Carlene Havel: 4 books

What kind of Christmas will her children have? The Great Depression left the Shoemaker family hungry and homeless. Their desperate prayers are finally answered when Henry Shoemaker finds work as a sharecropper. Alice makes the best of the hard times without complaint, though she dreams of giving her little family a special Christmas.

A heartwarming story about the resilience of true love, inspired by a biblical account of greatness, courage, and foretold prophecy... Princess Michal was the youngest daughter of Saul, the first king of Israel. In an age when fathers arranged marriages, Michal dared to fall in love with a...

Colonel Rich Martino returns home from overseas to find everything has changed and nothing makes sense. His wife Rita has disappeared. His credit cards are invalid. A stranger is living in his house and he keeps running into people who are convinced he was killed in action months ago. Worst of all,...

Best friends Allee Bell and Tina Bandolino win the trip of their dreams—two weeks in Paris. Unfortunately, Tina has an accident the day before departure, leaving Allee to go alone. In Paris, Allee meets Paul Chevalier, a French-speaking Air Force captain assigned to the U.S. Embassy. Despite...