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With This Ring is the sequel to The Wedding Dress. Rebecca's bittersweet story continues as she searches for the truth through heartbreak and pain.

"The Big Fisherman" is a historical novel centered around Simon Peter, one of the twelve apostles. He is a large, strong man, who initially rejects the whisperings about Jesus. Though he had long denied religious teachings from his father, Simon is drawn to Jesus and feels changed when he meets him. When Jesus tells him to follow, he does. In "The Big Fisherman" we intimately experience the story of Jesus and go with Him into the countryside where...

In this sequel to Love, Treachery, and Other Terrors, seventeen-year-old Augustine has a near-perfect life. His mother and stepfather adore him, he is looking forward to a promising career as a knight, and he's pretty sure the doctor's daughter likes him as much as he likes her. Aside from the occasional duel with his cousin, he doesn't have any real problems.Until he's kidnapped by a band of highwaymen. As if tying him up and dragging him away from...

"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher. In medieval poetic forms, the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc's life-- her family, the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood-- explore issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to...

George Gibson is determined to check off his last bucket list item: a trip across America in his RV. When George's daughter learns of a boy forced to give up a beloved Saint Bernard, she suggests he adopt the dog as a traveling companion. Warming to Lewis, George begins telling him stories from his life and his unrealized dreams. And Lewis makes instant friends of the people who cross their path. Will Lewis and his new friends help George confront...

After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.

After his parents are killed in an attack on their wagon train, Tommy is taken in by local settler Eva Dunning, who believes God delivered the orphan to be raised by her. Two years later soldiers arrive with orders to collect the child. Meanwhile, his grandmother in Arkansas hires a gunslinger to help rescue her grandson no matter the cost.

Alva Jane has never questioned her parents, her faith, her future. She is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-eight siblings. This is the only world Alva has ever known, and she has never thought to challenge it. But everything changes when she is caught giving her longtime crush an innocent first kiss. Beaten, scorned, and now facing...

Hope is a rare gift that, if we are lucky, comes to us with the power to heal our lives. I've come to know that the deepest sense of hope often springs from the hardest lessons in life. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen--perhaps it is divine irony that within the darkest moments we are capable of revealing the greatest light, demonstrating what is best with humanity. This is the story of Timepiece. In The Christmas Box a loving...