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Award-Winning and Best-Selling Author, Melody Carlson, Writes Novel in Series that has Sold Over One Million Hardcover Units!
Once you visit the charming village of Acorn Hill, you’ll never want to leave. Here, the three Howard sisters run Grace Chapel Inn in the parsonage where they grew up. Follow their stories as they rediscover the bonds of sisterhood, savor the pleasures of country life and meet many fascinating guests along the way!
NEW YORK, NY— GuidepostsBooks is pleased to announce the publication of Hidden History ($11.95, trade paperback, 304 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0-8249-4709-5, GuidepostsBooks), by Melody Carlson, the third volume in the multiple author series Tales from Grace Chapel Inn®. Melody Carlson has authored over one hundred other novels and her many honors include a RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America, a Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, and a 2006 Retailers Choice Award from Christian Retailing magazine.
"Melody shows us ourselves and others in ways we hadn't clearly seen before. Reading a novel by Melody is like taking a journey into hidden places of the soul and finding that God is already there."
—Robin Jones Gunn, best-selling author of Sisterchicks on the Loose!
Hidden History continues the cozy adventures of three sisters who inherit their childhood home, a parsonage in Acorn Hill, Pennsylvania, and open a bed and breakfast together.
While giving the laundry room of Grace Chapel Inn a thorough cleaning, Alice finds an old hatbox containing her father’s journal from the early 1900s. As she reads it aloud each evening to her sisters, Louise and Jane, they unravel the mysterious history of their father's family.
Meanwhile, a guest at Grace Chapel Inn turns out to be the sister of a veterinarian Alice dated back in nursing school. Jane invites him to dinner... will it lead to more?
Sisters of all ages will love watching the Howard women—a pianist, a nurse and a chef—learn to live together after decades apart. Says author Melody Carson, “Perhaps what I love most is the way their sisterhood really unites Louise, Jane and Alice. And in Hidden History they discover some family secrets that bring them even closer.”
Readers will relax, put their feet up and enjoy the slow pace of village life and the memorable inhabitants of Acorn Hill including the neighbor who has a pig for a pet... a friend with a mysterious illness... and the annual Fall Festival. Author Melody Carlson, who lives in a small town much like Acorn Hill, says, “I love small town life and all the old fashioned things that go with it—you can't go to town without running into a friend. It's very comforting.”
The Tales from Grace Chapel Inn® series—from multiple authors—has sold more than one million hardcover copies. GuidepostsBooks is bringing soft cover editions of this highly successful series to retail. The first two titles, Back Home Again, ($11.95 trade paper, 320 pages ISBN 0-8249-4700-2) by Melody Carlson and Recipes & Wooden Spoons ($11.95, trade paper, 336 pages, ISBN 0-8249-4701-0) by Judy Baer, were released in fall 2006.
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January 2007
For review copies of Hidden History, contact GuidepostsBooks:
Angela Farrell, 212.251.8147, afarrell@guideposts.org
Hidden History
By Melody Carlson
ISBN-13: 978-0-8249-4709-5
ISBN-10: 0-8249-4709-6
Price: $11.95 U.S. $15.95
Canada
Page ct: 304
Trim size: 5-1/8 x 8
Binding: trade paperback
Pub Date: February 2007
Category:
Fiction/Inspiration