Terrific New Book Ideas for Mother’s Day Gifts

Memoir in the Margins of Psalms by Robin Grunder

What a beautiful idea! Memoir in the Margins of Psalms is a unique journal featuring a verse from each chapter of the book of Psalms along with a writing prompt to guide you in writing stories from your life. The prompts are designed to connect your life experiences with God’s Word, and your responses are designed to connect your story and God’s story for the future generations of your family in this keepsake journal. Robin’s prompts on each page will help you leave a legacy for your family.

Walk With Me by Sheri Smith Shonk

Walk With Me, Book 4 in Sheri Smith Shonk’s Houses of Hope series is just out. Each may be enjoyed without reading the others, but I enjoyed recognizing may of the same characters from getting acquainted with them earlier in the series.

Chemistry was not their problem, but was there hope for a future together? Art teacher Erin McCoy and veterinarian Garrett James both carry baggage from the past, both challenging to overcome. Nudged by friends, family, and scripture verses to put God first. This is such a satisfying story of including God in life, the big things and the small ones. After all, he has promised his followers a hope and a future.

 

The Legacy: A Dual Time-line Novel by Cherie Dargan

The Legacy, Book 2 in Cherie Dargan’s Grandmother’s Treasures series, is filled with quilts and mysteries from the Civil War days, with at least one family member demanding that one mystery never be revealed. The story is rich with details about both whites and blacks escaping from the South during the 1860s. It’s also the love story of Iowa descendants of those folks, and their quest to learn who made the antique Rustic Rose quilt. And whose blood stains were on it? A very satisfying novel.

His Treasured Bride by Jody Hedlund and Patti Stockdale

His Treasured Bride is the second in the Bride Ships: New Voyages series. Daisy Harper is a spunky young woman, having arrived on Vancouver Island on a bride ship, hoping to open a sewing shop to pay for her mother’s voyage from the old country. Having already turned down the offers of ten suitors, she unwittingly becomes involved in a treasure hunt, which she insists being part of, but which involves a marriage of convenience. 

The opinionated Daisy has a husband-requirements list, which grows even after an imperfect wedding, and an adventure with her temporary husband, a handsome mapmaker named Seth Ryann. Blimey, she’d have to learn to ride a horse, and a lot more, before their marriage could be annulled as planned. Thanks to a wise and meddling landlady, a brother, and a trapper, Daisy and Seth work through preconceived notions and painful pasts. 

What about the treasure? Follow Daisy and Seth on their trek through tricky clues, storms, bad guys, and difficult terrain as they hunt for the hoped-for gold. You’ll love the whole delightful adventure.

Patti Stockdale’s first book, Three Little Things, a novel based on her grandparents’ lives during World War I, is also a gem, with a tenacious young heroine! One of my favorites.