Gwen: 421 books

Jesus always was, He is and He always will be, for He is eternal. The complexities of this God-man are beyond our understanding, yet He made His message so simple a child can understand it: “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”  He loved Kings and potentates, paupers and...

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but darkness has not understood it. (John 1:4,5 NIV)  The Bible describes Jesus as ‘the Light of the world.’ But do we fully comprehend the magnitude of that statement? In this encouraging thirty-one day...

From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Homer’s Odyssey comes a tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, primarily told through the eyes of the most observant member of any human family: the cat. Humans best understand the truth of things if they come at it indirectly....

New York Times**–bestselling author Gwen Bristow presents a captivating love story that dramatizes the struggle between the ways of the old Louisiana plantation families and those of the new twentieth-century South** In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp, overseeing...

When sixteen-year-old Carrington Morris attends an 80s themed dance at her high school, she inadvertently travels back in time to 1986 and quickly latches on to the only person she "knows"--her 16-year-old mother, Heather. Forced to navigate a world with New Coke, an MTV that plays...

What makes a romance novel a romance? How do you write a kissing book? Writing a well-structured romance isn't the same as writing any other genre—something the popular novel and screenwriting guides don't address. The romance arc is made up of its own story beats, and the external plot and...

You don’t have to understand God to trust him. “Just trust me.” Those are the words we often hear in movies just before something bad happens. And yet, we are told to trust God. In a culture where we tend to take control of our own lives, trusting God has become a religious platitude...

There are a million cat stories in the naked city. This is one of them . . . There are days when everything seems to go wrong—days that can crack even the hardiest New Yorker: your cab breaks down, an address that Google Maps assures you exists is nowhere to be found, nobody you ask for directions...

This book is a true storya memoir of Gwen Lerouys life. She struggled with addiction to meth, bondages from Satan, her imprisonment. Its a struggle thats been for real. Addiction is like a scratch you cant itch. If you give in and itch, its got you. This book also talks about a spiritual awareness...

Journalist Lola Wicks discovers a story she can't resist...but it could be her last When former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks heads to Wyoming for a Yellowstone vacation, she comes across a story that hits close to her past. One Wyoming soldier returning from Afghanistan commits suicide,...

**Can work, family life, and sanity itself survive a three-legged cat’s one-track obsession? ** Clayton “the Tripod” is a special-needs rescue who quickly established himself as king of the house—a “loveable doofus” and natural clown with a heart big enough for ten cats. The day...

Fiber artists around the world have embraced crochet as an inventive medium like never before. Expanding on the creative possibilities and using sculpture, immense site-specific installations, performance, and mixed-media objects, they have used crochet techniques to explore feminine craft and heritage,...

Isn’t your desire to overeat really spiritual hunger? “I can stop in the middle of a candy bar and have no desire to eat the second half if my stomach is not calling for it.” - Gwen Shamblin Do you eat and eat and never feel full? Rise above the magnetic pull of the refrigerator...

It's not a job you want to take on without a sense of humor. Oops--it's not a job at all. It's an all-encompassing life, being a country woman on the ranch or farm, and with wit and equanimity like Gwen Petersen's, it can be survived. In fact, with Petersen's help, it can be drop-dead hilarious. A...