ÔTis the season for family The Cowboy’s Holiday Blessing by Brenda Minton Reformed rebel Jackson Cooper thinks he can handle anything—until a sullen teenage girl appears at his ranch, claiming the impossible. Even though he’s not Jade’s father, he can’t turn her away. But he’s going to need the helping hand of compassionate schoolteacher Madeline Patton. An unlikely duo with their own secret fears, Jackson and Maddie might just discover the most wonderful Christmas gift of all: family. An Aspen Creek Christmas by Roxanne Rustand All Hannah Dorchester wants is to give her orphaned niece and nephew a happy Christmas. She’s ready for anything—except their uncle Ethan Williams. Thirteen years ago as she was planning their wedding, he left for the military without a goodbye. But now Ethan’s back and he wants his late brother’s kids. He’s got one month to prove he’ll be the better parent…and show Hannah he’s become a better man. USA TODAY Bestselling Author Roxanne Rustand

Searching for a safe haven and a new beginning… Returning home for the holidays after an unexpected pregnancy, Clara Fisher needs a fresh start. And working as a housekeeper for Tucker Church and his teenage niece is the first step. Clara still has hard choices to make, but Tucker might be just the person to help her forget her fears. Could the path to her new future also lead to love? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

Will facing her past lead to a new beginning? Revealing the truth could change everything… Just as things start to come together for single mom Avery Hammons, her carefully ordered world is flipped upside down by the arrival of Grayson Stone, her daughter’s secret father. Now Grayson wants to be part of their daughter’s life, even as he plans to return to California. But can Avery trust the man who once abandoned her with her little girl’s heart…and her own? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

A version in Cajun dialect of the famous poem "The Night Before Christmas," set in a Louisiana bayou.

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: THE MIDWIFE’S CHRISTMAS WISH (A Secret Amish Babies novel) by Leigh Bale When Amish midwife Lovina Albrecht finds an abandoned baby in her buggy at Christmas, the bishop assigns her and brooding Jonah Lapp to care for it until the mother’s found. But when a temporary arrangement begins to feel like family, can they overcome old hurts to build a future? HER CHRISTMAS DILEMMA by Brenda Minton Returning home for the holidays after an attack, Clara Fisher needs a fresh start—and working as a housekeeper for Tucker Church and his teenage niece is the first step. She still has hard choices to make about her future, but Tucker might just help her forget her fears… OPENING HIS HOLIDAY HEART (A Thunder Ridge novel) by Renee Ryan The last thing Casey Evans wants is to be involved in a Christmas contest, but Mayor Sutton Wentworth insists she needs his coffee shop to participate. And when her son draws him into holiday festivities, Casey can’t resist the little boy—or his mother. Can they thaw the walls Casey’s built around his heart? For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired December 2021 Box Set – 2 of 2

Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.