Author: Nancy Brandt
Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Wings ePress (2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590887859
ISBN-13: 978-1590887851
Book description: Mary Grace Caster knows what it’s like to lose control of your life. Her faith in Jesus helped her overcome her former sinful lifestyle. Now she wants to help Ashley, a young girl heading down the same road. However, Ashley’s father, Chance Meyers, refuses to see the trouble his little girl could get into.
Mary Grace gets involved with the family, but her growing relationship with Chance causes Ashley to rebel even more until she finds herself in a predicament that threatens to destroy the family. Can Mary Grace and Chance’s love survive even this?
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Author: Carmen Marcoux
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 446 pages
Publisher: One Way Publishing House (June 30, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0973207507
ISBN-13: 978-0973207507
Book description: Joanie, a strong Catholic woman, setting out in a new career as a journalist, must face one of the greatest challenges of her young life . . . romance.
Committed to the values of Christian courtship, Joanie finds herself attracted to the handsome young commercial producer, Brandon — a man living a very worldly lifestyle. Brandon makes every effort to draw the attractive young reporter into his charms and into his world. Meanwhile, Joanie is battling to resist his advances, as she earnestly seeks to bring Jesus into Brandon’s life.
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Author: Carmen Marcoux
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 479 pages
Publisher: One Way Publishing House (January 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0973207531
ISBN-13: 978-0973207538
Book description: Delightfully entertaining, Surrender will keep you captivated as it takes you into Brandon and Joanie Vaughn’s new life together and as you follow the unpredictable paths of Maggie and Amie Collins to know God’s will . . . in a whole new story of discernment and responding to God’s call.
An inspiring work for men and women of all ages seeking to know, love, and serve the Lord.
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Author: Janet Butler
Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: Sands Publishing (November 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590250117
ISBN-13: 978-1590250112
Book description: James Michael Goodwin closed the driver's side door, switched to a public-radio jazz show on the car stereo, then swung the Mercedes through the side streets toward home. He was finished. Fifteen years he'd had, good years playing jazz piano in smoky two-bit college rooms and seedy bars all night. The hard work paid off in time ... and tonight, Boston's upper crust had thrown him a whale of a party. At home, James grasped the ready .38 in his left hand. Felt one last, fleeting jolt of pain as he positioned it carefully at the spot where a pulse throbbed just beneath his temple. Then he closed his eyes, slipped his index finger around the trigger. Caressed it for a moment. And, gently, squeezed.
But death wouldn't take him. His struggle would continue, and he would find himself tested anew by awakening feelings for his new protege. She now held all the promise he'd claimed for himself. Could James bear to hear his music played by another? And could he love someone. Anyone. Ever again?
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Author: Ellen Gable
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Full Quiver Publishing (June 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0973673605
ISBN-13: 978-0973673609
Book description: Emily's Hope is the gripping story of one young woman's physical, emotional, spiritual journey from high school to adulthood. Interspersed throughout the story are flashbacks to Emily's great-grandmother's troubled life, with a climax culminating in the surprising revelation that Emily and her great-grandmother are connected more deeply than by ancestral ties alone. Emily's Hope won an Honorable Mention Award for Religious Fiction in the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards and in 2009, received the Catholic Writers' Guild Seal of Approval.
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"I would encourage everyone to read this book, certainly young women." David Beresford --Catholic Insight Magazine
"While this book is definitely about Natural Family Planning, it is also about the love of husbands and wives, the love of parents for their children and the agonizing moral choices we sometimes face. It is also about real people...and about being witnesses to a culture of life in a world overshadowed by the culture of death." Kristie Wellman --One More Soul Magazine
"There is so much to love about Emily's Hope: the innocence of young love, the beautiful, miraculous, healing power of love and the beauty of sacrificial married love and its life-giving splendor. This story is not a fantasy, but is a tender and sensitive portrayal of what makes love real and lasting." Jean M. Heimann --Catholic Fire
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Author: Ellen Gable
Paperback: 414 pages
Publisher: Full Quiver Publishing; First edition (June 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 097367363X
ISBN-13: 978-0973673630
Book description: 1876, Philadelphia. Caroline Martin's life has finally taken a turn for the better. After years of hard work, she has met a virtuous and wealthy man whose love seems to promise the kind of life realized only within the comforting novels she keeps on her night table. Tragedy, however, will teach Caroline of the complexity with which God Himself authors the lives of those who turn toward Him.
