Prairie Rose by Catherine Palmer
272 pages, 24 of 24 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
Hope and love blossom on the untamed prairie as a young woman searching for a place to call home happens upon a Kansas homestead during the 1860s . . . A Town Called Hope, the inspiring series set in post Civil War Kansas, is the creation of best-selling romance writer Catherine Palmer. In the fast-paced Prairie Rose, impulsive nineteen-year-old Rosie Mills takes a job caring for the young son of widowed homesteader Seth Hunter in order to escape the orphanage in which she was raised. Rosie’s naive view of love and her understanding of what it means to have a Father in heaven are quickly put to the test. Afraid of being wounded again, Seth struggles to freely open his heart—to his hurting son, to a woman’s love, and to a Father who will not abandon him. Together Rosie and Seth must face the harsh uncertainties of prairie life—and the one man who threatens to destroy their happiness. Praire Rose launches a series sure to satisfy readers who expect solid biblical values in a wholesome, exhilarating romance.
Forever Blessed by Darlene Shortridge
301 pages, 18 of 22 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Laney watched her life disappear in the rear view mirror. If only her memories would disappear as well…
She was two hours west of town when the lights in the big two-story brick house came on. She couldn’t possibly hear the shouting and cursing, yet her insides were knotted and her stomach churned. If he caught her, he would kill her. Of that she was certain.
Forever Blessed is the story of a young mother who is on the run from an abusive husband with her three children in tow. Does Laney find safety from a controlling manipulating spouse? Does Paul track her down and make her pay for her disobedience? Where does God fit into all this?
For fiction, Darlene Shortridge writes real stories for real people… In Forever Blessed, Ms. Shortridge carves a gripping and heartfelt tale about spousal abuse with stark conflicts and turbulent emotions, while entwining the tale with the Lord’s eye-opening truth! Forever Blessed is about faith, triumph over trauma, a veil lifted from an unspeakable subject, and learning to rely on God’s sustaining strength. I look forward to book three of The Women of Prayer series!
241 pages, 13 of 13 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
One lonely mother. Two matchmaking kids. Three eligible bachelors, and some very yummy apple pie!
When widow Becky Callis moves to a new town, her intentions were to start over in a place where she’s not reminded of her dead husband. Her kids, however, take it as a chance to help her start over romantically. They soon realize it’s easier to find someone to like their mother than it is to figure out which man is best for her.
To the delight of both kids, young and handsome cowboy Scott Boone makes his interest plain and starts courting Becky almost immediately.
But Jack Anderson and Becky have been friends since childhood. When they’re reunited years after their lives have taken very different paths, this lonely preacher begins to wonder if God has brought her back into his life for a reason.
Pearce Morgan is a single parent raising his young daughter. Divorced and disillusioned, an unlikely friendship arises between him and Becky when his shy daughter decides she loves Becky and her kids.
Raising Kids with Character That Lasts by John and Susan Yates
273 pages, 4 of 4 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Moses and Hatshepsut by J SerVaas Williams
545 pages, 2 of 2 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Although the biblical narrative of Moses is widely known, the story of a pivotal woman in Moses’ life remains a mystery that has both confounded and intrigued for thousands of years. Burning questions abound:
Who was Pharaoh Hatshepsut and how did she rise to such prominence, so much so that a magnificent funeral monument was erected in her honor? Why was it that such a concerted attempt was made to erase all memory of Hatshepsut from the annals of ancient history? How did it come to be that so many inscriptions, depictions, and statues of this captivating figure were so deliberately defaced? Is it possible that she could have been the teenaged daughter of Pharaoh who plucked Moses from the Nile, then raised him as her own? What impact did Hatshepsut have as Moses grew to manhood, married a beautiful black woman, then was forced to flee into exile after learning of his Hebrew roots?
Faithfully weaving the biblical account with little known historical and archaeological details, the author of Abraham and Sarah explores the enduring enigma of Moses and Hatshepsut, rescuing this fascinating woman from the bulrushes of anonymity.
I am A Cutter Please Help Me ~ Help From a Christian Perspective by Lynda Irons
54 pages, 3 of 3 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
This book will furnish you with what you need to know regarding the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dynamics that must be addressed and dismantled in order to bring a permanent halt to this grisly practice. You will gain insights into the secret world of cutters. Parents, friends, pastors, medical or mental health care professionals who have not had training in this matter will benefit from the information that is presented. You can bring hope to the one who is crying out for help.
