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“Welcome to Storybook House. Do come in.” Award-winning author Colleen L. Reece and her two brothers grew up in a former one-room schoolhouse with a woodsman father and a teacher mother. Their adventures ranged from rescuing orphaned kittens to solving Mom’s Sandwich Mystery. Colleen later felt called into full-time writing and moved to a new home. Her nephew named it “Storybook House” because of the hundreds of books and stories Colleen wrote that her mother, Pearl, edited. This collection is filled with stories based on real people and events, but with some names changed for ...

The women of the Bible helped to shape history. Their stories have been passed down for generations. Some were godly. Others were rebellious. Yet all lived, loved, and left a mark. We can learn much from them. Best-selling author Colleen L. Reece uses her finest story-telling skills to bring both saints and sinners alive.

Love signals flash between mountain peaks After four long years attending high school in the city, Jennifer Ashley is coming home. Home to parents, friends, mountains, forests and streams; far from trolley cars and crowded city streets.The daring girl enters a horse race, and works as a logging camp flunky [helper]. She later becomes a lookout fire-watcher. High atop Flower Dome, she flashes mirror signals with Keith Burgess on Pinnacle Peak. They fall in love World War I changes their lives. Keith enlists, and is reported missing in action. After the Armistice (Nov. 11 1918) soldiers come ...

“I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” (Hebrews 13:5) God has comforted, provided for, and protected award-winning author Colleen L. Reece for more than eighty years. He has opened doors she didn’t know existed and changed the “someday” book she dreamed of writing into 160+ titles with sales of six million copies. Life-changing incidents range from “A Cry for Help” and “Miracle at Frog Lake” to “Midnight Madness,” and show God’s mysterious intervention when life looked hopeless. Join Colleen as she travel’s life’s road with her Savior, Companion, Guide, and ...

Sequel to Joy’s Long Journey, (Gold Rush prospector finds child in desert. Only clue to her identity is a crocheted lace collar.) Gabriela O’Donnell is horrified at the prospect of marriage with a man she despises. She runs away from her scheming cousin's home and assumes a false name. Gabbie dares trust no one, even San Francisco’s rising star attorney, Gordon Rhys, who is fast capturing her heart. The courageous young woman lives in constant fear; compelled to flee time after time from those determined to force her into a life of misery. God opens ways of escape, but Gabbie’s ...

A beloved nurse fights an unseen enemy Scoffers said the Seattle hospital could never be built. God and Nicholas Fairchild knew better. Now doctors and nurses follow in Jesus’ footsteps and bring healing to body, mind, and soul Warm-hearted, red-headed surgical nurse Lindsey Best is proud to serve at Shepherd of Love Hospital. Chaplain Terence O’Shea doesn’t expect the most fascinating woman he has ever met to fall for him—literally—when he charges into the staff dining room. Their crash meeting is the beginning of instant friendship. Before Lindsey and Terence can explore the ...

Lexi LeClair leaves her Canadian home to attend college in Bellingham, Washington, her chance to shatter the wall of insecurity that imprisons her. Lexi is still the shy outsider—in spite of popular Sally Marshall, her one new friend who tries to instill confidence in the heart-sick girl. A sermon by campus chaplain Scott Down that every life counts, jolts Lexi. When the popular minister shows signs of caring, Lexi’s wall begins to crumble. Then a charming, unscrupulous student vows to capture Scott. Lexi is devastated. A diabolical scheme tarnishes Scott’s reputation. Lexi turns to ...

East is East and the West is Far Away The farther the better for Charity Endicott, darling of Long Island’s 1920s society. All she wants is to escape the nightmare of publicity following a tragic accident. A shocking disclosure about the man she loved leaves her shattered. She needs to get away. But where can she and her millionaire grandfather go that scandal won’t follow? Charles Endicott suggests a working cattle ranch in Wyoming near the Grand Teton Range. Decades earlier, Charles and his bride spent time in the area. They meant to return, but life and acquiring a fortune got in the...

Laura Ingalls Wilder, beloved author of the Little House books, said, “If I had a remembrance book, I'd write about . . . Pa and Mr. Hanson and how they walked and looked and talked and how we wondered what they said.” Colleen L. Reece combines two exciting remembrance books to delight readers of all ages. Join Carol (Colleen) and her family on a 3500- mile Vagabond Summer driving trip. Encounter car trouble, a bear, two parades, a prairie dog town, lions roaring in the night, and much more. See how Wishbooks and Promises brighten the family’s lives, along with their wonderful lamp, a...

“Joy to the world! The Lord is come.” Often the weeks before Christmas are so crowded with “to-do” lists, we fail to heed the admonition, “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10, KJV). Finding time for Him and for ourselves is vitally necessary. It can be the difference between a hectic holiday and a peaceful “holy-day” as we celebrate Christ’s birth. Award-winning co-authors Colleen L. Reece and Julie Reece-DeMarco designed this collection of short pieces to fit into those moments when time-outs from holiday preparations and stress are desperately needed. Joy to ...