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Author: Sandra Wilkins
Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Avalon (April 24, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0803498861
ISBN-13: 978-0803498860
Book description: In the summer of 1905, well-known actress Ada Marsh arrives in Shawnee, Oklahoma Territory, with her fiance and their acting troupe. Ada is impressed with the young, prospering town and its people. While giving an interview with a local newspaper reporter, Gwen Sanders, Ada meets Gwen's cousin, Luke Logan, and friend, Rose Dennis. Ada is immediately taken with her new friends, especially Luke. He is unlike any man she has ever known, including her fiance, Hugh. Just as Ada is becoming fast friends with her new acquaintances, she discovers Hugh's flirtations with a local actress. She bids farewell to him and decides to make a new life for herself in Shawnee. Luke Logan decides to pursue Ada, but she keeps him at arm's length. The charming farmer will have to endeavor to earn her trust in order to win her heart.
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Author: Sandra Wilkins
Hardcover: 233 pages
Publisher: Avalon Books (April 24, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0803477570
ISBN-13: 978-0803477575
Book description: When Rose Dennis begins her first job at B & B Mercantile in the winter of 1906, she befriends a handsome widower, Owen Emerson, his baby, Hope, and a dashing man named Richard Dobbs. Both men recently moved to Shawnee in Oklahoma Territory, and she is drawn to each of them. Circumstances change and Rose takes care of Hope full time. She soon loves the little baby, but she hesitates to have any feelings for Owen because he seems to be in deep mourning. Richard, on the other hand, is accommodating in every way and seems almost too good to be true. Which man loves her? Which man will only betray her? Her good friends, Ada and Gwen, try to help her make this important decision, but Rose knows only she can be the one to resolve her dilemma. With which man should she put all of her hopes and dreams?
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Author: Tina Williams
Paperback: 340 pages
Publisher: AuthorHouse (September 12, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1425983162
ISBN-13: 978-1425983161
Book description: Annie... Nineteen and pregnant, Annie accepts Jack's marriage proposal as a way to provide her child with the home and father that she never had. But as Jack shares his love and his Catholic faith with her, she discovers a home and family not only for her baby, but also for herself.
Jack... When Jack proposes to Annie, he believes that he can give Annie and her baby all that they need. But as he extends his patience, love, and forgiveness to Annie, he learns that accepting these same gifts in return can be more challenging than giving them.
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Author: Jim Bello
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: SoulCake Press (January 1, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0977456900
ISBN-13: 978-0977456901
Book description: Faced with unspeakable tragedies, Nikki McCord takes dangerous steps to reconcile her crumbling life. When Damien LeRoux, a handsome stranger, pays her one thousand dollars for a single dying rose, Nikki is determined to learn why. As their secular and spiritual worlds collide, Nikki comes face to face with a reality darker than she ever imagined. Encircled by the allure of deadly temptations, Nikki fights to decide who will live—and who will die.
Reviews
...a well-crafted tale complete with romance and suspense. ...a page-turner. --Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur, Spiritual Woman Newsletter, November 2005
Without sacrificing their flesh and blood reality, Bello is able to plumb the depth of their (his characters') souls... --Raymond Dennehy, Ph.D., Author of "Anti-Abortionist at Large: How to Argue Intelligently About Abortion and Live to Tell About It"
One Baby Rose is a great story for all Christian book lovers. ...It is a superb read… --David J. Wilson, Author of "A Practical Guide for Imparting the Faith: Comprehensive Catechesis"
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