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Glimpses of grace: daily thoughts and reflections
Par Madeleine L'Engle. 1996
For half a century, Madeleine L'Engle has spun magic with words, touching millions of lives and earning a devoted readership…
with her award-winning fiction, candid reflections on her personal and family life and graceful meditations on faith. Now, Glimpses of Grace captures the essence of L'Engle's literary gift in one unprecedented volume. Ranging freely throughout L'Engle's remarkable lifework of more than 40 volumes of fiction and nonfiction, adventure stories, family dramas, autobiography and religious commentary, editor Carole P. Chase has collected evocative passages and arranged them as daily readings that offer illuminating bits of wisdom, provocative insight, and, above all, engaging and intelligent daily inspiration. With enduring power and resonance, each of these 366 rich selections speaks to the simple joys and sorrows of daily life and the deepest questions of the human heart and spirit, while reflecting the exhilarating artistry of one of the most spiritually alive and articulate storytellers of this century. AdultA Vintage Christmas: A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems
Par Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Louisa Alcott, L. Montgomery. 2018
This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia.Filled…
with stories that have been part of the Christmas season for generations, A Vintage Christmas is a unique collection of lesser-known Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.Discover a charming story from L. M. Montgomery about love and sacrifice in a little log house. See Christmas through the eyes of a child in a New England colonial village with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Remember the reason Christ came to earth in the poetry of Anne Brontë. Share with your family the delightful letter Mark Twain wrote as Santa Claus to his three-year-old daughter.A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, L. M. Montgomery, and William Dean Howells, as well as poems from Eliza Cook, Christina Rossetti, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joyce Kilmer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.A Vintage Christmas is a timeless reminder that the heart of the holiday never changes.Hardcover, giftable size Perfect as a stocking stuffer and host or hostess gift Filled with hopeful and encouraging Christmas stories Makes a lovely keepsake companion to A Classic Christmas and A Timeless ChristmasKiss the Bride: Three Summer Love Stories (Year of Weddings Novellas)
Par Melissa McClone, Robin Hatcher, Kathryn Springer. 2017
Meet the people who make it all happen—the photographers, chefs, and the writers who have helped orchestrate and document the…
perfect day for countless couples—as they find their own happy endings in three sweet novellas.Picture Perfect Love: A June Wedding Story by Melissa McCloneWhen image becomes everything, it&’s up to love to refocus the heart. Photographer Jenna Harrison wants every bride and groom to look picture perfect on their special day. But her own heart is still broken, the unworn wedding dress hanging in her closet a reminder that relationships aren&’t always as perfect as they look through her camera lens. Attorney Ashton Vance is the one that got away, but he wrongly blamed Jenna for ruining his political aspirations. Even if Jenna can forgive him, dare he hope for a second chance at her love?I Hope You Dance: A July Wedding Story by Robin Lee HatcherWill a sworn bachelor determined to stay single fall in love with his dance teacher? Grant Nichols is a genius in the kitchen and a klutz on the dance floor. But his friend&’s wedding is shaping up to be a shindig the likes of which Kings Meadow has never seen—including dancing. Lots of dancing. Former rodeo queen Skye Foster is offering dance lessons for the wedding party. Grant and Skye are no match on paper. But when they step onto the dance floor, they create a melody all their own.Love on a Deadline: An August Wedding Story by Kathryn SpringerMacKenzie &“Mac&” Davis returns to her hometown of Red Leaf, Wisconsin, and takes a job at the weekly newspaper writing about social events. When Hollis Channing, Mac&’s high school nemesis, returns to Red Leaf to marry her celebrity fiancé, the editor asks Mac to cover all the festivities for the newspaper. The last thing Mac wants to do is reconnect with the person who made her life miserable when she was a teenager . . . unless it&’s spending time with Ethan Channing, the bride&’s older brother—and Mac&’s first crush.Three novellas from the Year of Weddings novella collection in one bookInspiring wedding stories by bestselling romance authorsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs1492: The Year the Four Corners of the Earth Collided
Par Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. 2009
1492: The Year the World Began is a look at one of the most fascinating years in world history, the…
year when many believe the modern world was born. Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of Millennium, covers such iconic figures as Christopher Columbus and Alexander Borgia and explores cultures as diverse as that of Spain, China, and Africa to tell the story of 1492, a momentous year whose lessons are still relevant todayAutumn Brides: A Year of Weddings Novella Collection (A Year of Weddings Novella)
Par Kathryn Springer, Katie Ganshert, Beth K. Vogt. 2015
Happily ever after begins today. The honor of your presence is requested at three autumn weddings . . .A September…
Bride by Kathryn SpringerWhen Annie moves to Red Leaf, she&’s ready to call the little town home, but Deputy Jesse Kent can&’t believe his mother has handed the keys to her bookshop over to a woman she met on the internet. Jesse has seen his mother taken advantage of before, and he decides to keep a close eye on this Annie Price. But when a close eye turns into a historical wedding reenactment with Jesse and Annie as the couple, make-believe nuptials quickly give way to real-life emotions.An October Bride by Katie GanshertNo one but Jake and Emma know the true reason they&’re getting married—so Emma&’s dying father can walk her down the aisle. While Jake and Emma plan an autumn wedding together, it becomes clear that their agreement has a few complications—the biggest being their true feelings for each other.A November Bride by Beth K. VogtHaving celebrated the big 3–0 by ending a relationship, Sadie is tired of romantic relationships-by-text. The only man she knows willing to put down his iPhone and have face-to-face conversations with her is Erik. It&’s time to put a 21st-century twist on the Sadie Hawkins&’ tradition of a woman going after her man. But when he realizes he&’s fallen for her, can Erik convince Sadie his just-for-fun dates were the prelude to &“&’til death do us part&”?