Books like 'Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy'
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Fireproof by Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsINSIDE BURNING BUILDINGS, Captain Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter's adage: NEVER LEAVE YOUR PARTNER. Yet at home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules.Growing up, his wife Catherine always dreamed of marrying a loving, brave firefighter . . . just like her father.Now, after seven years of marriage, she wonders when she stopped being "good enough... -
![Fireflies & Family Ties by Rachel Hanna]()
Fireflies & Family Ties by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Meg shows up at her mother's door, she has no idea how to break the news to her. She's come home from France, pregnant. At just nineteen years old, this wasn't where she saw her life going.Now, trying to hide her growing belly and figure out her next decision, she moves in with her mother, sister and aunt on Seabreeze Island... -
![The Desert Flowers - Lily by Judith Keim]()
The Desert Flowers - Lily by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree talented women are brought together by a man they all love, becoming his Desert Flowers, who work together to save his hotel from being ruined by the company buying it…When Lily Weaver is asked to help Alec Thurston, the one man she’s ever truly loved, and to come to Palm Desert, California, she doesn’t hesitate... -
![I Hid My Voice by Parinoush Saniee]()
I Hid My Voice by Parinoush Saniee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn’t speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridiculed by others who call him "dumb... -
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![A Time to Forgive by Kay Correll]()
A Time to Forgive by Kay Correll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes is very, very hard to forget or forgive… Bree Stuart wants nothing more than to pack up her parents’ cabin on Lone Elk Lake and get it ready to sell. One less reminder of her past. Jason Cassidy is thrilled to see his friend, Bree, back in Sweet River Falls after twenty years. He offers to help her get the cabin ready to put on the market... -
![The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom]()
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe Next Person You Meet in Heaven: (B&N Exclusive Edition) The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch AlbomThis special edition contains an extra chapter and is available exclusively at Barnes & Noble... -
![The Desert Flowers - Willow by Judith Keim]()
The Desert Flowers - Willow by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe power of love and the strength of women working together are proved once again.When Willow Sanchez is asked to help Alec Thurston, the man for whom her parents work and who’s always treated her as the daughter he once lost, she doesn’t hesitate to leave Boston and come back home to Palm Desert, California...Categorized as:
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![New Beginnings on Railway Lane by Alison Sherlock]()
New Beginnings on Railway Lane by Alison Sherlock
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen high flying, workaholic Katy Smith is suddenly made redundant, she needs to find a job fast!After mistakenly answering an advert online, she quickly realises that the rundown railway station in sleepy Cranfield isn’t the 5-star London hotels she’s used to working in!But a job’s a job. Right?Chef Ryan Connelly is having a crisis of confidence after his Italian dream turns sour... -
![The Desert Flowers - Rose by Judith Keim]()
The Desert Flowers - Rose by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree talented women brought together by a man’s love…When Rose Macklin is asked to help Alec Thurston, the one man she’s ever truly loved, by coming to Palm Desert, California, she doesn’t hesitate. He’s dying of cancer and needs her help overseeing the sale of his hotel, the Desert Sage Inn, to another hotel group...Categorized as:
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![A Summer of Secrets by Kay Correll]()
A Summer of Secrets by Kay Correll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA woman with a secret. A man who will never forgive her. Cece Stuart hadn’t planned on ever finding love and she’s made her peace with that. Really, she has… Zach is over women and their secrets. Really, he is… But fate laughed at them, as it often does, and threw them together finishing up a new wedding venue at Sweet River Lodge... -
![No Wedding Like Nantucket by Grace Palmer]()
No Wedding Like Nantucket by Grace Palmer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe wedding of the year versus the storm of the century. Who will win?Things are finally looking up for the Benson family. After a year of tough choices and big leaps of faith, it seems like love, success, and happiness are right in their grasp. But with a wedding on the horizon and a successful new restaurant growing faster than anyone ever expected, everyone certainly has their hands full... -
![Life After by Katie Ganshert]()
Life After by Katie Ganshert
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt could have been me. Snow whirls around an elevated train platform in Chicago. A distracted woman boards the train, takes her seat, and moments later a fiery explosion rips through the frigid air, tearing the car apart in a horrific attack on the city’s transit system. One life is spared. Twenty-two are lost... -
![Downfall by Terri Blackstock]()
Downfall by Terri Blackstock
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEmily Covington has turned her life around after a drug addiction, but her family still has trouble trusting her. Though Emily has committed herself to a year-long treatment program and has been sober for almost a year beyond that, even her mother walks on eggshells around her, fearing she’ll relapse. After her behavior during her drug years, Emily realizes she has a lot to prove... -
![Sunrise over Strawberry Hill Farm by Alison Sherlock]()
Sunrise over Strawberry Hill Farm by Alison Sherlock