A Toronto Mansion, late 1890s Evangeline Lawrence lashes out at Kenniston Keith for calling her useless. “You’ll be better off dead than face your father’s dishonesty.” Too late, she realizes she loves him. When Kenniston’s body is found beside stormy Lake Ontario, Evangeline feels compelled to do penance behind cloistered walls. Her father insists she can do more good as a nurse in the vast Canadian wilderness. Evangeline carries medicine for smallpox and diphtheria during the early 1900s, and earns the title “L’Ange" (the angel). Then one day a former Royal Canadian Mountie ...

Shocking news on a snowy night when Juli's policeman father doesn't come home is followed by more trouble than she feels she can handle: The need to change schools. Then, her Mom is forced to return to teaching. There are UPS trucks everywhere Juli goes, and a "gray man" lurking in the shadows--a man only she can see. When things come to a boil, Juli realizes nothing is ever as it seems Mystery fans of all ages will love this series of fun, whodunnits with Juli and her high school friends. If you love Nancy Drew and Scooby Do, these are the books for you.

“Now we can get back to normal, whatever that is,” Juli Scott tells her friends Shannon, Dave, and Ted, after their nerve-wracking Thursday Trials. Juli couldn’t be more wrong. When the Scotts, Sean Riley, and the four teens travel to beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, an unexpected sighting threatens their new-found peace. It is further shattered when a former enemy turns up on the ferry boat taking the group up the spectacular Inside Passage—then mysteriously disappears. Scott and Gilmore, P.I.s, ably assisted by family and friends, need all their wits and the help of God to ...

Danger pursues a heartbroken nurse Scoffers said the Seattle hospital could never be built. God and Nicholas Fairchild knew better. Now doctors and nurses follow in Jesus’ footsteps and bring healing to body, mind, and soul Although Jonica Carr is a respected RN, the heart of a frightened little girl beats beneath her uniform. Jonica has dreamed of finding love for ten long years. Yet sometimes the troubled nurse wonders if she can ever get off the past and on with the future. Chief Surgeon Paul Hamilton recognizes Jonica’s worth in and out of the OR. He determines to shatter the wall ...

Crossings Book Club Selection Review: "Compares with Catherine Marshall's Christy" The Great Depression of 1929 has closed bank doors and forced people out of work, paralyzing many parts of the country. The tiny mountain town of Spruce Hollow, North Carolina, hasn’t escaped its crippling grip. When Thanksgiving arrives, Pastor David Allen looks over his faithful congregation in despair. How can families with holes in their shoes and no food to put on the table be thankful during the holiday season? But David has no idea how God will use him to give hope to those in the Hollow and beyond. ...

High-spirited Silver Trevelyn is indebted to Dr. Zachary Stuart for saving her brother Frank’s life, but considers him a coward. Dedicated to saving lives, Zachary refuses to join the Confederate Army. War rages, putting Silver and Frank’s fiancée, Lucy, at risk. Seeking refuge, they flee from Silver Birches plantation in the dead of night. Guided only by God and the North Star, they encounter obstacles that threaten to prevent their reaching the only person who can offer protection—the man Silver once despised. Colleen L. Reece has authored 160+ books, six million copies sold. First...

"There shall be showers of blessing; This is the promise of love; There shall be seasons refreshing, Sent from the Savior above. "Showers of blessing, Showers of blessing we need, Mercy-drops 'round us are falling, But for the showers we plead." Colleen L. Reece, award-winning author of 190 "Books You can Trust to Inspire and Entertain," 6,000,000 copies sold, is noted for her popular Cherished Romances series. This new title shares more than eighty years of God's guidance, protection, and provision

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105, KJV). * * * A dedicated nurse is troubled by her past Scoffers said the Seattle hospital could never be built. God and Nicholas Fairchild knew better. Now doctors and nurses follow in Jesus’ footsteps and bring healing to body, mind, and soul. Helping to save young lives can never erase Nancy Galbraith’s pain over those she could not save as a child, but following her calling as a nurse in Pediatrics helps. So does her growing love for Dr. Damon Barton. Nancy dreams of the day when they will marry and have ...

Juli Scott and Shannon Riley are closer than ever following the heart-stopping weeks beginning with Trouble on Tuesday. Their friendship, plus the loyalty and encouragement of the girls’ families, Dave Gilmore, and Ted Hilton, help Shannon survive being deprogrammed after her experiences as prisoner of a dangerous cult. Soon new storm clouds threaten. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time puts the girls and their friends in peril. What did one of them see or hear to become an unwilling Wednesday Witness? Even more important: which one? Mystery fans of all ages will love this series ...

A long time coming After years of waiting, Inga Nansen becomes her father’s “First Mate.” With Captain Lars at the helm, the raging seas hold no fear for her. Inga loves life aboard the Flower of Alaska. Yet when a laughing stranger captures her heart, Inga must chart her course: continue sailing her beloved seas with her father, or spend her life in Tarnigan, a snowy village in the harsh and unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. Although Dr. Arthur Baldwin has finally accepted God’s forgiveness for the despicable act that shattered a friend’s life and his own, he cannot forgive himself...