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It's About Time

By: Frances Schepp Ruh

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Friendships last a lifetime in It’s About Time, and each begins and ends with stories—stories ranging from the daily struggles of child rearing and marital strife to an unresolved, forbidden love, and the loneliness of widowhood. It’s About Time snapshots the stories of four very different women over three subsequent decades as the lives of Phoebe, Abagail, Hannah, and Tammy interlace through periods of joy and seasons of strife. Beginning in the nineteen-sixties, each member of the Bridge Club narrates her experiences, hopes, fears, and secrets as world events, technology, and the actions of others change their lives. As time passes, they support each other as they raise their families, educate their children, deal with financial crises, explore new generations and romantic relationships, as well as face the difficulties of retirement and the loss of their spouses. The enduring relationships of women are powerfully strong through transition and redemption. But can these friendships weather any storm? Will the Bridge Club survive the stresses of bank fraud, affairs, illness, and aging?

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240

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FriesenPress

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ISBN 10

1525591770

ISBN 13

9781525591778

Bait and Switch

By: Frances Schepp Ruh

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Bait and Switch

By: Frances Schepp Ruh

Isabelle Chilton Chandler, Chicago-based author of a successful women’s mystery series, has always known exactly what she wants and how to get it. But when she starts working on a new book, inspiration—for the first time ever is painfully out of her reach. Grasping at straws and under increasing pressure from her publisher, she starts to construct a plot around a world that is familiar to her: horse racing. As Isabelle’s charming protagonist and alter-ego, Brenda Remington, starts to poke around a possible mystery involving racehorses used for diamond smuggling, mysterious circumstances start to arise in Isabelle’s real life. Dead ends crop up everywhere Isabelle turns, and questions abound. Will Brenda solve her mystery? Why do characters from Isabelle’s book keep appearing in her real life? Who is the ghostly apparition that regularly visits her in her dreams? What about Isabelle’s ex-husband, Roger, with whom she has remained close—will they be able to reconcile? And then of course there is the conundrum surrounding a racehorse named Farolarr, which may just have been the perfect crime. Fast-paced, heartfelt, and funny, Bait and Switch is an exploration of life’s largest commitments and a commentary on the ways we construct stories about who we are. With this work, the author of Risk Everything and It’s About Time invites readers to consider their own stories and the undeniable possibility of redemption.

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161

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FriesenPress

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1038311993

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9781038311993

Question Everything

By: Frances Schepp Ruh

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Question Everything

By: Frances Schepp Ruh

On a stormy spring afternoon, middle-aged Betsy Flemming is shocked by her husband’s announcement that he’s leaving her for her best friend—a betrayal that spins her into a crisis of confidence, struggling to maintain a relationship with their children and regain her self-esteem. No stranger to tragedy, Betsy’s world becomes even more unstable when she uncovers something that calls into doubt her memories of the mysterious death of her baby brother decades before. Faced with rebuilding her personal life and a threat to her family’s business, Betsy becomes obsessed with finding the truth about her brother—leading to a haunting encounter with long-lost family.

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182

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FriesenPress

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1460241258

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9781460241257

Risk Everything

By: Frances Schepp Ruh

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Risk Everything

By: Frances Schepp Ruh

Heather Kirkpatrick isn't living her own life. She's on the run, she lives under many aliases, and she's desperate to save herself from years of fear brought on by one man: Dean Lesskart. Heather picks up and flees to Colorado to hide from her stalker. While she is building a new life and identity by waiting tables and singing in a roadhouse, she makes new friends and even meets the man of her dreams. But will Dean find her? Will she be able to truly move forward and have the life she always dreamed of? In the face of losing it all, Heather refuses to succumb to her stalker and prepares herself for one final confrontation.

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