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Featured Selections

For One More Day

 

Mitch Albom mesmerized readers with his number one bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie.  Now he returns with a beautiful novel about the family we love and the chances we miss.

 

For One More Day is the story of a mother-and-son relationship.  It explores the question:  What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one:

 

Charley Benetto, his life ruined by alcohol and regret, returns to his home town with plans to kill himself.  There, he makes an astonishing discover:  His mother, who died eight years ago, is still living in their old house, and she welcomes him back as if nothing had ever happened.

 

What follows is the one “ordinary” day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain family secrets, and to seek forgiveness.  Readers will newly appreciate the people they loved—and many have thought they’d lost—in their own lives.  (Taken from the book cover)

 

The Shack

 

Mackenzie Allen Philip’s youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.

 

Four years later, in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.

 

Against his better judgment he arrives at

The shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare.  What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever.

 

In the world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant THE SHACK  wrestles with the timeless question:  Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?  The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.  You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!  (Taken from the book cover. )