From Bestselling Authors, Historical Fiction, World War II
As Time Goes By by Melody Carlson In 1942 San Francisco, war has touched every part of the Mulligans’ lives. With their brother killed at Pearl Harbor, their father recovering from tuberculosis, and their eldest sister a nurse in the Army, those at home are left...
From Bestselling Authors, Historical Fiction, World War II
String of Pearls by Melody Carlson By 1943 the world is in the thick of war and the home-front continues to play a vital role. The Mulligans of San Francisco do their part in the war effort, but hardships and deprivations are taking a toll and each the four...
From Bestselling Authors, Historical Fiction, World War II
We’ll Meet Again by Melody Carlson Now in its third year, World War II still rages, taking its toll on everyone. On the home-front, the Mulligans continue to face war-related challenges . . . and patience wears thin. Margaret is pulled in various directions as...
Christmas, Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
Home, Hearth, and the Holidays by Melody Carlson With holidays approaching in the charming town of Appleton, and Daphne Ballinger’s deadline to “get hitched” drawing closer, Daphne finds herself happily distracted with the unexpected tasks of “motherhood.” Young...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
Everything I Long For by Melody Carlson Maggie Carpenter and her son, Spencer, are finally beginning to feel settled in their new community. Then one day Spencer discovers a runaway girl. Leah has been looking for her biological father and has come to a dead-end...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
Looking for You All My Life by Melody Carlson The small town of Pine Mountain has much to offer a big-city girl: clean air, beautiful scenery, a marvelous mix of townspeople both funny and friendly. And though Maggie did not come to Oregon looking for love, she...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
Someone to Belong To by Melody Carlson Maggie and her son have settled in Pine Mountain, where she has found love again. But trouble lurks as she plans her wedding. As she and Jed are enjoying their deepening love, Amber returns to Pine Mountain—and proves to be...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
Built with Love by Melody Carlson For a young widow, the stone mansion she once dreamed of owning, offers the promise of a new beginning. After the death of her husband, Kestra returns to her hometown of Port Star. With the purchase of her childhood dream house—a...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors, Romance and Love Stories
Heartland Skies by Melody Carlson Jayne Morgan has a lot to learn about love. Harris McAllister has a lot to learn about tolerance. When they meet they have lots to teach each other. Jayne feels betrayed when her fiancé suddenly dumps her for his high school...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
Looking for Cassandra Jane by Melody Carlson Cassandra Maxwell has had a life filled with pain. Her mother died too young, her father is an abusive alcoholic, and she’s a misfit everywhere she goes. After being shuttled between various foster homes, Cass...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors, Romance and Love Stories
Thursday’s Child by Melody Carlson Emma has always been “the practical one” in the family. But that is about to change as she embarks on the adventure of her life. Emma Davis wants a new life now that she no longer needs to care for her grandmother. A...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
Shades of Light by Melody Carlson First there are shades of sorrow, then shades of hope. Will Gwen find shades of light? When her only child leaves home for college, widowed Gwen Sullivan discovers just how lonely an “empty nest” can be. How will she adjust and...
Middle Grade, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
Picture Imperfect by Susan Thogerson Maas Twelve-year-old JJ loves three things: her great-grandma, her cat, and photography. But she’s never going to be a real photographer unless she gets better equipment. When her best friend, Kat, discovers a photo contest with...
Lighty and Funny, Middle Grade, Outdoors and Adventure, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
The Water Fight ProfessionalT by Angela Ruth Strong I, Joey Michaels, am the Water Fight Professional. Basically this means that customers pay me to soak other people. But my super-competitive best friend is sucking all the fun out of summer. All because I made a...
Christmas, Lighty and Funny, Middle Grade, Outdoors and Adventure, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
The Snowball Fight Professional by Angela Ruth Strong I, Joey Michaels, am the Snowball Fight Professional. Basically this means that customers pay me to shoot snowballs at other people. I’m going to use the money I make to buy Grandma a great gift that will...
Christmas, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
Benjy and the Belsnickel By Bonnie Swinehart The Belsnickel is coming… Dressed in black from head to toe.Porcupine quills in his hat. A whip in hand.And bells that jingle with every step. Benjy, a lovable eleven-year-old in the 1930s, just can’t seem to...
