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Terri Kraus

Born: in
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Kraus is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago. She lives in Wheaton.

Biography: Terri Kraus has co-authored 11 books with her husband, Jim Kraus. She is also an award-winning interior designer and taught interior design at the college level for 10 years. She enjoys music, photography and all things Italian and British. Terri is a member of the Redbud Writers Guild.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: http://www.terrikraus.com
Terri Kraus on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Terri+Kraus


Selected Titles

Journey to the Crimson Sea /
ISBN: 0842303839 OCLC: 36994802

Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. : ©1997.

Passages of gold /
ISBN: 0842303820 OCLC: 35762736

Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. : ©1997.

Pirates of the heart /
ISBN: 0842303812 OCLC: 34722862

Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. : ©1996.

Privateer William Hawkes must rethink his vengeful attitude toward the nobility after he captures an English ship carrying the young Kathryne Spenser.

The choosing /
ISBN: 159310104X OCLC: 56483341

Barbour Pub., Uhrichsville, OH : ©2004.

When Tucker Abbott rejects his parents' dream and chooses to minister in Chicago, he enters a new world of opportunities and choices. A decent, single Christian man is a rare prize in his new neighborhood. His refrigerator stays well stocked and his dinner calendar is filled. When his senior pastor warns Tucker that the wrong choice for a date - or wife - can harm an up-and-coming pastor, he feels himself drawn to one particular woman. But Annie doesn't live up to the standards imposed on them both. What is Tucker willing to give up for the choices he makes?

The price :
ISBN: 0842318356 OCLC: 42786260

Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. : ©2000.

Joshua Quittner, a student at Harvard in the 1840s, rebels against the plan that would make him the pastor of his hometown church.

The promise :
ISBN: 0842318372 OCLC: 45066160

Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. : ©2001.

The quest :
ISBN: 0842318380 OCLC: 47364043

Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. : ©2001.

Despite finding fame and fortune through his writing and travels, Jamison finds that, without Christ, his life remains empty and filled with longing.

The renewal
ISBN: 9781434764362 OCLC: 828626457

David C. Cook, Colorado Springs, CO : ©2009.

Leslie Ruskin has just purchased the historic Midlands Building, which--like her life--needs a little renovation. She and her five-year-old daughter are starting over after a devastating divorce--but standing on the sidewalk looking up at the seedy downtoan brownstone, Leslie wonders if she's done the right thing. It needs work. A lot of work.--From publisher's description.

The renewal /
ISBN: 0781448905 OCLC: 301561892

David C. Cook, Colorado Springs, CO : 2009.

Leslie Ruskin has just purchased the historic Midlands Building, which--like her life--needs a little renovation. She and her five-year-old daughter are starting over after a devastating divorce--but standing on the sidewalk looking up at the seedy downtoan brownstone, Leslie wonders if she's done the right thing. It needs work. A lot of work.--From publisher's description.

The renovation :
ISBN: 0781448468 OCLC: 166373722

David C. Cook, Colorado Springs, CO : 2008.

Ethan Willis has made a career out of restoring old houses like the Carter Mansion so he's an expert with doors and windows. Tragically widowed and left with a young son, he's done the best he could, but now that Chase has become a teenager ...

  The transformation :
ISBN: 0781448670 OCLC: 318874148

David C. Cook, Colorado Springs, CO : 2009.

The treasure :
ISBN: 0842318364 OCLC: 43864299

Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. : ©2000.

The unfolding :
ISBN: 1586608592 OCLC: 53361868

Barbour Pub., Uhrichsville, OH : ©2003.

Annie Hamilton doesn't expect her life to change dramatically when she opens her modest home to a rootless and pregnant neighbor. But when the young woman abandons her newborn son, Annie summons her courage and decides to raise the baby as her own. All is well--until the day the birth mother returns to claim her child. Distraught, Annie searches for answers--and finds them in the most unlikely places. Can this path of darkness be the way that God unfolds His plan for her?

 

 

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