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Bestselling, Christy Hall of Fame, and Carol and INSPY Award-winning author, Cathy Gohlke writes novels steeped with inspirational lessons, speaking of world and life events through the lens of history. She champions the battle against oppression, celebrating the freedom found only in Christ. Her critically acclaimed novels include This Promised Land, Ladies of the Lake, A Hundred Crickets Singing, Night Bird Calling, The Medallion (Christy Award), Until We Find Home, Secrets She Kept (Christy Award; Carol Award; INSPY Award); Saving Amelie (INSPY AWARD); Band of Sisters; Promise Me This (listed by Library Journal as one of the Best Books of 2012); I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires (Christy Award, American Christian Fiction Writers Award an ...more

Summer Begins! Plus “This Promised Land” Bestseller News & Garden Delights

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Welcome to June— the month to celebrate the ending of another great school year, Flag Day, Father’s Day, Juneteenth, and the official beginning of summer!

A very special THANK YOU to all who purchased and reviewed This Promised Land. Much to my joy and surprise This Promised Land made the May 2025 ECPA (Evangelical Christian Publishers Association) Bestseller list!

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Secrets She Kept

4.31 avg rating — 3,908 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions
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Saving Amelie

4.27 avg rating — 3,475 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
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Promise Me This

4.07 avg rating — 2,892 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions
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Night Bird Calling

4.33 avg rating — 2,419 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions
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Ladies of the Lake

4.27 avg rating — 2,095 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions
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Band of Sisters

4.11 avg rating — 1,888 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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The Medallion

4.54 avg rating — 1,466 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions
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A Hundred Crickets Singing

4.27 avg rating — 1,357 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions
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Until We Find Home

4.10 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions
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William Henry is a Fine Nam...

4.37 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
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Free to imagine. Free to hope and dream. Free to build. Free to grow into the creativity God plants within. That’s the message young Janie takes from Frank L. Baum, author of the Oz stories, and his eclectic, loving family in Laura DeNooyer’s A Hundr ...more
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Set in the Thousand Islands, I found myself immersed in the joy, the solitude versus loneliness, the stark beauty of landscape and seascape, even the adventure and danger lighthouse keepers commit to in rescuing those in troubled waters. A budding ro ...more
" Phyllis, I'm so glad you enjoyed Secrets She Kept! Your experiences in Germany brought insights to your reading that few people in America have. I lov ...more "
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A compelling read from beginning to end. I was so caught up in the understated drama of this story that I felt I was living it—the trauma, the angst, the guilt, the joy, the standing on the precipice of dilemmas and urgent decisions made in a moment ...more
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“What would Jesus do with this gift of writing, this God-given love of writing? What would He write?”
Cathy Gohlke, Band of Sisters

“You've made a god of your fear and jealousy, Sister. For what is a god but what we go to again and again?”
Cathy Gohlke, Band of Sisters

“As long as a man has two hands and a strong back, he can make things happen. It's no good being fearful. Worry won't change the future a whit, and it misses the joy of this glad day.”
Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This

Polls

This poll is for September's Books of the Month - the two books with the most votes will be our reads!

The Dandelion Field (Banister Falls, #1) by Kathryn Springer The Dandelion Field by Kathryn Springer
 
  9 votes 21.4%

Secrets She Kept by Cathy Gohlke Secrets She Kept by Cathy Gohlke
 
  7 votes 16.7%

Tried and True (Wild at Heart, #1) by Mary Connealy Tried and True by Mary Connealy
 
  6 votes 14.3%

The Crown and the Crucible (The Russians, #1) by Michael R. Phillips The Crown and the Crucible by Michael R. Phillips
 
  5 votes 11.9%

The Legend of Sheba Rise of a Queen by Tosca Lee The Legend of Sheba by Tosca Lee
 
  4 votes 9.5%

Summer of Promise (Westward Winds, #1) by Amanda Cabot Summer of Promise by Amanda Cabot
 
  3 votes 7.1%

Catch a Falling Star by Beth K. Vogt Catch a Falling Star by Beth K. Vogt
 
  3 votes 7.1%

The Covered Deep by Brandy Vallance The Covered Deep by Brandy Vallance
 
  2 votes 4.8%

Illusion by Frank E. Peretti Illusion by Frank E. Peretti
 
  2 votes 4.8%

The Call of Zulina (Grace in Africa, #1) by Kay Marshall Strom The Call of Zulina by Kay Marshall Strom
 
  1 vote 2.4%

42 total votes
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Stephanie Fitzgerald Thanks, Cathy!😃📚


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