Contemporary Fiction
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Edwina
$21.99Add to cartThe summer of 2008 changed Edwina Emily Blair’s life completely. A small town librarian, she loved her predictable lifestyle. But her European-born stepsister Cecelia had other plans. As the two of them were about to board a plane for Scotland, Cecelia was suddenly called away to Italy. Edwina found herself alone in Edinburgh, tired, hungry, and very late. When the hotel clerk told her that she no longer had a room, she fainted – right into the arms of a tall Scot standing behind her. Anxious to meet his fiance, Alex Dunnegin whisked Edwina off to his castle and that’s when the trouble began. The handsome Laird became the hero for the novel Edwina was writing. And Cecelia, her beautiful, entrepreneurial sister, the heroine. Could it be any other way? Edwina would find out that the stubborn Scot did not always play the part she wrote for him.
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I Heart Bloomberg
$16.00Add to cartKendall’s managed to wrangle her grandmother’s house–free and clear–except for the rules. No male roommates. But that’s ok, with the right ad she’ll pull in some girls, their rent and if she’s lucky, she won’t have to go to work any time soon.
For their part, Anna, Lelani, and Megan all have their reasons for wanting to move in: Anna has got to get out from under her overprotective parents; Lelani can’t take another day in her aunt’s tiny crackerbox house overflowing with toddlers and Megan needs a place free of her current roommate from Hades. Though they come with assorted extra baggage filled with broken hearts and dreams, they will discover they also have a vast array of hidden strengths.
As they struggle to become the women they want to be, they’ll find new hope and maybe even Kendall will learn a thing or two about life, love and the true meaning of friendship.
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Keepers And Reapers
$19.99Add to cartThis exciting Christian fictional drama, is inspired by Galatians 6:9, “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Set in New York City, three friends have each petitioned the Lord for some crucial issues they need Him to fix this year. Agnes – after surviving tragic life altering events, she is radically pleading the blood of Jesus for her grown “off the chain” sons, before it’s too late. Marcia – the West Indian diva – Is it possible to serve God and her fine, wealthy, non-believing husband at the same time? Rebecca- feels her heartstrings pulling, telling her to seek God like never before. Her friends need her to pray and pray some more. And then the women meet Raneisha. God has promised us that if we keep His word, we will reap His promises. Can they endure in their seasons and not faint? Or will they get weary on their Christian journey and give up? Who will keep and who will reap? Keepers and Reapers is an anointed story about the love of Jesus Christ, God’s faithfulness, friendship, family, trials, tribulation, forgiveness, hope, grace, mercy, blessings and miracles.
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Stretched But Not Broken
$17.49Add to cartStretched but not Broken, chronicles the story of Mia Hall. Raped at five years old and emotionally abandoned by a loving but depressed mother, Mia grows into a compliant woman enabling the bipolar and controlling abuses of her older sister, Karen. Mia’s stepfather, Bruce, also abusive and psychotic, still, in his warped way, loves Mia and his family. Through a life of kept secrets, silence in the face of abusive oppression, and a broken romance, Mia is driven to attempted suicide. But Mia has a friend, Julie, who has been telling Mia about the love of God and how much he has in store for Mia’s life and future. Mia must then make a decision to let go of her past, and stretch toward a bright and loving future with a Savior who proves to be the only answer to Mia’s shredded life of fear, anguish and hopelessness.
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Trouble The Water
$17.99Add to cartSet in the South Carolina Sea Islands, Nicole Seitz’s second novel follows the stories of two sisters. One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other thinks she’s got it all together until her sister’s imminent death from cancer causes her to re-examine her own life and seek the healing and rebirth her troubled sister managed to find on St. Anne’s Island. “This is another thing I know for a fact: a woman can’t be an island, not really. No, it’s the touching we do in other people’s lives that matters when all is said and done. The silly things we do for ourselves–shiny new cars and jobs and money–they don’t mean a hill of beans. Honor taught me that. My soul sisters on this island taught me that. And this is the story of true sisterhood. It’s the story of Honor, come and gone, and how one flawed woman worked miracles in this mixed-up world.”
