Karen Kingsbury
All Books By Karen Kingsbury
A Baxter Family Christmas
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.21(4054 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a life-changing holiday tale of love and hope after heartbreak.
Two years after the car accident that took Erin Baxter’s life, her father, John Baxter, still lives in constant grief. John’s heartbreak prompts him to invite Kendra Bryant, the transplant recipient who now has Erin’s heart, to Christmas Eve dinner despite protests from his remaining children. Ashley and Luke want to protect their ten-year-old niece who is the only surviving child of Erin’s, but John remains determined and believes that meeting this woman is something his deceased daughter would want.
Meanwhile, Kendra Bryant is struggling to come to terms with the tragedy that gave her a second chance. It is only when she witnesses the Baxter’s unwavering faith in God that she begins to heal and allow peace and happiness back into her life.
At the same time, Maddie West, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Brooke Baxter West, continues to pray for meaning this Christmas. When she discovers a newfound friendship with a boy she never expected to see again, she begins to believe in miracles, especially around Christmastime.
A Baxter Family Christmas is a heartwarming story that brings together two families in the midst of tragedy and loss, all with the help one very special child.
A Brush of Wings
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.36(5 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third and final novel in an unforgettable series about four friends and the divine intervention that changes their lives forever.
Against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children–especially since she is unable to have children of her own. The only problem is Marcus Dillinger, the Major League Baseball player she was never meant to fall in love with. But neither Marcus nor Mary Catherine’s other friends–Tyler Ames and Sami Dawson–know just how serious her heart condition is.
Still, Marcus suspects something isn’t right. After months of silence, a divinely timed letter from Mary Catherine leads him on a desperate life-or-death mission to get her to a US hospital before time runs out. Meanwhile, as Sami and Tyler prepare to marry, the group receives shocking news that changes everyone’s plans.
The team of angels walking is busier than ever in this epic battle between life and death. Brush of Wings is a poignant tale of love, sacrifice, and the power of faith.
A Distant Shore
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.29(4233 ratings)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and “inspirational fiction superstar” (Publishers Weekly) presents this high stakes love story of danger, passion, and faith.
She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both of their lives forever.
Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring undercover agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She’s an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous neighboring drug lord, a marriage arranged by her father. This time when Jack and Eliza meet, there’s a connection neither of them can explain. Both of their lives are on the line, and once again, the stakes are deadly high.
Can they join forces in a complicated and dangerous mission, pretending to have a breathtaking love…without really falling? Sometimes miracles happen not once, but twice…along a distant shore.
A Moment of Weakness
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 09, 2008
- Language: English
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4.42(4002 ratings)
Karen Kingsbury’s dozens of inspirational novels, with over two million copies in print, have touched hearts and souls across the country. A Moment of Weakness continues the saga of romance and faith begun in Waiting for Morning (K1135). After nearly a decade of separation, soulmates Jade Conner and Tanner Eastman are together once again-in the most perilous of circumstances.
... Read moreA Thousand Tomorrows
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 21, 2014
- Language: English
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4.33(6220 ratings)
A Time to Dance
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: January 05, 2021
- Language: English
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4.3(6782 ratings)
Now a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel event! Abby Reynolds, the wife of a high-school football coach in a small Illinois town, suspects her husband, John, of having an affair. But is that the real reason their marriage is about to crash?
John and Abby Reynolds are the perfect couple‚Äîenvied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. But John and Abby know they’re just pretending to be happy. In fact, they’re waiting for the right time to tell the kids they’re going to divorce after 21 years of marriage. But at the family meeting where they plan to tell their children, Nicole shares a surprise of her own: she’s getting married, and she wants to have a marriage as happy as her parents‚Äô. How can they spoil her joy with their announcement?
They can pretend a little longer—until after the wedding. But questions begin to haunt them as the date draws nearer. What happened to the love and commitment that held them together for so long? Is it still there somewhere under all the pain and misunderstanding? And is it still possible, alone in the moonlight on an old wooden pier, to once more find . . . a time to dance?
The first novel in Karen Kingsbury’s celebrated series about the power of commitment and the amazing faithfulness of God.
- A powerful story of the resilience of love
- The first book in the Timeless Love Series
- Book 1: A Time to Dance
- Book 2: A Time to Embrace
A Time to Embrace
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: January 05, 2021
- Language: English
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4.36(4122 ratings)
Their whole life was a series of miracles. Can they really hope for one more? And as tragedy pulls their lives apart, can they somehow find that all-important time to embrace?
After twenty-one years, John and Abby Reynolds are back together and feeling like newlyweds. Together they are convinced they can handle the issues of their past, the questions from their children, and even the high-school politics that drain the joy from John’s coaching career. But then disaster strikes…the type of tragedy John and Abby never expected.
The squeal of brakes and the crunch of metal changes everything. Suddenly devastation tears at the heart of their family, and the depth of their existence. In the process, their children falter in their faith and guilt colors everything about the future. Fumbling for forgiveness and hoping for a miracle, John and Abby must remember what is important and cling to that above all else.
Together, they’re determined to move on with their lives. but is “together” enough for a future they never expected?
... Read moreA Treasury of Adoption Miracles
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 858 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 09, 2012
- Language: English
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4.33(249 ratings)
With more than 20 million copies of her award-winning books in print, “Queen of Christian Fiction” (Time) Karen Kingsbury is America’s number-one inspirational novelist. In A Treasury of Adoption Miracles, Kingsbury draws on her experience as an adoptive mother to give listeners an inspiring glimpse of adoption-from her own perspective and from the perspective of women, men, and children who have gone through the process.
... Read moreA Treasury of Christmas Miracles
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 04, 2011
- Language: English
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4.34(425 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author Karen Kingsbury-the “queen of inspirational fiction” (Time)- is acclaimed for her poignant, uplifting tales. Here, Kingsbury recounts a series of true stories about people whose lives were changed by the mystery and wonder of Christmastime. Each story offers proof of God’s presence today-and a joyous reminder of the real meaning of Christmas.
... Read moreA Treasury of Miracles for Friends
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.35(149 ratings)
Best-selling author Karen Kingsbury delivers another inspiring book in her Treasury of Miracles series. Here, she focuses on the special bonds between friends, and the extraordinary true stories she shares are a testament that God is present in our everyday lives. With God’s guidance, we see that good friends never let us down, and often appear just when they are needed most.
... Read moreA Treasury of Miracles for Women
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 02, 2012
- Language: English
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4.35(251 ratings)
USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is beloved across the nation for her moving tales of faith and redemption. In A Treasury of Miracles for Women, Kingsbury recounts uplifting true stories in which mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are touched by God’s presence in extraordinary ways.
... Read moreAdventure Awaits
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Rebekkah Ross
- Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.46(160 ratings)
In the fourth book in Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell’s beloved series about the Baxter children, Kari and Ashley go through the ups and downs of summer camp.
