Terri Blackstock
NIGHT LIGHT
(Restoration Series #2)
{Zondervan}
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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!
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Hannah Alexander
UNDER SUSPICION
(A Novel)
{Steeple Hill}
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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?
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Robert Elmer
THE RECITAL
(A Novel)
{WaterBrook}
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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.
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Stephen Bly
WISH I'D KNOWN YOU TEARS AGO
(Horse Dreams Trilogy #3)
{Steeple Hill}
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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.
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Donita K. Paul
DRAGONKNIGHT
(DragonKeeper Series #3)
{WaterBrook}
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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.
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Diann Hunt
RV THERE YET?
(A Novel)
{WestBow}
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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.
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Carol Cox
EVERYTHING'S COMING UP JOSEY
(A Novel)
{Steeple Hill}
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"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!
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Deborah Raney
A VOW TO CHERISH
(A Novel)
{Steeple Hill}
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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.
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Carol Cox
TICKET TO TOMORROW
(A Fair To Remember #1)
{Barbour}
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The World's Fair is more than rides and cotton candy. Annie Trenton and her late husband's partner, Silas Crockett, step off the train at the great world's fair in Chicago and walk smack into political intrigue. When a stranger accidentally collides with Silas, more than a satchel is unintentionally exchanged, drawing Annie, Silas, and a handsome rodeo rider into a world of deceptions and conspiracies. When Annie's keen powers of observation threaten to expose devious plots, more than her exhibition plans hang in the balance. Will Annie lose her life before she has a chance to surrender her heart?
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Dee Henderson
THE WITNESS
(A Novel)
{Tyndale}
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Eight years ago, Amanda Griffin witnessed a horrific crime, and she's been running ever since. Her sisters believe she's dead. But recently exposed family secrets have placed Amanda's siblings in the spotlight---and in peril. Can Amanda protect them without exposing herself? And does pressing danger mean police chief Luke Granger is running out of time?
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Sandra Byrd
DAISY CHAINS
(Friends for a Season #4)
{Bethany}
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Kylie Peterson and Rachel Cohen become fast friends when both are invited to help out with a wedding. Kylie's cousin Jed is marrying Rachel's cousin Davina, and Jed asks the girls to help with the flowers. But of more interest to the girls is the fact that the bride's family is Jewish and the groom is not. This difference in religion leads both Kylie and Rachel to explore their own beliefs. Kylie figures she was born a Christian, like the rest of her family, but she starts to question that assumption as she learns about Davina's faith and belief in Jesus. Meanwhile, Rachel is hurt--did Davina stop being Jewish when she became a Messianic believer? The girls hope to discover the truth for themselves, but what will that mean for their families?
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Linda Hall
DARK WATER
(Fog Point #1)
{WaterBrook}
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Private investigator Jake Rikker is caught off guard by his new client's request. Afraid to consult the police, jewelry designer Elise St. Dennis hires him to find an ex-con who has traced her to Fog Point. Jake and his business partner, May---a crusty widow---pursue the stalker. As they close in on their prey, it becomes terrifyingly clear that the hunters are now the hunted!
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Kristen Billerbeck
A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND
(Spa Girls #2)
{Integrity}
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Morgan's a girl who has it all, or so it seems. But even with diamonds at her disposal, a fabulous figure and a doting daddy, her well-sculpted life has left her without an identity to call her own. To add insult to injury, the Prince Charming she thought she'd found to rescue her proved to be a dud. So with all of that going on, a getaway with her best friends was in order. And it's then that Morgan can rejuvenate, regroup and figure out with God's help how to make a life she can live with.
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Patricia H. Rushford
AS GOOD AS DEAD
(Angel Delaney Mystery #3)
{Baker Revell}
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A private investigator; a missing brother, a notorious crime family create a deadly mixture of mystery and suspense. Still on leave from the police department, and having just buried her father, Angel must come to terms with her future. In the meantime, she is determined to finally search for her missing brother, Luke. Unfortunately, she's not the only one looking. Her search brings Luke's enemies to the surface and both Angel and her brother are as good as dead unless she can unravel the tangled thread of Luke's past.
