Hip to Be Square

On her twenty-ninth birthday, Mari Hamilton, a worn-out recreation director at Golden Horizons Retirement Home, is convinced that leaving social work will improve her social life. So she seeks and receives a stylish position at a new and fabulous luxury spa. In addition, after countless bad first dates at hip clubs, Mari meets the perfect guy at Golden Horizon's anniversary party (of all places!). But a funny thing happens to her on the way to a life makeover-a forced stopover in her past where she admits to the unadmittable... Through all her work and dating adventures and misadventures, Mari realizes that it was in her old life that God was doing a new and incredibly hip thing. A funny thing happens to Mari Hamilton on the way to a life makeover-a stopover in her past shows her it was in her old life that God was doing a new and incredibly hip thing. Hope Lyda has a heart for inviting people to experience the still and quiet voice of God in their lives. As an editor and writer, she has worked in publishing for more than 20 years. Her popular devotionals, novels, and prayer books include One-Minute Prayers®for Women and Life as a Prayer and have sold more than one million copies.

In this fun and clever sequel to Hip to Be Square, heroine Mari Hamilton is enjoying her satisfying work, an eight-month relationship to her perfect Beau, and the role of attentive bridesmaid as her friend Sadie plans the wedding of the year. But as Sadie steps closer to the altar, her single friends-Mari, Caitlin, and Angelica-must face their emotions about tying the knot. Altar Call is an engaging and entertaining look at how a wedding...even someone else's...can turn rational women into irrational creatures. And how sometimes a woman's path isabout finding Mr. Right-and sometimes it is about having enough faith to do the right thing. In this sequel to Hip to Be Square, Mari and friends face their emotions about tying the knot and discover that life is less about finding Mr. Right and more about doing the right thing. Hope Lyda has a heart for inviting people to experience the still and quiet voice of God in their lives. As an editor and writer, she has worked in publishing for more than 20 years. Her popular devotionals, novels, and prayer books include One-Minute Prayers®for Women and Life as a Prayer and have sold more than one million copies.