School science camp is a few weeks away, but Ashley and Kari Baxter have very different feelings about going. With the help of their siblings, Kari and Ashley prepare for wild experiments and the challenges of the great outdoors, and together they learn what it means to plan for an experience they won’t forget.
In the process, all five Baxter Children learn how to make new friends and that adventure awaits in the everyday. They just have to look for it!
Angels Walking
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.24(10654 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the first in a brand-new series about second chances–a dramatic story about a washed up baseball player, the love he left behind, and the miracles that might save them both.
When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. He has lost everyone he loves on his way to the big leagues. Then just when things seem to be turning around, Tyler hits rock bottom. Across the country, Tyler’s one true love Sami Dawson has moved on.
A series of small miracles leads Tyler to a maintenance job at a retirement home and a friendship with Virginia Hutcheson, an old woman with Alzheimer’s who strangely might have the answers he so desperately seeks.
A team of Angels Walking take on the mission to restore hope for Tyler, Sami, and Virginia. Can such small and seemingly insignificant actions of the unseen bring healing and redemption? And can the words of a stranger rekindle lost love? Every journey begins with a step.
It is time for the mission to begin…
Being Baxters
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Rebekkah Ross
- Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.55(80 ratings)
In the fifth book in Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell’s beloved series about the Baxter children, when things don’t turn out according to plan, the siblings must stick together and remember who they are.
Things are changing in Bloomington for the Baxters. When Ashley’s teacher, Mr. Garrett, takes a month off work for the birth of his baby, the intimidating Ms. Stritch takes his place. Ashley tries but can’t seem to crack the new teacher’s tough exterior. Meanwhile, Brooke struggles when a popular girl excludes her at lunch, Erin adjusts to getting glasses, and when Kari is given a dance solo for the upcoming recital, she takes her success a little too seriously.
When Principal Bond announces a new Character Awards initiative, competition breaks out between siblings and friends, until the students forget the point of the awards. Through it all, the town prepares for a major blizzard that Luke worries will cancel his class’s field trip to see the Harlem Globetrotters.
With so many obstacles in their lives, the Baxter Children have the opportunity to remember what being Baxters really means.
Best Family Ever
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Rebekkah Ross
- Length: 11 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.27(847 ratings)
Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury’s Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of millions who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell tell the childhood stories of the beloved Baxter children–Brooke, Kari, Ashley, Erin, and Luke–to inspire and entertain younger readers.
Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud of them as they are of Brooke. Each girl has her own talents. Brooke is an excellent student. Kari is a great soccer player. Ashley, a talented artist. And they are always there for each other. But when the news comes that Dr. Baxter is moving the family from Ann Arbor to Bloomington, Indiana, and the Baxters need to leave the only home and friends they’ve ever known, no one is happy. Saying goodbye is hard but the family still has what’s most important–their faith and their love for each other.
The first book in the Baxter Family Children series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell tell the story of what it was like to grow up in the Baxter family, the best family ever.
Between Sundays
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 26, 2007
- Language: English
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4.33(7598 ratings)
Aaron Hill has it all–athletic good looks and the many privileges of a star quarterback. His Sundays are spent playing NFL football in front of a televised audience of millions. But Aaron’s about to receive an unexpected handoff, one that will give him a whole new view of his self-centered life.Derrick Anderson is a family man who volunteers his time with foster kids while sustaining a long career as a pro football player. But now he’s looking for a miracle. He must act as team mentor while still striving for the one thing that matters most this season–keeping a promise he made years ago.Megan Gunn works two jobs and spends her spare time helping at the youth center. Much of what she does, she does for the one boy for whom she is everything–a foster child whose dying mother left him in Megan’s care. Now she wants to adopt him, but one obstacle stands in the way. Her foster son, Cory, is convinced that 49ers quarterback Aaron Hill is his father.Two men and the game they love. A woman with a heart for the lonely and lost, and a boy who believes the impossible. Thrown together in a season of self-discovery, they’re about to learn lessons in character and grace, love and sacrifice.Because in the end life isn’t defined by what takes place on the first day of the week, but how we live it between Sundays.
... Read moreBeyond Tuesday Morning
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 26, 2005
- Language: English
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4.34(10291 ratings)
The hope-filled sequel to the bestselling One Tuesday Morning In this new novel by Karen Kingsbury, three years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York City. Jamie Bryan, widow of a firefighter who lost his life on that terrible day, has found meaning in her season of loss by volunteering at St. Paul’s, the memorial chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. Here she meets a daily stream of people touched by the tragedy, including two men with whom she feels a connection. One is a firefighter also changed by the attacks, the other a police officer from Los Angeles. But as Jamie gets to know the police officer, she is stunned to find out that he is the brother of Eric Michaels, the man with the uncanny resemblance to Jamie’s husband, the man who lived with her for three months after September 11. Eric is the man she has vowed never to see again. Certain she could not share even a friendship with his brother, Jamie shuts out the police officer and delves deeper into her work at St. Paul’s. Now it will take the persistence of a tenacious man, the questions from her curious young daughter, and the words from her dead husband’s journal to move Jamie beyond one Tuesday morning. “Jamie Bryan took her position at the far end of the Staten Island Ferry, pressed her body against the railing, eyes on the place where the Twin Towers once stood. She could face it now, every day if she had to. The terrorist attacks had happened, the World Trade Center had collapsed, and the only man she’d ever loved had gone down with them. Late fall was warmer than usual, and the breeze across the water washed over Jamie’s face. If she could do this, if she could make this journey three times a week while Sierra was in school, then she could convince herself to get through another long, dark night. She could face the empty place in the bed beside her, face the longing for the man who had been her best friend, the one she’d fallen for when she was only a girl.”
... Read moreChasing Sunsets
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.37(4561 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the second novel in the Angels Walking series about divine intervention and second chances–the dramatic story of a woman desperate to find deeper meaning in her life.
Growing up in a comfortable home, Mary Catherine wanted for nothing. Though she loves her wealthy parents, their lifestyle never appealed to her. Instead, Mary Catherine pursues meaning through charity work, giving away a part of herself but never giving away her heart.
Mary Catherine lives in Los Angeles with her roommate, Sami, and volunteers at a local youth center with coach Tyler Ames and LA Dodger Marcus Dillinger. Despite Mary Catherine’s intention to stay single, she finds herself drawing close to Marcus, and their budding romance offers an exciting life she never dreamed of. That is, until she receives devastating news from her doctor. News that alters her future and forces her to make a rash decision.
Inspirational and moving, Chasing Sunsets is the story of one woman’s deep longings of the soul, and the sacrifices she’s willing to make in search of healing.
Coming Home
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 08, 2012
- Language: English
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4.42(5878 ratings)
The emotional and touching conclusion to the Baxter family series!
The Baxters make plans to come together for a summer lakeside reunion, a celebration like they haven’t had in years. But before the big day, the unthinkable happens. As the Baxter family rallies together, memories come to light in the grief-stricken hours of waiting and praying, memories that bring healing and hope during a time when otherwise darkness might have the final word.
In a season that changes all of them, the brilliance of family love overshadows even the valley of heartache as the Baxters draw closer to God and each other. Along the way, secrets are revealed and the truth about the family’s history is finally made known. Ultimately, in this portrait of family love, the Baxters cling to each other and to God’s promise of forever.
From #1 NYT bestseller Karen Kingsbury comes a story of faith and a forever kind of love that will stay with you long after the last page.
- The final book in the Baxter Family series!
- Heart-wrenching contemporary romance
- Book length: 86,000 words
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Even Now
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: December 20, 2005
- Language: English
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4.25(21914 ratings)
Shane is getting married–but can he forget the girl he loved years ago? Lauren’s dreams of happiness walked out the door with Shane and the daughter she gave up, and now Emily searches for the mother she never met. Can three hurting people find hope in the ashes of yesterday?
Shane Galanter is a man ready to put down roots after years of searching for happiness. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now also remembers those long-ago days . . . and a love that hasn’t faded with time?
Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years ago–when it was ripped away from her. Since then, she’s never looked back. So why can’t she put to rest the one question that haunts her: Why is life so empty?
Emily Anderson is a college freshman raised by her grandparents and about to take her first internship as a journalist. But before she can move ahead, she discovers a love story with a tragic ending that came accompanied her birth. As a result, she is compelled to look back and search out the mother she’s never met.
Sometimes hope for the future is found in the darkest moments of the past.
- Contemporary Christian romance
- The first book in the Lost Love duology
- Book 1: Even Now
- Book 2: Ever After
Ever After
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: December 19, 2006
- Language: English
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4.28(11944 ratings)
In Ever After, bestselling author Karen Kingsbury has created a moving sequel to Even Now. The book opens as Emily Anderson, now twenty years old, attends college on a soccer scholarship. Through an off-campus job at Fort Lewis, Emily meets a young Army reservist, Justin Baker. Their love–deep, emotional, and built on the foundation of a shared faith–blooms into plans for marriage. Even Emily’s parents, Lauren Gibbs and Shane Galanter, draw inspiration from this shining young relationship.But Shane and Lauren are being tested as they themselves make wedding plans. Although Shane works as a Top Gun instructor, Lauren still strongly opposes the war in Iraq. As Lauren and Shane struggle to breach the gulf between them, Lauren decides that the task is impossible. She returns to her job as a war correspondent in Afghanistan.Emily must say goodbye to Justin as he goes off to serve in Iraq. Then tragedy changes everything. Can Lauren and Shane do what they think is impossible–set aside their opposing views so that God’s love can win no matter how great the odds?Also available: audio CD edition.
... Read moreEvery Now and Then
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 14, 2008
- Language: English
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4.36(4778 ratings)
A wall went up around Alex Brady’s heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his trusty K9 partner, Bo, are determined to eliminate evil in the world and prevent tragedies like 9-11. Then the worst fire season in California’s history erupts, and Alex faces the ultimate challenge to protect the community he serves. An environmental terrorist group is targeting the plush Oak Canyon Estates. At the risk of losing his job, and his soul, Alex is determined to infiltrate the group and put an end to their corruption. Only the friendship of Clay and Jamie Michaels–and the love of a dedicated young woman–can help Alex drop the walls around his heart and move forward into the future God has for him.
... Read moreFifteen Minutes
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4(4598 ratings)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, known for her “signature mix of melodrama, formula, and genuine emotional punch” (Publishers Weekly), a dramatic story about character, compromise, and the cost of having it all.
Zack Dylan has a dream. He wants to sing on the biggest stages, for the biggest crowds, and he’ll do whatever it takes to make it come true. But Zack also made a promise to his college sweetheart when he left Kentucky to compete on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes: If he made it, nothing would change him or his faith in God.
Overnight, Zack becomes the nation’s most popular contestant, a country singer comparable to a young Tim McGraw. As his star rises, Zack is often asked to compromise and quiet his beliefs. Just as he’s on the verge of winning it all, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?
From America’s favorite inspirational novelist, Fifteen Minutes explores the cost of fame and celebrity set against the backdrop of America’s favorite singing competition.
Finding Home
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Tara Sands
- Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.51(472 ratings)
Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury’s Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of tens of millions of readers who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell inspire and entertain young readers by going back in time to tell the childhood stories of the beloved Baxter children–Brooke, Kari, Ashley, Erin, and Luke.
Summer is over and Dad begins his important position at an Indiana hospital. Like it or not, Bloomington is the Baxter Family’s new home. As school starts, everyone finds reasons to be excited about the move. Everyone, that is, except Ashley. Ashley desperately misses the home and friends she left behind. As she realizes her siblings have their struggles, too, she can’t help but wonder if unlikely friends can be the best friends of all? And could time and love from her family be enough to make a house feel like home?
In the second book in the Baxter Family Children series, #1 New York Times bestselling Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell tell the funny and poignant tale of the Baxter children finding home!
Forgiving Paris
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.13(6969 ratings)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction brings her signature “emotional, heart-tugging” (Woman’s World) prose to this wise and worldly novel of forgiveness and hope in the City of Lights.
In Indiana, Ashley Baxter Blake and her husband are about to take an anniversary trip to Paris, but she is hesitant. More than two decades ago, she made her most grievous mistake in that same city. She has never forgiven herself for what happened there, and she still harbors secrets that she’s afraid will come to light. Just before the trip, Ashley gets a call from her niece. Jessie explains that her French boyfriend’s mother remembers working at a bakery with an American named Ashley. “Could that be you?”
When Alice and Ashley meet, a flood of memories comes for both women, taking Ashley back to a reckless affair and an unexpected pregnancy and Alice to the night she nearly ended it all. Can this reunion bring healing and closure? Maybe it is finally time for Ashley to forgive herself…and Paris.
Gideon’s Gift
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 3 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 20, 2008
- Language: English
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4.32(3973 ratings)
Karen Kingsbury, author of 24 books, has warmed the hearts of millions with her tales of miracles. Gideon’s Gift captures a Christmas miracle that touches a frail young girl and a gruff homeless man. It is a story of faith, charity, and spiritual rebirth.
... Read moreHalfway to Forever
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 23, 2008
- Language: English
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4.45(3553 ratings)
With more than a score of heartwarming novels to her credit, Karen Kingsbury is a best-selling inspirational author who captivates fans with her tales of triumph over personal tragedy. Halfway to Forever continues the story of Hannah Ryan, the grieving widow who found her way back to God in Waiting for Morning (K1135). As Hannah and her new husband Matthew confront obstacles while waiting to adopt a child, their best friends must cope with a devastating illness.
