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July 21st 2006
Terri Blackstock NIGHT LIGHT (Restoration Series #2) {Zondervan}
As global catastrophe plunges the world into darkness, survival becomes everybody's new lifestyle. The Brannings must choose between hoarding their possessions or sharing with others. When young thieves raid their pantry, Jeff Branning tracks them down, uncovering a trail of desperation and murder---and a new purpose that'll transform their family and the community!
When a prominent senator is murdered in his own home, his daughter Shona Tremaine becomes a prime suspect in his death. Only her estranged husband, Geoff, and younger sister, Karah Lee, believe in her innocence-- until an attempt on Shona's own life clears her name. Who would want her dead? As Shona and Geoff work together to solve the mystery, they uncover a web of deceit and corruption in her father's life--and discover the love they thought they lost. But will their renewe commitmant be enough to save Shona's life?
When Joan and Gerrit move to Chicago to pursue an opportunity for her to teach piano, country boy Gerrit feels adrift in the urban metropolis---until Zhao, a visiting Chinese musician, gives him new purpose. Meanwhile, Joan struggles to accept Gerrit as he is, and to find her place as a music professor. Small-town values and big-city ways clash amid painful lessons about mutual sacrifice.
In this closing book of the Horse Dreams trilogy, soul-searching Indiana schoolteacher Develyn Worrell has finally found her groove. Ready to savor the end of summer in a small Wyoming town she once visited as a child, she settles in for a time of peace and contentment. That is, until her daughter pays a visit, an eclectic friend plans to marry, a suspicious stranger enters the picture, and a dear mentor suffers a heart attack.
June 23rd 2006
Donita K. Paul DRAGONKNIGHT (DragonKeeper Series #3) {WaterBrook}
Trapped in an evil spell... can the knights of Paladin be rescured? Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Barden heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, N'Rae, on a mission to rescue the woman's son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladin's knights are imprisoned--and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kale's missing father.
Road trip! Join three 50-something women as they hop in their "vintage" Winnebago and go on a wild rescue mission. When DeDe, Millie, and Lydia discover that their old Bible camp is closing, they're determined to save it. Little do they realize that bears, chiggers, laughs, and love await them on the bumpy highway ahead.
"I need you," the tall, good-looking missionary had said ... but he'd been speaking to Josey's entire church at the time. Had she taken it too literally? Because she was no longer in Gull Lake, Minnesota. She was a missionary. In Russia. For a year. True, Josey had wanted to skip town when her sister married her ex, and her secret crush/best friend got engaged. But Russia? yet after a few weeks, the idea grew on her. She could speak enough words to buy fruit at the Moscow market, and the missionary role was feeling...right ( although her bagel-thieving roommate tested her daily). Even the frosty Russian weather was no big deal for this Minnesota girl--it was getting her love life to thaw that was the real challenge!
When his precious wife of 30 years received a devastating diagnosis, John Brighton's world fell apart. As his wife slipped from day to day, his love was tested as never before, and he found himself confronted by a weakness he had. A confidante desperately needed in this dark time, a young widow named Julia Sinclair, seemed to understand his pain as no one else could. Torn between doing what he knew was right and what his heart told him could not be wrong, John soon discovered that the heart can't be trusted where true love is concerned.
Everyone from the Feds to the mob is scrambling to find the husband of heartless media mogul Evelyn Blake. But no one can decide which is worse—that he is missing, or that she is not ...
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Terri Blackstock
Hannah Alexander
Robert Elmer
Stephen Bly
Donita K. Paul
Diann Hunt
Carol Cox
Deborah Raney
Chris Well
