Marjorie Holmes Books in Order

Holmes turns everyday worries, gratitude, loneliness, and hope into direct, plainspoken prayers. It reads like a private conversation with God, meant for readers who want faith that feels honest and close at hand.

Holmes reflects on the roles of wife, mother, friend, and believer, paying attention to the small duties that fill a life. The tone is warm and appreciative, with an emphasis on everyday meaning.

Drawn from Holmes's long-running newspaper columns, this collection gathers short pieces about family life, marriage, children, and the comedy of ordinary days. It mixes humor with the gentle wisdom that made her such a popular columnist.

Mary and Joseph are young, poor, and deeply in love when an angel's message turns their future upside down. Holmes retells the Nativity as a human love story shaped by fear, faith, and danger on the road to Bethlehem.

Written for younger readers, this devotional frames a teenage girl's fears, questions, and hopes as simple prayers to God. It speaks directly to loneliness, growing up, and the need to feel heard.

Holmes looks back on her Iowa childhood with affection, detail, and a strong sense of place. It is a nostalgic memoir about family, small-town life, and the way memory keeps shaping the present.

This warm collection reflects on motherhood, family life, and the everyday ways love stretches and changes a woman. Holmes writes about children and home with humor, tenderness, and a practical eye.

Holmes explores how ordinary people search for God's presence in work, family, doubt, and daily life. Part memoir and part devotional, it offers reflections for readers who want faith to feel lived rather than abstract.

This craft guide breaks down how to turn lived experience, observation, and strong openings into publishable articles. Holmes writes as a working pro, with practical advice on ideas, structure, and keeping a piece vivid.

Arranged around the seasons of a year, these conversational prayers speak to the pressures and pleasures of everyday life. Holmes writes about family, work, weariness, gratitude, and the small mercies that keep people going.

Holmes blends personal experience, practical health advice, and spiritual reflection as she writes about exercise, food, aging, and illness. The book grows out of a hard season and asks how body, mind, and faith might work together.

After being chosen as a Cherry Blossom Princess, Marty is swept into excitement, attention, and new uncertainty about her boyfriend. Holmes uses the pageantry to ask what romance, loyalty, and growing up really look like.

Shy high school junior Carly Williams is thrilled when popular Danny Keller suddenly notices her. But first love in the small town of Windy Lake brings heartbreak, jealousy, and a hard lesson about the difference between charm and character.

When Danny Keller returns from the Army, Carly Williams starts questioning the steady love she thought she wanted with Chuck Richards. This coming-of-age romance is about memory, doubt, and whether first love deserves a second chance.

Written after the death of Holmes's first husband, this book speaks gently to readers living with grief. It offers companionship more than answers, mixing faith, honesty, and hard-won comfort.

Holmes imagines the long, mostly unrecorded years of Jesus's youth and early adulthood in Nazareth. Family life, work, doubt, and a growing sense of calling carry the story toward the start of his public ministry.

This final Life of Jesus novel follows Christ from the beginning of his public ministry to his trial and crucifixion. Miracles, disciples, hostile authorities, and the weight of destiny drive the story forward.

A seasonal collection of stories, poems, and prayers about family, memory, and the pull of home at Christmas. Holmes leans into warmth and nostalgia without losing sight of faith or the bittersweet side of the holidays.

This large anthology brings together selections from *Love and Laughter*, *Lord, Let Me Love*, and *To Help You Through the Hurting*. It offers Holmes's mix of humor, prayer, and consolation in one volume.

A reflective collection on grace, gratitude, and the quiet ways love is passed from one person to another. Holmes writes in short, accessible pieces about faith, generosity, and the gifts that shape everyday life.

Holmes tells the true story of her late-in-life marriage to George Schmieler, a widower who first called her after reading one of her books. It is a candid memoir about love after loss, blended families, and the awkward, hopeful work of beginning again.

Holmes shows writers how to shape personal experience into essays, sketches, and inspirational pieces that readers will care about. The advice is practical, encouraging, and grounded in her own long magazine career.

After the death of her second husband, Holmes writes about grief, prayer, and the stubborn sense that love does not simply vanish. Part memoir and part comfort book, it is meant for readers walking through loss.

This wide-ranging book of prayers looks at identity, motherhood, marriage, work, loneliness, and faith from a woman's point of view. Holmes writes with candor about the private questions people bring to God.

This treasury gathers Holmes's prayers, poems, and short prose pieces around love in its many forms, romantic, familial, neighborly, and spiritual. It is reflective, accessible, and designed for dipping into a little at a time.