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Daybreak (The Days of Redemption) by Shelley Shepard Gray {Preview}
When Viola Keim starts working at a nearby Mennonite retirement home, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with resident Atle, whose only living relative, son Edward, is living as a missionary in Nicaragua. Viola understands the importance of mission work, but she can’t imagine leaving her father in the hands of strangers. Even though her family is New Order Amish, it’s not the Amish way, and though she doesn’t know Ed, she judges him for abandoning his father. But when Ed surprises his father with a visit, Viola and Ed both discover an attraction they never expected. Despite her feelings, choosing Ed would mean moving to a far-off country and…
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The Search by Shelley Shepard Gray {Preview}
In the second book in her Secrets of Crittenden County series, New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray delivers another page-turning romance set in Amish country
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Christmas in Sugarcreek by Shelley Shepard Gray {Preview}
Judith Graber has always been the obedient daughter. When her older brother Josh struggled with his love life, she offered wise counsel. When her younger brother Caleb flirted with the idea of leaving their order, she firmly told him he was wrong. Over the years, she’s watched her younger siblings, helped around the house, and worked in her family’s store during her spare time. Judith feels overworked, overlooked, and underappreciated this holiday season.
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New Releases Pages… coming soon!
I’m working on getting some organization and new release pages to show off covers of upcoming titles and link to their Goodreads pages for more information… Let me know your thoughts… Actual page is here: http://chf.creativemadnessmama.com/november-2010-releases/ *Click on a publisher logo to head to their website *Click on a book cover to head to the Goodreads Book Page (If you buy, please consider using one of my affiliate links on www.CreativeMadnessMama.com)
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Christmas Amish: Grace by Shelley Shepard Gray
GRACE by Shelley Shepard Gray On Sale October 26, 2010 304 pages; 5 5/16 x 8 “Gray’s latest embodies the meaning of Christmas. It is a reminder that all situations — good, bad or inconvenient — happen for a reason: It is God’s plan.” — Romantic Times Book Reviews “In placing the two lifestyles [Amish and English] side by side — as happens in real-life Amish communities — Gray has built a kind of tension that’s classic to romance stories: a forbidden, or at least problematic, attraction.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer on Winter’s Awakening For fans of the Sisters of the Heart series – Hidden, Wanted and Forgiven – Shelley Shepard Gray…
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Autumn’s Promise by Shelley Shepard Gray {Preview}
Some promises are meant to be broken... Until Robert Miller met Lilly Allen, his world had been dark. A widower after only two years of marriage, he'd been living in a haze, feeling that, at twenty-four, his life was already over. But thanks to his friendship with Lilly, he now has new reasons to wake up each day. He knows his connection to her doesn't make sense. She's only nineteen, with a past the whole town talks about. Even more, she's not Amish, like Robert. A marriage between the two of them could never happen. Lilly's heart is drawn to Robert, not to his faith. No matter how much she…
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The Sister Wife by Diane Noble
Last month, you might have first heard me mention this new title over at Christian Historical Fiction @ Creative Madness Mama, but this week it is touring with the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance.
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The Sister Wife in stores now!
