Angela Elwell Hunt
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Luke, as a friend and physician, risks his life every time he ventures into the city of Rome to visit Paul, held captive in Nero's bleakest prison cell. Before Paul's execution, Luke resolves to write a book that details the beginnings of "The Way" and the birth of what will come to be known as the church. But Nero is determined to rid Rome of Christians. Paul has survived floggings, shipwreck, starvation, stoning, hunger and thirst, cold and exposure....
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To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen other off the coast of Maine: dotted with graceful Victorian homes, carpeted with gray cobblestones and bright wildflowers, populated by sturdy, hardworking folks. The small town that crowns its peak consists of seven buildings, each inhabited, according to divine decree, by an angel commanded to guard and assist anyone who crosses the threshold. Unexpected hijinks and heartwarming...
26) Grace in autumn
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It's November, and as the residents of Heavenly Daze, Maine, are preparing for winter, sacks of undeliverable mail pour in to postmistress Beatrice Coughlin. The requests are different, but the salutation is the same: "Dear Angel ..." Perplexed, Bea and her sister Birdie consider answering them under the moniker "angel assistants." But where will they get the funds to help these folks? And as Thanksgiving approaches, will the bickering islanders make...
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Holidays and holy days overlap as the angels work overtime on the island of Heavenly Daze. Vernie Bidderman, owner of the Mooseleuk Mercantile, is flabbergasted when the phone rings with a message from her husband Stanley, who went bowling twenty years ago and never came home. Seventy-year-old Salt Gribbon, the cantankerous lighthouse keeper, is living with a secret - two of them, in fact: his grandchildren. As December draws to a close, will Vernie...
28) A perfect love
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The new year brings challenges aplenty for the angels who guard the homes of Heavenly Daze. Despite the blustery Maine winter chill, love is in the air. Buddy Franklin is searching for someone to change his lonely life, Dana and Mike Klackenbush are trying to reestablish the friendship that led to their marriage, Barbara and Russell Higgs are contemplating babies, while Barbara's mother, Cleta Lansdown, is determined to keep her close to home.
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"Ted Haggard was the senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church and the highly regarded president of the National Association of Evangelicals. More importantly, he was Gayle's loving husband of twenty-eight years, a devoted father to their five children, her closest friend, and a man she knew fully. At least, she thought she knew him fully."--Cover p. [4]
33) The mind pirates
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"An earring with mysterious powers, bizarre visions and memories of a murder, and a kidnapping by 17th Century pirates hurl the Harbinger team into a 21st Century mystery involving international finance, high tech piracy, and the ruthless scheming of an evil, hidden nemesis. Don't miss the tenth exciting adventure in the Harbingers series!"--Provided by publisher.
34) The note III
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After a tragic plane crash, a local journalist discovers a note that she believes was written by one of the passengers. She seeks the note's intended recipient, but the journey is more revealing of her own past.
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Peyton MacGruder is an advice columnist who asks herself and her reader - When do you take a chance on love? Haunted by past mistakes, Peyton hesitates to take the next step with the man she loves. But a note from a reader warns about the regret caused by passion denied. Peyton uncovers the author's secret history involving a doomed romance, yet is a love that may just live again.
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His street name was Daylight. But he was a nightmare. On the streets of New York, darkness and violence reigned. Dimas "Daylight" Salaberrios popped his first pill when he was eleven years old, and just days later, he was selling drugs to his schoolmates. By fifteen, he was facing time at the notorious Rikers Island Prison. It was never safe to turn your back, and Dimas saw only one chance to survive: to become a street god. He would be the...
37) Invitation
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By candidly sharing her own joys, heartaches, triumphs, and failures, Mandisa shows women that they can be beautiful at any size and that healthy self-esteem and personal beauty come only when they accept themselves as a unique and much-loved woman of God's creation. Mandisa also gives readers a very candid, behind-the-scenes look at life as an American Idol contestant.