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Jan Karon Author Read AlikesSeptember 4, 2014 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Jan Karon try these authors.
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Can't Wait to Get to Heaven : A Novel by Fannie FlaggStrange things begin to happen when Mrs. Shimfessle, an eighty-year-old woman, falls out of a fig tree in her own front yard, in an entertaining new novel about one woman's offbeat experiences in the hereafter. .
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Etta Mae's Worst Bad-Luck Day : A Miss Julia Novel by Ann B. RossA latest adventure set in Abbotsville is written from the perspective of heart-of-gold Etta Mae Wiggins, whose ambition to marry a wealthy elderly man is challenged by the man's scheming children, her ex's underworld enemies and her former flame Bobby Lee.
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A Step of Faith : The Fourth Journal of the Walk Series by Richard Paul EvansAfter the death of his beloved wife, the loss of his business to his once-trusted partner and bankruptcy forces him from his home, Alan Christoffersen leaves everything he knows and sets out on a healing cross-country journey—walking from Seattle to Key West. (religious fiction).
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The Master Quilter : An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer ChiaveriniThe impending marriage of Elm Creek's most renowned quilting instructor prompts the stitching of a perfect commemorative bridal quilt, an endeavor that is challenged by closely guarded secrets among the Elm Creek Quilters
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Life Goes On : a Harmony Novel by Philip GulleyIn the wake of a prominent citizen's arrest for larceny, lawyer-turned-coffee shop owner Deena pursues a relationship with a visiting doctor, while Delores becomes fed up with her know-it-all husband and his crackpot ministry schemes.
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Some Assembly Required : A Journal of My Son's First Son by Anne LamottThe best-selling author of Operating Instructions and her son chronicle his first year as a teenage father and her journey as a mother and new grandmother, describing their respective experiences with changing roles, the baby's mother and poignant family losses. .
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A Week in Winter by Maeve BinchyFollows the efforts of a woman who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges
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Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde PilcherAlthough he had broken her heart once before, Victoria takes Oliver Dobbs back when he arrives on her doorstep with a two-year-old son, and the three of them set out for a castle in Scotland, where Victoria meets the new lairds and finds her crushed spirit awakening.
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The New Woman by Jon HasslerAnticipating the end of her life while watching changes within the small town of Staggerford from her apartment window, octogenarian Agatha McGee wonders if she is up to such challenges as the deaths of two close friends, her nephew's worrisome mental state, and a kidnapped girl.
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Grace Will Lead Me Home by Katherine ValentineWhile Father James mentors a young man with a troubled past, misunderstandings compromise the nuptial plans of Harry and Nellie, and Lori discovers that the baby she carries may be disabled.
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Sister Eve, Private Eye by J. Lynne Hinton"Sister Eve always says God moves in mysterious ways. And Eve adores a good mystery, especially a murder. A member of the Benedictine Order in Pecos, New Mexico, Sister Evangeline has been feeling disconnected and a bit uncertain about her calling. She'snot thrilled when she must return home to Madrid, New Mexico, to care for her testy, ailing father, but she's also invigorated to take on some new challenges. Retired Police Captain Jackson Divine is in trouble. "The Captain" is a Private Eye specializing in finding lost people and he's been hot on a case. But his diabetes has spiraled out of control, requiring surgery. Just before the crisis, he was hired to find Chaz Cheston, a missing Hollywood director. But when Cheston turns up dead murdered the stakes for The Captain are raised. Suspects abound, including Cheston's mistress, a young starlet and most recent client of Captain Divine"
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Hidden Affections by Delia ParrTwo people set against marriage--divorcee Annabelle Tyler and eligible bachelor Harrison Graymoor--find unexpected affection for each other in a marriage arrangement forced upon them in 1840's Philadelphia. (religious fiction). .
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A Blue and Gray Christmas by Joan A. MedlicottAfter being moved by the letters of two Civil War soldiers--one Union and the other Confederate--Grace, Hannah and Amelia track down the soldiers' descendants and invite them to a Christmas reunion in Covington, where the letters will serve as holiday gifts,
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The Blackwoods Farm Enquiry by Ann PurserA reclusive widow hires retiree-turned-sleuth Ivy Beasley and her associates at Enquire Within to investigate recent ghostly visitations, but when the ghost is revealed to be flesh and blood, the widow may be in more trouble than Ivy and her team can handle.
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Three Houses
by Angela Mackail Thirkell
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Author Angela Thirkell recalls the three houses in which she grew up. First 'The Grange', where her grandfather, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, set the cultivated tone, Thirkell also reminisces about her parents' Kensington home and the seaside retreat, where Angela's cousin, Rudyard Kipling, lived across the green.
