Wildflowers of Terezin
By Robert Elmer / Abingdon Press, Coming April, 2010
Wildflowers of Terezin is a sweeping historical novel set against a backdrop of danger and intrigue in World War II Denmark. During the war's darkest days, a Danish Lutheran pastor’s complacent faith is stretched to the breaking
point when he meets a young Jewish nurse, Hanne
Abrahamsen, and becomes involved in Resistance efforts to save
Denmark’s Jews from the Nazi prison camp at
Terezin, Czechoslovakia—also known as Theresienstadt.
At first challenged by his brother and swayed by his own attraction to Hanne, Pastor Steffen abandons his once quiet, uninvolved life and hesitantly volunteers to help smuggle Jews out of the country before a Nazi roundup. In the process, he finds that aiding his Jewish neighbors is the most decent, spiritual thing he has ever done. His faith deepens as he actually does God’s work, rather than just talk about it.
Meanwhile, Hanne must deal with her own survival when things go terribly wrong and she is sent to Terezin—a so-called "model" camp where the Nazis attempted to deceive the world into believing the Jews were being treated well. And while Steffen's protests grow more and more desperate, neither of them can imagine imagine the ultimate price of freedom.
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April's Hope
By Robert Elmer / Guideposts, 2009
Heather Creek Farm has been voted Adams County Farm of the Year, and the Stevenson family will be holding an open house to celebrate the honor. But heavy spring rains threaten the big event, and when Hannah and Frank Carter’s fields flood just before planting season, the whole farming community must come together to save their neighbors’ livelihood. Christopher is thrilled to be able to use his weather station to monitor the extreme weather, but Emily's upcoming birthday is threatening to be a wash-out. Meanwhile, Sam is developing a new interest at school—and her name is Arielle. Through it all Charlotte and Bob see glimmers of hope that their family is starting to feel at home on Heather Creek Farm.
April's Hope is book nine in the "Home to Heather Creek" series from the Guideposts Book Club. In it you'll get to know Charlotte Stevenson, who is raising her grandchildren on the family farm after a tragic accident changes all of their lives forever. With the help of her husband and a close-knit circle of friends, she will do whatever it takes to keep this fragile family together. See how God, who makes the sun rise and crops grow, watches over our lives, too.
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.Homespun Harvest
By Robert Elmer / Guideposts, 2008
With the holidays drawing near, Charlotte is starting to feel the pinch of having three extra mouths to feed. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and a cooking demonstration—plus a little nudging from her good friends—inspires Charlotte to start a pie-baking business to bring in some extra income during this busy time of year.
She recruits her grandkids to help, hoping to pass on the family's recipes as well as their traditions. But when her business takes off, the whole thing becomes bigger than any of them ever imagined—or wanted.Meanwhile, Sam is pining for a car, Emily is on a campaign to improve the food served at Bedford High, and Christopher befriends a lonely outsider whose one mistake leads to a life-and-death situation. In the midst of so many trials, will Charlotte be able to maintain a spirit of thankfulness? Will she even have anything to be thankful for?
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Like Always
By Robert Elmer
WaterBrook Press, ISBN: 978-1-4000-7165-4
When Will and Merit Sullivan decide to escape midlife blues and buy a small, dilapidated resort in north Idaho, their dreams finally seem within reach. More importantly, their twenty-two-year-old son, Michael, has just returned from Iraq, thrilling his younger sisters and completing their family once again.
So the morning Merit discovers she is pregnant, at the age of forty-five, she is shocked. Can their lake lifestyle adjust to having a little one in the house? It seems too much to ask, until devastating news forces the biggest decision of all. As Will and Merit face the greatest trial of their lives, the couple must examine their devotion to each other and their faith in a way they could never have imagined.
Inspired by a true story, Like Always explores the triumph of reali-life love and asks if we can ever go back to the way things used to be.
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The Duet
WaterBrook Press, ISBN: 1-57856-740-8
When widower Gerrit Appeldoorn takes his granddaughter to piano lessons one day, he finds himself drawn to her music teacher: a woman unlike any he has known. It's an unlikely attraction. He's a retired dairyman with mud on his boots; Joan Horton is a world traveler and former piano instructor at New York's most prestigious academy of music. Not quite "beauty and the beast," but close.
Even so, Gerrit slowly begins to open his heart: to Joan, to music, to the possibilities that may be found in both. Yet as their relationship deepens, Gerrit faces crises concerning his family and farm, while Joan confronts a dark secret that threatens her future. While coping with these challenges, neither can predict how their duet will sound as they practice the music of renewed hope and second chances.
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The Recital (a sequel to The Duet)
WaterBrook Press, ISBN: 140007164X
Gerrit and Joan discovered the beauty of second chances when they fell in love. But life isn't necessarily "happily ever after" when the widowed dairy farmer and big-city piano teacher get married. When they move to Chicago to pursue a teaching opportunity for Joan, Gerrit the country boy must find new purpose in an unfamiliar urban world. It's not an easy change for him, but his friendship with Zhao, a visiting Chinese musician, begins to give him new purpose.
Meanwhile, Joan tries to accept her husband for who he is, even as she struggles to find her place as a music professor in this clash between small-own values and big-city ways.
In this poignant sequel to The Duet, Joan and Gerrit redefine the meaning of love and home as they learn painful new lessons about mutual sacrifice.
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The Celebrity
WaterBrook Press, ISBN: 1578567416
Jamie D. Lane is many things: multi-talented, handsome-and the most sought-after pop star in the world. But there's one thing he isn't-happy. At the height of his singing career, a family tragedy stops him in his tracks. And in an effort to settle a private matter and put the past behind him, Jamie cuts his trademark blonde curls, assumes a new identity, and secretly slips away from his celebrity lifestyle and heads to the Pacific Northwest in cognito. But what he finds in small town Washington could open up Jamie's future-and change him forever.
A teacher to inner city kids and former high school track star, Anne Stewart has once believed she could change the world. Then a near-fatal accident left her grappling with both the devastating effects of head injury and deep bitterness toward the drunk driver who crippled her. When a man she knows as "Joe Bradley" hits town, however, he unexpectedly helps to restore her self-confidence and passion for life. But when the scope of The Celebrity's deception becomes clear to Anne, will it be too much to forgive?
Can The Celebrity Reveal His True Identity - Without Losing Everything?
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The Storytellers Collection 1 and 2
Multnomah Press, Edited by Melody Carlson, Karen Ball
Tales of faraway places, tales from home...
Short works by some of CBA's best-loved fiction authors--including Jerry Jenkins, Randy Alcorn, Terri Blackstock, Deborah Raney, and Angela Elwell Hunt--are compiled in one gripping volume! (Robert has a story in both these volumes, too!) These short stories promise to transport readers around the globe with amazing tales of international romance, mystery, and humor. A short bio accompanying each story allows readers to "meet" their favorite author.
Purchase The Storytellers Collection --
...online from ABEBooks.com or Christianbook.com. And click here for The Storytellers' Collection, Book 1 - Audiobook on Cassette.
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