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Average rating: 4.78 · 46 ratings · 36 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors
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SoCal’s most allergy friendly afternoon tea: our honest review of Huntington Library’s Rose Garden Tea Room, plus booking tips and fall garden events.

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The Cost of Sensibility by Joy Michelle Austin
"I recently finished The Cost of Sensibility, and I really appreciated how quietly the story dealt with some difficult subjects.

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Lessons from a Tour Guide by Kristen Jennings
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Lessons from a Tour Guide is a fun travelogue escape with banter, slow-burn tension, matchmaking grandma chaos, and open-door spice. A perfect beach bag romance.
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Surrendered - Women's Bible Study Participant Workbook by Barb Roose
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Surrendered: Letting Go and Living Like Jesus was such a timely and encouraging read for me.

A beautiful reminder that peace often begins when we stop trying to control everything and fully trust God. Practical, honest, Scripture-filled, and full of
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Through Quick and Quinn by Erica Mimran Sherlock
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Through Quick and Quinn truly surprised me in the best way.

Deeply emotional, thoughtful, and full of heart, this story explores grief, healing, and finding connection after loss. A tender closed-door YA read with hope woven throughout.
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“As long as she’s breathing, I will not stop. I will not surrender. I will give her more than this darkness. I will give her the world.”
― Joy Michelle Austin, Half Agony, Half Hope: A Christian Romantic Suspense About Rescue, Redemption, and Unbreakable Love

“Daniel wasn’t saved from the lions’ den. He was saved in it. Maybe that’s how God works—not by pulling us out of the darkness, but by holding us through it.”
― Joy Michelle Austin, Half Agony, Half Hope: A Christian Romantic Suspense About Rescue, Redemption, and Unbreakable Love

“Time didn’t exist here. Only control. The damp chill of the cellar clung to Rick’s skin, burrowing deep into his muscles, curling around his bones like a parasite.”
― Joy Michelle Austin, Half Agony, Half Hope: A Christian Romantic Suspense About Rescue, Redemption, and Unbreakable Love

“From shadows deep, where silence reigned,
Where every breath ached, every step constrained,
I cried out, unseen, unheard, alone,
In a world of agony, carved from stone.”
― Joy Michelle Austin, Half Agony, Half Hope: A Christian Romantic Suspense About Rescue, Redemption, and Unbreakable Love

“I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love
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“Just rest in the Lord. He has already taken care of everything. You might as well let Him have your worries and hurts, 'cause they'll do you no good.”
― Tracie Peterson, Where My Heart Belongs

“One does not simply read books... one climbs inside them and lives there.”
― Mary Balogh

“You’re still listening to her voice. Still believing the lie that you failed them. But Rick, you didn’t.”
― Joy Michelle Austin, Half Agony, Half Hope: A Christian Romantic Suspense About Rescue, Redemption, and Unbreakable Love

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