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10 best books like Catching Genius (Kristy Kiernan): Forgive Me, The Secret Life of Squirrels: A Love Story, The Night Journal, Home Repair, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, Your Roots Are Showing, Nice to Come Home To, The White Mary, Stone Creek, 10 Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children

Forgive Me
AuthorAmanda Eyre Ward
ISBN0345494466
From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost comes a gorgeous new novel about love, memory, and motherhood.

Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, covering important events, following dangerous leads, and running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape...
The Secret Life of Squirrels: A Love Story
AuthorNancy Rose
ISBN0316272639
Love is in the air with another irresistible photographic story of wild squirrels in homemade miniature settings -- stopping at the bookstore, shopping for groceries, playing on the playground, and more -- delighting readers and animal lovers of all ages.



A brand new companion...
The Night Journal
AuthorElizabeth Crook
ISBN0143038575
A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatt's Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry...
Home Repair
AuthorLiz Rosenberg
Can lighting really strike twice? Just ask Eve, whose husband walks out on her in the middle of a garage sale.

Eve's beloved Ivan died thirteen years ago in an automobile accident. Her charming, boyish Chuck has taken a different exit out of her life: hopping into his car in the middle of a garage...
The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard
AuthorErin McGraw
ISBN0618386289
“I couldn’t cook but I could sew. It would have been better the other way around.” So begins this witty and transporting new novel by the acclaimed Erin McGraw, introducing us to Nell Plat, who, at age seventeen, finds herself unhappily married and the mother of two baby girls. For a young woman...
Your Roots Are Showing
AuthorElise Chidley
ISBN0446178144
Lizzie Buckley has a life many women dream of - a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home and darling (when they're not fighting) three-year-old twins. But ever since the birth of her children, she's had a fantasy about locking herself in her bedroom for twenty-four hours with a good book and a box of chocolates....
Nice to Come Home To
AuthorRebecca Flowers
ISBN1594489610
A funny, entertaining novel of love and family for our times: a single woman who fears she's lost her chance at a family of her own, begins to accumulate an ad hoc one around her.

In the tradition of Elinor Lipman or Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In), Flowers delivers a smart, witty, appealing...
The White Mary
AuthorKira Salak
ISBN0805088474
A young woman journeys deep into the untamed jungle, wrestling with love and loss, trauma and healing, faith and redemption.

Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the world’s oppressed and forgotten. When not on one of her dangerous assignments,...
Stone Creek
AuthorVictoria Lustbader
ISBN0061369217
In the small town of Stone Creek, a random encounter offers two lonely people a chance at happiness.

Danny, a young widower, still grieves for his late wife, but for the sake of his five-year-old son, Caleb, he knows he must move on. Alone in her summer house, Lily has left her workaholic husband,...
10 Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children
AuthorShmuley Boteach
ISBN0061134813
Why do I have to repeat everything? Why does every conversation end in an argument?

Communicating with our children. Conversing. Connecting. When did it become so difficult? And how do we begin to change it for the better?

This book was designed to help parents answer these important...
A Far Country
AuthorDaniel Mason
ISBN0375414665
From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning novel about a young girl’s journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother.

Fourteen-year-old Isabel was born in a remote village with the gift and curse of “seeing farther.” When drought and war grip the backlands,...
It's Not About Me
AuthorMichelle Sutton
ISBN0979748518
Most Christian books dance around the subject of sex and the repercussions, especially at the teen-age level. This one wades right in and lays it on the line. A couple of the scenes get somewhat graphical in nature, making it seem more real. They may make the Puritan types queasy and even cause them to put...
Finding Marie
AuthorSusan Page Davis
ISBN0736920838
Author Susan Page Davis "(Frasier Island)" takes readers on an adventure across the United States in this exciting contemporary suspense novel.

