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Mitford's Lord's Chapel seats barely two hundred souls, yet millions of Jan Karon's fans will be there for the most joyous event in years: the wedding of Father Tim Kavanagh and Cynthia Coppersmith. Here at last is A Common Life , the sixth book in the bestselling Mitford Years series, and the long-awaited answers to these deeply probing questions: Will Father Tim fall apart when he takes his vows? Will... (more)

The Mitford Years: Book 7

In This Mountain

by Jan Karon

Restless with his retirement, Father Tim, accompanied by Cynthia, gears up for a year-long ministry across the state line, but a series of events sends shock waves throughout the town of Mitford and through Father Tim's faith.

The Mitford Years: Book 5

A New Song

by Jan Karon

Jan Karon's millions of fans can't wait to sit down with her heartwarming and hilarious characters, who have a way of becoming family. In A New Song , Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, retires. However, new challenges and adventures await when he agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap has its own unforgettable... (more)

Making a Literary Life

by Carolyn See

As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many, and there’s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls you’re sure is out there... (more)

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for... (more)

Beyond Tuesday Morning: Sequel to the Bestselling One Tuesday Morning

Beyond Tuesday Morning: Sequel to the Bestselling One Tuesday Morning

by Karen Kingsbury

In this sequel to the bestselling One Tuesday Morning, to widow Jamie Bryan it is still September 12, 2001. What will move her from living in the past to living the life God has given her today?

Chicken Sunday

by Patricia Polacco

After being initiated into a neighbor's family by a solemn backyard ceremony, a young Russian American girl and her African American brothers determine to buy their gramma Eula a beautiful Easter hat. But their good intentions are misunderstood, until they discover just the right way to pay for the hat that Eula's had her eye on. A loving family story woven from the author's childhood. Polacco has outdone herself... (more)

The Good Man of Assisi

by Mary Coker Joslin

Here, simply and charmingly retold, is the classic story of the man who became a channel of God's peace to the world--its people and its creatures.

Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi

by Tomie dePaola

The beloved saint's remarkable life is re-created through vignettes. An ALA Notable Book. Introduction, historical note, list of dates.

Isla

by Arthur Dorros

When Rosalba and Abuela travel to la isla, the island where Abuela grew up, Rosalba meets Abuela's son, Fernando, and his family and samples the sights of the island. By the creators of Abuela.

Why the Sun & Moon Live in the Sky

by Niki Daly

There was once a time when Sun and Moon lived on the earth--but that was before the rapturous Sun invited the never-ending Sea to visit in this playful version of an eastern Nigerian (Ibibio) creation myth.

Florida

by Christine Schutt

In this elegiac and luminous novel, which John Ashbery called "an amazing achievement" and Mary Gordon dubbed "a wholly original endeavor," Christine Schutt gives voice to the feast of memory, the mystery of the mad and missing, and the power of words. Set in the Midwest, where Florida represents a faraway paradise, this novel tells the story of Alice Fivey. Fatherless since she was seven, Alice is left in the... (more)

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Marc Chagall Art for Children

by Raboff

Discoveries: Chagall (Discoveries (Abrams))

Discoveries: Chagall (Discoveries (Abrams))

by Daniel Marchesseau

Drawing on his Russian and Jewish heritage, Marc Chagall created magical works full of poetic symbolism and radiant colour in which the real and the imaginary merge. This book sets out to reveal the timeless beauty of his art. Born in Russia before the Revolution, Chagall travelled as a young man to Paris, where he came into contact with the Cubists, Fauves and surrealists, but he always retained a strongly... (more)

Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

During the hectic weeks before Christmas, Christians of every persuasion long to turn inward and prepare their hearts for Christ's coming. Though believers the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there's a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to December 25 is making a comeback as growing numbers of people reject the... (more)

Hormones, Health, and Happiness: A Natural Medical Formula for Rediscovering Youth with Bioidentical Hormones

Hormones, Health, and Happiness: A Natural Medical Formula for Rediscovering Youth with Bioidentical Hormones

by Steven F. Hotze

Dr Steven Hotze is leading a wellness revolution that advances a new model of healthcare. Unlike the prevailing medical approach of treating individual symptoms with the familiar "anti" drugs - such as antibiotics, antihistamines, and antidepressants - Dr Hotze addresses the underlying causes of poor health. Built around a regimen of biologically identical hormones and other natural treatments, Dr Hotze's... (more)

Four Testimonies: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

Four Testimonies: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

by Kate Daniels

The Bible (King James Version)

by Barry Moser, Kenneth Barker, Donald C. Stamps, Juanita Bynum, Keith Warrington, International Bible Society, J. Wesley Adams, Donald W. Burdick

The Vest-Pocket New Testament is a quality book that's affordable enough for mass distribution. Sewn pages and reinforced end papers assure years of use. Other features include an 8-page chronological chart of the Gospels; rounded corners; gilded cover & spine; and, black letter, two-column text. Bound in flexible, black imitation leather.

Call Down the Moon

by Katherine Kingsley

Hailed by Romantic Times as "a miracle worker," bestselling, award-winning author Katherine Kingsley brings her remarkable powers of storytelling and enchantment to this breathtaking new novel. With a shadowy past and only dreams for her future, Meggie Bloom was tending the lost souls at Woodbridge Sanitarium when the handsome stranger's cobalt gaze awakened her to a woman's desire. Suddenly the mind-reading... (more)

Anchored In Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash

Anchored In Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash

by John Carter Cash

June Carter was born in the rugged mountains of Maces Springs, Virginia, to Ezra and Maybelle Carter, pioneers of country music. On stage from a very young age, June found her niche in the spotlight with her vivacious personality and down-home sense of humor. Her confidence and spirit were what attracted Johnny Cash to her in the late 1950s. On the road together, they quickly bonded. June was his helpmate and... (more)

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The Wedding Story

by Jan Karon

by Jan Karon

by Jan Karon

by Carolyn See

by John Knowles

by Karen Kingsbury

by Patricia Polacco

by Mary Coker Joslin

by Tomie dePaola

by Arthur Dorros

by Niki Daly

by Christine Schutt

by Raboff

by Daniel Marchesseau

by Steven F. Hotze

by Kate Daniels

by Barry Moser, Kenneth Barker, Donald C. Stamps, Juanita Bynum, Keith Warrington, International Bible Society, J. Wesley Adams, Donald W. Burdick

by Katherine Kingsley

by John Carter Cash