Aging and recent widow Harriet Beamer insists she’s getting along fine with her dog Humphrey in Philadelphia … until she falls for the fourth time, injuring her ankle, and causing her son and daughter-in-law to cry foul. Insisting Harriet move in with them in California, they make a bet that her ankle is broken, and she foolishly promises to move if they’re right. Four x-rays later, Harriet’s ankle―and her heart―are broken. She packs up, ships her huge salt and pepper collection to California, and prepares to move away from the only life she knows. The only catch? She’s doing it her way. Just wait till her daughter-in-law hears Harriet will travel cross country only by public transportation and alternate means. What follows is a hilarious, heartwarming journey by train, metro bus, ferry, and motorcycle. Along the way, Harriet discovers that although her family thinks it’s time for her to be put out to pasture―God has a different plan.

Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus (Harriet Beamer Series)

Literature & Fiction

Magnin, Joyce

Humor & Satire

Zondervan

After a whirlwind cross-country move, Harriet and her donut-loving basset hound, Humphrey, have settled into a new life in Grass Valley, California. When Harriet learns that she’s going to be a grandma for the first time and get a new suite with room for her salt-and-pepper shaker collection, she can’t wait for her best friend, Martha, to come visit so she can share her good news.
But adventure is never far away when Harriet is around. After listening to the pleas of a desperate teen whose daddy needs money right away―and happens to have a gold mine to lease―Harriet falls hook, line, and sinker into the venture. Although she’s nervous about her investment, Harriet chooses to keep it a secret from her son, Henry, and his wife. She can only imagine what she’ll do if this turns out to be her ticket to a golden windfall.
When suspicions arise, though, it becomes clear that Harriet may never see an ounce of gold. But will she continue to trust and risk losing everything? The fate of the young teen and a family emergency show Harriet where her true treasure lies.

Harriet Beamer Strikes Gold (Harriet Beamer Series)

Carrying Mason

What does it mean to lay down your life? Luna has learned an awful lot in her thirteen years―how to skin a rabbit, how to gut a fish, here to pick the perfect wildflowers―but it’s not enough. When her best friend, Mason, dies, she decides to honor his memory by moving in with his mentally disabled mother, Ruby Day. While cooking and cleaning for Ruby Day isn’t always easy, everything seems to be going relatively fine―until trouble arrives in the form of Ruby Day’s aunt, who will stop at nothing to make sure her niece is put away in a mental institution. Luna is only thirteen. How can she stand up to Ruby Day’s aunt? What would Mason want her to do? And why is saying good-bye so difficult?

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Zonderkidz

“Gently, deliberately paced. Luna’s first-person tale provides a fresh look at mental disabilities and the additional burden of negative attitudes. . . A quiet coming-of-age tale with heart . . .” - Kirkus
“Delivers a positive message about standing up for those who cannot advocate for
themselves.” - Booklist
What does it mean to lay down your life?
Luna has learned a lot in her thirteen years―how to skin a rabbit, how to gut a fish, where to pick the perfect wildflowers―but it’s not enough. When her best friend, Mason, dies, Luna leaves her large family and moves in with Mason’s mentally disabled mother, Ruby Day. Caring for her takes a bit more leaning and a lot more patience, but eventually they come to a backwards parenting relationship, working out the glitches and growing closer day by day, as they help one another grieve for Mason. Until the arrival of a conniving aunt who wants Ruby locked away in a mental institution. How can a thirteen-year-old girl stand up to Ruby Day’s aunt? What would Mason want her to do? And why is saying good-bye so difficult?

More than frosting filled those cakes…
Wilma Sue seems destined to go from one foster home to the next―until she is sent to live with sisters and missionaries, Ruth and Naomi. Do they really care about Wilma Sue, or are they just looking for a Cinderella-style farmhand to help raise chickens and bake cakes?
As Wilma Sue adjusts to her new surroundings and helps deliver “special” cakes, Wilma Sue realizes there’s something strange going on. She starts looking for secret ingredients, and along the way she makes a new friend, Penny.
When Penny and her mother hit a rough patch, Naomi decides to make her own version of cake―with disastrous results. Then tragedy strikes the chickens, and all fingers point to Wilma Sue―just when she was starting to believe she could at last find a permanent home with Ruth and Naomi. Will the sisters turn her out, or will she discover what it feels like to be truly loved?

