Some Wildflower in My Heart (The Derby Series

Some Wildflower in My Heart (The Derby Series #2)

Literature & Fiction

Jamie Langston Turner

Contemporary

Bethany House Publishers

People have always fascinated Perry Warren, yet his most personal interaction--that with his wife and young son--is in shambles. Will his son be raised fatherless, just as he was? Hoping distance will offer answers, Perry embraces a writing project in the town of Derby, where the act of living slows down to a barely perceptible pace. There he discovers a wealth of research--and a reason to hope--in the strangers next door. His neighbor, Eldeen Rafferty, seems completely unfettered by the sorrows she has known. Instead, Eldeen embraces life in all its gritty, glorious detail, determined to leave cheer in her wake. Perry is baffled by the unending joy, the boundless gratitude, leaving him to wonder what it is she might offer a life haunted by troubles...a life he is at a loss to repair.

Suncatchers (The Derby Series #1)

Women's Fiction

A Christian story. "Just when Elizabeth invites Christ into her life as the garden keeper, she is faced with the devastating news of her husband's fidelity". "Describes a wife and mother's brave journey of the heart that you won't soon forget."

A Garden to Keep

She had expected to feel angry. Anger was the kind of emotion that could carry you through a funeral with perfect composure. She hadn't expected to look down at her grandmother and be flooded with this strange conglomeration of guilt, regret, curiosity, sadness.......Her grandmother's funeral meant Celia Coleman must return to the small town she had hoped never to see again. The memories of that long-ago home and church - and of her own behavior there - are not happy ones. But now the floodgates are about to open.Bruce Healey is struggling with guilt over his own past, and Celia wants nothing to do with this neighbor of hers. But when God lifts them each from their dark valleys of shame, their hearts could indeed be ready to give and receive love.

No Dark Valley

People have always fascinated sociologist Perry Warren, yet his most personal relationships--with his wife and young son--are in shambles. If his marriage crumbles, will his son be raised fatherless, just as he was? Hoping distance will offer answers, Perry accepts a writing project in the town of Derby, South Carolina, and there discovers a wealth of research--and a reason to hope--in the strange yet fascinating neighbors next door. Eldeen Rafferty seems completely unfettered by the sorrows she has known. Instead, she embraces life in all its gritty, glorious detail, determined to leave cheer in her wake. Perry is baffled by her unending joy and her boundless gratitude, and he wonders what she might be able to offer to a life haunted by troublesâ€¦a life he is at a loss to repair on his own. Suncatchers, Jamie Langston Turner's first novel, launched this premier novelist's journey toward recognition of her Winter Birds in Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2006.

A Southerner trying to make a new beginning gets a fresh perspective on life from the eccentric woman living next-door

The Suncatchers: A Novel

Religion & Spirituality

Thomas Nelson

United States

Thorndike Pr

Margaret Tuttle's story is one of love unsought, for she had been perfectly content with the well-ordered and conveniently predictable life she had arranged for herself.
But something dark lurks beneath the surface of her placid and uncluttered being, something dusty with neglect, yet painful to the touch.
Birdie Freeman is everything Margaret is not: homely, humble, and generous. It is Birdie who manages, through nothing but acts of love, to dredge up Margaret's memories of things better left buried. Then Margaret discovers that Birdie harbors secrets of her own.
"This book reminds me of why I love to read."
Michelle Collings, Editor, Doubleday/Crossings Book Club

Some Wildflower in My Heart

Bethany House

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Some Wildflower in My Heart (The Derby Series #2)

Some Wildflower in My Heart (The Derby Series #2)

Suncatchers (The Derby Series #1)

A Garden to Keep

No Dark Valley

Suncatchers (The Derby Series #1)

The Suncatchers: A Novel

Some Wildflower in My Heart (The Derby Series #2)

Some Wildflower in My Heart