Mary E DeMuth
1) Daisy Chain
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The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1973 spins three lives out of control - Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter's demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is haunted by dreams of Daisy while pierced by the shattered pieces of a family in crisis. In this first book in the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, fourteen-year-old Jed Pepper has a...
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In a town she personifies, Ouisie Pepper wrestles with her own defiance. Desperate to become the wife and mother her husband Hap demands, Ouisie pours over a simple book about womanhood, constantly falling short, but determined to improve. Through all that self-improvement, Ouisie carries a terrible secret: she knows who killed Daisy Chance. As her children inch closer to uncovering the killer's identity and Hap's rages roar louder and become increasingly...
3) A Slow Burn
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Burying her grief, Emory Chance is determined to find her daughter Daisy's murderer - a man she saw in a flicker of a vision. But when the investigation hits every dead end, her despair escalates. Not even the kindness of her persistent suitor Hixon can soften her heart towards the community of friends that long for her healing. And as the questions surrounding Daisy continue to mount, and Emory's safety is shattered by the tattooed man's dark pursuit,...
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We live in a world of misunderstanding. People make up stories about us based on what they see, but they don't truly know our inward journeys. Snap judgments punctuate our world. What if we could look at the lives of grossly misunderstood women of the Bible and mine truth from their stories? How would that change us? Looking at Eve, Leah, Bathsheba, the Proverbs 31 Woman, and others, readers will learn what these women can teach us about ourselves....
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In her moving spiritual memoir, Mary DeMuth traces the winding path of "thin places" in her life - places where she experienced longing and healing more intensely than before. As DeMuth writes, "Thin places are snatches of holy ground, tucked into the corners of our world, where we might just catch a glimpse of eternity. They are aha moments, beautiful realizations, when the Son of God bursts through the hazy fog of our monotony and shines on us afresh."...
8) A slow burn
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c2009
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365 p. ; 22 cm.
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Emory Chance needs to find who killed her daughter Daisy and unravel the mystery behind a sickening premonition in this suspenseful story about courageous love, the power of forgiveness, and the bonds that never break.
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c2010
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219 p. ; 21 cm.
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In her moving spiritual memoir, DeMuth traces the winding path of thin places in her life, places where she experienced longing and leaning more intensely than before. She calls you to discover new ways to look for God in the past so that you might experience him more profoundly in the present.