Also free by the same author – Glimpses of God ~ Through the Eyes of the Brokenhearted
A House Divided: A Contemporary Romance by Sydell Voeller
190 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
Rebecca Lorenzo, the young widow of a Hollywood actor who was killed by a crazed fan, is struggling to raise their young daughter, Wendy. Rebecca is embittered that God allowed her precious husband to die. She has turned her back on Him. Rebecca and Wendy move from L.A. to Rebecca’s hometown on the Oregon coast. Due to a miscommunication, Rebecca mistakenly believes she can buy a Victorian house there. She hopes to cocoon herself in the security of her “safe” hometown. Rebecca meets the handsome, enigmatic homeowner, Mark Simons, and learns of his plans to tear down the house. Mark, a psychiatrist, is attempting to raise money to build a halfway house on the property, and he is admittedly a workaholic. He believes this project is God’s will for him. Mark refuses to budge when Rebecca approaches him about selling the house. As Rebecca and Mark struggle to battle their individual demons from the past, they also struggle to resist their growing love for each other.
The Second Thanksgiving by Douglas Lloyd McIntosh
340 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
In 1623 feisty and beautiful Hester Cooke arrives in New Plymouth with her two young daughters and little son to be reunited with the love of her life, husband Francis Cooke, and their elder son John, whom she has not seen since both sailed on the Mayflower nearly three years earlier. The previous year’s harvest has been catastrophic, far too meager to celebrate with feasting similar to the First Thanksgiving of 1621. The people of Plymouth barely survived last winter, thanks only to what men like Francis and boys like John have learned about hunting, gathering and fishing from their friends in the local Wampanoag “Indian” Tribe. Even now the settlers are living on the verge of starvation.
Reunited with son John, Hester discovers that her husband Francis is out on a dangerous mission with Captain Miles Standish and other militiamen to prevent a conflict between a group of dishonest English traders and the distant Massachusett Tribe from exploding into open warfare that could destroy Plymouth. After the peril is defused for the present, Hester and Francis are reunited at last, settling into their new lives. As the spring planting begins, Governor William Bradford and the Plymouth town council reach a momentous decision. Defying the rules set down by their London financial backers, they abandon communal farming (a form of what would now be called socialism) in favor of private property and free enterprise.
The opportunity to profit from one’s own hard work on one’s own land soon has every man, woman and child out working in the fields. Lack of motivation is a thing of the past, but Hester and Francis soon discover that Christians who take their faith seriously can still fall prey to overwork, insensitivity, envy, selfishness and strife.
These conflicts play out over one of the most dramatic years in American colonial history. The great Wampanoag chieftain Massasoit Ousamequin, who has kept the peace, falls ill to the point of death. The Pilgrims learn that two Massachusett braves are attempting to start a war to destroy all the white newcomers. Should these troublemakers be stopped, even if by a murderous preemptive strike?
What happens when nature itself seems to turn against all the inhabitants of the land, with the fingers of blame pointed squarely at the people of Plymouth by enraged Native Americans? What happens when the situation becomes so ominous, so deadly, so far beyond human solution, that the Pilgrims have nowhere to turn except to God and the power of prayer?
A novel from screenwriter Douglas Lloyd McIntosh, who adapted LOVE’S LONG JOURNEY and LOVE’S ABIDING JOY for the Hallmark Channel, films in the LOVE COMES SOFTLY series by the beloved Christian novelist Janette Oke.
Un-Previous: An Invitation to the Joy of Christian Missions by Matthew Everhard
46 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
“Un-Precious: An Invitation to the Joy of Christian Missions” is a short booklet about Christian missions and evangelism. Designed for individual study or for use with short-term mission teams, each of these six brief chapters comes with study questions to stimulate thoughtful discussion.
In these short chapters, each of which can be read in one sitting, Pastor Matthew Everhard guides the reader through such topics as: our purpose in life, the Fall and the human condition, the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the urgency to proclaim the gospel to unreached people groups, and our responsibility to respond to the missionary calling.
Day by Day With God’s Biblical Promises: Applying God’s Promises to My Life by Dana Peterson
no reviews, Lending Enabled
There are hundreds of promises contained in the pages of the Bible. This book is designed to make God’s promises more applicable to daily living.
Each daily devotion contains:
1) a Biblical verse from 2 versions,
2) a story or anecdote that I have heard or seen in my past,
3) how to pray the verse back to God, and
4) bullet statements to help you make it more personal.
It is important to be proactive and take action on what you read. Many of God’s promises are freely available, but there are also many that require some action on our part. Please be proactive.
Distant Relatives by John Agostino
263 pages, 19 of 24 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
Jack Treglia suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. An unfortunate result of two tours of duty in Vietnam. In an effort to forget, the ex-Marine keeps his Bronze Star tucked away in his underwear drawer—well, he did before the tornado. After one of his Vietnam War flashbacks—the one when he can’t save a small child from enemy fire—he wakes up in a hospital, blind and suffering from partial amnesia. He remembers his wife and children. He just can’t remember what happened to them.
