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How I Came To Christ A best day in my life happened this way. At age 23, I was married to Janet Chester, had two children, and farming, doing what I wanted to do. Happy with my wife, I loved my sons and family. Ranching and farming tends to be very cyclical and seasonal. You […]
Hard Winter Tales At Local Café Every rural café from northern Idaho to southern Arizona, California to the eastern slope of the Rockies, you’ll find a back booth, special table, or counter reserved for the Hard Winter Bunch. I stopped by the Eat Here & Die café the other day. After I slipped across the […]
Think Like A Cowboy It’s 1954. In the western cowboy novel, Cowboy For A Rainy Afternoon, six Old West cowboys and a 10-year-old boy meet for a weekly cribbage game. While the old men spin tales of days gone by on the trail, a real life adventure stirs around them. The boy with the red […]
A Touch of Paradise at Winchester Lake State Park For over thirty years, we lived across the road from Winchester Lake State Park in north-central Idaho. What a privilege to hike to and through and three miles around this high mountain vacation spot any time we wanted, any season of the year. You’ve got to […]
Retta felt her thigh muscles burn as she pushed her lace-up, high-top shoes into the dirt. First Joslyn, then Christen fell back. Soon she could see neither. “Don’t turn around and look. I know I can win. I have fast legs and am not fat, Travis Lott. Just have strong bones.” The pale blue prairie […]
HELPS ON THE FAMILY LIFE TRAIL We all need trail tips now and then. Being a parent is more than rushing around in a frenzy of work. Or earning the money. Good dads take time to know themselves, their wives, and especially their children. We want to be good dads, but sometimes we run out […]
Novel Release Lillian’s Legacy by Carmen Peone Novel release Lillian’s Legacy features Lillian Gardner, a healer in using natural medicines. She considers herself the black sheep of her family. In an attempt to prove her value, she sets off into the wilds of Eastern Washington and Indian Territory. Her companion is Doctor Mali Maddox, an […]
Don Runcie might as well have beaten Reba with a tire iron and left her for dead. The effect wrenched the same. Her joy wadded up in a bloody rag at her feet. “Reba Mae,” Jace began and stopped. A gust of wind dashed over them, whipping Reba’s hair and spinning ground debris like devil […]
I needed to know as many 1991 facts as possible that might impact my newest fiction series characters in small and big ways. My newest novel, Beneath A Campderown Elm, Book 3, happens in both fictional and real towns on the Idaho high mountain Camas Prairie in the summer of 1991. So, I studied the […]
7 REASONS WHY I NEED CHURCH by Stephen Bly Do I need church? Can’t a Christian make it alone? Why can’t I worship God in the comfort of my home, enjoying the best preaching and music the media has to offer? Why can’t I just enjoy being alone out in the woods–just God and me and […]
In the frame short story in this anthology, Ben and Marnie Pearson never intended to start a jewelry collection. But when they were given a box of leftover jewelry at an estate sale, they were intrigued by the colorful contents . . .
The sparkling jewels featured in this collection may have been passed down through generations or discovered accidentally, but each has its own unique short story. From diamonds to emeralds, opals to rubies, these stones have witnessed it all.
Here in The Jeweler's Heart are their fascinating tales told by seventeen of the talented novel writers of ChiLibris. For fans of inspirational fiction and heartwarming tales, The Jeweler's Heart is a treasure.
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