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Taste Of Bread
$17.99Add to cartA Taste of Bread “This stalk is depicted as the staff of life in many cultures. It symbolizes to the Akan that food is a basis of life and that they could not survive if not for the food that God has placed here on Earth for their nourishment” (W. Bruce Willis, The Adinkra Dictionary). Shona Whey is young, beautiful, and vibrant. She appears the perfect picture of health. One warm and sunny day, Shona’s sweet and energetic four-year-old son Nicoby mysteriously disappears from a local park. After her son’s disappearance, the world Shona knew as bright and beautiful suddenly becomes a dark and desolate place as her life spirals deeper and deeper into torment, misery, and agony. In the midst of blinding pain, Shona encounters a stranger – Mrs. Grace Allay. The chance meeting gives Shona and her family reasons to hope and a welcome lifeline to cling to. The predestine encounter also allows the anguished young woman to finally leave her suffering behind and awake to a world full of incredulous wonders…and new beginnings!
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Wedding Machine : A Novel
$17.99Add to cartIt’s Steel Magnolias meets The Runaway Bride with a Southern fiction flair sure to appeal to fans of Sue Monk Kidd.
The weddings of Jasper, South Carolina, have been run for years by four women respectfully dubbed “The Wedding Machine.” This summer the daughters and sons of these four women are each being “married off” (to some unlikely characters!) and the gears of the machine begin to grind to a surprising halt.
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Valley Of The Giants
$25.99Add to cartThe Valley of the Giants Joseph Pines, an old retired editor, who believes that there’s race of giants living in Nepal, is convinced when further evidence comes in from his grand nephew, Danes Barnet, a guide in the Himalayas.’ He convinces a beautiful reporter, Peggy Kephart, to meet up with his nephew and his friend, Tim Matthews, guiding an expedition to that area. However, she soon discovers her life is in danger, not only from those in the expedition but also from the giants she encounters. The Alaskan Caper Tim Matthew’s life changes dramatically when he falls in love with an Indian Princess. But his life is in peril when his plane is hijacked, his friend shot and he is stranded in a blizzard. Hanzan It soon becomes apparent that this rescued child in the story of “The Valley of the Giants” becomes extraordinary big and strong and will face many difficulties growing up in America.
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Summer Of Joy
$17.00Add to cartSequel to The Scent of Lilacs and Orchard of Hope
The summer of 1964 certainly was eventful, but it’s nothing compared to what’s coming to the Brooke family and to Hollyhill, Kentucky. David finally gets up the nerve to pop the question to Leigh and wedding plans are in the making. But the past is coming to call on many in Hollyhill, threatening to destroy the relationships that everyone thought were so strong. Two people–one David thought was gone for good and the other no one’s ever heard of–are making their way to the small town and promise trouble.
This complex and well-written story is the perfect conclusion to the Hollyhill story. With true-to-life family drama, refreshing humor, and lovable characters, Summer of Joy will delight readers. -
You Had Me At Goodbye
$21.99Add to cartEverything is on the line for aspiring editorial diva Dancy Ames when she’s fired by her publisher. Could this be the time to risk it all on her writing career–and maybe even love?
Dancy Ames has an enemy: Jack Quinn. The man who swoops in, steals her dream job at Lane Publishing, and fires her, saying she just doesn’t have what it takes to be an editor. Now that she’s unemployed, Dancy must find a new career. Coffee barista, English teacher, literary agent. Hmm. Maybe she’ll write a novel–a nasty invective, featuring a relentless job-stealing, coffee-drinking stalker who falls in love with a coffee barista. She’s got time on her hands, so when her friends dare her to send Jack a proposal, under an assumed name, she takes them up on it. If he likes it, she’ll have her ultimate revenge. But what will she do when it turns out that Jack is interested in her book–and maybe more?
