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Yada Yada House of Hope volume 4
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Gabby's estranged husband, who threw her out when she didn't live up to his image of a "corporate wife," now needs her in a way neither of them ever expected. He wants to reconcile, but Gabby has carved out a future for herself and her sons at the House of Hope, a shelter for homeless mothers and their children. Still, there's a hole in her life.
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Ragni, a single woman who is struggling with her job and her father's Alzheimer's disease, agrees against her will to fix up her great-grandmother's cabin. She's accompanied by her teenage niece, Erika, who has taken to wearing all black and rarely talks to Ragni anymore. Snelling takes this opportunity to weave together Ragni's story with the story of Nilda, her great-grandmother, who traveled out by train in the early 1900s to be a frontier housekeeper....
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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 made against Jodi's husband. Racial division, pain, and pride are tearing this close-knit group of...
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Yada Yada Prayer Group series volume 4
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"The Yada Yada Prayer Group has been together for a whole year and so many good things are happening. However that's just when the Enemy knows to attack. The Yada Yada sisters realize they need to get tough"--Provided by publisher.
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"What do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student and a married mother of two have in common? Nothing, or so I thought. Who would have imagined that God would make a prayer group as mismatched as ours the closest of friends? I almost didn't even go to the Chicago Women's Conference after all, being thrown together with five hundred strangers wasn't exactly my comfort zone. But something happened that weekend to make...
9) Stand by me
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SouledOut sisters volume 1
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"Kathryn Davies--an eccentric young woman from a prominent Phoenix family--makes a leap of faith at a Christian music fest, dropping out of med school and moving to inner city Chicago where she yearns to join the SouledOut Community Church, of which reserved Avis Douglass is a founding member." --From Baker & Taylor.
Avis Douglass and her husband, Peter, have dreamed of a two-year mission to South Africa. But when the economy crashes, they're suddenly...
10) Where do I go?
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Gabrielle Fairbanks, having lost touch with herself after fifteen years of marriage and motherhood, moves with her husband Philip to Chicago where she takes a job as program director at Manna House Women's Shelter and is just starting to feel her life has meaning again when Philip threatens her with divorce and a loss of custody if she does not quit.
11) God's gift
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After being injured in Africa doing missionary work, James Graham comes back home to Chicago where he finally meets Rachel Ashcroft, the woman who has been sending him care packages, and tries to bring happiness and love back into her life.
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What I'd like to know is, why does God keep rearranging my comfort zone? It could have something to do with my Yada Yada prayer sisters, who aren't afraid to get in each other's faces and 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 breakup of a teenage love. In spite of the curse of HIV. In spite of prison time hanging over the head...
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Gabby Fairbanks, having turned to the women of the Yada Yada Prayer Group at the homeless shelter where she works for help after her husband locked her out of the house and disappeared with her sons, begins to fall for her warm-hearted lawyer and learns what she is really made of while trying to regain custody of her children.
15) The breakthrough
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As the youngest bureau chief and head of the Chicago PD's Major Case Squad, Boone Drake seems to have it all under control. Only those closest to him know that a few years ago he'd lost everything that mattered to him. Recently, Boone married a wonderful woman named Haeley, adopted her son, bought a beautiful home, and rediscovered his faith. Then an all-too-personal case takes Boone to Beijing at a time when Haeley can least afford to let him go....
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Yada Yada House of Hope volume 3
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Now that Gabby is back on her feet after being in a homeless shelter, she has a new dream that will stretch her faith farther than ever. Gabby expects a fight from her husband over custody of their boys, but she is taken aback when he leans on her for a loan to cover his gambling debts. When she turns him down, Philip makes a desperate move that puts Gabby, her friends at the shelter, and even the House of Hope at risk. The props Gabby usually leans...
17) Veiled in smoke
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"Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose much more than just their store.The sisters become separated from their father, and after Meg burns her hands in an attempt to save a family heirloom, they make a harrowing escape from the flames...
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Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes.
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Windy City saga volume 2
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"She promised a dying father she would keep his daughter safe. She can't fail now. The one thing Sylvie Townsend wants most is what she feared she would never have - a family of her own. But taking in Polish immigrant Rose Dabrowski to raise and love quells those fears - until seventeen-year-old Rose goes missing at the World's Fair, and Sylvie's life unravels. With nowhere else to turn, Sylvie seeks help from her boarder and Rose's violin instructor,...
20) Unspoken
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Charlotte Graham was at the center of the most famous kidnapping in Chicago history: it took four years for a task force of FBI and local cops find her less than three miles from her home, in a place she'd been the entire time, haunts them. Charlotte's never spoken about the kidnapping, and after sixteen years she's moved away, changed her identity, and rebuilt her life. But when a reporter begins writing a book on the crime, Charlotte finds herself...
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