Jack befriends a nurse who resembles his wife. Together they try to discover what happened to his family. She helps him remember things, bizarre things, including the massive Coronary Embolism that killed him. That’s right, dead. But that won’t stop him from finding his family. And yet the revelation of his death is nothing compared to what he learns about his nurse.
202 pages, 2 of 2 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
When Rachel Taylor died, she left holes in the hearts of everyone around her. Responsibility for holding the Taylor family together falls to the capable and sensible shoulders of Rachel’s single friend, Julia. But when her comforting presence leads to the healing of their broken hearts, deep affection grows into true love. Who will be there for Julia as she grieves for all that was lost in the past and for a future that can never be?
The Makeover by Vacirca Vaughn
489 pages, of reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Phoenix Jean-Baptiste is a thirty-three-year-old Haitian-American psychologist. In spite of her ability to assist others with their life struggles, she is unable to help herself through crippling low self-esteem and depression. Phoenix’s misery stems from the belief that she is too ugly to ever be loved. She is, after all, sixty pounds overweight, suffering from adult acne, and a poor dresser. As far as she is concerned, her misshapen body, damaged dark skin, and awkwardness are the reason her life is a mess. Why else would her fiancé cheat on her two months before their wedding, telling her that he only proposed because she financially supported him for two years?
After a two-week drinking binge that nearly ends in her suicide, Phoenix desperately, cries out to God. Phoenix, a backslidden Christian, doesn’t understand that there is a spiritual battle going on between God and Satan for her soul. God hears Phoenix’s cry and sends her the help she requests in the form of Paulo Elias.
Can Phoenix let go of the past in order to move ahead with Paulo? Can Paulo help Phoenix receive the true makeover God has for her through Jesus Christ? Will God win this spiritual battle and bring forth His will in the lives of Paulo and Phoenix?
The Makeover is a novel that brings forth a message of hope to readers. This novel testifies to the awesome love of God that everyone can have through Jesus Christ. Most of all, it will remind readers that even as man may focus on one’s outer appearance, God is truly concerned with our hearts.
Ayiti Continued by Vacirca Vaughn (Book 2 – Book 1 Ayiti is still free)
458 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
This is the second half of the novel AYITI, picking up at Chapter 29. Please check out AYITI (Chapters 1-28)before picking up AYITI: CONTINUED.
In this epic Christian romance novel, Dr. Ayiti Jean-Pierre moves to Haiti and continues to remain determined to travel back to the homeland that is her namesake,Ayiti–or “Haiti,” as it is known in English. When she was seven-years-old, Ayiti and her family were forced to flee the beautiful island to escape the political turmoil and poverty that was beginning to bring misery to the Haitian people. Once her family moved to New York, Ayiti never quite got over the feeling of being displaced. She never quite felt at home. With a deep longing to return to her homeland, Ayiti throws herself into her studies and becomes a successful doctor. Ayiti knows she has a God-given call on her life to return and help.
It is a tale of the journey one woman faces as she travels back to her homeland and faces the demons of the culture she’s honored for her entire life. It is a love story between two people who couldn’t be more different from one another, but are brought together for a purpose by God. It is also the story of how God’s purpose can transcend culture, race, age and obstacles of every kind.
Beyond the Closet Door by Sharon Jenkins
216 pages, 3 of 3 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Beyond the Closet Door celebrates the demonstrated power of Christ to heal adult child abuse victims. All victims of abuse deal with emotional issues in the aftermath of their oppression, whether it is physical, sexual, verbally or mental. This work of nonfiction furnishes the breath of life for the hope found within the resurrected soul touched by Calvary’s cost and empowers them to find God’s divine purpose for their lives.
Many broken Christians are looking for their salvation experience to fix them. When the honeymoon period in Christ is over, they have to face a new level of demonic oppression because of their position in Christ. They then retreat to the closet. Few people have the privilege of knowing that even though our salvation experience is a done deal in God’s eyes, it’s a continuous process here on earth. Phillipians 2:12 states that we must “work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.” The implication is that our confession of faith in Jesus Christ is the beginning of our commitment to this process that requires a corresponding action on our part. Beyond the Closet Door, assists the emotionally abused individual in finding their way to do the “work” necessary to embrace all that they’ve inherited through Christ and the cross. For the emotionally abused child this work is wrapped in developing the courage to seek God for His promised healing.
This book helps to expose the healing light of God’s love. It encompasses like experiences of many biblical characters and popular present day healed travelers on a similar journey. It also addresses the need for the body of Christ to step up to the plate in the power invested in them from the cross to embrace the seemingly unlovable victim of abuse. It is long overdue.
Today’s Church Financial Management by George Fowler
11 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
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