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What Lies Within
$20.99Add to cartKyla Justice’s name means “victorious.” But it’s the last thing she feels. Having fought long and hard to establish her construction business, now her schedule is full with plans for malls and subdivisions, but her heart is empty. Where are the projects that matter? Then she’s given the opportunity to build a center for inner-city kids. The obstacles don’t stop her: opposition from area gangs, minimal funding, hesitant and deceptive suppliers, even the man who claims to love her and would marry her…if she would sell her business. As things get messier-and lives are endangered-will Kyla learn to accept what lies within her and rely on others not just to succeed…but to survive?
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Sun Will Rise
$15.99Add to cartFifteen-year-old Morgan Peters thought her life was perfect until her father accepted a job offer, forcing her family to move across the country to Southern California. After struggling for a year to adjust to a new school and make new friends, Morgan is finally ready for life to be normal again. But when her crush, Jeremy, suddenly takes an interest in her, she is faced with a whole new set of difficulties. Join Morgan as her relationship with Jeremy grows, bringing with it something much bigger than Morgan could have imagined!
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Choices : My Secrets
$12.49Add to cartMy Secrets, the first of a series on choices for young teens and their parents, tells the compelling story of Rachel, a teenager faced with unexpected choices in a quest to find her way after a summer romance brings her more than she bargained for. Searching for hope, things spin out of control as she finds more issues while leaving out the possibilities to talk with friends, family, and God until a chance encounter helps her think.
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Janee
$34.99Add to cartJanee Stemper has worked her entire life to achieve fame and fortune. Her talent and beauty have helped launch her career as a successful actress. But her life is empty, full of anger and sadness. Who would have thought that four defining moments in Janee’s life would drive her far from love and God? She is on the very brink of destruction. Is there any way back? Will she discover hope and happiness in a most unexpected place or be forever doomed? Janee continues the dramatic epic of the Trevor family.
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Janee
$22.99Add to cartJanee Stemper has worked her entire life to achieve fame and fortune. Her talent and beauty have helped launch her career as a successful actress. But her life is empty, full of anger and sadness. Who would have thought that four defining moments in Janee’s life would drive her far from love and God? She is on the very brink of destruction. Is there any way back? Will she discover hope and happiness in a most unexpected place or be forever doomed? Janee continues the dramatic epic of the Trevor family.
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Trophy Wives Club
$18.99Add to cartHaley’s role as an LA princess is canceled when her producer husband finds someone younger for the part.
In her seven years as Jay’s wife, Haley found importance, relevance, and admiration. When he walks out, she loses not only her husband, but her very identity. Moving home to northern California, Haley begins to discover who she really is, until she finds out all alimony payments go through the strikingly handsome Hamilton Lowe, financial adviser to the stars.
Although she knows he’s nothing more than a spy for Jay, Haley takes his suggestion to attend what she dubs “The Trophy Wives Club,” a Bible study group composed of women who have been dealt a raw deal. In her friendships with these women and her budding relationship with Hamilton, Haley begins to find self-acceptance-not because of social standing, accomplishments or her appearance-but rather based on who God created her to be.
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Ultimate Life : A Novel
$16.00Add to cartA profound follow-up to the bestselling book and major motion picture, The Ultimate Gift. When Jason Stevens found out he had to jump through hoops to maybe get an unnamed inheritance from his billionaire grandfather, he was not amused. By the time he’d finished learning the lessons he’d become a different man. Ready to tackle the duties of running a multi-billion dollar trust, he is once again derailed, this time by his pugnacious family. Not content with their cattle ranches and oil fields, his aunts, uncles, and even his parents are determined to see every last dime entrusted to their own self-serving pockets.
With none of the reluctance he initially showed for the Gift, he eagerly accepts the challenge and pushes himself to prove not only to his family and the court but also to the world, that with determination and the simple tenets of the Gift, anyone can lead The Ultimate Life.
