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Armando\u2019s Treasure<\/a><\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Melody Carlson<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

When a young stranger shows up, Dora is suspicious, but before long Armando Garcia wins her trust. And Armando supports Dora\u2019s independence, causing the conflict within her bickering\u00a0family<\/a>\u00a0to escalate. Dora\u2019s son abhors Armando\u2019s interference and is determined to send him away. He suspects the charming young man is running from something or someone. And he\u2019s not far from wrong.<\/p>\n

The unlikely friendship that grows between the elderly widow and the young man with a past leads them both on a journey toward hope, healing, and\u00a0forgiveness<\/a>.
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Like There\u2019s No Tomorrow<\/a><\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Camille Eide<\/a><\/p>\n

Scottish widower Ian MacLean is plagued by a mischievous grannie, bitter regrets, and an ache for something he\u2019ll never have again. His only hope for freedom is to bring his grannie\u2019s sister home from America. But first, he\u2019ll have to convince her young companion, Emily Chapman, to let the woman go.<\/p>\n

Emily devotes herself to foster youth and her beloved Aunt Grace. Caring for others quiets a secret fear she keeps close to her heart. But when Ian appears, wanting to whisk Grace off to Scotland, everything Emily holds dear is at risk.<\/p>\n

Like There\u2019s No Tomorrow<\/span>\u00a0is an amusing yet heart-tugging\u00a0love story<\/a>\u00a0about two kind, single caretakers, two quirky, old sisters bent on reuniting, and too many agendas. It\u2019s a tale of\u00a0family<\/a>, fiery furnaces, faith, and the gift of each new day.
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To Dance with Dolphins<\/a><\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Bonnie Leon<\/a><\/p>\n

Twenty-two-year-old Claire Murray has suffered from a mysterious disease for years. Her social circle has shrunk to a small support group for people with chronic illness and disability. But what if life\u00a0could<\/em>\u00a0be about more than doctors, pain, and medications?<\/p>\n

Claire and three others\u2014old-grouch Tom, hippy-holdout Willow, and moody Taylor\u2014hatch plans for a cross-country trip to swim with the dolphins in Florida.Only a day into the trip, they unexpectedly need help. And who happens to be hitchhiking along the highway but a young, good-looking loner named Sean Sullivan? However, the last thing he wants is to be harnessed to a bunch of ailing travelers.<\/p>\n

Though the journey proves difficult, following God\u2019s plan might be even harder. Will they find the courage to follow their dreams and dare to live again?
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The Good Girl<\/a><\/h1>\n

By Christy Barritt<\/p>\n

Tara Lancaster can sing \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d 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 seventeen because she had pneumonia\u2014and her mom made her stay home.<\/p>\n

But when her life shatters around her and her reputation is left in ruins, Tara decides escape is the only option. She flees halfway across the country to dog-sit, but the quiet anonymity she needs isn\u2019t waiting in her sister\u2019s house. Instead she finds a knife with a threatening message, a fame-hungry friend, a too-hunky neighbor, and evidence of\u2026a ghost?<\/p>\n

Following all the rules has gotten her nowhere. And nothing she learned in Sunday School can tell her where to go from there.
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Jasmine<\/a><\/h1>\n

by\u00a0April McGowan<\/a><\/p>\n

She survived her past\u2026but how can she face it?<\/p>\n

Jasmine is a survivor. She \u2019s lived through the abuse of her father, running away at age fourteen, and living on the streets. Now she counsels at-risk young women\u2014giving them a second chance at life.<\/p>\n

But when her mother dies,\u00a0 can Jasmine go home again and face all she\u2019s forced herself to forget for the last twenty years? Or will the past she has long forgotten take over her present once again?
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