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SNEAK PEEK: A Name of Her Own by Jane Kirkpatrick

March 31, 2012

Marie  fights for her family’s very survival with the courage and gritty determination that can only be fueled by a mother’s love.

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Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war, protect her sons and raise them well and, despite an abusive, alcoholic husband, keep her marriage together.

SNEAK PEEK: Fair is the Rose by Liz Curtis Higgs

March 31, 2012

The Scottish Lowlands, October 1789.

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 A year has come and gone since Jamie McKie fled for his life, arriving at Auchengray in search of sanctuary and a bonny wife. Young Rose McBride, as fair a lass as any in Scotland, dearly loves her handsome cousin—but so does her older sister, Leana.

Jamie McKie is busy making his own plans to return home to Glentrool and claim his inheritance. To do so means facing Evan, the brother whose blessing he stole, and Alec, the father whom he ruthlessly deceived. It is a perilous journey that will test the depth of his courage, the strength of his [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: Whence Came a Prince by Liz Curtis Higgs

March 31, 2012

A Prodigal Hero…A Perilous Journey Home.

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Jamie McKie is determined to return to his ancestral home in Glen Trool and claim his inheritance—a harrowing journey that will test the depth of his courage and the strength of his sword. Haunted by a shameful past and wrestling with an uncertain future, Jamie must outwit his devious Uncle Lachlan and confront the two men he most fears: Evan, the brother whose inheritance he stole, and Alec, the father whom he blatantly deceived.

SNEAK PEEK: Twice a Bride by Mona Hodgson

March 2, 2012

Love lost doesn’t mean love lost forever.
Can unexpected romance deliver a second chance for two deserving widows?

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With questions tugging at several hearts in town, including the Sinclair Sisters’ beloved Miss Hattie, change is traveling down the tracks as several unexpected visitors make their way out West.  Will the new arrivals threaten the deep family bonds of the Sinclair sisters and the roots of love that are just taking hold for Willow?

Filled with the resonating questions that all women face, this romance awakens hope against grief, love against loss, and dreams against life’s unexpected turns.

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READING GUIDE: MINE IS THE NIGHT by Liz Curtis Higgs

February 25, 2012

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Travel through time and place to eighteenth-century Scotland for a moving saga of redemption and restoration, inspired by the biblical love story of Boaz and Ruth. The heartrending journey that began with Here Burns My Candle soars to a glorious finish in Mine Is the Night, from best-selling novelist Liz Curtis Higgs.

READING GUIDE: Forever Faithful Series by Karen Kingsbury

February 25, 2012

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The entire best-selling Forever Faithful trilogy, now available in one book:

Waiting for Morning

A drunk driver…a deadly accident…a dream destroyed. When Hannah Ryan loses her husband and oldest daughter to a drunk driver, she is consumed with hate and revenge. Ultimately, it is a kind prosecutor, a wise widow, and her husband’s dying words that bring her the peace that will set her free and let her live again.

A Moment of Weakness

When childhood friends Jade and Tanner reunite as adults, they share their hearts, souls, and dreams of forever–until a fateful decision tears them apart. Now, nearly a decade later, Jade’s unfaithful husband wants to destroy her in a custody battle that is about to send shock waves across the United States. Only [ … ]

READING GUIDE: Finding Our Way Home by Charlene Baumbich

February 25, 2012

pdf_1002When principal ballerina Sasha Davis suffers a career-ending injury at age thirty-eight, she retreats to her recently deceased mother’s home to recover. But she can’t do it alone, so she places an ad in the newspaper for a temporary live-in aide. She gets a lot more than she bargained for when 19 year-old übercapable Evelyn Burt shows up.

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READING GUIDE: The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner

February 18, 2012

pdf_1002“We understand what we want to understand.”

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Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, Lauren Durough breaks with convention and her family’s expectations by choosing a state college over Stanford and earning her own income over accepting her ample monthly allowance. She takes a part-time job from 83-year-old librarian Abigail Boyles, who asks Lauren to transcribe the journal entries of her ancestor Mercy Hayworth, a victim of the Salem witch trials.

The strength of her affinity with Mercy forces Lauren to take a startling new look at her own life, including her relationships with Abigail, her college roommate, and a young man named Raul. But [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: The Bride Wore Blue by Mona Hodgson

February 6, 2012

At last, the sisters are reunited!

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The youngest Sinclair, the family “baby”, is moving from Maine to Cripple Creek, Colorado and joining Kat, Nell, and Ida. But Vivian is a young woman with a will of her own, and made some decisions back in Portland that have begun to haunt her. Will she be able to live up to the expectations of her three perfect and now happily-settled sisters?

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SNEAK PEEK: When Joy Came to Stay by Karen Kingsbury

February 2, 2012

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Maggie Stovall is trapped inside a person she’s spent years carefully crafting. Now the truth about who she is—and what she’s done—is bursting to the surface and sending Maggie into a spiral of despair. Will she walk away from everything, or can Maggie allow God to take her to a place of ultimate honesty—before it’s too late?.

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