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Ultimate Gift : A Novel
$16.99Add to cartAn inspirational story of what truly matters in life.
What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out in Jim Stovall’s The Ultimate Gift.
Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom Stevens, his great-uncle, believes may be the last vestige of hope in the family.
“Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse for anything I would call promising, there does seem to be a spark of something in you that I hope we can fan into a flame. For that reason, I am not making you an instant millionaire.”What Stevens does give Jason leads to The Ultimate Gift. Young and old will take this timeless motivational story to heart.
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Ndoki : Trapped In The Web Of Witchcraft
$24.99Add to cartGain a whole new perspective on an alternative interpretation of life shared by millions in Africa south of the Sahara. Set in Angola and the Congo, this biographical novel is based on a true story. The reader becomes immersed in the practical day-to-day implications of a worldview which includes a nearly inescapable web of witchcraft. Titi, the story’s heroine, will have you smiling and shedding tears as you look at life through her youthful eyes.
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My Double Edged Life
$8.99Add to cartBook 2 of the Tomo series, My Double-Edged Life, finds Hana in worlds of trouble-two worlds, to be exact. At school she faces suspension when Rachel and Traci, classmates who dislike her just because she’s Japanese, make it look like she’s cheating on a test. While she tries to defend her reputation, another threat emerges, as animal-like ninjas from Argon Falls strike again-this time with reinforcements. Though badly outnumbered, Hana is not alone, and she is not unarmed. Her grandfather’s goofy, unmannered pet proves himself a worthy ally, and for the first time Hana wields the mighty Spirit Sword. Hana learns about the nature of truth as she battles lies and as she discovers more about this strange being called Tomo, the mysterious weapon he’s given her, and the role she’s been called to play. Truth is a powerful thing-but is it enough to help her prevail?
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I Was An Eighth Grade Ninja
$6.99Add to cartI Was a Eighth Grade Ninja, book 1 of the Tomo series, introduces Hana, a thirteen-year-old Japanese orphan struggling to adjust to life in San Francisco. Hana tries to feel at home in her grandfather’s house and does her best to fit in at her new school, but the only time things seem normal to her is when she’s honing her skills in her grandfather’s dojo, the studio where he teaches martial arts. And just as she’s learning to cope with one strange new world, Hana is forced to deal with another. Animal-like warriors from a different dimension invade her grandfather’s home, and Hana must use all her training to protect the only family she has left. When the secret of a mighty weapon is revealed, Hana discovers she is not who she thought she was-nor is Tomo, her grandfather’s strange little pet.
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Shack : Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
$15.99Add to cartMackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever.
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Spirit Of Sweetgrass
$17.99Add to cartEssie Mae Laveau Jenkins is a 78-year-old sweetgrass basket weaver who sits on the side of Hwy. 17 in the company of her dead husband, Daddy Jim. Inspired by her Auntie Leona, Essie Mae finally discovers her calling in life and weaves powerful “love baskets,” praying feverently over them to affect the lives of those who visit her roadside stand. When she’s faced with losing her home and her stand and being put in a nursing home, Daddy Jim talks her into coming on up to Heaven to meet sweet Jesus — something she’s always wanted to do. Once there, she reunites with Gullahs and African ancestors; but soon, her heavenly peace is disrupted, for she still has work to do. Now Essie Mae, who once felt powerless and invisible, must find the strength within her to keep her South Carolina Family from Falling apart.
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Violet Dawn
$17.99Add to cartSomething sinuous in the water brushed against Paige’s knee. She jerked her leg away. What was that? She rose to a sitting position, groped around with her left hand. Fine wisps wound themselves around her fingers. Hair? She yanked backward, but the tendrils clung. Something solid bumped her wrist. Paige gasped. With one frantic motion she shook her arm free, grabbed the side of the hot tub, and heaved herself out. Paige Williams slips into her hot tub in the blackness of night-and finds herself face to face with death. Alone, terrified, fleeing a dark past, Paige must make an unthinkable choice. In Violet Dawn, hurtling events and richly drawn characters collide in a breathless story of murder, the need to belong, and faith’s first glimmer. One woman’s secrets unleash an entire town’s pursuit, and the truth proves as elusive as the killer in their midst.
