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The Scarlet Thread

Francine Rivers · 462 pages

a young woman learns the meaning of true love after suffering hardships, neglects, losses and divorce. Finding forgiveness,healing,love and restoration in Christ Jesus.

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The Sky Beneath My Feet

Lisa Samson · 310 pages

Being married to a saint isn't what it's cracked up to be. Rick has holed up alone in the backyard shed. Maybe he's immersing himself in prayer. Maybe he's lost his mind. But while "St. Rick" waits for an epiphany, Beth will have to figure out what to do with herself and their teenage sons, possibly for the rest of her life. When their son is caught with drugs, Beth embarks on an ambitious road tr

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The Art of Losing Yourself

Katie Ganshert · 306 pages

"A contemporary novel of two sisters trying to find new life--one in her marriage and faith, the other desperate for a chance at a future"--

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The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord

T.D. Jakes · 208 pages

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When Joy Came to Stay

Karen Kingsbury · 393 pages

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? Maggie Stovall. One of the golden people. She has it all together. A

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The Pastor's Wife

ReShonda Tate Billingsley · 304 pages

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Softly and Tenderly

Sara Evans, Rachel Hauck · 292 pages

Jade longs to begin a family with her husband Max. When she discovers that Max has an illegitimate son, her life is turned upside down. She flees to her Iowa childhood home, and questions everything she thought she knew about family, love, and motherhood. Does the future rest on the power of her past-- or in the goodness of God's tender mercies?

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Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult · 466 pages

A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious

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The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd · 335 pages

It's about a woman named Jessie Sullivan who has to return to her former home Egret island to take care of her mother. Within a monastery resides a chair carved with mermaids that supposedly was dedicated to a mermaid.Jessie meet a monk and falls for him although she is already married.....

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Summer Snow

Nicole Baart · 364 pages

Julia DeSmit is finally learning to accept her new life. Anxious to begin again after dropping out of college, she is taking fumbling steps down a challenging yet hope-filled road. But the careful existence Julia has begun to build falls hopelessly to pieces when her estranged mother, Janice, appears one icy March night. Mother and daughter have not talked in ten years, and a decade of anger, rese

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An Amish Gift

Cynthia Keller · 284 pages

After her husband, Shep, loses his latest job, he inherits a house, along with a long-established bicycle shop. The move gives Jennie, Shep, and their children a chance for a fresh start. While Shep dives into his new venture at the bike shop, Jennie loves being a stay-at-home mom but yearns to find some fulfillment outside of her family-- particularly as they struggle financially. She embarks on

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Blue Heart Blessed

Susan Meissner · 288 pages

After being left at the altar, Daisy Murien opens a secondhand wedding dress boutique, where a retired Episcopal priest blesses the tiny, blue satin heart she sews into each gown, but when the priest falls ill, Daisy begins to understand why she has never sold her own dress.

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Above All Things

Deborah Raney · 306 pages

"Expecting their first baby, Judd and Evette McGlin are thrilled to become parents. But the couple faces the ultimate test when Judd learns he already has a child: a six-year-old mixed-race girl born amid secrets and lies. Now, Evette must decide if she can accept the child. She thought she was open-minded--until hidden prejudices threaten the future of an innocent little girl, Evette's marriage a

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Where Do I Go?

Neta Jackson · 386 pages

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The Reluctant Prophet

Nancy N. Rue · 490 pages

In obedience to a divine nudge, Allison Chamberlain buys a Harley and waits for further instructions, which eventually lead her into prophecy and into the darkest parts of her city.

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Maggie

Charles Martin · 320 pages

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Doesn't She Look Natural

Angela Elwell Hunt · 333 pages

How do you cope when God asks you to bury a dream? In this new series by best-selling author Angela Hunt, readers will meet Jennifer Graham, the no-nonsense chief of staff for a Virginia senator who quits her job after a divorce and finds herself an unemployed single mom. Forced to live with her mother until she can find work on Capitol Hill that does not involve her gregarious ex-husband, her eff

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Love & Lies

Kimberla Lawson Roby · 288 pages

Truth and lies...At long last, the Reverend Curtis Black appears to be living the straight life. The all-too-human preacher is a bestselling author now, and he and his wife, Charlotte, are raising two adorable children. But the ever-suspicious Charlotte doesn't trust that Curtis has put his womanizing past behind him. While he's on the road promoting his latest book, she knows that there just need

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Three Wishes

Liane Moriarty · 370 pages

Australian triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle are about to turn thirty-three and one is pregnant, one has just had her life turned upside down, and one is only just keeping hers from skidding off the fast lane. Meanwhile, their divorced parents have been behaving very oddly indeed.In this family comedy by Liane Moriarty, we follow the three Kettle sisters through their tumultuous thirty-third ye

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Sweet Life

Mia King · 337 pages

What if you got away from it all—and then it all got away from you?When her husband gets a new job, Marissa Price leaves the island of Manhattan for the island of Hawaii. Paradise seems like the perfect place to find herself, save her marriage, and reconnect with her daughter. But Marissa discovers her new life is less about beaches and beautiful sunsets and more about cows and lava flows. Their n

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The River

Beverly Lewis · 392 pages

"Tilly and Ruth, two formerly Amish sisters, are plagued by unresolved relationships when they reluctantly return to Lancaster County for their parents' landmark wedding anniversary. Since departing their Plain upbringing, Tilly has married an Englisher, but Ruth remains single and hasn't entirely forgotten her failed courtship with her Amish beau. Past meets present as Tilly and Ruth yearn for ac

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A Woman of Fortune

Kellie Coates Gilbert · 353 pages

"Claire Massey's world is turned upside down when her cattle broker husband is arrested for fraud. How will she respond when her security no longer rests in her checkbook?"--

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The Secret Wish List

Preeti Shenoy · 260 pages

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War Room: Prayer Is a Powerful Weapon

Chris Fabry · 416 pages

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