Dinner with a perfect stranger vs The City of Fire: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Dinner with a perfect stranger Dinner with a perfect stranger Gregory, David · 2005 ★★★★☆ 4.0 100 pages · ≈ 1 h 51 m · Moderate

You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of NazarethThe mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has…

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Cover of The City of Fire The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill · 1922 ★★★★☆ 4.3 270 pages · ≈ 5 h 00 m · Challenging
“Sabbath Valley lay like a green jewel cupped in the hand of the surrounding mountains with the morning sun serene upon it picking out the clean smooth streets, the white houses with their green blinds, the maples with their clear cut leaves, the cosy brick school house wide winged and friendly, the vine clad stone church, and the little stone bungalow with low spreading roof that was the parsonage”

Lynn Severn, beautiful daughter of a small town minister, is deeply troubled by the barrier which has come between her and her former playmate, Mark Carter.

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Dinner with a perfect strangerThe City of Fire
Goodreads 4.0 (4590) —
Hardcover 3.7 (6) 1.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.5 (48) 4.5 (129)

Reception

Dinner with a perfect strangerThe City of Fire
Ratings 4590 129
Editions 6 14
Want to read 2793 —
Reading it now 196 —
Written reviews 612 —
Pages 100 270

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