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Terror In Branco Grande
$9.99Add to cartIn Terror at Branco Grande, Mr. Michaels is misled by a request to transport “relief supplies” to South America. Instead, he is framed by a drug-smuggling ring and arrested, and Kate and Chad enter a life and death fight to prove his innocence before they’re deported – and their father faces a worse fate.
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Adelaide Piper : A Novel
$15.99Add to cartAdelaide Piper, small-town Gen-X debutante and renegade poetess, calls her own tune. But Piper’s tunes lead her and those closest to her to dangerous places. Tragedy and heartbreak mean a return to the very ground that she once cursed, though with a deeper appreciation for that southern heritage, however infirm it may be.
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Castles In The Sand
$18.99Add to cartHarvest House Print On Demand Title
In Castles in the Sand, the follow up to the first book in The Beach House series, author Sally John explores themes of forgiveness and redemption.When Susan and Drake Starr discover that their 20-year-old daughter Kenzie is pregnant, their lives are turned upside down. The news sends Drake, a pastor of a huge San Diego church, reelingand he sends Kenzie packing. Susan finds herself caught in the middle. Does loving Drake mean cutting ties with her only child? What will this path mean for her daughter? For herself?When Susan seeks the refuge of a beach house, a secret from her past resurfaces. This is a captivating story of how Gods mercy is evident when our foundations crumble.
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Joshua In A Troubled World
$16.00Add to cartThe bestselling Joshua series takes an invigorating, timely new turn as Girzone’s beloved hero spreads his message of love and compassion from the streets of our nation’s capital to the blood-soaked lands of the Middle East.
Joseph Girzone possesses a unique ability to make Jesus’ words and actions come to life for contemporary audiences. His fictional depictions of Jesus’ return to the present-day world-the Joshua series-have inspired millions of readers. Joshua in a Troubled World is at once a magnificent continuation of his perennially popular series and an enlightening perspective on the political paranoia and destructive acts of vengeance that fill the front pages of our daily newspapers. Arriving in Washington, D.C., Joshua walks along Pennsylvania Avenue with a cool detachment and determination that sets him apart from the bustling crowds. Under ordinary circumstances, he would no doubt be seen simply as a man wrapped in his own thoughts. But in these security-obsessed times, his Middle Eastern appearance and his spontaneous stops at various churches, temples, and mosques inevitably arouse suspicions. Taken into custody by two government agents, Joshua challenges the legal and moral justness of their actions and they reluctantly release him to continue his mission. It is the most difficult and controversial mission he has ever undertaken-a plan to unite Arab- and Jewish-Americans and to work with them to resolve the bitter wars and religious animosities in the Middle East.
Peopled with prominent figures such as Ariel Sharon, and moving from Washington to Beirut and then to Oslo while the peace accords are being hammered out, Joshua in a Troubled World explores the most explosive issues of our day and offers a realistic, compassionate assessment of the things that divide us and the beliefs that can serve as a foundation for a new, more peaceful world.
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Nick Gvyer
$29.99Add to cartNickGyver is the fictional sole-surviving grandson of Nicola Tesla, the inventor who developed Alternating Current and our worldwide electric grid and transmission system, motors, generators, transformers, fluorescent/ neon lights, solar cells, remote control, robotics, the automotive ignition system, the speaker, wireless radio, radar, X-rays, and more. NickGyver is a “Nick” name Nicolus got due to his inherited creative genius and ability to come up with a solution to anything. Nick began his inventive days at age three, in a poor village in Yugoslavia. His natural parents were killed in a village raid by mercenaries while he was performing electronic experiments in some nearby caves. Nick gets adopted by the Jamesons, both college professors residing in Connecticut, and continues inventing where his great grandfather left off. