Books written by Allison Pittman

  • Saturdays with Stella: How My Dog Taught Me to Sit, Stay, and Come When God Calls
    Saturdays with Stella: How My Dog Taught Me to Sit, Stay, and Come When God Calls

    ... LEIGH, author of Splitting Harriet and Faking Grace “Humorous examples of Stella's misconduct and learning lace the pages.

  • The Seamstress
    The Seamstress

    L'épisode. 2. Renée. MOUTON BLANC, CHEZ GAGNON Two days, and we have experienced no more than a few hours' respite from ... and what it has provided has been harvested, sold, and given over to pay taxes on the very land that bore it.

  • For Time & Eternity
    For Time & Eternity

    2011 Christy Award finalist!

  • Ten Thousand Charms: A Novel
    Ten Thousand Charms: A Novel

    Gloria, a young prostitute who has a son, make an ageement to help widower John Williams raise his infant daughter, but, after a tragic event, she finds herself longing for a family.

  • The Bridegrooms
    The Bridegrooms

    Suddenly, the subdued house is filled with visitors, from a flirtatious, would-be sports writer to the Bridegrooms' handsome star hitter to the guilt-ridden ballplayer who should have caught the stray shot.

  • Laura's Shadow
    Laura's Shadow

    Plus, at every given opportunity when Laura Ingalls was asked if she enjoyed teaching school, the answer was “No.” She was homesick, ill-prepared, and uncomfortable with the authority of leading a classroom, even if the classroom held ...

  • It's a Wonderful Christmas: Classics Reimagined

    Five holiday novellas inspired by the favorite holiday films National Lampoon's Christmas vacation, White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, The Nutcracker, and Remember the night.

  • Keeping Christmas: 25 Advent Reflections on A Christmas Carol
    Keeping Christmas: 25 Advent Reflections on A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is second only to the nativity story itself when it comes to public consciousness.

  • For Time and Eternity
    For Time and Eternity

    Camilla Deardon meets young Mormon Nathan Fox and, despite her parents' warning, she can't refuse her heart. But even Nathan's promises cannot prepare her for what she will face in Utah.

  • Forsaking All Others
    Forsaking All Others

    2012 Christy Award finalist, Historical category.

  • Loving Luther
    Loving Luther

    Germany, 1505 In the dark of night, Katharina von Bora says the bravest good-bye a six-year-old can muster and walks away as the heavy convent gate closes behind her.

  • The Roaring Twenties Collection: All for a Song / All for a Story / All for a Sister
    The Roaring Twenties Collection: All for a Song / All for a Story / All for a Sister

    We are sitting in our kitchen, lingering with the last of the morning's coffee and listening for the bell over the door to the store downstairs. “And it can't be Sunday, when Pa comes. I can stretch for one more, but not for two, ...

  • On Shifting Sand
    On Shifting Sand

    My response is to say we'd just seen Shifting Sands, and from there we launch into a narrative reliving all but the most lurid of details. Once, when Ronnie was about five years old, we had to bring the story to an abrupt end, ...

  • On Shifting Sand
    On Shifting Sand

    Life has been scorching Nola Merrill's skin and soul more than the 'Dust Bowl' ever could.

  • Loving Luther
    Loving Luther

    Includes an excerpt from The seamstress.

  • The Lady in Residence
    The Lady in Residence

    Can Dini see another side of the story that is worthy of God’s grace?