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The Power of a Praying Wife
by Stormie Omartian
Omartian shares how wives can develop a deeper relationship with their husbands by praying for them. Packed with practical advice on praying for specific areas, including decision-making, fears, spiritual strength, and sexuality, this book helps women discover the fulfilling marriage God intended.
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Passionate Housewives Desperate for God
by Stacy McDonald, Jennie Chancey
Have you struggled to reconcile God's vision of virtuous womanhood with worldly myths that marginalize and mock the role of the homemaker? Do you wrestle with cultural messages that demean the homemaker s calling and exalt instead the emotionally androgynous power-woman---the wife whose worth is measured only by the degree of her self-ambition, the shape of her body, or her money-making skills? Delightfully... (more)
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A Woman After God's Own Heart: A Bible Study Workbook
by Elizabeth George
Scripture-based principles for every reader who wants to become God’s woman of excellence. For any woman who wants to achieve a growing relationship with God, develop an active partnership with her husband, and make her home into a spiritual oasis. Study guide included.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
A dazzling and alluring novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey... (more)
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The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be... (more)
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Two Kisses for Maddy
A Memoir of Loss & Love
by Matt Logelin
Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. The pair settled together in Los Angeles and they had it all: the perfect marriage, a beautiful new home, and a baby girl on the way. But just twenty-seven hours after they welcomed Madeline into the world, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and instantly died, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Faced with devastating grief... (more)
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The Resolution for Women
by Priscilla Shirer
Written in partnership with Sherwood Pictures’ upcoming film, COURAGEOUS, in The Resolution for Women, popular speaker and author Priscilla Shirer challenges all women to be intentional about embracing and thriving in God’s beautiful and eternal calling on their lives. Like the men in the movie who resolve to fully accept their responsibilities before God, Shirer explains how today’s women can and should live out... (more)
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If Only He Knew: What No Woman Can Resist
by Gary Smalley, Norma Smalley
A how-to book for men that seeks to clarify distinctions between the sexes with a view toward building a stronger marital relationship with this understanding.
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The Power of a Positive Wife
by Karol Ladd
Whether you're happy in your marriage or struggling to survive, this book is all about how you can become a positive influence in your marriage. And believe it or not, being a positive wife has nothing to do with your husband -- it has to do with you and who you are in God. Through seven biblical principles, Karol Ladd shares how any woman can be a positive (not perfect) wife as she builds a deeper, more... (more)
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My Life at Rose Red
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
by Ellen Rimbauer, Joyce Reardon, Steven Rimbauer
At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows... (more)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their... (more)
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Candlelight Historische Roman: Book 775
The Perfect Wife
by Lynsay Sands
It was to be hoped that her groom was partial to cherries. For Avelyn feared she would very much resemble one at their wedding feast. Too round, to red in the scarlet gown that was all she could fit into…and perhaps too tart for his taste? No doubt he longed for a sweet, biddable bride, one who was as tiny and trim as she was trying to appear.Paen Gerville longed for a lively, well-rounded woman, one... (more)
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A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage
by Jim George
The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife. That’s why it’s so vital for husbands to pursue God’s heart and get to know His perfect design for the man’s role in the marriage relationship. Husbands will find their marriages growing richer and deeper as they discover how to... win a wife’s heart through loving leadership enjoy better communication through careful... (more)
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The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and "Women's Work" (Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality)
by Kathleen Norris
The bestselling author of The Cloister Walk reflects on the sanctifying possibilities of everyday work and how God is present in worship and liturgy as well as in ordinary life. Definitely not "for women only."
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Last Bride Standing
by Patricia Anne Phillips
Will a lost memory and a new love lead to a change of heart? Wanda Gray is happily married and content with both her husband and her life. Until she is involved in a plane crash and forgets all about them...After journalist Wanda Gray's plane crashes in Kenya, searchers find no survivors and she is believed dead. But she is very much alive, if drawing a total blank on everything that happened prior to the accident... (more)
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The Sexually Confident Wife
Connecting with Your Husband in Mind, Body, Heart, Spirit
by Shannon Ethridge
Maximize the sexual and emotional potential in your marriage! With down-to-earth wisdom based on the experiences of the thousands of women she’s counseled, Shannon Ethridge–author of the million-plus-selling Every Woman’s Battle series–shows women how to create the healthy, exhilarating sex lives they (and their husbands) desire. Every woman deserves to enjoy great sex with her husband, without inhibition or... (more)
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Today's Military Wife
by Lydia Sloan Cline
Now in its fifth edition, this book covers all the information a service wife needs to survive and prosper in a service environment, including a complete description of family-friendly programs, coping with periodic separations, managing a separate career, living overseas, raising a family, and being a full participant in the rich and rewarding social aspects of military life.
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A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters
by Jim George
At last—a powerful companion volume to A Woman After God’s Own Heart® by Elizabeth George (400,000 copies sold). Many Christian men want to be a man after God’s own heart...but how do they become one? Author Jim George shows that a heartfelt desire to grow spiritually is all that’s needed. God’s grace does the rest—bringing lasting change to a man’s: Marriage —leading, loving, and... (more)
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Rocking the Roles: Building a Win-Win Marriage
by Robert Lewis
THE TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE NEVER WAS THE BIBLICAL MARRIAGE. Ozzie and Harriet are gone. And with them, the idea that the traditional marriage is the only right way. Yet, today's couples are also discovering that the "roleless" marriage in which everything is equal, with no distinction between male and female, isn't all that satisfying either. Rocking the Roles examines what the Bible really has to say about the... (more)
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The Excellent Wife Study Guide
by Martha Peace
The Excellent Wife was proven seaworthy on its maiden voyage and now the Revised Edition is impacting lives and marriages in an even greater way. Here is a scripturally based blueprint for the woman

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