
The Prayer Box
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. · Print & ebook · February 5, 2019
From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours.
- Who it’s for
- Readers drawn to stories of faith, love, and a life revealed through keepsakes
- Themes
- Faith, Love
- Genres
- Contemporary Christian Fiction, Multigenerational Family Stories, Women's Fiction
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From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours. When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola’s rambling Victorian house.
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Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola’s walls, but everything changes with the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, spanning from Iola’s youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper—the hopes and wishes, fears and thoughts of an unassuming but complex woman passing through the seasons of an extraordinary, unsung life filled with journeys of faith, observations on love, and one final lesson that could change everything for Tandi.
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| Contemporary Christian Fiction | 55% |
|---|---|
| Multigenerational Family Stories | 18% |
| Women's Fiction | 15% |
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Publisher categories
- Historical Fiction
- Contemporary Romance
- Women's Fiction
- Authors
- Lisa Wingate
- Publisher
- Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
- Published
- February 5, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Faith · Love
- Reading lane
- Historical Fiction