6 Ergebnisse.

If it is true, as they say, that a man must walk through darkness before he can become a writer, then I am well qualified." Following this book's original publication in 1998, Michelle Rapkin, Editorial Director of Doubleday/Crossings Book Club, wrote, "In a lifetime of reading, a handful of books stand out-this is one of them." In this story you'll meet Margaret Tuttle, who doesn't know how to give or receive love, and Birdie Freeman, who tea...

Perry couldn't help wondering how different his life would have been had this woman actually been his grandmother." In Derby, South Carolina, an unlikely friendship is forged between two people who are poles apart in every way. In this novel, the Deep South meets the Midwest, youth meets age, the well-churched meets the unchurched, the extrovert meets the introvert. With characters you'll never forget, this colorfully realistic story portrays ...

Sometimes a light is the blinding road-to-Damascus kind, but more often it's a faint glimmer far away but growing steadily brighter." Ben Buckley orders his days the same way he runs his business-carefully structured, compartmentalized, and closely guarded. An unsolved murder from twenty years earlier has cast a dark shadow of anger, guilt, and brokenness over his private life, obscuring any dreams of recovery. For years Ben has distracted him...

Celia sucked in her breath and stepped across the threshold. The hum of talk stopped, and she could sense that she was being weighed in the balances of their narrow minds and found severely wanting." A funeral brings Celia Coleman back to the small town she had hoped never to see again. Meanwhile, Bruce Healey is relocating to a basement apartment to be near his sister and niece. Neither can imagine the sparks that are about to fly as they con...

When I said the biggest yes of my life before I left her house that day, I had no way of knowing I was about to be slammed up against the wall." Meet Elizabeth Landis, lover of poetry, whose life is a neglected garden. Her journey through the brambles and tangled vines of her past begins on a mild February Sunday when she is confronted with two competing forces-redemption and betrayal. As she sifts through long-ago memories and present realiti...

All her life she had recited the Twenty-Third Psalm, yet now, when it counted most, the truth seemed to elude her. Instead of comfort, she felt that her soul had been beaten with a rod and staff." The lives of three different families are woven into this story of faith. One side of the scales is heavily weighted with sorrow: fractured relationships, the death of a daughter, a house fire, an uninvited relative, guilt over things lost, and waywa...