"Philip Gulley takes us to Harmony, Indiana, at Christmastime as inspiration strikes the inimitable Dale Hinshaw. Always looking for a way to increase the church's profit margins, Hinshaw brainstorms a progressive nativity scene that will involve the whole town, complete with a map like those for the Hollywood stars. Neither Pastor Sam Gardner nor the other members of the Harmony Friends meeting express any enthusiasm for this idea, but Dale is unstoppable....

Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Oilve Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend. Yet as word of the unexpected windfall spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among the church members as to how the money would best be...

The Baby-sitters are running a day camp for kids in Stoneybrook. Campers will do art projects, go on field trips, and even put on a circus show. Then Mary Anne's father announces that he will be going away for two weeks on business. Great! Mary Anne, Dawn, and Dawn's mother can't wait to be "bachelor girls". But things are not turning out the way Mary Anne had thought. She misses her father a lot. The kids at Camp BSC are choosing sides against each...

As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking...

"As dark forces threaten the king, three friends must trust the Infinite's guidance when questions of love and faith become entangled with dangerous intrigue"--

Stacey is caught in a loyalty tug-of-war between old friends and new. Ann M. Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club, which has more than 190 million books in print, making it one of the most popular series in the history of publishing. Her novels include A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor Book), Belle Teal, Here Today, A Dog's Life, On Christmas Eve, and the Main Street and Family Tree series, as well as the much-loved collaborations...

Follows a Quaker minister into his third year of ministry as he introduces his Salvation Balloons project, while a single woman deals with spinsterhood and a man hides a secret.

In the wake of a prominent citizen's arrest for larceny, lawyer-turned-coffee shop owner Deena pursues a relationship with a visiting doctor, while Delores becomes fed up with her know-it-all husband and his crackpot ministry schemes.

"Geoffrey Tremont is untroubled by his contented bachelor life in New York City, filled with sophisticated friends, an undemanding lover devoted to her own career, and his wise brother, a psychiatrist who is the only person who understands him. On an ordinary day, Geoffrey recieves a registered letter advising him that an old friend has named him the executor of her estate. Twenty years ago, in college, Geoffrey and Laura Welles had been best friends,...

"In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs. But as he writes,...