Christmas, From Bestselling Authors, Historical Fiction, Romance and Love Stories
A Heart’s Revolution by Roseanna M. White In 1783 peace has been declared, but war still rages in the heart of Lark Benton. Never did Lark think she’d want to escape Emerson Fielding, the man she’s loved all her life. But when he betrays her, she flees...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
A Place to Come Home To by Melody Carlson Maggie Carpenter, hardworking and successful news reporter for the Los Angeles Times, laughs when she first spots the quaint job posting on the Internet. But when the violence of gang activity hits her neighborhood and...
Historical Fiction, Poignant and Deep, Quick Reads
Alone The Woman at the Well by Golden Keyes Parsons Marah’s life has been difficult. Her father died when she was three, and a succession of men began the parade through her life—men who disappointed and abused her. Her heart withers away. Her youth fades. She...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors
Armando’s Treasure by Melody Carlson Dora Chase is an eighty-year-old widow whose family finds her frustratingly independent. Her son no longer trusts her judgment and constantly pressures her to sell her rural home and rundown farm to a huge computer firm. When...
Historical Fiction, Romance and Love Stories, Suspenseful
A Fair to Remember by Suzie Johnson Buffalo, New York, Pan-American Exposition Clara Lambert thought being a Kodak girl at the World’s Fair would an adventure–but she never expected to end up photographing the attempted assassination of President McKinley. James...
by Melody Carlson READ a Sample An icy road. A car crash. A family changed forever. Hannah Josephson had always been the “perfect” daughter. Kiera couldn’t live up to her before, and she certainly can’t now that her older sister has died in a car accident. But the...
by Dianne Price READ a Sample Will Maggie’s fears stop Rob from following God’s call? Each time Rob Savage responds to a sea rescue from their Scottish isle, his wife, Maggie, is haunted by nightmares of catastrophe. Could this call be his last? How would she and the...
by Dianne Price READ a Sample True friendship lasts a lifetime, no matter the distance between … Never Say Goodbye Rob and Maggie Savage, busy with their growing family and never-ending sea rescues, welcome the return of Rob’s former Air Forces mate, Den Anderson....
by Bonnie Leon READ a Sample Anna or rivers of gold—which will captivate his heart? The lure of the nineteenth-century gold rush calls to Erik, a civil-war veteran. He and Anna, his Aleutian bride, set sail for a new life together in Sitka. Anna stands strong against...
by Sam Hall READ a Sample It’s 1928 … the Great Depression lurks just around the corner. Divorcing a cheating husband means disgracing her family, but Claire Devoe can’t take it anymore. Forced to provide for herself, she travels the Midwest with a sales crew. Can she...
by Camille Eide READ a Sample Scottish widower Ian MacLean is plagued by a mischievous grannie, bitter regrets, and an ache for something he’ll never have again. His only hope for freedom is to bring his grannie’s sister home from America. But first, he’ll have to...
by Camille Eide READ a Sample Love can’t rewrite the pages of one’s past, but it can cover a multitude of sins a page at a time. In 1953, desperation forces young war widow Eliza Saunderson to take a job writing the memoir of ex-Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Devine....
by Roseanna M. White READ a Sample Beautiful is a dangerous thing to be when one is unprotected. For seven years, Abigail has been a slave in the Visibullis house. With a Hebrew mistress and a Roman master, she has always been more family than servant . . . until...
by Roseanna M. White READ a Sample A miracle once saved her life ~ will another give her a future? Cyprus was little more than a child when a fall left her paralyzed…and when the boy known as the wonder-worker healed her. Ever since, she has wondered why the Lord...
by D. L. Sleiman READ a Sample Three young women from varying backgrounds risk everything to help a friend escape her abusive family. Still at odds with her own Muslim parents, Layla faces unexpected challenges when her childhood companion shows up on her doorstep. As...
by Rachelle Rea READ a Sample What once was blazing hatred has turned to lasting love, but could the union of a wild heart with that of a lady ever result in more than heartache? With the help of an old friend with uncertain loyalties, Dirk inches ever closer to...