Marie Belanger, a naval lieutenant's wife, unexpectedly finds a computer flash drive in her carry-on luggage at the airport. Moments later the...
Cheating at Solitaire
AuthorJane Haddam
ISBN0312343086
Margaret's Harbor, a small, exclusive island off the coast of Massachussets, has been disrupted for weeks by the antics of a group of young celebrities. Kendra Rhode, of the extremely wealthy Rhode family, is the ring leader and part-year resident on the island. Two of her cohorts, Arrow Normand, an...
The Liar's Diary
AuthorPatry Francis
ISBN0525949909
An accomplished poet with a keen eye for detail and the written word, Patry Francis has written a riveting debut novel that will thrill fans of Jodi Picoult and Sue Miller.

Answering the question of What is more powerful: family or friendship? this debut novel unforgettably shows how far one...
The Art of Keeping Secrets
AuthorPatti Callahan Henry
ISBN0451223950
Annabelle has finally made peace with the loss of her beloved husband. Until she finds out he wasn't alone when he died.

Since a plane crash killed her husband two years ago, Annabelle Murphy has found solace in raising her two children. Just when she thinks the grief is behind her, she receives...
Stepping Into Sunlight
AuthorSharon Hinck
ISBN0764202839
Wow! This book was awesome! Such a sweet, if heartbreaking at times, story! It was very eye-opening about PTSD, and Sharon Hinck handled it in a very touching and sensitive way. The Christian themes portrayed throughout were spot-on, and very encouraging, even to someone who has never experienced...
The Kind of Love That Saves You
AuthorAmy Yurk
ISBN0553582178
A new voice in women's fiction bursts onto the scene with this enthralling debut by Amy Yurk, a novelist blessed with rare wisdom, dazzling eloquence, and a deep understanding of what it means to be human.

Sarah Strickland and her best friend, Calista, have been like sisters since the first...
Winter Birds
AuthorJamie Langston Turner
ISBN0764200151
Plain and dutiful, Sophia Hess has lived most of her life without ever knowing genuine love. Her professor husband had married her for the convenience of having a typist for his scholarly papers. The discovery of a dark secret opens her eyes to the truth about her marriage and her husband. Eventually...
The Novelist
AuthorAngela Elwell Hunt
ISBN1595541586
From the author who taught you to expect the unexpected...an intriguing tale about families, fiction, and what to do when life veers wildly off script.


It begins...when a smug college student challenges a best-selling novelist to write something "more personal." It begins...when...
The Passion of Mary-Margaret
AuthorLisa Samson
ISBN1595542116
Mary-Margaret yearned to dedicate her life to the Lord. Jesus had another idea.

When Mary-Margaret Fischer met Jude Keller, the lighthouse keeper's son, she was studying at a convent school on a small island off Chesapeake Bay. Destined for a life as a religious sister, she nevertheless felt...
All the Numbers
AuthorJudy Merrill Larsen
“How much do you love me?” Daniel asked his mother.
“I love you all the numbers.”

What begins as a sunny August afternoon on a bucolic lake turns into a tragedy when a Jet Ski swerves fatally close to shore. It’s a day Ellen Banks could never have prepared for, a day no mother should...
Ten Thousand Charms
AuthorAllison Pittman
ISBN1590525752
Unfit for Love?

Pregnant—by a man who will never know or care. Gloria, born into a life of prostitution, sees only one solution: get rid of the child. But then she meets John William MacGregan, a miner, left with a newborn daughter and no one to care for her when his wife died during childbirth....
A Piece of Normal
AuthorSandi Kahn Shelton
ISBN1400097312
Dear Lily . . .

At age thirty-four, Lily Brown has her life just the way she likes it. And what’s not to like? She’s got a great job as an advice columnist for the local newspaper, an adorable four-year-old son, and an ex-husband, Teddy, who still thinks she’s wonderful. She even lives in...
Drenched in Light
AuthorLisa Wingate
ISBN0451218485
Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell buckled under the demands of a professional dance career, and has landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, she is afraid she’ll never soar again…until...
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