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.
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