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When You Believe.

Lydia Porter has waited a long time for happiness. She loves her job as a school counselor at Shadrach High School, and she
loves everything about her coworker, teacher Charlie Stains. Lydia believes God answered her prayers when Charlie entered
her life, and though she hasn’t told a soul, Charlie has asked her to marry him.

That’s what makes one pretty, young sophomore’s story so unimaginable… and so devastating. The girl tells Lydia that Charlie
has sexually abused her, and that she is terrified of what he will do if she tells. By law, Lydia must report the teenager’s
charges. What happens when she does will test her strength, her love, and her belief in the power of God to comfort, redeem,
and heal.

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And you’ll love the
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bestselling novel
The Penny!

Jenny Blake has a theory about life: Big decisions often don’t amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything.
Her theory proves true in the summer of 1955, when fourteen-year-old Jenny makes the decision to pick up a penny imbedded
in asphalt, and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting a friend who changes her life forever.

Jenny and Miss Shaw form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their pasts—secrets that threaten to
destroy them. Jenny helps Miss Shaw open up to the community around her, while Miss Shaw teaches Jenny to meet even life’s
most painful challenges with confidence and faith. This unexpected relationship transforms both characters in ways neither
could have anticipated, and the ripple effect that begins in the summer of the penny goes on to bring new life to the people
around them, showing how God works in the smallest details. Even in something as small as a penny.

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