Lauraine Snelling crafts novels for adults that delve into real-world struggles, exploring themes of forgiveness, loss, domestic violence, and cancer. Her inspirational contemporary women's fiction and historical series often examine these complex human experiences. Snelling is known for her hopeful and healing approach, with her works offering readers both solace and reflection. Through her storytelling, she aims to help readers navigate life's challenges with fragile yet profound faith.
The characters are faced with the challenge of prioritizing their faith over personal ambitions, as they navigate a journey toward discovering their true destinies. Through this struggle, themes of trust, sacrifice, and the search for purpose emerge, highlighting the importance of relying on a higher power and the collective strength of their beliefs.
In this novel filled with friendship, grief, and travel gone awry, three friends take their dream trip to Florence, Italy in memory of a beloved woman who has passed away.
When the Lonely Donkey is sold to a stranger amazing things happen. He is taken to a new town and introduced to the stranger's pregnant wife. How could the little donkey help this young couple? He soon found out. He was to help carry the young woman, Mary, to Bethlehem. The couple treated the Lonely Donkey with kindness, but he still felt alone. When the tired family reached their destination they could not find a place to stay. Thankfully, a kind innkeeper provided room in his stable. That was where the tiny baby was born. Jesus.
Acclaimed author Lauraine Snelling originally wrote this short story as a gift for her family and close friends. Now she shares the delightful tale of three kittens who lived in her mother's barn with her readers. Three kittens quickly learn that there is a big world outside the haymow where they were born. Join TC, Mittens, and Big Boy as they experience life on a farm, how to treat each other, and the value of knowing that they are special no matter what color or size they happen to be.
After turning the tables on a crooked gambler, Larkspur Nielsen flees her home with her sisters on a wagon train bound for Oregon. Knowing four women will draw unwanted attention, she dons a disguise as a man. But maintaining the ruse is harder than she imagined, as is protecting her sisters from difficult circumstances and eligible young men.
After several years of widowhood and hardship, Ingeborg focuses on the good she's been given while she watches her widowed stepson fall in love once again. But not everything is comfortable for Ingeborg; one of her dearest friendships is changing--and she will have to decide if her settled life is worth more to her than a future she hardly dares t
New to America, Nilda Carlson is encouraged by her wealthy mentor to better herself and her community. While her ideas to help other immigrants meet resistance, she finds delight in her piano lessons with a handsome schoolteacher. But with a detective digging into her past and a rich dandy vying for her hand, Nilda must decide what future she will choose.
In bestselling author Lauraine Snelling's new novel, a group of women realize that life is full of half-finished relationships and projects. However, they discover that the outcome is not as important as the journey.
Though her first few months in America were difficult, Nilda Carlson's life now resembles the images that filled her dreams in Norway. But when she spots the man from her terrifying past in town, she worries her new life, and hope for love, is crashing down around her. Did danger follow her across the Atlantic?
Nilda Carlson has been trying to save enough money to go to America for months, so when a letter from Einar and Gerd Strand arrives, offering to pay her ticket, she jumps at the chance. Her younger brother Ivar accompanies her, and they can't wait to join their brother Rune and his family in the northern forests of Minnesota. Signe and Rune Carlson are thrilled to welcome Nilda and Ivar to America, but life on the farm remains a struggle. Though Gerd has softened and grown to love the Carlson family, Einar is still harsh and unforgiving, obsessed solely with felling as many trees as possible. Rune is trying to build a new home for his wife and children, but Einar refuses to help and forbids anyone from the nearby community from stepping foot on his land. What dark secret must lie in his past to have caused him to isolate himself--and anyone living under his roof--in this way? When a tragedy lays the truth bare, the Carlsons and Strands will have to come together like never before and become a true family.