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPre-order the BRAND NEW romance from Alison Sherlock She drives a tractor. He arrives in a red Ferrari. What could possibly go wrong? Flora Barton is desperate to save her family home Strawberry Hill Farm. She only needs one thing - a great business idea to keep the farm afloat!So, when Nico Rossi arrives from Italy with a crazy plan to save the farm, Flora should be overjoyed... -
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![Tilly's Tuscan Teashop: A gorgeously uplifting summer read by Daisy James]()
Tilly's Tuscan Teashop: A gorgeously uplifting summer read by Daisy James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Tilly's Tuscan Teashop, the first book in a brand new series from the author of the Hummingbird Hotel and the Cornish Confetti Agency series.When photographer Natalie Nicholson’s beach hut studio – and everything she’s spent the last two years working on – is destroyed in a fire, she doesn’t think things can get any worse...Categorized as:
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![Charm Artist by Creston Mapes]()
Charm Artist by Creston Mapes
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter the Portland terrorist attack, the kidnapping of his daughter, and the domestic violence case that almost killed him, Portland Police Investigator Wayne Deetz and his wife Joanie escape for a long overdue vacation in Sedona, Arizona, to make some monumental career decisions... -
![Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman]()
Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is the second book in the Peaceful Warrior Saga. Neither a sequel nor prequel, this adventure takes place within the context of the original book, shedding new light on the path he was to travel, and would one day teach. After a period of training with the man he calls Socrates, Dan Millman is sent away by his old mentor to apply what he has learned to everyday life...Categorized as:
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![Christmas at the Cornish Confetti Agency by Daisy James]()
Christmas at the Cornish Confetti Agency by Daisy James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's Christmas at The Cornish Confetti Agency!When Lexie Harrington is asked to choreograph Phoebe and Sam’s Christmas-themed wedding, she can’t wait to create the perfect winter wonderland - elegantly dressed fir trees, glossy garlands of holly and mistletoe, baskets of yule logs and pine cones, and the mouth-watering fragrance of gingerbread, cinnamon sticks and warm mulled wine floating... -
![His Secret Baby (A McKnight Family Romance) by Lucy McConnell, Anne-Marie Meyer]()
His Secret Baby (A McKnight Family Romance) by Lucy McConnell, Anne-Marie Meyer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI came back to town for closure... And found a daughter I never knew I had...Return to the McKnight family series where the one person Penny never wanted to come back has just walked into her life: Katie's dad... -
![Silent Signs by Ana Simons]()
Silent Signs by Ana Simons
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings~When life falls apart, what if sharing your secrets with a perfect stranger made it all fall back into place? ~ On the fateful weekend her husband puts an end to their marriage, Sophie Thompson must leave for a two-week work assignment in London. As she juggles her emotions at the airport terminal, Matthew O’Brian observes her, intrigued... -
![Shy Girl by Katie Cross]()
Shy Girl by Katie Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDagny:Once upon a time, I thought my stutter was the worst thing that ever happened to me. But now I know better.Being held at gunpoint outranks a speech impediment any day.Thankfully, my longtime crush Jayson Hernandez tackled that problem to the ground with those broad shoulders—the ones that make my stutter oh-so-much-worse... -
![Just South of Paradise by Grace Palmer]()
Just South of Paradise by Grace Palmer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeorgia Baldwin is just south of paradise, and just shy of a happy ending. Can she find the love she’s looking for?Georgia had the perfect life—until her husband of nearly forty years leaves her for their inn’s much younger housekeeper.Starting over at fifty-eight is a terrifying prospect. And that’s not all... -
![Never Say Goodbye by Susan Lewis]()
Never Say Goodbye by Susan Lewis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor readers of Jodi Picoult, Heather Gudenkauf, and Elizabeth Flock comes a deeply moving novel of finding friendship and love in the most unexpected of places. Josie Clarke, a loving wife and mother, struggles to make ends meet by cleaning homes and working at a diner while her husband drives a taxi. Josie’s joy is her two children, just entering adulthood... -
![The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success by Andy Andrews]()
The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success by Andy Andrews
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNational Bestseller—New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s WeeklyWhat makes the difference between failure and success? The Traveler’s Gift offers a modern day parable of one man’s choices—and the attitudes that make the difference between failure and success.Forty-six-year-old David Ponder feels like a total failure...Categorized as:
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![Lily's Secret Inheritance by Kristin Harper]()
Lily's Secret Inheritance by Kristin Harper
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTurning off the winding coastal road and seeing the old farmhouse surrounded by cranberry vines ahead, Lily’s breath catches in her throat. It’s just how she remembers it. But pushing open the wooden front door for the first time in decades, it’s clear everything has changed…When her estranged aunt Dahlia dies, single mother Lily Lindgren is surprised to inherit the family home and cranberry farm... -
![Finding Alice by Melody Carlson]()
Finding Alice by Melody Carlson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSliding into the Rabbit Hole… Would She Ever Return? On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of Alice’s near-genius intelligence, teachers and counselors have always made excuses for her “little idiosyncrasies... -
![Words Unspoken by Elizabeth Musser]()
Words Unspoken by Elizabeth Musser