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Chuck Holton & Gayle Roper
ALLAH'S FIRE
(Task Force Valor #1)
{Multnomah}
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A suicide bomber blows up a hotel in Beirut. An American woman is kidnapped in Lebanon. Connected or coincidence? While Liz Fairchild searches for her sister, John Cooper tracks extremists who possess an undetectable weapon. When their paths intersect, more is at stake than a mission! Can John and Liz put aside their antagonism long enough to survive?
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Denise Hunter
FINDING FAITH
(New Heights #3)
{Howard}
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Paula Landin-Cohen, an investigative reporter, feels like a fish out of water in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Then she's offered her dream job as a TV reporter in Chicago. There is so much to gain and so much to lose . . . including the only man she's ever loved.
Linn Caldwell has made a lot of mistakes--bad ones. She can never forgive herself for all the pain she's caused others. How can she dare to love again?
What will happen when Paula and Linn's secrets are revealed? Will the men they love be able to forgive them?
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James Scott Bell
PRESUMED GUILTY
(A Novel)
{Zondervan}
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With his thriving congregation and bestseller about pornography in the church, handsome pastor Ron Hamilton is a rising star in the evangelical world. But when the evidence surrounding the murder of an X-rated actress points solely to him, he's Presumed Guilty by everybody except his wife. Can their marriage survive until justice prevails?
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Stephanie Grace Whitson
A HILLTOP IN TUSCANY
(A Novel)
{Bethany House}
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While her mother Mary settles into her new apartment in Paris, Liz Davis's well-ordered world in Omaha, Nebraska, is unraveling. First there is the troubling information stored on her deceased father's computer. Then Liz's fiancé is offered a job promotion -- if they will move to California. Right on the heels of Liz's own unwelcome news from the doctor comes a phone call. Mary is in the hospital -- in Florence. Accompanied by her fiancé, a once confident Liz Davis rushes to her mother's side. . . only to be met with even more personal challenges. And she isn't the only one. Mary is struggling with conflicted feelings of her own. A love once lost has been restored, yet new circumstances cause her to hesitate. The fabled hills of Tuscany and the treasures of Florence provide a dramatic setting as two American women search for answers to the turmoil in their lives.
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Colleen Coble
ALASKA TWILIGHT
(Women Of Faith Fiction)
{WestBow}
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For Haley, Alaska is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she’s here to document wildlife biologist Tank Lansing’s work with bears. But her real reason is to unearth the truth about a past murder. From behind the viewfinder of her camera, Haley observes it all, including the man who studies grizzlies. As she watches him with his work, she feels a growing attraction. It will take great courage and faith to confront the truth she once ran away from. Before it’s over, Haley may be viewing herself from an entirely new angle. Will she have the courage to move beyond the role of observer and embrace life—and love? Or will Haley forever remain in a twilight world of guilt and shame?
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Veronica Heley
SECRET OF THE HALL
(Eden Hall #3)
{Zondervan}
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‘Minty’, Araminta Cardale Sands, inherited the beautiful Eden Hall and estate in England – and a host of problems. Returning early and still convalescent after a miscarriage, she finds herself refused admittance to her own home. Plans for an enormous music festival at Eden Hall have been made in her absence, without her knowledge or approval. Worse, the international star of the festival intends to keep Minty from regaining her home…and everything she holds dear.
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Lorena McCourtney
ON THE RUN
(Ivy Malone Mysteries #3)
{Baker Revell}
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Super senior sleuth Ivy Malone is spunkier than Miss Marple, with a curiosity that just won't quit. That inquisitiveness has gotten her into plenty of trouble, including murder, mayhem, and a place on a mini-Mafia hit list.
Now Ivy's headed across country with a stray cat ans God as her only companions. But just when she thinks she's safe, two dead bodies turn up--discovered by Ivy, of course.
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Kathleen Morgan
WINGS OF THE MORNING
(These Highland Hills #2)
{Baker Revell}
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Orphan heiress and Scotswoman Regan MacLauren goes from a bride to a widow as she's told her husband was murdered. As a result, Regan loses her memory and with it her place in the world. Laid and warrior, Iain Campbell is waiting for the love he knows God will bring him. But a woman near death and without a memory isn't quite what he expected.
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Roxanne Henke
WITH LOVE, LIBBY
(Coming Home To Brewster #5)
{Harvest House}
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What happens when a dream comes true?
That’s what Libby Marsden is wondering now that she’s completed her life-long dream of writing a novel. Now what? What happens when an old dream is suddenly not enough?
Everyone in Brewster thinks Vicky Johnson is living her dream. All anyone can remember is Vicky happily running the small-town café. But, Vicky has dreams, too. At least she thinks she does…she’s never had a chance to pursue anything else.
With Love, Libby, by Roxanne Henke, is the concluding book in the Coming Home to Brewster series. Follow along as familiar characters discover God’s purpose for their lives.
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Clay Jacobsen
THE ULTIMATE REALITY SHOW
(A Novel)
{Integrity}
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Imagine being approached at your job by a famous television host while a camera crew records your every move. He informs you that you’ve been selected as a contestant on his hit reality series—where the winner walks away with ten million dollars. You’re given just sixty seconds to leave immediately and join the adventure—or you forfeit your position. What would you do?
27 year-old high school football coach Jack Forrest is faced with that dilemma when a helicopter lands on the fifty-yard line at the end of his spring practice.
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James R. Coggins
MOUNTAINTOP DRIVE
(John Smyth Mystery #3)
{Moody Press}
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It is just like a second honeymoon when diminutive editor John Smyth and his wife Ruby are invited to stay in a beautiful mountaintop house while attending a church convention in Abbotsford, B.C. Everything seems perfect—until the woman next door is murdered. Has trouble from the impoverished streets of old Abbotsford invaded the upscale community on Mountaintop Drive? Solving the murder proves as difficult as understanding how the church should minister to what John Smyth soon realizes is a very complex, divided and troubled community.
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Lyn Cote
LEIGH
(Women of Ivy Manor #3)
{Time Warner}
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Linda Leigh Sinclair is born in the aftermath of WW II. Raised near Ivy Manor, enveloped in the love of her family, Leigh has everything she could possibly need—but not everything she wants. Her overwhelming need for freedom for herself and for others leads her into the modern civil rights movement.
At eighteen, Leigh watches the powers that be collide with the radical causes of the 1960's. Choosing the dangerous path of a journalist, Leigh witnesses and writes about the protests and riots against segregation and the war in Vietnam. While caught up in the winds of change, she falls in love. Joy turns to pain when Leigh discovers that some men lie.
To survive, Leigh must mature quickly and call on God’s forgiveness and power.
Will she become the strong and capable woman her child—and the world—needs?
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Neta Jackson
THE YADA YADA PRAYER GROUP GETS TOUGH
(Yada Yada Series #4)
{Integrity}
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This time the prayer group goes to an even deeper level. They've been together a whole year, and so many good things are happening! But that's just when the Enemy knows to attack--when our guard is down. Suddenly everything seems to be falling apart: Nony's family is in crisis, Jodi's teenagers seem out of control, Stu's new housemate makes her crawl the walls and Chandra discovers that money can't solve all her problems and sometimes even creates new ones. Add an unplanned pregnancy to the mix and the Yada Yada sisters realize they need to get tough. They've entered the War Zone, and this is spiritual warfare. Will the Yada Yada's buckle under this new crisis of faith?
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DiAnn Mills
WHEN THE LION ROARS
(A Novel)
{RiverOak}
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When a sixteen-year-old girl is abducted into slavery in southern Sudan, her future depends on the unlikely partnership of three individuals who are distrustful of each other. Dr. Larson Kerr, American physician; Paul Farid, an Arab-born Christian; and Colonel Ben Alier, a commander in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Armu, have little in common except their individual hopes for the people of Sudan. But when slave traders take Ben’s sister, these three must find a way to overcome their fears and prejudices if there’s to be any hope of rescue.
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Angela Hunt
THE NOVELIST
(A Novel)
{WestBow}
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Jordan Casey Kerrigan's twenty spy novels have sold millions. But when a student in her community college fiction class challenges her to try writing something different, something more personal, she surprises herself by doing just that. Though The Ambassador is intended as a classroom model, Jordon also hopes it may help her get through to her troubled son Zack. But Zack's behavior grows increasingly erratic as the novel takes shape. When his suicide attempt drives Jordan to the point of panic, she finds herself somehow walking through the pages of her own novel, reaching out to embrace the character she's created but also receiving comfort and strength for her own painful circumstances. The two stories--Jordan's and The Ambassador--unfold together in a deeply moving exploration of fiction and faith, creation and the Creator, God's sovereignty and man's free will.
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Karen Ball
SHATTERED JUSTICE
(A Novel)
{Multnomah}
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Sanctuary, Oregon. A town where the local diner owner makes you drink your milk—no matter how old you are. Where juvenile delinquency means blowing up outhouses. For widowed sheriff’s deputy Dan Justice, it’s a place where he and his kids can heal and grow.
Shelby Wilson loves Sanctuary and her work with troubled teens. Like Jayce Dalton. Sure, he’s as troubled as they come, but Shelby knows Dan is exactly what Jayce needs. She just didn’t expect that Dan might be what she’s always needed, too.
But sleepy little Sanctuary has a dark side, steeped in pain and secrets. Secrets that could destroy everything Dan holds dear. Secrets that will one day have Dan groping through the fog toward a lifeless body—and faith-shattering grief.
Can Dan find sanctuary in the light of God’s justice?
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Jane Kirkpatrick
A LAND OF SHELTERED PROMISE
(A Novel)
{WaterBrook}
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A Land of Sheltered Promise is the story of three women facing challenges on the same landscape, a ranch in the high desert of Eastern Oregon. A young wife learns of her husband’s murder trial; a grandmother seeks to rescue her granddaughter from an East Indian mystic’s commune; and graduate student decides whether to join her husband in that same remote landscape and help him follow his heart to turn the old commune into a Christian camp for kids. What they learned about their faith and God’s constancy over time is told over 97 years, in three parts called: Faith, Hope and Charity.
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Hannah Alexander
LAST RESORT
(Hideaway Series #3)
{Steeple Hill}
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A MISSING CHILD: Twelve-year-old Carissa Cooper vanishes near her home—abducted, evidence, suggests, by someone close to her.
A WOMAN IN CRISIS: Noelle Cooper races back to her hometown to help in the search. In the effort to save her young cousin, she steps into a web of secrets that has haunted her family for generations.
A MAN OF FAITH: Nathan Trask will do anything to protect Noelle from danger. Noelle’s childhood friend, he might be much more…if she dares turn to him.
All the conveniences of modern society are gone and the only thing the Brannings have left is each other and their neighbors. Their little community will either stand or fall together. But they’re only beginning to realize it—and trust doesn’t come easily.
Especially when one of them is a killer.
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Terri Blackstock
LAST LIGHT
(Restoration Series #1)
{Zondervan}
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LAST LIGHT, book one in Blackstock’s new Restoration series, deals with a crisis that sweeps the entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity. The Branning family and others in their Birmingham, Alabama community are left to wonder whether the recent events are a result of a terrorist attack, an electromagnetic pulse or something else.
All the conveniences of modern society are gone and the only thing the Brannings have left is each other and their neighbors. Their little community will either stand or fall together. But they’re only beginning to realize it—and trust doesn’t come easily.
Especially when one of them is a killer.
