17 Top christian books like When Life Doesn't Match Your Dreams: Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible by Jill Eileen Smith

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When Life Doesn't Match Your Dreams: Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible

By: Jill Eileen Smith

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Life is full of twists and turns. Relationships falter, careers fizzle, health fades. We may be fac…

"But waiting is exactly what God has often asked me to do. And I've come to see that waiting is married to trust, and the two together birth hope,"

-Jill Eileen Smith, When Life Doesn't Match Your Dreams: Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible

"But waiting is exactly what God has often asked me to do. And I've come to see that waiting is married to trust, and the two together birth hope,"

-Jill Eileen Smith, When Life Doesn't Match Your Dreams: Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible

"But waiting is exactly what God has often asked me to do. And I've come to see that waiting is married to trust, and the two together birth hope,"

-Jill Eileen Smith, When Life Doesn't Match Your Dreams: Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible

If you liked the christian plot in When Life Doesn't Match Your Dreams: Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible by Jill Eileen Smith , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. A Love Like Ours (Porter Family, #3)

By: Becky Wade

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Former Marine Jake Porter has far deeper scars than the one that marks his face. He struggles with … read more

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"He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart. Because he loved her."

-Becky Wade, A Love Like Ours (Porter Family, #3)

"Loving someone wasn't about their perfection. It was about coming to accept every part of them, their good qualities at their weaknesses and flaws--looking on everything they were and loving it all. …"

-Becky Wade, A Love Like Ours (Porter Family, #3)

"He wanted desperately to stay, just a little while longer. But he couldn't be here, in this place, with her. It was calm here. She was innocent and beautiful and perfect. He was not. He didn't want h…"

-Becky Wade, A Love Like Ours (Porter Family, #3)

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2. The Fine Art of Insincerity

By: Angela Elwell Hunt

3.65

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Three grown Southern sisters have ten marriages between them—and more loom on the horizon—when Ging… read more

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Cover of Just Look Up (Harbor Point, #1) by Courtney Walsh

3. Just Look Up (Harbor Point, #1)

By: Courtney Walsh

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

After tirelessly climbing the ranks of her Chicago-based interior design firm, Lane Kelley is about… read more

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4. Vanished (Private Justice, #1)

By: Irene Hannon

2.89

Format: None pages,

Reporter Moira Harrisons is lost. In the dark. In a thunderstorm. When a confusing detour places he… read more

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5. Trapped (Private Justice, #2)

By: Irene Hannon

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When librarian Laura Griffin's sixteen-year-old sister disappears on a frigid February day, leaving… read more

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6. Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

By: Maya Van Wagenen

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen Stuck at… read more

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7. The Armor of God - Bible Study Book

By: Priscilla Shirer

3.95

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

All day, every day, an invisible war rages around you unseen, unheard, yet felt throughout every as… read more

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8. Land of Silence

By: Tessa Afshar

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Before Christ called her daughter . . . Before she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment… read more

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9. Deceived (Private Justice, #3)

By: Irene Hannon

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

For three years, Kate Marshall has been grieving the loss of her husband and their four-year-old so… read more

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10. Counted With the Stars (Out from Egypt, #1)

By: Connilyn Cossette

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Story of Love, Desperation, and Hope During a Great Biblical Epoch Sold into slavery by her fathe… read more

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11. Meant to be Mine (Porter Family, #2)

By: Becky Wade

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Ty Porter has always been irresistible to Celia Park. All through high school--irresistible. When t… read more

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12. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

By: Eric Metaxas

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate t… read more

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13. Home (Gilead, #2)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and heali… read more

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14. A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge, #1)

By: Connilyn Cossette

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

After being branded during the battle of Jericho, Moriyah has had no prospects for marriage--until … read more

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15. The Canopy

By: Angela Elwell Hunt

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deep in the lush and dangerous rain forests of Peru, Alexandra Pace and her team search determinedl… read more

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16. In the Field of Grace

By: Tessa Afshar

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Without wealth or family, the widow Ruth left her people and followed Naomi, her beloved Hebrew mot… read more

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17. Her One and Only (Porter Family, #4)

By: Becky Wade

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Romance Fans Eagerly Anticipate Every New Release from Becky Wade Gray Fowler, star NFL tight end, … read more

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18. Havah: The Story of Eve

By: Tosca Lee

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

A single decison has the power to unravel mankind. Created, not born. The world's first woman, with… read more

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19. Dear Henry, Love Edith

By: Becca Kinzer

3.70

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

After a short and difficult marriage, recently widowed Edith Sherman has learned her lesson. Forget… read more

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20. The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

By: Katherine Reay

3.98

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Love, friendship, and family find a home at the Printed Letter Bookshop One of Madeline Cullen’s… read more

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"Blood might be thicker than water, but both were thinner than money"

-Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

"That's what books do, Maddie used to say; they are a conversation, and introduce us to ourselves and others."

-Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

"But it's not the same - I know. Family means more. You can miss your family so much you have to look down to see your chest rise and fall, to confirm that it hasn't been cut open and you're not bleed…"

-Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

"I have no way to tell him of the cacophonous emotions jangling within me - to feel wired for others yet irrelevant; to need community but equally to be unable to find one; that cleaning, cooking, and…"

-Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop (Winsome #1)

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21. All My Secrets

By: Lynn Austin

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Lynn Austin returns with a luminous work of historical fiction set amid the opul… read more

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22. The Edge of Belonging

By: Amanda Cox

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandm… read more

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"I guess the longer you hold a secret, the harder it is to let it go."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"You find a use for everything. Yet you discard yourself at every opportunity."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"It was freeing in a way, to have a family built on love by choice and not relational obligation."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"She’d memorized the verse about peace that passes all understanding, but all she felt was the weight of depression."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

Cover of The Christmas Heirloom: Four Holiday Novellas of Love Through the Generations by Karen Witemeyer

23. The Christmas Heirloom: Four Holiday Novellas of Love Through the Generations

By: Karen Witemeyer

4.16

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Perfect for the Christmas season, four beloved authors bring their bestselling, award-winning talen… read more

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24. The Peasant King

By: Tessa Afshar

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jemmah has always thought of herself as perfectly ordinary . . . until she faces extraordinary circ… read more

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  • biblical fiction
  • inspirational
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25. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.23

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more

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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

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26. The Sisters of Corinth (The Emissaries, #2)

By: Angela Elwell Hunt

4.50

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When the new provincial governor arrives in Corinth, the esteemed chief magistrate Narkis Ligus is … read more

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  • biblical fiction
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27. Daughter of Cana (Jerusalem Road, #1)

By: Angela Elwell Hunt

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Thomas and Tasmin, twin siblings hired to oversee a wedding feast in Cana, worry when the host runs… read more

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28. The Maid of Ballymacool

By: Jennifer Deibel

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Brianna Kelly was abandoned at Ballymacool House and Boarding School as an infant. She has worked t… read more

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"Ya were meant for greatness in this world, a stoir. Even if yer station never changes."

-Jennifer Deibel, The Maid of Ballymacool

"You're a daughter of the Creator of the universe. Ya have a purpose far grander than you could ever imagine."

-Jennifer Deibel, The Maid of Ballymacool

"Child, there's more to yer story than ye could ever know. And there's things the good Laird has for ye to do that no one else can."

-Jennifer Deibel, The Maid of Ballymacool

"Micheal studied the woman's face. She was beautiful, aye, but there was something about her, something he couldn't place, that absolutely captivated him."

-Jennifer Deibel, The Maid of Ballymacool

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29. The Well-Watered Woman: Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith

By: Gretchen Saffles

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

ECPA Bestseller! Over 100,000 copies sold! Discover the bottomless, refreshing Well of God's Word―… read more

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Cover of Ahoti: A Story of Tamar by Miriam Feinberg Vamosh

30. Ahoti: A Story of Tamar

By: Miriam Feinberg Vamosh

4.45

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A masterful and redemptive retelling of the biblical story of the princess Tamar and her determinat… read more

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31. When Life Doesn't Match Your Dreams: Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible

By: Jill Eileen Smith

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Life is full of twists and turns. Relationships falter, careers fizzle, health fades. We may be fac… read more

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"But waiting is exactly what God has often asked me to do. And I've come to see that waiting is married to trust, and the two together birth hope,"

-Jill Eileen Smith, When Life Doesn't Match Your Dreams: Hope for Today from 12 Women of the Bible

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Maya Van Wagenen

3.77

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Priscilla Shirer

3.95

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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Serhii Plokhy

4.23

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4.35

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Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

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3.78

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.37

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Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

4.23

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Taylor Downing

4.27

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