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLissa Randall's future was bright with academic promise until the tragic accident that took her mother's life--and brought her own plans to a screeching halt. Eighteen months later Lissa is still unable to get back behind the wheel.Ev McAllistair's driving school looks like Lissa's best hope for getting her life back on the road again...Categorized as:
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![Life's Golden Ticket by Brendon Burchard]()
Life's Golden Ticket by Brendon Burchard
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe classic inspirational parable from the top motivation and marketing trainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaire Messenger—a triumphant tale of personal growth and change that will inspire anyone who has ever wished for a second chance.What if you were handed a golden ticket that could magically start your life anew?That question is at the heart of Life’s Golden Ticket...Categorized as:
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![A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale]()
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest... -
![Blade Silver: Color Me Scarred by Melody Carlson]()
Blade Silver: Color Me Scarred by Melody Carlson
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRuth Wallace knows she can only hide the scars on her arms for so long. Cutting herself doesn't make her problems disappear, but at least it helps her cope. Ruth needs to find some way, "any" way, to heal her scars--the ones she hides and the ones she can't--before something terrible happens... -
![Meg's Confession by Sierra Donovan]()
Meg's Confession by Sierra Donovan
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeg Reilly is a pregnant widow who ducks into a confessional to spill her deepest, darkest secrets. Trouble is, the man on the other side of the booth isn't a priest. Craig Stovall is the owner of a local construction business--he's just there to repair the confessional. But when Meg starts talking, he's too surprised and tongue-tied to stop her until he hears too much... -
![Festive Christmas Nights by Mimi Barbour, Susanne Matthews]()
Festive Christmas Nights by Mimi Barbour, Susanne Matthews
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChristmas cheer and romance are sweet any time of year!This gift set of eight diverse holiday-themed love stories is loaded with hunks and honeys, cops and crooks, love at first sights and second chances, and a few surprise youngsters out to trick Mommy... -
![Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho]()
Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist', offers his personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, traveling and the nature of good and evil... -
![Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor]()
Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines... -
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![Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood]()
Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAny Bitter Thing, Wood's brilliant new novel, is her breakout book, a timely, gripping, and compassionate tale of family, faith, and deeply hidden truths. One of its greatest strengths is its continuous ability to defy expectations. It's not what you think. It is worse. Lizzy Mitchell was raised from the age of two by her uncle, a Catholic priest... -
![Carnality by Lina Wolff]()
Carnality by Lina Wolff
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell... -
![Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig]()
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in... -
![The Opposite of Hallelujah by Anna Jarzab]()
The Opposite of Hallelujah by Anna Jarzab
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaro Mitchell considers herself an only child — and she likes it that way. After all, her much older sister, Hannah, left home eight years ago, and Caro barely remembers her. So when Caro’s parents drop the bombshell news that Hannah is returning to live with them, Caro feels as if an interloper is crashing her family... -
![Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo, Sean Runnette]()
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo, Sean Runnette
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe only thing certain about a journey is that it has a beginning and an end---for you never know what may happen along the way. And so it is with Breakfast with Buddha, a journey into the minds and souls of two very different men---one of them in search of the truth, the other a man who may have already found it... -
![Evensong by Gail Godwin]()
Evensong by Gail Godwin
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA bestselling novel by a distinguished author brings to life the people of a small Smoky Mountain town and a woman whose world is indelibly altered by them. Beautifully written and filled with the insight and compassion Godwin is known for, "Evensong" is about family, the sometimes uncomfortable bonds of marriage, and the quest for religious faith... -
![Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers]()
Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Peter Hansome dies his wife and mistress confront many more mysteries than they had anticipated in this beguiling novel about love and loss... -
![Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum]()
Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd and Julia Glass comes a stirring and soulful novel about an American woman accused of murdering her husband in Africa and the series of events that led her to that point, compellingly told via the alternating perspectives of her four teenage daughters... -
![Coming of Age at the End of Days by Alice LaPlante]()
Coming of Age at the End of Days by Alice LaPlante
Rated: 2.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlice LaPlante's acclaimed psychological thrillers are distinguished by their stunning synthesis of family drama and engrossing suspense. Her new novel is an affecting foray deeper into the creases of family life—and the light-and-dark battle of faith—as LaPlante delves into the barbed psyche of a teenager whose misguided convictions bear irrevocable consequences...
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