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Penny Culliford
THEODORA'S BABY
(Theodora's Diary #3)
{Zondervan}
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Newlywed Theodora discovers a slight oversight she and Kevin made on their honeymoon. Now she’s gained an important new subject for her diary - she’s expecting a happy event - but at such a cost! Theodora is sick (literally) of chocolate. How will she survive without her favourite food group? Never fear—Theodora and chocolate can’t be separated forever.
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Peggy Darty
WHEN THE SANDPIPER CALLS
(A Cozy Mystery)
{WaterBrook}
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Christy Castleman has a gift for writing best-selling mysteries. Suddenly she's thrust into the role of a real-life sleuth when she finds an antique bottle containing a desperate plea for help. With the aid of the local Red Hat Society, she tries to determine who wrote the note. Can she discover that person's whereabouts before it's too late?
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Sandra Byrd
RED VELVET
(Friends For A Season #3)
{Bethany House}
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Thirteen-year-old Quinn finds herself spending a lot of time at the hospital lately--her mom is undergoing experimental treatment for cancer. When Quinn reads her mother's teen-years diary, she discovers a list of things her mom has wanted to do before she dies. Though reluctant to face the prospect of her mother's death, Quinn determines to see that her mom accomplishes everything on the list. She teams up with her new friend Annie, whose mom is undergoing the same cancer treatment, and the two decide to sew their mothers red velvet dresses for an upcoming Valentine's Day party.
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Colleen Coble
BLACK SANDS
(Aloha Reef #2)
{WestBow}
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Volcanologist Annie Tagama loves her family with a fierceness that lights up her quiet exterior. But unseen forces seem to be tearing the family apart with the fury of the hot lava that seethes beneath their Hawaiian home. And the only person she can turn to for help is the man she blames for all the trouble.
Mano Oana can’t get past the guilt of what happened to his best friend on that devastating day in Iran. He’s even taken leave from the Navy to make amends to that friend’s family and help them out of trouble for which he’s partly responsible. But how can he get them to trust him when he can’t even trust himself?
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Carol Cox, DiAnn Mills, Darlene Mindrup, Kathleen Y'Barbo
GOLDEN GATE GAZETTE
(An Anthology)
{Barbour}
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Extra! Extra! Read all about four fledgling female reporters in 1860 San Francisco. Amy's allegiance to the paper is doubted when her family is linked to arson cases. Jennie becomes enmeshed in a murder investigation. Helen's typo has criminals chasing an innocent man. And Penny's attempts to impress her boss puts him in danger.
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Diann Hunt
HOT FLASHES AND COLD CREAM
(A Novel)
{WestBow}
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Midlife isn't a crisis for Maggie Hayden until a former classmate fails to recognize her. With an empty nest, a sagging body, and a sputtering marital spark, she knows she has to do something. But what? Will Maggie trust God to renew her inwardly---day by day---even while she's "wasting away" on the outside?
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Donita K. Paul
DRAGONQUEST
(Dragon Keeper #2)
{WaterBrook}
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A dragonkeeper of Paladin, Kale is summoned from The Hall to The Bogs by Wizard Fenworth to serve as his apprentice and tend his newly hatched meech Dragon, Regidor. But Kale isn't going alone. The Hall is sending a student to monitor her performance and report back to the scholars. Worst of all, it's Bardon--an older boy Kale finds irritating but who at least can hold his own in a sword fight.
Meanwhile, the Wizard Risto has seized another meech dragon, brining him dangerously close to gaining the power he seeks. So with only a motley band of companions, Kale sets out on a desperate quest to rescue the second meech, to free those dragons already enslaved, and to thwart Risto's devious plans. It's up to Kale to lead the search and to embrace the role that's rightfully hers. But will her efforts be enough to save the land of Amara from the dark future that awaits at Risto's hands?
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Wanda Brunstetter, JoAnn A. Grote, Yvonne Lehman, Colleen L. Reece
SCHOOLHOUSE BRIDES
(An Anthology)
{Barbour}
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Four schoolmarms learn to spell L-O-V-E in these romantic novellas. Judith questions her calling when she meets a widower and his children. Marin faces unforeseen challenges---and a less-than-desirable student. Christa steps off the train into a web of deceit. And Last Chance, Idaho, describes disillusioned Meredith's life perfectly!
