Penelope J Stokes
Author
Language
English
Description
Brendan Delaney, a television news reporter, embarks on a quest to find the women who left messages in a blue cobalt bottle detailing their hopes and dreams during the Depression.
One of today's top-selling Christian fiction authors traces the fascinating story of the friendship among four women, from 1929 to the present--all intricately tied to one mysterious blue bottle.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before Diedre McAlister's mother dies, she gives her daughter an old photograph and says: "Find yourself. Find your truth. Just don't expect it to be what you thought it would be."
The truth will shake up Diedre's world, threaten lives, challenge her faith-and quite possibly save her life.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she discovers her son has designs to sell her home out from under her, Miss Amethyst-ninety-three years old and as sharp as ever-isn't about to let her legacy go. She pins her hopes on her granddaughter, Little Am, a good-natured child who has mutated in her teenage years into something else altogether. Whatever it takes, Little Am will know that the Noble family heritage is worth fighting for.
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel about four women, friends since college. According to the "circle journal" they've used to keep in touch, they seem to have the lives they dreamed of. Liz, the hippie activist, fights for justice in Washington, D.C. Tess who always wanted to be a writer teaches literature in the Midwest and is married to another professor. Amanda, considered the prettiest by the group, enjoys a perfect marriage to her college boyfriend. And then there is Grace....
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Twenty-three years ago, beauty queen Peach Rondell left Mississippi and vowed never to return. Now, divorced and heartbroken, she's back and trying to figure out how her life went so miserably wrong, and how to put the pieces back together again. To escape her mama's scrutinizing gaze, she spends her days in a little storefront diner called the Heartbreak Café, where, in the back booth, she scribbles away in her journal, waiting for enlightenment....
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dell Haley's mama always told her there were two things a man couldn't get enough of: good cookin' and good lovin'. Dell has the cooking down pat -- the proof is in her fried apple pies. But she suspects her husband is getting more than his fair share of loving -- she just doesn't know where. And when he turns up dead, Dell's predictable life begins to crumble. Short on money and education, Dell turns to the one thing that has never let her down:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When Willie Coltrain's amnesiac fiancee Owen Slaughter returns from a Nazi prison, he only knows her as the sister of a buddy, and Willie cannot let him know otherwise for fear that the shock of the discovery will only make things worse, but she relies on her Christian faith to help her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Popular novelist Penelope J. Stokes entertains and inspires legions of fans with her heartwarming stories. In Home Fires Burning, she spins a stirring tale of love and faith, tested by the turbulence and uncertainty of World War II. The deadly conflict in Europe seems far away to 18-year-old Libba Coltraine; all she cares about is escaping her domineering father. Searching for excitement, she defies her father and attends a USO dance at the army camp...
Author
Publisher
W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe Lange loves her fiancé, but she isn't sure if she's ready to be married. And so she comes home. Home to the rambling Victorian house where she was raised. Home to the grandmother who cared for her after her parents, died. Home to the comfort of familiar surroundings, where she can give herself time to consider the course of her future. What she finds when she returns, however, is far from comforting and anything but familiar."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In 1944, when her father dies, Libba Coltrain discovers that he has lied to her about Link Winsom, the love of her life. Link did not die in the war. Although his legs are paralyzed, he is alive. Now Libba is determined to rely on faith and love to make a new life with Link. The couple's struggles are a moving testimony to the power of God's guidance, and narrator Ruth Ann Phimister captures their thoughts and prayers.