... Read moreHannah’s Hope
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 14, 2009
- Language: English
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4.24(2405 ratings)
Karen Kingsbury, the “queen of inspirational fiction” (Time), delivers the heartwarming tale of a teen with just one Christmas wish-to be hugged by a father she scarcely remembers. When 15-year-old Hannah learns her biological father is USAF pilot Mike Connor, she’s stunned. But with Mike now in harm’s way, Hannah may never know if the Daddy of her fading memories still loves her.
... Read moreIn This Moment
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.26(2988 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes an inspiring Baxter Family novel about a beloved high school principal who starts a Bible Study to improve the lives of his struggling students, only to become the national focus of a controversial lawsuit.
Hamilton High Principal Wendell Quinn wants to see real change in his community, so he starts a voluntary after-school Bible Study and prayer program called Raise the Bar. He knows he is risking his job by leading the program, but before long, Raise the Bar meetings are standing room only.
A year later, violence and gang activity are sharply down, test scores are up, and drug use and teen pregnancy have plummeted. The program is clearly working–until one parent files a lawsuit, claiming Wendell has violated his daughter’s rights.
But Principal Quinn knows God is on his side, and he refuses to back down. As he prepares for court, he is deluged by a storm of national attention and criticism. He wants just one attorney on his side in the fight of his life–Luke Baxter.
A timely and nuanced exploration of religious freedom and what it means to be a person of faith in today’s culture, In This Moment will satisfy Kingsbury fans, old and new.
Just Beyond the Clouds
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 18, 2008
- Language: English
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4.3(5167 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author Karen Kingsbury is acclaimed for uplifting novels like Waiting for Morning. This compelling novel paints a moving portrait of a heartbroken widower and a jilted bride, thrust together by their Down syndrome siblings. It reveals that the brightest hopes often lie just beyond the clouds. “Kingsbury, the Danielle Steel of inspirational fiction, delivers another emotionally charged romantic tale.”-Library Journal
... Read moreKaren Kingsbury Children’s Collection
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 13 minutes
- Publisher: Zonderkidz
- Publish date: January 21, 2020
- Language: English
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5(2 ratings)
This Karen Kingsbury audiobook collection includes two favorite titles for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day: 
Always Daddy’s Princess 
- The timeless journey of a daughter and father is poignantly captured in the story of a girl’s growth from childhood to motherhood. Playful, emotive prose, enriched by the whisper of God’s scripture, invites girls and dads to be reminded of the blessings and the bonds between them. Throughout tea parties, soccer games, braces, and boys, a girl is her daddy’s princess every step of the way.
Whatever You Grow Up to Be
- The timeless journey of a mother and son is poignantly captured in the story of a boy’s growth from childhood to fatherhood. From birth to football games to college graduation, a mother reminds her son that life is filled with possibilities and that God has a plan for him—whatever he grows up to be!
Learning
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 05, 2011
- Language: English
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4.29(7167 ratings)
Bailey struggles to find herself on Broadway and with her new cast members in New York City, while Cody coaches a small high school football team . . . on and off the field. But neither feels complete without the chance to share their dreams with each other.
Bailey and Cody’s desire to follow their individual dreams begins to cause confusion for the young couple. Bailey, now living in New York City, is an actress and dancer on Broadway, but soon her job is at risk. Cody continues to be a coach, mentor, and friend to a group of football players in Indiana.
Cody, whose mother’s history as a drug addict has put his family in harm’s way, takes matters into his own hands and cuts off all ties to the love of his life in order to protect her. Bailey, wounded from Cody’s sudden disappearance, seeks solace in Brandon Paul, a famous actor who has fallen in love with her.
Can absence truly make the heart grow fonder, or will Cody turn to others to share in his happiness? And when tragedy strikes, who will be there to provide comfort in the face of loss? As Cody’s past catches up with him, he must learn to reach out for help or risk withdrawing permanently inside himself.
Both Bailey and Cody find themselves learning significant life lessons in this poignant love story. Featuring members of the popular Baxter family from bestselling author Karen Kingsbury’s beloved Redemption series, discover what’s in store for these two beloved characters.
- Sweet, contemporary Christian romance 
- The second installment of the Bailey Flanigan series 
- Book 1: Leaving
- Book 2: Learning
- Book 3: Longing
- Book 4: Loving
Leaving
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 05, 2011
- Language: English
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4.22(17098 ratings)
A small-town girl finally has her chance at becoming an actress on Broadway—but can she really give up everything she’s ever known?
Bailey Flanigan is finally leaving her small-town home of Bloomington, Indiana, for the adventure of a lifetime: she has gotten a part in a Broadway musical in New York City. She’s determined to take advantage of this unbelievable opportunity, but is she really ready to leave family and friends for the loneliness of the big city? And what about Cody, her former boyfriend? His disappearance has her worried about their future and praying that their love can survive.
Cody has been struggling with his own problems. In order to be closer to his mother, who’s in prison for a drug charge, Cody takes a coaching job in a small community outside Indianapolis. New friends, distance, and circumstances expose cracks in his relationship with Bailey.
Love, loneliness, big opportunities, and even bigger decisions put these two young people to the test in the first book in the Bailey Flanigan series. Featuring members of the popular Baxter family from bestselling author Karen Kingsbury’s beloved Redemption series, discover what’s in store for Bailey and Cody.
- Sweet, contemporary Christian romance 
- The first installment of the Bailey Flanigan series 
- Book 1: Leaving
- Book 2: Learning
- Book 3: Longing
- Book 4: Loving
Like Dandelion Dust
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 12 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 19, 2011
- Language: English
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4.25(8904 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author Karen Kingsbury-the “queen of inspirational fiction” (Time)- is acclaimed for her poignant, uplifting novels. In this moving story, Jack and Molly Campbell are enjoying a wonderful life with Joey, their four-year-old adopted son. But their world is soon shattered when they learn Joey’s biological father is out of prison and wants to begin a new life with his son. And when a judge orders them to surrender Joey, the Campbells desperately consider taking their son and disappearing-just like dandelion dust.
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- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: December 04, 2011
- Language: English
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4.29(6892 ratings)
In Longing, the third book in the Bailey Flanigan Series by bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, Bailey struggles with her feelings for longtime love Cody even as she grows closer to movie star Brandon Paul.
After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan begins to spend more and more time with her Hollywood co-star Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon’s Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with new feelings and cause her to wonder if her days with Cody are over forever.
Meanwhile, Cody’s work coaching a small-town football team has brought him and his players national attention. In the midst of the celebration and success, Cody finds himself much closer to a woman who seems to better understand him and his new life.
Even so, rarely does time go by without Bailey and Cody longing for each other and unable to move forward. Will an unexpected loss be the turning point for Cody? Will Cody and Bailey find a way back together again for the first time in more than a year? And if they do, will their brief time together be enough to help them remember all they’ve been longing for?
Featuring members of the popular Baxter family from bestselling author Karen Kingsbury’s beloved Redemption series, discover what’s in store for these two beloved characters.
- Sweet, contemporary Christian romance 
- The third installment of the Bailey Flanigan series 
- Book 1: Leaving
- Book 2: Learning
- Book 3: Longing
- Book 4: Loving
Love Story
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.22(7159 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new romantic story featuring everyone’s favorite family–the Baxters–which tells the story of how John and Elizabeth first fell in love.
From the day they met, John and Elizabeth were destined to fall in love. Their whirlwind romance started when they were young college students and lasted nearly thirty years.
So when John Baxter is asked to relive his long-ago love story with Elizabeth for his grandson Cole’s heritage project, he’s not sure he can do it. The sadness might simply be too great. But he agrees and allows his heart and soul to go places they haven’t gone in decades. Back to the breathless first moments, but also to the secret heartbreak that brought John and Elizabeth together.
At the same time, Baxter family friend Cody Coleman is working through the breakup of his complicated relationship with Andi Ellison. He is determined to move on when a chance sighting changes his plans–and heart. Can Cody convince Andi to give their love another try, or is it time for them to say goodbye for good?
As school comes to an end, Cole presents his report on the love story between his grandparents John and Elizabeth Baxter. It is a tale that touches the hearts of the entire family, and one that causes Cole to better understand his own beginning.
Whether you’re meeting the Baxter family for the first time or finding them all over again, Love Story will stir your heart and remind you of the generational impact of love and the eternal bond of family.
Loving
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 08, 2012
- Language: English
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4.29(6646 ratings)
In Loving, the fourth and final book in the Bailey Flanigan Series by bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, Bailey is planning her wedding . . . but did she choose her new flame or her first love?
Bailey has learned much and grown over the years, but the greatest challenges, the richest joys, and the deepest heartaches are still to come. As she enjoys the beginning of her new career and time spent with Brandon, Cody faithfully coaches his team on and off the field. Torn between her feelings for both of them, she has a difficult decision to make.
Has she agreed to marry the right man? Will she spend her life with Hollywood actor Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, or will her heart draw her back to small-town Bloomington, Indiana, and Cody Coleman, her first love?
Featuring members from Karen Kingsbury’s popular Baxter family, Loving completes Bailey and Cody’s story — the finale thousands of fans have been waiting for.
- Sweet, contemporary Christian romance 
- The final installment of the Bailey Flanigan series 
- Book 1: Leaving
- Book 2: Learning
- Book 3: Longing
- Book 4: Loving
Maggie’s Miracle
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 06, 2008
- Language: English
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4.34(2547 ratings)
This charming sequel to Gideon’s Gift (K1032) is part of Kingsbury’s Red Gloves Series. Continuing the theme, “Red is the color of giving,” Maggie’s Miracle focuses on the power of a young child to change two people’s lives. A best-selling Christian author, Kingsbury is sure to touch all listeners’ hearts with her tender novel.
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- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 13, 2015
- Language: English
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4.34(2547 ratings)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury’s timeless 52-week devotional celebrates the gift of hope through God’s unending love, now available with an updated cover.
The Miracles devotional draws from five of Karen’s most inspiring books, helping readers begin each week encouraged by a true story of God’s miraculous power. It includes stunning excerpts from each of Karen’s Miracles books, including A Treasury of Adoption Miracles, A Treasury of Miracles for Teens, A Treasury of Miracles for Women, A Treasury of Miracles for Friends, and A Treasury of Christmas Miracles. Perfect for holiday sharing, this special volume offers healing messages, beautiful verses of Scripture, and stories of real-life miracles happening all around.
... Read moreNever Grow Up
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Rebekkah Ross
- Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.41(271 ratings)
In the third book in Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell’s beloved series about the Baxter children, Ashley and Kari Baxter struggle with what it means to grow up.
When Kari Baxter is assigned an essay about what she wants to be when she grows up, her mind goes blank. She doesn’t want to grow up; she wants everything to stay just like it is. But Kari comes to realize that while making time stand still isn’t possible, she can enjoy every moment with her best family ever.
Meanwhile, Ashley Baxter feels the same way. She is worried her siblings are growing up too fast. When she wins the role of Wendy in her school performance of Peter Pan, Ashley gets an idea. Maybe she and her siblings can pledge to never grow up at all!
This third story in the Baxter Family Children series shares the reassuring message that even though growing up can be tough, family and friends are always there with support and love.
Oceans Apart
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 06, 2004
- Language: English
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4.27(10571 ratings)
A forgotten secret. A shocking discovery. A sacrifice of love that will bring Connor Evans to his knees.
A story of hope and redemption from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury.
Airline pilot Connor Evans and his wife, Michele, seem to be the perfect couple living what looks like a perfect life. Then a plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean. One of the casualties is Kiahna Siefert, a flight attendant Connor knew well. Too well. Kiahna’s will is very clear: before her seven-year-old son, Max, can be turned over to the state, he must spend the summer with the father he’s never met, the father who doesn’t know he exists: Connor Evans. Now will the presence of one lonely child and the truth he represents destroy Connor’s family? Or is it possible for healing and hope to appear in the shape of a seven-year-old boy?
“[Kingsbury’s] ability to accurately express life’s sorrows and grief through her characters’ inner dialogue rings true time and again.” —Publishers Weekly on Every Now & Then
“Her emotionally charged novels often contain a strong romantic component and feature Christians at odds with their everyday world. This title is no exception. Recommend this one to readers who enjoy well-drawn characters and contemporary settings.” —Library Journal on The Baxters Take Four
... Read moreOn Every Side
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 02, 2008
- Language: English
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4.54(456 ratings)
Best selling author Karen Kingsbury has been hailed as the “queen of Christian fiction” by Time Magazine. She delivers an inspiring and emotionally riveting drama about one man’s struggle with his beliefs, a woman’s enduring faith in God and the power of prayer. Jordan Riley hasn’t believed in God since before the traumatic events that marred his childhood, but when he returns to his hometown years later, he finds himself struggling between his current doubts and the comfort of his former religion.
... Read moreOne Tuesday Morning
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 19, 2003
- Language: English
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4.39(19044 ratings)
Jake is a New York City fireman and devoted family man. Eric is climbing the corporate ladder at the expense of his wife and children. On a fateful Tuesday in September, two strangers meet for a startling moment in a smoke-filled stairway. Only one will leave the Twin Towers alive. Will he find his way home?
The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing. Not rushing with his teammates up the stairway of the south tower to help trapped victims. Not being blasted from the building. And not the woman sitting by his bedside who says she is his wife.
Jamie Bryan will do anything to help her beloved husband regain his memory, and with it their storybook family life with their small daughter, Sierra. But that means helping Jake rediscover the one thing Jamie has never shared with him: his deep faith in God. Jake’s fondest prayer for his wife is about to have an impact beyond anything he could possibly have conceived.
One Tuesday Morning is a love story like none you have ever read: tender, moving, commemorating the tragedy and heroism of September 11 and portraying the far-reaching power of God’s faithfulness and a good man’s love.
- Poignant contemporary Christian romance
- The first installment of the bestselling 9/11 Series
- Book 1: One Tuesday Morning
- Book 2: Beyond Tuesday Morning
- Book 3: Remember Tuesday Morning
Remember Tuesday Morning
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: August 23, 2011
- Language: English
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4.36(395 ratings)
A wall went up around Alex Brady’s heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his trusty K9 partner, Bo, are determined to eliminate evil in the world and prevent tragedies like 9-11. Then the worst fire season in California’s history erupts, and Alex faces the ultimate challenge to protect the community he serves. An environmental terrorist group is targeting the plush Oak Canyon Estates. At the risk of losing his job, and his soul, Alex is determined to infiltrate the group and put an end to their corruption. Only the friendship of Clay and Jamie Michaels–and the love of a dedicated young woman–can help Alex drop the walls around his heart and move forward into the future God has for him.
... Read moreSarah’s Song
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 22, 2014
- Language: English
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4.3(2278 ratings)
Best-selling author Karen Kingsbury has been a RWA Rita finalist and Gold Medallion Award finalist. Sarah’s Song is book three in The Red Gloves Series. For years Sarah Lindeman, now in her 80s, has carried out a special tradition over the 12 days of Christmas. This year, Sarah notices a young nurse listening, and in her recognizes pain and longing. Sarah prays that through her story, she can ease this young woman’s sorrow and help her realize the importance of God’s gift of love.
... Read moreShades of Blue
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 07, 2009
- Language: English
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4.22(7134 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes an emotional story of forgiveness and healing. In between a checkered past and a fairytale future, three people must find a way forward.
Brad Cutler is a 28-year-old rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry Laura James, the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all: a great career, a beautiful and loving fiancée, and a fairy tale life ahead of him—until memories of his high school girlfriend, Emma, begin to torment him.
Lost innocence and one very difficult choice flood his conscience, and he is no longer sure what the future will bring except for this: he must find his old love and make amends.
Friends since childhood, Brad and Emma became a couple in high school—before their relationship was forever altered by a single decision. Haunted by the past and confused about the future, Brad turns to God seeking forgiveness and redemption for the choice he and Emma made long ago.
Brad, Emma, and Laura must work through the repercussions of a decision made as teenagers that continues to affect each one of them before any of them can look toward a new future.
- Contemporary Christian fiction
- Full-length standalone novel
- Also by Karen Kingsbury: Between Sundays, Beyond Tuesday Morning, and Unlocked
Someone Like You
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.19(3711 ratings)
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Science raises questions only love can answer in this moving and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “heart-tugging and emotional” (Romantic Times Book Reviews) life-changing fiction.
One frozen embryo. Two families with life-long secrets. And a guy who never planned to fall in love again.
Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world–Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves her new job and fiance, rejects her family’s requests for forgiveness, and moves to Portland to find out who she really is.
Dawson Gage’s life was destroyed when London Quinn, his best friend and the only girl he ever loved, is killed. In the hospital waiting room, London’s mother reveals that London might have had a sibling. The frozen embryo she and her husband donated decades ago. When Dawson finds Maddie and brings her to Portland, the Quinns–her biological parents–welcome her into their lives and hearts. Maddie is comforted by the Quinns’ love and intrigued by their memories of London, who was so much like her. Is this the family and the life she was really meant to have?
Now it will take the love of Dawson Gage to help Maddie know who she is…and to help her find her way home.
The Baxters
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.22(7159 ratings)
This warmhearted and moving prequel to the “heart-tugging and emotional” (RT Book Reviews) #1 New York Times bestselling Baxter Family Series follows the family members as they face rising tensions during a wedding and a colossal storm.
A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari’s wedding to Tim Jacobs. It’s supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth can’t shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? Something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it.
Indeed, there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris, a single mom with a son she too often leaves with their parents. At the same time, Ashley and their sister Brooke have lost the faith that is the family’s glue. Against all this, Kari sees Ashley rejecting her longtime love, Landon Blake, who clearly cares for her, no matter what happened in Paris.
When the storm reaches a terrifying crescendo, a shocking moment of danger brings important truths to light. At the end of the long day, can the Baxters remain a family, tested but stronger?
From an author who “writes with seemingly effortless poetic elegance” (Booklist), The Baxters is an unforgettable testament to the power of love, family, and faith.
The Baxters Take Four
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 27, 2010
- Language: English
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4.64(311 ratings)
The Above the Line Series follows two dedicated Hollywood producers as they seek to transform the culture through the power of film. After Chase Ryan returns to his family and a job in his hometown, his best friend and fellow filmmaker Keith Ellison pairs up with former Hollywood heartthrob Dayne Matthews to finish following the dream—making movies that might change the world. In this unabridged audio download of Take Four, filmmakers Keith Ellison and Dayne Matthews have finally inked a deal to have the nation’s top young actor star in their current film. But at the same time, the actor takes a very public fall that threatens his reputation among his fan base. Meanwhile, healing happens for Andi Ellison in her relationship with God, her family, and those she loves, but is it too late? The new producers find they must truly act as missionaries in order to help save the film, their families, and the young movie star. Breakthroughs take place that the public will never know about, as the possibility of saving the world through film is finally a very real possibility.
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- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: March 24, 2009
- Language: English
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4.64(311 ratings)
Could they change the world–before the world changes them? Filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison left the mission field of Indonesia for the mission field of Hollywood with a dream bigger than both of them. Now they have done the impossible: raised enough money to produce a feature film with a message that could change the world. But as Chase and Keith begin shooting, their well-laid plans begin to unravel. With millions of dollars on the line, they make a desperate attempt to keep the film from falling apart–even as a temperamental actress, a botched production schedule, and their own insecurities leave little room for the creative and spiritual passion that once motivated them. Was God really behind this movie after all? A chance meeting and friendship with John Baxter could bring the encouragement they need to stay on mission and produce a movie that will actually change people’s lives. In the midst of the questions and the cameras, is it possible to keep things above the line and make a movie unlike anything done before–or is the risk too great for everyone?
... Read moreThe Baxters Take Three
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 06, 2010
- Language: English
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4.64(311 ratings)
Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison set out to change the world with their films—and they are finally seeing their dreams come true. The dedicated producers are deep in negotiations with America’s top young movie star to play the lead in their next inspirational movie. But life takes a sudden turn for Chase, removing him from Jeremiah Productions permanently. In the process, Keith brings on one of the Baxter family members and the moviemaking continues. At the same time, a crisis hits Keith’s daughter, Andi, and Keith feels helpless to respond. Devastated by the consequences of her wrong actions, Andi ventures out on her own and decides on a course of action that could destroy her. Meanwhile, Bailey Flanigan is caught up in her own drama with Cody Coleman. A Campus Crusade retreat gives them time alone along the shores of Lake Monroe and lets them face a possibility they’ve avoided for years. Will Keith keep the passion he had at the start of his filmmaking—and will there be enough passion left over for his hurting daughter? Or has their quest to change American culture become nothing more than a quest for fame?
