In the dramatic conclusion to the New York Times best seller Her Mother’s Hope, comes this rich and deeply moving story about the silent sorrows that can tear a family apart and the grace and forgiveness that can heal even the deepest wounds.  Growing up isn’t easy for little Carolyn Arundel. With her mother, Hildemara, quarantined to her room with...

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Francine's Blog

September 6, 2010

It occurred to me last night that I am living by lists; grocery lists, errand lists, a bucket list.  Good grief, I start on New Year’s Eve and lay out a plan for the upcoming year, God willing I live through it.  I even have categories...

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Earth Psalms: Reflections on the World Around Us

September 6, 2010

In Southwestern Africa, there is a little black beetle with a grooved and bumpy back.  Each day, this small creature climbs a sand dune before dawn and waits for the fog to announce the approaching sunrise.  As it waits, tiny droplets of water form on its water-repellent casing. ...

The first part of an unforgettable epic family saga about the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter and the very nature of unconditional love. On the eve of the First World War, fiery Marta Schneider leaves Switzerland and her difficult childhood behind, determined to find a new life on her own terms. Barely out of her teens, Marta is haunted by a devastating loss that fuels her ambition to one day own a hotel. From the cramped quarters of a French housekeeping school to the...

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Can God’s Love Save Anyone? 
California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep.  Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead...

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The stories of the five unlikely women who changed eternity. Tamar, betrayed by the men who controlled her future, she fought for her right to believe in a loving God. Rahab, a woman with a past to whom God gave a future. Ruth, who gave up everything, expecting nothing, and God honored her. Bathsheba, whose beauty stirred the passion of a king, and whose pain moved the heart of...

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