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Chosen to play the coveted role of "Disney Princess", author Jennifer Beckham knew she would find the acceptance and love she had been searching for all her life waiting there on top of that float, inside that magical carriage. Boy, was she wrong! God wanted her to address a crippling tendency shared by many women - to get so stuck in the pain, the misery, and the heartaches of life that they never fully move on and into the purposes of God.

Take Me Deeper Still is much more than a Bible study. It's a journey, a 40-day journey connecting you with God on every level as you spend time communing with Him in praise and worship, communicating with Him in prayer, and getting to know Him through His Word.

Footprints Left After The Wagon Train: An Oregon Trail Christian Story, is a novella about the 1847 journey to the west as told from the POV of a teenaged boy. It's a story about hope, love of God, charity towards others and redemption. There is death, joy, anger, hope and tragedy along the trail as all of the families leave their own footprints in the dusty soil, long after the train has passed on and they have settled into their new lives thousands of miles from their starting point.

Nameless Indignities is an intriguing account of a historical true crime with more twists and turns than a roller coaster ride. If you are fascinated by history relating to crime, law, medicine, psychology, hysteria, rape, journalism, or genealogy, then this Victorian mystery is for you. The story will hold you in its grip from beginning to end with multiple suspects, a lynch mob, perjury and bribery, a failed kidnapping attempt, broken family ties, cover-ups, financial devastation, and at least two suicides.

Nick must face his feelings about his religious roots as a Mormon and the unusual culture that accompanies it. His beliefs will take him right to the edge of eternity in his quest for understanding. Kirsten Talon realized that she should feel fear by the coming of the night. She was lost in a rainforest on the continent of Africa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Five Orphaned Christian Sisters Journey Along The Oregon Trail, is a moving story about five orphaned sisters and what they find during their journey in a wagon train, west to Oregon. It's a story about love for some of them, faith in God, and the redemption of one lost soul who started the journey all alone. With their uncle to guide and protect them, as well as their strong faith and love of God, they are able to prevail and look forward to their new life on the west coast during the mid-1880s.

Though her B&B/Antiques business has fallen off, Billie D'Allesandro doesn't let it dampen her spirits. At forty, she no longer entertains any notions about falling in love and living happily ever after. Instead, she focuses on helping her friends and neighbors, giving generously of both her time and her money. When her niece arrives with her four-year-old twin daughters, Billie finds it a welcome distraction.

This is a story about a young Amish couple who had planned to get married when they were permitted to do so. One horrible lie told by a young woman throws the entire community into chaos and splits Jacob and Grace Ella apart. It's only when the woman confesses that things may start to be pulled together once again. The only problem is, unable to stand all of the changes in her life now that she cannot be with Jacob, Grace Ella runs off and the brothers of both families set out to find her.

When Sampson falls ill, Joanna believes it to be her fault, as she prayed the marriage would not happen. Yet all the time Sampson lies gravely ill, she and Eli grow closer together--especially when they search for a missing treasure from Eli's dark past. Eli is fighting his own problems--his lack of faith and if he wants to rejoin the Amish or not. There is one person who could convince him to stay. But she seems destined for another.

Grandparenting is hard enough, but when you add in the blended family element, whether step or adopted, the challenge is even greater. How do you succeed when these children are not your own? How do you make them your own? Can you get them to love you? To like you? To trust you? How do successful grandparents do it? Dene Low, an award winning author and grandparent herself, explores thirty different sets of grandparents and provides tips and solutions from her interviews and research for grandparent success.

When Roma Nettles is saved from drowning by Gray Moon, a member of the Sioux tribe, she also finds her heart captured by this kind and handsome man. On her way to the town of Hill Song as a mail-order bride, she is devastated to learn that her husband-to-be, Harry Rinson, is a vile and vicious man. And as she learns more about John - as Gray Moon is known to the white man - she finds herself falling deeper in love with him.

Sassy Hatchet, a widow in her fifties, is known for her peculiar temperament. She thinks she has life all figured out until God does something unexpected.

Blossom Daniels lost her job moments after she reported to work, because she couldn't climb the stairs for mail delivery, thanks to a permanently broken down elevator. Her day was only beginning. Little did she know, before it ended, she'd be fighting for her life in the chilly grip of the Potomac.

It's 1890, and Golden, New Mexico, is a booming mining town where men far outnumber women. So when an old wealthy miner named Philip Smith finds himself in need of a nursemaid, he places an ad for a mail-order bride - despite the protests of his friend Jeremiah. Hoping to escape a perilous situation back East, young Madeleine Mercer answers the ad and arrives in town under a cloud of suspicion. But just as she begins to win over Philip - and Jeremiah himself - the secrets she left behind threaten to follow her to Golden...and tarnish her character beyond redemption.

All Holly wants is to join her younger brother in Golden, Colorado with his adopted father for Christmas, so when the opportunity to ride on the Orphan Train arises, she jumps at the chance. However, her unexpected arrival in town right before Christmas is not what Jake Carson had planned for Christmas, but since she is his adopted son Tommy's sister, he feels he must take her in for the holiday. Will Holly find a new home in Golden, Colorado and perhaps a true love by Christmas?

A spoiled, antipathetic princess who hoped only for fame and glory, Mercy is forced to think differently after her encounter with a rebel soldier tortured nearly to death by her brothers. With her new insight into the true horrors of war, Mercy decides to put an end to it in a different way than what her brothers had in mind. She is opposed not only by the enemy rebel army but also by those in her own family. 

Is it possible to start over? He is a Wall Street executive who drops out, leaving behind his family and livelihood in search of redemption. She is a divorced single mom, struggling to have a life of her own while raising her children. Failures in the eyes of the world and their own eyes, they found each other. Magnificent Failure is a love story for anyone who feels like a failure. A story of second chances for life and love, it helps listeners recognize that there can be new beginnings and that no one is a failure in God's eyes.

Elizabeth's dreams of having a loving husband and family have been replaced with the practical realities of spinsterhood, but her secret wishes are renewed when she receives a letter from her sister hinting that she has found the perfect man for Elizabeth: a Texas cowboy.

If you've got a busy lifestyle and have been looking for something different in a daily Christian devotional, your search is over. This is the second volume of a collection of Haiku poetry that is used to create a foundation for a series of short devotions. Each devotion contains one Haiku verse, a bible scripture passage, and a short prayer. This audiobook is part of the Devotions to Go& series which has been quite popular worldwide for several years, now. Each volume contains thirty-one devotions.

Twelve-year-old Jessica Oliver's summer is ruined. Instead of swimming, scrapbooking, and hanging out with her friend, she's stuck at her Grandma Charlotte's house at the opposite end of the state. Worse, there's no TV, just a million chores.