THE SISTER WIFE by Diane Noble On Sale Now! View Book Trailer Here “This even-handed, carefully researched treatment of the history of the Latter Day Saints includes a nonjudgmental look at the beginnings of polygamy. The Sister Wife is the first in Noble’s Brides of Gabriel series, which, given the popularity of Big Love—the HBO television drama about a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah—should be a big hit with readers.”— Booklist “A well-researched, gripping story written with depth of emotion, it tactfully illustrates different belief systems and explores plural marriage without sensationalizing it.”— Romantic Times Book Reviews I’m pleased to introduce The Brides of Gabriel, a new historical series set…
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Her Abundant Joy — Giveaway Link
HER ABUNDANT JOY (Avon Inspire; Trade Paperback Original; On Sale: June 1, 2010; ISBN: 9780061373428; $12.99) is the third and final book of the Texas: Star of Destiny series, featuring a beautiful German immigrant trying to escape her painful past and find peace in the arms of a Texas Ranger. It’s 1846 and Mariel, a beautiful young widow from Germany, has traveled tirelessly and survived the grueling voyage from her native country to stat a new life in Texas. After circumstances forced her to become a servant to a harsh master, Mariel is desperate to leave, but how can a single woman face the dangerous frontier alone? Texas Ranger Carson…
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HER ABUNDANT JOY — Giveaway
HER ABUNDANT JOY (Avon Inspire; Trade Paperback Original; On Sale: June 1, 2010; ISBN: 9780061373428; $12.99) is the third and final book of the Texas: Star of Destiny series, featuring a beautiful German immigrant trying to escape her painful past and find peace in the arms of a Texas Ranger. It’s 1846 and Mariel, a beautiful young widow from Germany, has traveled tirelessly and survived the grueling voyage from her native country to stat a new life in Texas. After circumstances forced her to become a servant to a harsh master, Mariel is desperate to leave, but how can a single woman face the dangerous frontier alone? Texas Ranger Carson…
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One True Love by Lori Copeland – Review
One True Love by Lori Copeland Copper is overjoyed that her friends Willow and Audrey found love and fulfillment after the war. The only remaining spinster, Copper vows to pour herself into her new teaching job. But tragedy strikes during her very first week. The schoolhouse catches fire and Copper suffers a serious injury while ushering her students to safety. Suddenly she’s on a wagon train bound for Colorado to see the only doctor who can help her walk again. Ever since the wagon train pulled into town, Copper butted heads with wagon master Josh Redlin—and now she must depend on him for her very life. But as Copper is…
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TLC: Winter’s Awakening by Shelley Shepard Gray — Review
Winter’s Awakening by Shelley Shepard Gray Joshua Graber knows his future is set. He′s expected to work at his family business, the Graber Country Store. He′s expected to marry Gretta Hershberger, who he′s been courting for several years. But when a new English family moves next door and their lovely teenage daughter, Lilly Allen, catches his eye, Joshua wonders if all the plans for his future are too set in stone. Gretta doesn′t know what′s going on with Joshua. When they argue and later stew in silence, it feels a lot like the frosty atmosphere at her home. After promising herself to never have a marriage like her parents, she…
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Shelley Shepard Gray’s Creative Madness
Today I am glad to welcome Amish Fiction author Shelley Shepard Gray to Creative Madness that Makes Me Myself. Please sit a while and perhaps share a cup of tea while learning a little about the “creative madness” behind this delightful author. Thanks for stopping by Shelley. When I told Margaret I’d be thrilled to be a guest blogger at her site, I asked if she had a topic in mind. She told me creative madness. Well, I’m game for just about anything…but creative madness? I have to say, I wasn’t really quite sure what that was!Then, like one of those aha moments in church, it all clicked together. See, Creative Madness is…
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New Releases for Feby 2010
(Thomas Nelson – A Mercy Falls Novel) (Avon Inspire – Seasons of Sugarcreek, #1) (Bethany House) (Bethany House) (Revell Books – The Wives of King David, #2 – Sequel to Michal) (Barbour Books – The McCord Sisters, #2 – Sequel to The Reluctant Cowgirl) (Barbour Books – Romancing America, Utah – 3-in-1 Reprint?) (Barbour Books – Brides of Bonneterre, #3 – Sequel to Stand-In Groom and Menu for Romance) (B&H) (B&H) (Tyndale House – PJ Sugar, #2 – Sequel to Nothing But Trouble) (Tyndale House)
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Defiant Heart by Tracey Bateman (a review not before blogged here)
Defiant Heart by Tracey Victoria Bateman In Book One of the Westward Hearts series, orphans Fannie Caldwell and her two young siblings have spent the last three years as indentured servants under a cruel master. Desperately wanting a better life for her brother and sister, Fannie devises a plan to secretly join a wagon train heading west. Her plan immediately runs into trouble when the handsome yet bullheaded wagon master Blake Tanner refuses to allow an unmarried woman on the train. But Fannie’s determined – she’ll escape and go west with or without help. As life on the trail tests everyone’s endurance and faith, Fannie soon realizes the perils of…
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Wanted by Shelley Shepard Gray: a review and peek inside
Wanted by Shelley Shepard Gray My review rating: 3 of 5 stars*This review is from reading an ARC.* The first book in this Sisters of the Heart Series, Hidden (my review), was absolutely fabulous and a wonderful romance full of suspense. This second book is good, and I enjoyed the read and love the characters, but it was not very exciting to me. At least not in any comparison to the first book and other Amish books out there. As a theme for this book, the idea of being “wanted” is nothing new to most people, and our Katie wanting to be wanted and going after that attention (in her…