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This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Enjoy your weekend!
Chocolate Caramel Cookies
Christmas Divinity

Featured Author, Gail Kittleson, shares her recipe for Mellow Sugar-Free Cranberry Chutney

Hark the Glad Sound

As we eagerly anticipate our first week of Advent, here is one of our favorite hymns to help prepare your hearts for the celebration of Jesus' birth.



Hark the Glad Sound
Hark the glad sound! The Savior comes,The Savior promised long;Let ev'ry heart prepare a throneAnd ev'ry voice a song.
He comes the pris'ners to release.In Satan's bondage held.The gates of brass before Him burst,The iron fetters yield.
He comes the broken heart to bind,The bleeding soul to cure,And with the treasures of His graceTo enrich the humble poor.
Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,Thy welcome shall proclaim,And heav'n's eternal arches ringWith Thy beloved name.

Book Preview ~ The Sound of Rain

The Sound of Rain, by Sarah Loudin Thomas

Judd Markley is a hardworking coal miner who rarely thinks much past tomorrow until he loses his brother--and nearly his own life--in a mine cave-in. Vowing never to enter the darkness of a mine again, he leaves all he knows in West Virginia to escape to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It's 1954, the seaside community is thriving, and Judd soon hires on with a timber company. 

Larkin Heyward's life in Myrtle Beach is uncomplicated, mostly doing volunteer work and dancing at the Pavilion. But she dreams of one day doing more--maybe moving to the hollers of Kentucky to help the poor children of Appalachia. But she's never even met someone who's lived there--until she encounters Judd, the newest employee at her father's timber company. 

Drawn together in the wake of a devastating hurricane, Judd and Larkin each seek answers to what tomorrow will bring. As opposition rises against following their divergent dreams, they realize that it may take a miracle for them to be together. Buy the book HERE.


Sarah Loudin Thomas is a fundraiser for a children's ministry and has written for Mountain Homes Southern Style and Now & Then magazines, as well as The Asheville Citizen-Times. She is the author of Miracle in a Dry Season, Until the Harvest, and A Tapestry of Secrets. She holds a BA in English from Coastal Carolina University. She and her husband reside in Asheville, North Carolina. She can be found online at www.sarahloudinthomas.com.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Join the Vogts Sisters for this final 2017 performance at Homer's Coffee Shop on Saturday.Learn more HERE.
Party Sausages
Mom's Turkey Dressing
Thanksgiving Dinner Ideas

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you a Happy Thanksgivingfrom Our Family to Yours.
Now Thank We All Our God
Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices.Who wondrous things has done, In whom His world rejoices;Who from our mothers' arms Has blest us on our wayWith countless gifts of love And still is ours today.
Oh may this bounteous God Through all our life be near us.With ever joyful hearts And blessed peace to cheer usAnd keep us in His grace And guide us when perplexedAnd free us from all ills In this world and the next!
All praise and thanks to god The Father now be given,The Son and Him who reigns With them in highest heaven;The one eternal God, Whom earth and heav'n adore;For thus it was, is now, And shall be ever more.

Book Preview ~ Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point, by Lisa Harris

During Garrett Addison's first week on the job as a criminal investigator for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, his team is called out to a murder scene of a young girl. She's the third victim in a string of disappearances with one thing in common--a Polaroid photo of each victim left behind at the crime scene.

The FBI is pulled into the case to help, and Garrett finds himself working with Special Agent Jordan Lambert, the woman he once loved. When yet another girl dies--number six--Garrett blames himself and believes he doesn't have what it takes to be an agent. What he'll discover is that, while he may be done with the killer, the killer is not done with him--or Jordan.

Bestselling and award-winning author Lisa Harris unveils an unforgettable story of a case that has haunted the public and law enforcement for more than a decade. Fans of the Nikki Boyd Files will thrill to finally discover what actually happened to Nikki's sister, Sarah. New readers will become instant fans after devouring this chilling tale. Buy the book HERE.


Lisa Harris is a bestselling author, a Christy Award winner, and the winner of the Best Inspirational Suspense Novel for 2011 and 2015 from Romantic Times for her novels Blood Covenant and Vendetta. The author of more than thirty books, including Vendetta, Missing, Pursued, and the Southern Crimes series, Harris and her family have spent thirteen years living as missionaries in southern Africa. Learn more at www.lisaharriswrites.com.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Have a great weekend!
Refrigerator Mashed Potatoes

Creamy Vegetable Soup

Featured Author, Tracey Lyons, shares her recipe for Pumpkin-Spice Angel Food Cake.

Images of Autumn

Fall is my favorite season. 
I love the cooler weather, 
the changing colors in the trees 
and native pastures.
I love when we experience our first frost or hard freeze, 
and yes, even the shorter length of days. 
(Pictures by our youngest daughter, Abigail.)

Book Preview ~ The Austen Escape

The Austen Escape, by Katherine Reay
Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. Working as an engineer, she genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues—particularly a certain adorable and intelligent consultant. But something is missing. When Mary’s estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer offers her a two-week stay in a gorgeous manor house in England, she reluctantly agrees in hopes that the holiday will shake up her quiet life in just the right ways.But Mary gets more than she bargained for when Isabel loses her memory and fully believes she lives in Jane Austen’s Bath. While Isabel rests and delights in the leisure of a Regency lady, attended by other costume-clad guests, Mary uncovers startling truths about their shared past, who Isabel was, who she seems to be, and the man who now stands between them. Outings are undertaken, misunderstandings arise, and dancing ensues as this company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation, work out their lives and hearts. Buy the book HERE.Katherine Reay has enjoyed a life-long affair with the works of Jane Austen and her contemporaries—who provide constant inspiration both for writing and for life. She is the author of three previous novels, and her debut, Dear Mr. Knightley, was a 2014 Christy Award Finalist, winner of the 2014 INSPY Award for Best Debut, and winner of two Carol Awards for Best Debut and Best Contemporary. Katherine holds a BA and MS from Northwestern University and is a wife, mother, runner, and tae kwon do black belt. After living all across the country and a few stops in Europe, Katherine and her family recently moved back to Chicago. Visit her on line at katherinereay.com 

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Join the Vogts Sisters at the Jayhawk Theatre in Topeka, KS this Saturday.Learn more HERE.
Carrot Cake
Chocolate Macadamia Nut Clusters
Pumpkin Recipes to Share