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The sisters of the Yada Yada Prayer Group are learning how to be real—with each other and with God.
After a particularly exhausting year with the Yada Yada Prayer Group, all Jodi Baxter wants is a break. She even asks God for a little “dull and boring” in the new year. Instead she finds that when you’re open to His plans, life is unpredictable—in the best and hardest ways.
Jodi’s life is suddenly
...4) The wish
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Leona Speicher got the "sister" she'd always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family moved to Lancaster County Amish farmland. The Arkansas newcomers seem to be everything a devout Plain family should be, and Leona can't help comparing Gloria's's engaging young parents to her own. Leona's cousin shows a romantic interest in Gloria around the same time as Gloria's older brother expresses his fondness for Leona--it seems likely the two young...
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A devastating fire wakes up the Yada Yadas to a new reality: God is on the move. The Yada Yada prayer sisters tend to expect big things from God. But to move forward, sometimes we have to let go of what's behind. In spite of the loss of two dear friends. In spite of the curse of HIV. In spite of fire consuming the hopes of those who have nothing. Yet, out of the ashes, God is doing a new thing! It's time for the Yadas to press on, pray on, and get...
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The Yada Yada Prayer Group seems invincible--until tension and distrust shake its very foundation. Jodi Baxter is slowly recuperating from a horrific car accident, but before she's fully recovered, other problems arise within the Yada Yada Prayer Group--big problems. The turmoil starts when a heroin-addicted woman charges into a prayer meeting with a knife and isn't afraid to use it. Things really take a turn for the worse when grim accusations are...
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Lily Bishop wakes up one morning to find a good-bye note and divorce papers from her husband on the kitchen counter. Having moved to Alabama for his job only weeks before, Lily is devastated, but a flyer at the grocery store for a hair stylist position in a local retirement community provides a refuge while she contemplates her next steps. Rose Carrigan built the small retirement village of Safe Harbor years ago--just before her husband ran off with...
10) Sanctuary
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Melissa James has a picture-perfect existence, or so it seems. In reality, she has been looking over her shoulder her entire life. Just as her secrets are about to catch up with her, she seeks a haven in Pennsylvania Amish Country. Will her stay bring her peace, or will it bring danger to the Plain community?
12) Saturday morning
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Four women whose lives center around Casa de Jesus, a women's shelter in San Francisco, find solace in their faith and friendship as they join together to stop a business conglomerate from taking over the shelter and replacing it with a commercial development.
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Katie Weldon catches more than just the bouquet at her best friend's wedding - she also receives an offer that launches her into a surprising adventure. Katie eagerly accepts the job as resident assistant in the dorms at Rancho Corona University and finds herself right in the middle of conflict. She thought this was where God wanted her, but why is everything falling apart? Especially her relationship with her almost boyfriend, Rick Doyle.
15) Hometown ties
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Decades ago, four Lindas in the same first-grade classroom decided to go by their middle names, form a club, and be friends forever. Now they're all back home in Clifden, Oregon, all thrilled at the chance to reinvent their lives together. But for all of them, their fifties have brought growing pains. Join the four Lindas as they learn about forgiveness and faith, about asking for help and standing on their own two feet - and about love, which makes...
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"Once upon a time in a little town on the Oregon coast lived four Lindas--all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. Decades later, they're all back home in Clifden and reinventing their lives, but the holidays bring a whole new set of challenges. Abby's new B&B is getting bad reviews and husband Paul is acting strange. Still grieving for her mom, Caroline is remodeling...
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"In The Solace of Water, Elizabeth Byler Younts tells the story of two women, one white and one black, in racially charged 1956, who fight personal battles of freedom and form a friendship that neither expected.After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher's wife named Delilah Evans moves with her family from Montgomery, Alabama, to Sinking Creek, Pennsylvania, for a fresh start. The last thing she could have imagined was becoming...
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Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fiancé's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to his parents...
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High school teacher Britte Olafsson has found herself unexpectedly drawn to the new principal (and ex-Marine) Joel Kingsley. His intense self-discipline matches her own, and when trouble at school erupts, he strongly moves to support her. Despite the fact that friends and a fiancé have left her in the past, Britte tentatively begins to open her heart to him. Even as Britte and Joel find their way, coach Anne Sutton and her husband of 17 years find...
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"After her mom passed away, Jennalyn was in the midst of moving, adjusting to life with a new baby, and helping her husband, Joel, work toward his dream job. At the time, she thought she'd processed her mother's death, but only now that Jennalyn has two small children, a lovely new home, and a husband who is always working does she feel the full impact of what she has lost. Even among her sweet circle of friends, the Haven Makers, grief silently overwhelms...
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