Washoe County Library System

Celebrate Christmas in Hope ValleyChristmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Whether its in the fictional town of Hope Valley in the early 1900s or in our lives today, nothing is more profound than celebrating Gods most important gift to the world.When God Calls the Heart at Christmas is about a celebration of faith, family, friends, and the most meaningful Yuletide traditions. Inspired by best-selling author Janette Oke and the Hallmark...

In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.

A bedtime prayer in which children express thanks for all the things that are important to them.

"The simple act of prayer can heal--not only spiritually and emotionally, but even physically. Author Becca Anderson credits her recovery from cancer to God's help and the power of prayer. The pages in this daybook invite you to ponder the timeless words of the Holy Bible, but you will also find the widom of spiritual teachers and insights of people such as Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., and Elie Wiesel--who...

When Hatteras Island old-timer Iola Anne Poole passes away at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage finds herself charged with cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi Jo Reese never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls. But all that changes when she discovers eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a...

Offers twenty-five days of devotional reading that follow the Advent calendar and that celebrate the lineage of Jesus through the tradition of the Jesse Tree.