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Kit Tosello

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Kit Tosello is an award-winning writer of contemporary fiction that feels like coming home. About her debut novel, The Color of Home (September 2024, Revell), bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn said, “Kit has a winsome way of using words to paint heart-touching images." Kit's inspirational essays and devotionals appear in a number of anthologies, including Publishers Weekly and Wall Street Journal bestseller So God Made a Mother. When not writing, Kit can be found in the loose-tea shop she operates with her husband, exploring the great PNW, or enjoying the "great indoors"—bookstores and libraries. Most likely with a matcha latte in hand. Learn more at KitTosello.com. ...more

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	The Color of Home 4.03 avg rating — 410 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Fifty Shades of Loved by Rachel Starr Thomson (Goodreads Author), Mercy Hope, Kit Tosello (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jesus' Stories: The Gentle Knock

A bittersweet thing, Good Friday, as I consider that “greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

To think, he calls me friend. To even try to fully receive such a love… l’m overcome.

I took the opportunity earlier this week to disappear into solitude, retreating into the stillness of a rustic cabin beside a hurrying creek. Alone in deep-forest silence, but no Read more of this blog post »

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The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

by Anna Johnston (Goodreads Author)

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The Way of the Heart: A Study of Contemplative Prayer and Inner Devotion

by Henri J.M. Nouwen

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This Book Made Me Think of You

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