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(0)Penelope J Stokes
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 1929 depression, four teenage girls write their dreams for the future on slips of paper and place them in a bottle. Sixty-five years later when a reporter comes across them, she traces the whereabouts of the women. She finds that though their dreams may not have been fulfilled, they met life's difficulties with great courage.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Vita Kirk is a travel writer who has never left her hometown. In fact, she rarely leaves her house. Due to deep wounds and bitter losses, Vita has chosen isolation over vulnerability. But when she stumbles across an antique chest in an antique shop, she discovers a puzzling link to her past and her physical surroundings mysteriously begin to change. Inscribed in the box are the words, "Love is the key that unlocks every portal." The power of these...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xi, 287 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Abby Quinn McDougall is a Southern lady whose once picturesque small-town life seems to be shrinking. Widowed at fifty and burdened by the care of an ailing mother and a cantankerous teenaged daughter, Abby wishes her life were simpler and her responsibilities fewer. Abby's daughter, Neal Grace, devastated by the loss of her doting father and the illness of her beloved grandmother, wishes for change, for the chance to break free from other people's...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Penelope Lange loves her fiance but isn't sure that she wants to get married so she returns home to consider the course of her future. Home is not the haven that she expected because her grandmother is very ill and a disruptive family secret has been revealed. Now she has found a dusty memory book from the 1920's on the shelf in the library with information about a young woman, long dead, with her own name and face. She suddenly finds herself in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
vi, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Just before she dies, Diedre McAlister's mother gives her a fading photograph and tells her, ''Find yourself. Find your truth. Just don’t expect it to be what you thought it would be.'' Armed with these clues to her past, Diedre sets out to find her older sister, Amber, who was mysteriously sent away by her parents when Diedre was very young. Her search will take her across the country -- and into the path of someone who will do anything to stop...
Author
Series
Faith on the home front volume 2
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Faith on the home front volume 3
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remembering You is the last novel of a trilogy set in the U.S. during World War II. To Willie's delight, her lost love, Owen, has returned from the war. Unfortunately, he has amnesia, and remembers nothing of their relationship. Now Willie must struggle to have hope that things will turn out for the best. Penelope J. Stokes is known for her compassionate novels about faith and understanding. Combined with Ruth Ann Phimister's heartwarming narration,...
Author
Series
Faith on the home front volume 1
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
xi, 333 pages ; 21 cm.
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...
11) Heartbreak cafe
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
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Berkley trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-three years ago, beauty queen Peach Rondell left Mississippi and vowed never to return. Now she's back, divorced and heartbroken, trying to figure out how her life went so terribly wrong. To escape her mama's scrutinizing gaze, she spends her days in a little storefront diner called the Heartbreak Cafe, where, in the back booth, she scribbles away in her journal, waiting for enlightenment. Instead, Peach gets something even better: the unexpected...