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.
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Summers almost done, but your summer reading doesnt have to be. Set a new reading goal to achieve by Labor Day–c’mon, you can do it! 🙂
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)
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Everyone in Redford, Colorado, has a secreteven 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)
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Lies and ugliness are his living, but the charlatans boy is forever on the lookout for the truth about where he comes from. Owing more to Twain than to [ … ]
Read the first chapter of A Sound Among the Trees.
A house stuck in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss.
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, doesnt believe that Susannahs ghost haunts the antebellum mansion, looking for a pardon but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past.
Susan Meissners Lady in Waiting (WaterBrook Press, Sept. 7, 2010) chronicles the stories of modern-day Jane Lindsay and 16th century Lady Jane Grey and one ring that bind the women separated by centuries. The book alternates between Jane Lindsay in modern-day Manhattan and Lucy Day, the seamstress for Lady Jane Grey. Jane struggles to trust in God with her marriage and Lucy struggles that England cant make up its mind whether to be Catholic or Reformed. Meissners writing flows comfortably between the two Janes and gives readers a hopeful message for the modern-day Jane.
Cindy Brovsky
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WaterBrook Multnomah
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, [ … ]
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.