by Rachelle Rea READ a Sample Her only chance of getting home is trusting the man she hates. With the Protestant Elizabeth on the throne of England and her family in shambles, Catholic maiden Gwyneth seeks refuge in the Low Countries of Holland, hoping to soothe her...
by Golden Keyes Parsons READ a Sample This 4-in-1 compilation combines these biblical novellas into one collection. Trapped: The Adulterous Woman – A stranger approaches Anna’s house in the oppressive heat of the late afternoon before Sabbath. Shielding her eyes...
by Golden Keyes Parsons READ a Sample Children love her. Dinah thought when she married she would have a house full of children. The days melted into weeks and the months sped by with no pregnancy. At last, the long-awaited pregnancy, only to end in bitter...
by April McGowan READ a Sample Independent…or Alone? Macy longed for independence her whole life. Maybe marrying Arthur to escape her home hadn’t been the best plan, but it seemed good enough at the time. Now, pregnant and abandoned in a diner far from anyone she...
By Cara Luecht READ a Sample They want to worship as their hearts demand… but is it something they can give up everything for? Brianna has only ever been what her life demanded. A wife, a hostess, a mother. But when a stand her husband takes ostracizes them from...
by Susie Finkbeiner READ a Sample Desperate for the rains of mercy… Middle Main, Michigan has one stop light, one bakery, one hair salon…and one funeral home. The Eliot Family has assisted the grieving people in their town for over fifty years. After all those years...
by Niki Turner Based on Persuasion READ a Sample Annie Ellis fell in love with Ford Winters at the tender age of 19, but her family persuaded her to end the relationship. Eight years later and still alone, Annie is resigned to life as a spinster. She pours her...
Based on Pride and Prejudice READ a Sample Urged by her family to marry for the sake of their dwindling finances, Eliza Branch prefers to pay for the remainder of her time at the Austen Academy by writing for the local paper. There’s plenty to write about now that...
by Suzie Johnson, Lisa Karon Richardson, Dina L. Sleiman, Niki Turner Four Texas-Set Novellas Based on Jane Austen’s Novels READ a Sample Discover four heroines in historical Austin, TX, as they find love–Jane Austen style. Volume 2 includes: Simply Lila by Suzie...
by Melody Carlson READ a Sample Dora Chase is an eighty-year-old widow whose family finds her frustratingly independent. Her son no longer trusts her judgment and constantly pressures her to sell her rural home and rundown farm to a huge computer firm. When a young...
by Melody Carlson READ a Sample Emma has always been “the practical one” in the family. But that is about to change as she embarks on the adventure of her life. Emma Davis wants a new life now that she no longer needs to care for her grandmother. A spur-of-the-moment...
by Melody Carlson READ a Sample Maggie Carpenter and her son, Spencer, are finally beginning to feel settled in their new community. Then one day Spencer discovers a runaway girl. Leah has been looking for her biological father and has come to a dead-end in Pine...
by Melody Carlson READ a Sample Now in its third year, World War II still rages, taking its toll on everyone. On the home-front, the Mulligans continue to face war-related challenges . . . and patience wears thin. Margaret is pulled in various directions as she...
by Melody Carlson READ a Sample By 1943 the world is in the thick of war and the home-front continues to play a vital role. The Mulligan’s of San Francisco do their part in the war effort, but hardships and deprivations are taking a toll—and each the four Mulligan...
by Melody Carlson READ a Sample In 1942 San Francisco, war has touched every part of the Mulligans’ lives. With their brother killed at Pearl Harbor, their father recovering from tuberculosis, and their eldest sister a nurse in the Army, those at home are left to keep...
by Melody Carlson READ a Sample December 7, 1941, San Francisco is on high alert following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Mulligan family is grappling with the news that Peter, beloved son and brother, is among the missing. Each of the Mulligan sisters Bridget,...
Contemporary Fiction, From Bestselling Authors, Lighty and Funny, Romance and Love Stories, Suspenseful
The Good Girl by Christy Barritt Tara Lancaster can sing “Amazing Grace” in three harmonies, two languages, and interpret it for the hearing impaired. She can list the Bible canon backward, forward, and alphabetized. And the only time she ever missed church was at...
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