she must face the reality of her marriage and life choices. One small ring, found in the binding of a book bought at an English rummage sale, changes the course of Jane’s thinking as she researches another Jane, whose name is inscribed in the ring. Readers jump back in time to England after the death of Henry VIII. Lucy Day is ordered to Sudeley Castle, bearing a dress for Lady Jane Grey. Lucy narrates the tale of Lady Jane, pawn in the schemes of powerful men who seek the throne of England even as young Jane Grey is determined to live–and die–on her own terms. Modern Jane studies Lady Jane, coming to realize that she alone must choose how she lives. Both the history and the modern tale are enticing, with Meissner doing a masterful job blending the two. (Sept.)
CONTEST: Lady in Waiting by Susan Meissner
Congratulations to Susan Meissner for having Lady in Waiting chosen as one of 2010’s She Reads (a ministry of Proverbs 31) book club books!
As if that wasn’t exciting enough, we’ve also partnered with the fine people at She Reads to host a contest where you can win the book, a Puritan prayer journal, beaded bookmark AND the antique ring that’s shown on the cover of the book.
Click here for details on how to enter and win.
Click here to read Susan’s Proverbs 31 devotional.
Click here to read the first FOUR CHAPTERS from Lady in Waiting and see what the fuss is about.
DEVOTIONAL: Susan Meissner, author of The Shape of Mercy
Susan Meissner’s book The Shape of Mercy was recently selected as a She Reads book. She Reads is an exciting new branch of Proverbs 31 Ministries designed to help women discover great fiction that explores deep issues of the faith. As a part of this program, Susan Meissner wrote a devotional on the danger of fear and judgement in our lives.
SNEAK PEEK: White Picket Fences
From the acclaimed author of The Shape of Mercy comes a new novel delving into the heart of a family, and navigating the barriers that both contain them and keep them apart.
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