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The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Mitch Albom - Hyperion; 1 edition

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns...
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Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier

Lori Benton - WaterBrook Press
Format: Paperback

“I remember the borders of our land, though I have been gone from them nearly half the moons of my life. But who there will remember me? What I have seen, what I have done, it has changed me. I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss. Yet memory...
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The Giving Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini - Dutton Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

“Why do you give?” asks Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson Cooper in The Giving Quilt, the New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s artful, inspiring novel that imagines what good would come from practicing the holiday spirit each and every day of the year....
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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian...
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The Walk: A Novel

Richard Paul Evans - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The first book in a new series from Richard Paul Evans, The Walk is the story of Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful California advertising executive who loses everything he holds dear. At first he considers taking his life; instead he embarks on a walk across America from Vacaville,...
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The Girl From the Train

Irma Joubert - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakb Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.As World War II draws to a close, Jakb fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl's...
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At Home in Mitford

Jan Karon - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's beloved series set in America's favorite small town: Mitford. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet,...
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These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (P.S.)

Nancy Turner - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence...
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The Rent Collector

Camron Wright - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover

Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense...
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The Wednesday Letters

Jason F. Wright - Shadow Mountain; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Jack and Laurel have been married for 39 years. They've lived a good life and appear to have had the perfect marriage. With his wife cradled in his arms, and before Jack takes his last breath, he scribbles his last "Wednesday Letter." When their adult children arrive to arrange...
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