Almost Friends - A Harmony Novel

“No author can spin a good smalltown church tale as humorously as Gulley.” Informationen zum Autor Philip Gulley is a Quaker minister, writer, husband, and father. He is the bestselling author of Front Porch Tales , the acclaimed Harmony series, and is coauthor of If Grace Is True and If God Is Love . Gulley lives with his wife and two sons in Indiana, and is a frequent speaker at churches, colleges, and retreat centers across the country. Klappentext It's summer in Harmony, but not everything is as sunny as the weather. The good citizens of Harmony are back and stirring up trouble as usual, sometimes with disastrous results. Pastor Sam Gardner must take a leave of absence from his post at Harmony Friends Meeting to take care of his ailing father. But when spunky pastor Krista Riley comes to fill his position, the quirky Quakers seem to fall in love with her, and it begins to look like Sam's sabbatical may be permanent. Krista's resilience is put to the test when Dale Hinshaw and Fern Hampton begin to question whether a woman can faithfully lead their flock, and it looks like the resulting tiff might just be the undoing of Harmony Friends Meeting. Will Sam come to the rescue? Finding the answer to this question makes the trip back to Harmony worth turning every page. Zusammenfassung It's summer in Harmony, but not everything is as sunny as the weather. The good citizens of Harmony are back and stirring up trouble as usual, sometimes with disastrous results. Pastor Sam Gardner must take a leave of absence from his post at Harmony Friends Meeting to take care of his ailing father. But when spunky pastor Krista Riley comes to fill his position, the quirky Quakers seem to fall in love with her, and it begins to look like Sam's sabbatical may be permanent. Krista's resilience is put to the test when Dale Hinshaw and Fern Hampton begin to question whether a woman can faithfully lead their flock, and it looks like the resulting tiff might just be the undoing of Harmony Friends Meeting. Will Sam come to the rescue? Finding the answer to this question makes the trip back to Harmony worth turning every page. ...

Product details

• Authors: Philip Gulley
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2006
• EAN: 9780060756567
• ISBN: 978-0-06-075656-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Series: A Harmony Novel; A Harmony Novel
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Family life fiction, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Christian life and practice, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Spirituality and religious experience, Holidays, events and seasonal interest, Religious and spiritual fiction, Relating to religious groups, Relating to Christian people and groups, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, RELIGION: Inspirational, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Holidays, FICTION: Religious, RELIGION: Spirituality, FICTION: Christian / Contemporary, RELIGION: Christian Church / General, RELIGION: Christian Living / Inspirational, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary