Topics Dealt With in Karen's Books
Are you struggling with depression? Do you need to forgive someone? Is your marriage in trouble?
Karen Kingsbury has written over 40 fictional novels dealing with these and many more real life topics. Look up a topic below that you or someone you know is facing and find the books Karen reccomends you read. Thousands of reader friends have written to Karen about how their lives were changed by her Life-Changing Fiction(TM).
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Brad and Emma suffer deeply and are hurting from a past mistake they made in
Shades of Blue.
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Brooke, the oldest Baxter daughter, must deal with not only her daughter's tragedy, but her husband's addiction to painkillers in
Rejoice.
The Flanigans help out their teenage border, Cody Coleman, with his addiction to alcohol in
Sunrise.
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Maggie struggles with her decision to give her infant daughter up for adoption in
When Joy Came To Stay.
Dayne Matthews was given up for adoption by his parents - John and Elizabeth Baxter. Read about his journey in
Reunion and the
Firstborn Series.
Halfway to Forever includes a beautiful story of adoption.
Joey's questionable birth parents create a custody struggle for the child, four years after his very successful adoption in
Like Dandelion Dust.
A Treasury of Adoption Miracles is a collection of beautiful stories on the miracle of adoption.
On Every Side contains the story of a beautiful adoption through one of the supporting characters.
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Ashley Baxter makes a compassionate realization about how to truly make progress with Alzheimer's patients in
Remember.
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Jamie Bryan does everything she can to help the man she loves find his way back from a case of amnesia after he suffers head injuries in the collapse of the South Tower on September 11, 2001, in
One Tuesday Morning.
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Amanda Joy overcomes tremendous childhood trauma in
When Joy Came To Stay.
Jade finds life-changing faith after a lifetime of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her drunken father in
A Moment of Weakness.
Hannah has wealth and privilege, but she hasn't felt loved since her father left when she was only four years old. Even so she overcomes and finds healing in
Hannah's Hope.
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Jade and Tanner fall to temptation in
A Moment of Weakness and for the next decade Jade deals with the consequences the grace of God surrounding her crisis pregnancy. This book has helped many young women make strong commitments of purity.
Maggie makes an impulsive decision to give her baby up for adoption in the wake of her crisis pregnancy in
When Joy Came To Stay.
Reagan breaks all ties with her boyfriend, Luke Baxter, when she winds up pregnant after briefly succumbing to temptation in
Remember.
One of the Baxter sisters deals with a different sort of crisis pregnancy - the possible birth defect of her baby - in Karen's book
Summer.
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Cody Gunner falls in love with Ali Daniels, not realizing that she is suffering from cystic fibrosis in
A Thousand Tomorrows.
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Cody Gunner's brother, Carl Joseph, has Down Syndrome. Even so, he is Cody's closest and most special friend in
A Thousand Tomorrows.
The merits and particulars of independent living for people with Down Syndrome is examined in the sequel to A Thousand Tomorrows, called
Just Beyond the Clouds.
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A drunk driving accident shatters Hannah's family and puts her in the position to learn much about forgiveness in
Waiting For Morning
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After a drunk driving accident, Hannah must find a new level of faith to handle her grief and loss in
Waiting for Morning.
Cancer takes the life of a beloved Baxter character in the tragic, but beautiful storyline of grief and loss detailed in
Reunion.
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Gideon struggles with Leukemia in her season of miraculous love and giving in
Gideon's Gift.
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A Time to Dance is a married love story about John and Abby, a couple married more than twenty years and on the verge of divorce. God has used A Time to Dance to save countless marriages over the last few years. In a dozen cases, people have actually remarried their former spouses after reading this novel.
The beauty of marriage and the keys to making it both loving and lasting are examined in
The Redemption Series.
The crucial aspect of forgiving a spouse is dealt with in
Oceans Apart.
Working through problems in a marriage is one major theme in
When Joy Came To Stay.
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The consequences of premarital sex for one couple are detailed in the redeeming story of Jade and Tanner in
A Moment of Weakness.
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Luke Baxter's faith is shaken to the core, and he reaches a point of rejecting God in
Return.
Jamie Bryan refuses to believe in God because she sees too much tragedy in the world around her. But her lack of faith is severely challenged after the terrorist attacks on 9-11 in
One Tuesday Morning.
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Struggles with unfaithfulness reach a crisis point in
Redemption, the first book in the Redemption Series. Even so, Kari Baxter makes a decision to choose to love.
Jade's husband leaves her for another woman in
A Moment of Weakness.
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Opposing characters Lauren and Shane give readers a look at the Iraq war from two entirely different perspectives in
Even Now.
Soldier Justin Baker - the boyfriend of Lauren and Shane's daughter, Emily - heads off for his second deployment in the Iraq War in
Ever After. This book is a poignant tribute to America's troops, and the courage they exhibit every day.