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T.L. Higley
FALLEN FROM BABEL
(A Novel)
{Realms}
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Professor Peter Thornton doesn't believe in one God. "All paths are valid," he teaches. Until he visits the museum and brushes against an artifact which transports him to Nebuchadnezzar's court in ancient Babylon. Now he's Rim-Sin, a sorcerer accused of murder! A young woman who argues powerfully for the God of the Israelites assures him he'll return home---but only by forsaking his polytheism. Will he?
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Ron & Janet Benrey
THE FINAL CRUMPET
(Royal Tunbridge Wells Mystery #2)
{Barbour}
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Etienne Makepeace, England's celebrated "Tea Sage," vanished without a trace in 1966, leaving the whole of Great Britain wondering what became of the famed radio personality. Forty years is hastily buried remains are discovered beneath two sickly Assam tea bushes in the Royal Tunbridge Wells Tea Museum's tea garden--along with the pistol that killed him. Nigel Owens, curator, and Flick Adams, tea chemist, are thus embroiled in the second mystery to threaten the integrity of the museum. Are they in over their heads this time?
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Deborah Raney
OVER THE WATERS
(A Novel)
{Steeple Hill}
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As Dr. Botox to the bored rich women of Chicago, plastic surgeon Max Jordan is shocked by the decision of his son, Joshua, to focus his medical talent on Haitian orphans. Then, embittered by tragedy, Max searches for resolution in the very place his son called home. The selfless labor of Joshua’s coworkers stuns Max. He is especially taken by American volunteer Valerie Austin, whose dream of a honeymoon on a tropical beach has been replaced with a stint working in the impoverished orphanage. But Valerie’s view of Joshua’s sacrifice—and her own—challenges everything Max has lived for. Now he wonders if he can ever return to his “Max-a-Million” lifestyle, or if the doors to his gilded cage have finally opened.
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Tricia Goyer
DAWN OF A THOUSAND NIGHTS
(A Novel)
{Moody Press}
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I’ll wait for you. That’s what Libby Conners promised Dan Lukens as World War II tore the two pilots away from each other and the Hawaiian island where they’d fallen in love. Now, bound by duty to their country and buoyed by the hope that they will be together again, Dan and Libby face grueling tests on opposite sides of the world.
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Lyn Cote
CHLOE
(Ivy Manor #1)
{Time Warner}
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CHLOE is the first book in the Inspirational Woman's Fiction saga, "The Women of Ivy Manor." This series of four novels is about four generations of inspiring women in the same family who lived throughout the Great American Century, the twentieth when America and its women came into their own. Chloe who comes of age just as the US enters the "Great War" is a story that encompasses the war and its aftermath—Prohibition and the Roaring 20's.
Though Chloe winds up a flapper, living a fashionable life in New York and Washington, D. C. She still longs for a different life--the one she'd longed for and run away from her parents at seventeen to find. In a parallel plot, her black childhood friend, Minnie, leaves Maryland with Chloe in 1917 to seek her fortune in New York City. Through Minnie, Chloe discovers a whole new world—one of many colors and changing ideas. They find jobs on Fifth Avenue, march with the early NAACP to protest race riots and lynchings in the turbulent years during WWI. The central question, however, explores family relationships between Chloe, her mother, and her daughter—a story every woman should find compelling.
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Kristen Heitzmann
UNFORGOTTEN
(Sequel to Secrets)
{Bethany House}
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Unforgotten is the sequel to the Christy Award winning novel Secrets. In Unforgotten, Lance Michelli continues to search out his family’s mysteries and attempts to woo Rese Barret into forgetting his transgressions. Rese has her own concerns over her mother’s schizophrenia and what that might mean to her future. Interspersed with their story are his grandmother Antonia’s musings from her turbulent past during Prohibition and a reality that becomes frighteningly relevant to the present. Add to that a full cast of quirky side characters, a setting in little Italy of the Bronx, and the powerful ways God chooses to use these people.
