Village Green Shopping Centre | Vernon's Premier Shopping Destination
Choice Made Simple!
Too many options?Click below to purchase an online gift card that can be used at participating retailers in Village Green Shopping Centre and continue your shopping IN CENTRE!Purchase Here
Coles The Witness (Summarized Edition): Enriched edition. An early 20th-century Christian romance of a woman's struggle, spiritual perseverance, and redemption told in evocative prose with moral insight at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
The Witness (Summarized Edition): Enriched edition. An early 20th-century Christian romance of a woman's struggle, spiritual perseverance, and redemption told in evocative prose with moral insight
The Witness (Summarized Edition): Enriched edition. An early 20th-century Christian romance of a woman's struggle, spiritual perseverance, and redemption told in evocative prose with moral insight in Vernon, BC
The Witness (Summarized Edition): Enriched edition. An early 20th-century Christian romance of a woman's struggle, spiritual perseverance, and redemption told in evocative prose with moral insight in Vernon, BC
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Coles
The Witness traces a young bystander whose reluctant testimony entangles them in danger and moral choice. Hill braids quiet romance with modest suspense, moving from city streets and courtrooms to parlors lit by Scripture. Her prose is lucid and earnest, favoring brisk scenes and devotional reflection. Within the Progressive Era's evangelical domestic fiction, the novel blends sentimental realism with contemporary detail—telephones, automobiles, and urban anonymity—to test the costs of truth. Grace Livingston Hill (1865–1947), niece of Christian novelist Isabella "Pansy" Alden, wrote from a Presbyterian upbringing shaped by the Chautauqua ethos and by the necessity of supporting family after early widowhood. She saw fiction as ministry, translating modern anxieties—women's work, shifting class codes, legal authority—into stories of conversion and character. That vocational aim clarifies the book's focus on conscience, witness, and providence amid social turbulence. Recommended for readers of faith-inflected romance and for students of women's popular fiction, The Witness offers accessible pleasure with ethical bite. Its meditation on truth-telling remains timely, rewarding book clubs and classrooms with discussable scenes and steady hope. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
The Witness traces a young bystander whose reluctant testimony entangles them in danger and moral choice. Hill braids quiet romance with modest suspense, moving from city streets and courtrooms to parlors lit by Scripture. Her prose is lucid and earnest, favoring brisk scenes and devotional reflection. Within the Progressive Era's evangelical domestic fiction, the novel blends sentimental realism with contemporary detail—telephones, automobiles, and urban anonymity—to test the costs of truth. Grace Livingston Hill (1865–1947), niece of Christian novelist Isabella "Pansy" Alden, wrote from a Presbyterian upbringing shaped by the Chautauqua ethos and by the necessity of supporting family after early widowhood. She saw fiction as ministry, translating modern anxieties—women's work, shifting class codes, legal authority—into stories of conversion and character. That vocational aim clarifies the book's focus on conscience, witness, and providence amid social turbulence. Recommended for readers of faith-inflected romance and for students of women's popular fiction, The Witness offers accessible pleasure with ethical bite. Its meditation on truth-telling remains timely, rewarding book clubs and classrooms with discussable scenes and steady hope. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Find everything in-store including new, used and children’s books, music, movies, games and toys. Visit Coles today to find the perfect gift, or a novel for yourself. COVID-19 UPDATE: Open | Regular Centre Hours
