WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY READERS
There is still time to read books on the 2011 Reading List. Here are four books currently in our church library.
Love Finds You in Valentine, Nebraska by Irene Brand – California girl, Kennedy Blaine, inherits a ranch near Valentine, Nebraska. She plans to sell it but is attracted to the manager, Derek Sterling. While visiting the ranch someone begins to harass her, and she seeks to discover who it is. In the process, she is confronted with painful details about her family, and her search also raises questions about Derek’s past. A nice romance.
One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury – Two men meet in the stairwell of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The tower collapses and only one survives, burned and suffering from amnesia. Jamie Bryan, wife of one of the men, works to rehabilitate the survivor, but which one of the men is it? Hard to put down.
The Wisdom of the Seasons: How the Church Year Helps Us Understand Our Congregation by Charles Olsen – The book is a gift of encouragement, a cup of refreshing water offered for the spiritual health of the church family. Readers will appreciate the real stories from congregational life and ministry – each rooted in and illuminated by a season of the church year.
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese – Cutting For Stone is a sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves India in 1947 to take a missionary post in Yemen. During the sea voyage she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. A best seller