... Read moreThe Baxters Take Two
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: July 07, 2009
- Language: English
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4.64(311 ratings)
Filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison have completed their first feature film, and Hollywood is buzzing with the news. In the wake of that excitement, the producers acquire rights to a novel that has all the ingredients they want for their next project. At the same time they cross paths with a well-connected player who introduces them to the right people, and suddenly every studio in town wants to talk to Chase and Keith. The producers’ dreams are on the verge of coming true, but Chase’s marriage is strained and Keith’s daughter–Andi Ellison–is making questionable choices in her quest for stardom. The producers are gaining respect and are on the verge of truly changing culture through the power of film–but is the change worth the cost?
... Read moreThe Beginning: An eShort prequel to The Bridge
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 1 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
The Bridge
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.02(10427 ratings)
Fromt the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Like You, Karen Kingsbury’s heartwarming story about two couples, love lost and found, and the miracle that saved a bookstore is also the basis for a Hallmark Channel movie.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury has written a modern-day classic with this unforgettable love story set against the struggle of the American bookstore. Molly Allen lives alone in Portland, but she left her heart back in Tennessee when she walked away from Ryan five years ago. They had a rare sort of love she hasn’t found since.
Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville after a broken engagement and several years on the road touring with a country music duo. Sometimes when he’s lonely, he visits The Bridge–the oldest bookstore in historic downtown Franklin–and remembers the hours he and Molly once spent there.
For over four decades, Charlie and Donna Barton have run The Bridge, providing customers with coffee, conversation, and shelves of classics–even through dismal sales and the rise of digital books. Then the hundred-year flood sweeps through Franklin and destroys everything. The bank is about to pull the store’s lease when tragedy strikes. Can two generations of readers rally together to save The Bridge? And is it possible that an unforgettable love might lead to the miracle of a second chance?
The Chance
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.18(10983 ratings)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury proves it’s never too late for love in this heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and an age-old promise.
Years ago, the day before Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nolan sat beneath the Spanish moss of an ancient oak tree and wrote letters to each other, sealing them in a rusty old metal box. The plan was to return eleven years later and read them in 2013, the year Nolan’s time traveling books say all the mysteries of the world will be understood.
Now, as that date approaches, much has changed. Ellie, bereft of the faith she grew up with, is a single mom living in a tired apartment and trying to make ends meet. Nolan, now an NBA star, has dealt with terrible personal tragedies that fueled his faith and athletic drive in equal measure. Ever since his father and coach succumbed to a heart attack, Nolan has suffered from a transcendent loneliness. Drowning in an ocean of grief, he often thinks about Ellie and the innocence of their childhood days together.
As Ellie and Nolan move toward the possibility of a reunion at the oak tree, Molly and Ryan, the central characters from author Karen Kingsbury’s previous novel The Bridge, return in their own ongoing story. Written by the “Queen of Christian Fiction” (Time) with eloquence and grace, The Chance is a beautiful tale of heart-wrenching loss, the power of faith, and the wounds that only love can heal.
The Family of Jesus
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.22(1214 ratings)
America’s favorite inspirational novelist offers a fictional view of six of the family members of Jesus, all anchored by Scriptural truth, creating a life-changing and unprecedented emotional connection to the Bible.
Through The Family of Jesus, readers will develop an emotional connection to the family members of Jesus, learning about their lives and falling in love with Scripture along the way. Bible studies and devotionals abound, and in churches everywhere people gather to seek a deeper understanding of God’s word and its application to their lives. But too often these studies engage only the analytic approach to Bible learning.
In The Family of Jesus, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Karen Kingsbury will make you laugh, cry, and ultimately care more deeply about the Bible by helping you grasp the truths in Scripture not just with your mind, but with your heart. The characters in these short stories were among those closest to Jesus–Mary, Joseph, Jesus’ brother James, John the Baptist, Zechariah, and Elizabeth. Each has a compelling tale to tell. Kingsbury intersperses fictional, emotionally gripping details anchored in Scripture with historical and theological insights and questions that will guide soul-searching and reflection.
The Family of Jesus not only provides a deeper understanding of the relatives of our Savior, but also helps readers acquire tools that will draw them closer to Christ, to the Scriptures, and to each other.
The Friends of Jesus
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.3(739 ratings)
America’s favorite inspirational novelist and #1 New York Times bestselling author paints vividly realized portraits of six of Jesus’ closest friends and companions, bringing biblical truths to life in this captivating continuation of her Life-Changing Bible Story series.
In our everyday lives, friends are the people whom we spend the most time with, go through struggles with, and who know us best. Each of Jesus’ friends–Peter, John, Matthew, Judas, Mary Magdalene, and Lazarus–traveled with Jesus and were part of His daily ministry, and each has a compelling story to tell. There were some who would question or doubt Him…and one would even betray Him. Kingsbury brings these fascinating personalities to life in ways that will not only help bring you closer to the truths found in Scripture, but also to Christ.
By combining valuable, instructive Bible study with compelling, insightful character sketches of Jesus’ companions, Kingsbury provides you with a deeper understanding of the scriptural teachings featuring these fascinating people. Emotionally powerful, thought-provoking, and soulful, The Friends of Jesus will help you to appreciate the Bible and understand how it applies to your relationships with the most important people in your life.
This Side of Heaven
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 30, 2010
- Language: English
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4.36(4959 ratings)
From New York Times best-selling author Karen Kingsbury comes an unforgettable story of love struggling against all odds to snatch hope from the jaws of despair. Annie Warren’s concern for her adult son Josh has intensified ever since a drunk driver careened into him. Disabled and in constant pain, Josh has put his life on hold while awaiting an insurance settlement that seems never to come. Yet as Annie sifts through the rubble of Josh’s life, she uncovers a treasure of surpassing value-the greatest gift he could give her this side of heaven.
... Read moreTo the Moon and Back
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.23(4399 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a “heart tugging and emotional” story in the Baxter Family collection that will “touch readers deeply” (RT Book Reviews) featuring two people who lost their parents in the same national tragedy–two people desperate to find each other and the connection they shared for a single day…that changed everything.
Brady Bradshaw was a child when the Oklahoma City bombing killed his mother. Every year, Brady visits the memorial site on the anniversary to remember her. Eleven years ago on that day, he met Jenna Phillips, who was also a child when her parents were killed in the attack. Brady and Jenna shared a deep heart connection and a single beautiful day together at the memorial. But after that, Brady never saw Jenna again. Every year when he returns, he leaves a note for her in hopes that he might find her again.
