Sarah Harper is driven, pursuing happiness in all the wrong places. She wants to do good and not hurt the people she loves, including her son, Mitchell, and her husband, Joe. But her drive to succeed overrides all else. It's not until she faces a chance encounter with heaven and spends time with the grandmother who prayed for her every day when she was a little girl that she begins to see how her own mother's bitterness created a hole in Sarah's life--a hole she has been trying to overcome for as long as she can remember. For the first time, Sarah sees that God created her for a special purpose. When Sarah returns to her own life, she is a woman with a mission. And the unsuspecting world around her will never be the same again.
Deborah Bedford Książki
Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer she's 14, when she makes the decision to pick up a penny embedded in asphalt and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting someone who changes her life forever-Miss Shaw. Together they form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their pasts-secrets that threaten to destroy them. Jenny helps Miss Shaw open up to the community around her, while Miss Shaw teaches Jenny to meet even life's most painful challenges with confidence and faith. This unexpected relationship transforms them both in ways neither could have anticipated, and the ripple effect that begins that summer goes on to bring new life to the people around them, revealing how God works in the smallest details-even in something as small as THE PENNY.
Sam und Allie sind noch Kinder, als sie sich zum ersten Mal treffen. Auf diese erste Begegnung folgen viele Jahre gemeinsamer unbeschwerter Kindheit und Jugend am Meer. Doch dann werden ihre Träume von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft jäh beendet, als Allie plötzlich spurlos verschwindet. Jahre später kehrt Sam als ausgebrannter und noch immer alleinstehender Pastor in das kleine Küstendorf seiner glücklichen Kindheit zurück, um sich über seinen weiteren Weg klar zu werden. Dort trifft er völlig unerwartet auf Allie. Lang unterdrückte Gefühle werden wieder lebendig. Können Sam und Allie Frieden mit ihrer Vergangenheit schließen? Ein packender Roman im Stil von Nicholas Sparks. Mit glaubwürdigen Charakteren und einem mehr als überraschenden Ende.