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ChiLibris
WHAT THE WIND PICKED UP
(A Short Story Collection)
{iUniverse}
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Book Description
The members of ChiLibris, all multi-published Christian novelists, remember when they had the same fear. Something they've all discovered is that it isn't the idea that is so unique--since the same basic stories are told again and again, and we never tire of hearing them. What's unique is the expression of those ideas.
To show new writers that they can relax about their ideas--and to simply celebrate the diversity of their storytelling gifts--the members of ChiLibris undertook this book. Each writer made something different from the same basic idea. Each of the 21 short stories in this book use the same five elements:
The first line: The wind was picking up.
Mistaken identity
Pursuit at a noted landmark
Unusual form of transportation
The last line: So that's exactly what she did.
As you enjoy these vastly differing variations on a theme, relax about your own marvelous ideas and concentrate instead on writing the very best novel you can. Because what readers want isn't so much an idea that's never been done before, but the story told with your style, your wit, and your voice.
About the Author
What the Wind Picked Up contains delightful stories from your favorite Christian novelists, including James Scott Bell, Mindy Starnes Clark, Angela Elwell Hunt, Nancy Moser, and Robert Whitlow. As an added bonus, the members of ChiLibris share their most valuable lessons about the writing life.
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Carolyne Aarsen
A SILENCE IN THE HEART
(A Love Inspired Novel)
{Steeple Hill}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
Vet David Braun has had his eye on Tracy Harris, a vet tech, for some time now, but she treats him with the same slightly mocking respect she treats everyone. He gets to see another side of her when a neglected neighborhood boy shows up at the clinic and he gets to see another side to Tracy. She harbors a secret about her past and he wants to find out what it is and maybe, in the process, have her open up to him.
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Kathleen Morgan
GIVER OF ROSES
(Guardians of Gadiel #1)
{Baker Revell}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
Vartan Karayan, crown prince of the besieged city of Astara, has been challenged to a fight to the death by Ladon, the reputably invincible minion of the dark lord of the underworld. In this scene, Danae, one of Vartan’s servants, contemplates the battle to be played out the next day, and what she fears will be its tragic outcome.
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Mindy Starns Clark
THE TROUBLE WITH TULIP
(Smart Chick Mystery #1)
{Harvest House}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
Introducing the Smart Chick Mysteries, a brand new series by bestselling author Mindy Starns Clark. In this light and funny whodunit, amateur sleuth and domestic diva Jo Tulip uses her knowledge of household hints to solve crime. As Jo tries to solve a neighborhood murder, she realizes she’s facing an even bigger mystery—what’s going on in her heart?
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Veronica Heley
MURDER BY COMMITTEE
(Ellie Quicke #6)
{Severn House}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
It seems an innocent request; would widowed Ellie Quicke visit a man whose dog died in an accident? The dog’s master – a powerful but unpleasant man – believes he was the intended target, and that an old enemy was responsible. Feuding financiers are bad news not only for the City where jobs are at stake, but also for Ellie, who can’t fill in a tax return without help.
The feisty widow already has more than enough to cope with; Aunt Drusilla’s health is failing, her bullying daughter Diana is in financial crisis and her architect cousin mixed up in one of the tycoon’s shadier deals – which happens to threaten the future of the parish.
Ellie discovers the tycoon has made more enemies than he can count, though not all of them are as helpless as they seem. Standing up for herself and other victims of the tycoon, Ellie waltzes straight into the firing line.
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Linda Windsor
FIESTA MOON
(Moonstruck #2)
{WestBow}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
When Mark Madison is arrested for his third DUI and sent to convert a rundown hacienda into an orphanage, it’s the prodigal’s last chance to straighten out his life. Yet, when even his charm fails on sassy social worker Corinne Diaz, Mark wonders how anyone can make a go of a project where promises of mañana could be tomorrow or next month—or where the village is plagued by some Aztec voodoo-hoodoo. Faith and heart are his only hope.