This year, Ashley Baxter Blake and her sister Kari Baxter Taylor and their families take a spring break trip that includes a visit to the site to see the memorial’s famous Survivor Tree. While there, Ashley spots a young man, alone and troubled. That man is Brady Bradshaw. A chance moment leads Ashley to help Brady find Jenna, the girl he can’t forget.
Ashley’s family is skeptical, but she pushes them to support her efforts to find the girl and bring them together. But will it work? Will her husband, Landon, understand her intentions? And is a shared heartache enough reason to fall in love?
With To The Moon and Back “Kingsbury skillfully weaves a tale of divine love” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) in an unlikely love story about healing, redemption, hope, and the belief that sometimes a new tomorrow can grow from the ashes of a shattered yesterday. “Kingsbury writes with seemingly effortless poetic elegance, capturing the tender, intimate moments of daily family life as well as heart-wrenching flashbacks to fatal tragedy. A moving story of survival, of faith, and of beauty from the ashes” (Booklist).
Truly, Madly, Deeply
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.17(2586 ratings)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER
In love for the first time, a son’s decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction.
When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after graduation, his mother, Reagan, won’t hear of it. After all, she’s still mourning the death of her own father on September 11 and she’s determined to keep her son safe from danger. But Tommy’s father, Luke, is proud of Tommy’s decision. He would make a kind and compassionate cop.
Meanwhile, Tommy is in love for the first time. His sweet relationship with Annalee Miller is almost too good to be true. Tommy begins seriously thinking about the far off day when he can ask her to marry him but she hasn’t been feeling well. Tests reveal the unthinkable.
While his girlfriend begins the fight of her life, Tommy is driven to learn more about the circumstances surrounding his birth and the grandfather he never knew. Secrets come to light that rock Tommy’s world, and he becomes determined to spend his future fighting crime and bringing peace to the streets. Or is this just his way to fight a battle he cannot win–the one facing Annalee?
Blending romance and family drama, Truly, Madly,Deeply shows us that, in the shadow of great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply.
Two Weeks
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.29(3235 ratings)
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive story about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life–a story about love, faith, and what it really means to be a family.
Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college to kickstart the great plan he has been dreaming about for years–a career in medicine. But as he starts his final semester of school he meets Elise, a mysterious new girl who captures his attention–and heart–from day one.
Elise has her heart set on mending her wild ways and becoming the good girl she used to be. But not long after the semester starts, she discovers she’s pregnant. Eighteen and alone, she shares her secret with Cole. Undaunted by the news, and in love for the first time in his life, Cole is determined to support Elise–even if it means skipping college so he can marry her and raise another man’s baby.
When Elise decides to give the baby up for adoption, she is matched with Aaron and Lucy Williams, who moved to Bloomington, Indiana, in the hope of escaping the loss and emptiness that seven painful years of trying to start a family has brought them.
But as her due date draws near, Elise becomes more and more torn. She knows she has two weeks after the birth of her daughter to change her mind. With Cole keeping vigil and Lucy and Aaron waiting to welcome their new baby, Elise makes an unexpected decision–one that changes everyone’s plans.
Unlocked
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: October 26, 2010
- Language: English
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4.27(10402 ratings)
Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury reminds us that before you take a stand, you’ve got to take a chance.
Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden Harris is very happy and socially engaged—on the inside, in a private world all his own. But Holden is an eighteen-year-old with autism. Every day he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different.
Ella Reynolds is part of the in-crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems perfect. When she catches Holden listening to her rehearse for the school play, she is drawn to him . . . the way he is drawn to the music. Then Ella makes a dramatic discovery—she and Holden were best friends as children. Frustrated by the way Holden is bullied and horrified at the indifference of her peers, Ella decides to take a stand against the most privileged and popular kids at school. Including her boyfriend, Jake.
Ella believes miracles can happen in the most unlikely places and that just maybe an entire community might celebrate from the sidelines. But will Holden’s praying mother, Ella, and a cast of theater kids be enough to unlock the prison that contains Holden? This time friendship, faith, and the power of a song must be strong enough to open the doors to the miracle Holden needs.
This contemporary, inspirational read is a standalone novel. Book length: approximately 80,000 words. Includes a reading group guide and a letter to readers from the author. 
... Read moreWaiting for Morning
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 10, 2008
- Language: English
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4.37(5896 ratings)
Karen Kingsbury is the best-selling author of nearly 30 novels, including Gideon’s Gift (K1032). There are more than two million copies of her works in print. Waiting for Morning is the poignant tale of a woman who, in the face of tremendous personal tragedy, hardens her heart and turns from God. Now two kind people are struggling to rescue her faith.
... Read moreWhen Joy Came to Stay
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 05, 2007
- Language: English
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4.54(456 ratings)
Best-selling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter Karen Kingsbury has enriched the lives of countless readers with her spiritually uplifting tales. When Joy Came to Stay illustrates the miraculous power of faith to overcome even the most debilitating suffering. Maggie Stovall has a successful career and a happy marriage, but she also bears the crippling weight of a secret from her past. As she slips farther and farther into depression, her only hope lies in God’s loving forgiveness. “Kingsbury confronts hard issues with truth and sensitivity.”-Francine Rivers
... Read moreWhen We Were Young
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.16(2751 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce.
What if you could see into the future and know what will happen tomorrow, if you really walk out that door today. Pay attention. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
From their first meeting, to their stunning engagement and lavish wedding, to their happily-ever-after, Noah and Emily Carter were meant to be together. Theirs is a special kind of love and they want the world to know. More than a million adoring fans have followed their lives on Instagram since the day Noah publicly proposed to Emily. But behind the carefully staged photos and encouraging posts, their life is anything but a fairytale, and Noah’s obsession with social media has ruined everything.
Distraught, Emily reaches out to her friend Kari Baxter Taylor and tells her the truth: Noah and Emily have decided to call it quits. He is leaving in the morning.
But when Noah wakes the next day, everything is different. Emily is gone and the kids are years older. Like Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, bizarre and strange events continue throughout the night so that Noah is certain he’s twenty years older, and he is desperate for a second chance.
Now it would take a miracle to return to yesterday.
When We Were Young is a rare and beautiful love story that takes place in a single day. It’s about the gift of knowing what tomorrow will bring if you really walk out that door today.
Where Yesterday Lives
- By: Karen Kingsbury
- Narrator: Karen Kingsbury
- Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 02, 2008
- Language: English
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4.54(456 ratings)
With more than a million copies of her books in print, bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delights multitudes of fans with her inspirational tales. Grief stricken over her father’s death, Ellen Barrett returns to her hometown, temporarily leaving behind a troubled marriage. The heartache and confusion that swirl about her threaten to further weaken her already slipping faith. Yet even in this difficult time, God’s path is before her-if only she has the willingness and strength to take it. “What a talent! I love her work.”-Gary Smalley, best-selling author
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