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The Last First Day by Carrie BrownPassionately devoted to the husband whose family took her in as an orphan in childhood, Ruth wonders about her choices and the life they will share when her husband retires as the legendary head of a private boys' school to which the couple has given everything they have. .
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The Quilt Walk by Sandra DallasTen-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s
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Waiting for Gertrude : A Graveyard Gothic by Bill RichardsonA tongue-in-cheek mystery, told through a series of vignettes and letters, considers the experiences of the famous departed residents of Paris's Pere-Lachaise Cemetery--reincarnated as stray cats--as they partake in long-standing quarrels, romantic liaisons, and character assassinations.
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'Tis the Season! : A Novel by Lorna LandvikAlienating everyone with her public misbehavior and fresh from a stint in rehab, heiress Caroline Dixon is looking to turn her life around, going into seclusion to avoid vicioius paparazzi haunting her every move, until a correspondence with her former nanny, Astrid Brevald, and cowboy Cyril Dale teaches her a valuable lesson in truth, forgiveness, love, and redemption.
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I Saw Three Ships : A Magical Christmas Tale by Elizabeth GoudgeIn spite of the fact that Polly's two aunts will not leave the door unlocked on Christmas Eve, their cottage is still visited by three wise men, one of whom has come home to stay after a long absence
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Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas SparksForty-five-year-old divorcTe Adrienne Willis is forced to reconsider her entire life when her husband leaves her for a younger woman, as she confronts the difficulties of raising her teenage children and caring for her ailing father, until a trip to Rodanthe in North Carolina's outer banks leads to an encounter with successful surgeon Paul Flanner.
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Aunt Dimity and the Wishing well by Nancy AthertonAfter tossing a coin into a deceased neighbor's wishing well, Lori inadvertently triggers a string of successful wishes that wreak havoc throughout the village, raising Aunt Dimity's suspicions about the late man's handsome nephew
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Joshua in a Troubled World by Joseph F. GirzoneJoshua's arrival in Washington, D.C., ignites suspicion in today's security-conscious times, as he works to share his message of love and compassion throughout the world, from the nation's capital to the turbulent and war-torn lands of the blood-soaked Middle East. By the author of Joshua.
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Where Courage Calls : When Calls the Heart Novel by Janette OkeA companion story to the Hallmark Channel series finds Beth leaving the social privileges of wealth to accept a teaching position in the rugged foothills of Canada, where she tries to make a difference in the aftermath of a tragic mining accident. TV tie-in. (religion fiction).
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Like Dandelion Dust : This side of Heaven by Karen KingsburyPresents two stories in which parents grieve when their adopted son's biological father demands him back after being released from prison, and a woman who learns she has a granddaughter is subjected to the sly ways of the child's mother
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Child of Mine by David LewisA desperate woman engineers a meeting with a man she believes is raising her kidnapped daughter before unexpectedly falling in love with him. Co-written by the best-selling author of The Last Bride. (religion fiction). Simultaneous.
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When Jesus Wept by Bodie ThoeneA fictionalized account of the life of Lazarus weaves his story into Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, looking at the evolution of the two men's friendship against the backdrop of a turbulent Judea
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Bridge to Haven by Francine RiversHaving been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott
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Chestnut Valley Farm
by Lori Wick
At the contemporary Chestnut Valley Farm, young and old work together, and in between chores done in the chill of dawn and in the heat of the hazy afternoon, they find times of laughter and fellowship. (Religious fiction).
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Distortion
by Terri Blackstock
When Juliet Cole's husband of 15 years is murdered before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting, but a threatening voicemail takes it from a random shooting to a planned, deliberate attack and Juliet realizes that she and her children are in danger too, unless she meets the killers' demands. (religious fiction).
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The Kentucky Brothers Trilogy by Wanda E. BrunstetterThe three Fisher brothers--woodworker Titus, single father Samuel, and young husband Timothy--move to Kentucky to start new lives, and find tragedies, challenges, and love along the way
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The Sign Painter : A Novel by T. Davis BunnLosing her husband to illness and her home to debt, Amy endures life on the streets with her young daughter until her local church helps her find temporary housing and a job, an opportunity she is afraid to trust. By the best-selling author of Book of Dreams. .
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To Everything A Season by Lauraine Snelling"Miriam Francini is determined not to let anything get in the way of her plans to leave Blessing, North Dakota, and become an accredited nurse--even love"
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Christy
by Catherine Marshall
Eager for excitement, nineteen-year-old Christy decides to leave home and teach school in a remote section of the Smoky Mountains
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Sisters of the Quilt : The Complete Trilogy by Cindy WoodsmallCollects the novels of the "Sisters of the Quilt" trilogy, which explores the life of Hannah Lapp, in and out of her traditional Old Order Amish community
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