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Annie Jones
MOM OVER MIAMI
(A Novel)
{Steeple Hill}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
Soccer mom, budding journalist, dutiful doctor's wife, and mother of two, Hannah Bartlett has a full plate from life's buffet table. With a new baby, a 9-year-old foster son, meddling neighbors, and her own self-doubts, she's feeling overwhelmed! But what can she do . . . except go AWOL?
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Deanna Julie Dodson
TO GRACE SURRENDERED
(Chastelayne Trilogy #3)
{Crossway}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
He has learned to love her with all his heart. Now he must learn to
let her go. In this compelling story of love and loyalty set in Medieval
times, a king learns the meaning of true surrender, as he seeks to
rescue his wife from a neighboring tyrant. At first he tries to bargain with God, but the good king soon realizes that God owes him nothing. He is entirely at the Lord's mercy. Still, the questions persist: What if, despite his courageous attempts, he cannot save Rosalyne? What then? What will happen to his faith? His heart?
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Stephen Bly
MEMORIES OF A DIRT ROAD TOWN
(Horse Dreams Trilogy #1)
{Broadman Holman}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
For Develyn Worrell, a fifth-grade teacher in central Indiana, it was to be a summer of reconciliation with her twenty-year-old daughter. But the sudden death of her ex-husband embitters her daughter against her. Dreading a long summer alone, Develyn heads West to find an innocence she had experienced on a vacation with her family when she was ten. She discovers a paint mare she calls My Maria, a quirky new girlfriend, and three very different cowboys. But will she find a peace that will overcome the guilt and depression?
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Kristin Billerbeck
WITH THIS RING I'M CONFUSED
(Ashley Stockingdale #3)
{WestBow Press}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
Ashley Stockingdale has imagined her wedding day since she was a little girl-but that fairy tale is rapidly turning into a southern gothic tale, complete with overbearing future in-laws from "old South" Atlanta, a groom who's too busy for details, and her own dysfunctional family. Throw in Ashley's high-pressure job that takes her out of town-and out of the loop-far too often, and suddenly a quick Las Vegas wedding is starting to look pretty darned good.
Can Ashley pull off her dream wedding (preferably without having a nervous breakdown?) Or is she destined to wear Scarlett O'Hara ruffles and leave the church under a tunnel of Confederate swords?
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Sandra Byrd
ISLAND GIRL
(Friends For A Season #1)
{Bethany House}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
Every summer thirteen-year-old Meg returns to the berry fields of her grandparents' farm on Sauvie's Island, Oregon. But this year, everything is different. With her mother remarried and a new baby on the way, Meg isn’t quite sure where she fits in the family anymore. And now the comfortable familiarity of the farm has changed, too. There is a new girl, Tia...and she obviously holds a special place in Meg’s grandparents' hearts. During this season of growth, Meg faces the challenge of figuring out what life, family, and friendship are all about. In order to thrive she must learn the importance of her unique characteristics and God’s plan for her life.
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Ann Tatlock
I'LL WATCH THE MOON
(A Novel)
{Bethany House}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
I’ll Watch the Moon is the story of Nova Tierney, who desperately longs for a father, and her brother, Dewey, who must triumph over polio to reach his dream. It is also the story of their mother, Catherine, angry at a God in whom she no longer believes, and Josef Karski, an Auschwitz survivor whose trusting spirit refuses to be subdued, even by his heart-wrenching past.
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Brandilyn Collins
DEAD OF NIGHT
(Hidden Faces #3)
{Zondervan}
Book Excerpt at Chapter-A-Week
A string of murders terrorizes citizens in the Redding, California area. The serial killer is cunning, stealthy. Masked by day, unmasked by night. Forensic artist Annie Kingston discovers the sixth body practically in her own back yard. Is the location a taunt aimed at her?
One by one, Annie must draw the unknown victims for identification. Dread mounts. Who will be taken next? Under a crushing oppression, Annie and other Christians are driven to pray for God’s intervention as they’ve never prayed before.
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