Cake: Love, chickens, and a taste of peculiar

No longer able or willing to leave her home, Agnes Sparrow has committed herself to a life of prayer -- prayer that has resulted in numerous miracles, both large and garden variety, including a prize-winning pumpkin. The residents of quirky Bright's Pond, Pennsylvania, plan to erect a sign on the interstate in her honor, but Agnes wants no part of it. Then a stranger comes to call asking for his miracle, and the town is turned on its head.

The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)

United States

Thorndike Press

"Now that her morbidly obese sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably dieting at the Greenbrier Nursing Home, Griselda learns to fly-literally-after a pilot makes an emergency landing and creates quite a ruckus in the otherwise sleepy town of Bright's Pond.But Griselda's newfound freedom-and her flight time with handsome pilot, Cliff-is hampered by other happenings in town. Like the gold digger who prances around town and is supposedly engaged to Stella Kincaid's brother-the lottery winner who is in a coma"-- Cover verso.

Griselda Takes Flight: A Novel of Bright's Pond (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)

Newly widowed Charlotte Figg purchases a double-wide trailer sight unseen and moves to the Paradise Trailer Park. Unfortunately, neither the trailer nor Paradise is what Charlotte expected. But her new friend Rose Tattoo learns that Charlotte used to play softball, and convinces her to rally the women of Paradise into a team. Reluctant at first, Charlotte is soon coaching the Paradise Angels. That's when she discovers that the manager is abusing his wife.

Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise: A Novel of Bright's Pond (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)

Charlotte Figg makes me want to move to Paradise and bake pies and embrace the freedom to be who God made me to be. Once you’ve laughed and cried and eaten with the Paradise Angels, you’ll want to do the same. Kudos to Joyce Magnin, the Queen of Quirk. —Nancy Rue, bestselling fiction author Welcome to the Paradise Trailer Park where softball is queen, the pie is tasty, and the secrets must be told. Filled with a sudden burst of wanderlust after the death of her husband, Charlotte Figg moves to the Paradise Trailer Park with her dog, Lucky. She discovers that the trailer she purchased is not what she expected and neither are the Paradise residents. With encouragement from her new friend Rose Tattoo, Charlotte rallies the women of Paradise into a softball team. But in the process she uncovers secrets that some would rather keep hidden. The only problem is Charlotte was never very good at keeping secrets.

Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise: A Novel of Bright's Pond

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Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

It’s Griselda’s Turn to Fly! Now that her morbidly obese sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably dieting at the Greenbrier Nursing Home, Griselda learns to fly—literally—after a pilot makes an emergency landing and creates quite a ruckus in the otherwise sleepy town of Bright’s Pond. But Griselda’s newfound freedom—and her flight time with handsome pilot, Cliff—is hampered by other happenings in town. Like the gold digger who prances around town and is supposedly engaged to Stella Kincaid’s brother—the lottery winner who is in a coma. And there’s Ivy Slocum’s dog, Al Capone, whose adventures continue long after they should. When Chief of Police Mildred Blessing starts investigating the gold digger, however, things really heat up—for Griselda and all the residents of the unique Pennsylvania hamlet called Bright’s Pond.

Griselda Takes Flight: A Novel of Bright's Pond

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Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus (Harriet Beamer Series)

Harriet Beamer Strikes Gold (Harriet Beamer Series)

Carrying Mason

Carrying Mason

Cake: Love, chickens, and a taste of peculiar

The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)

Griselda Takes Flight: A Novel of Bright's Pond (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)

Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise: A Novel of Bright's Pond (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)

Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise: A Novel of Bright's Pond

Griselda Takes Flight: A Novel of Bright's Pond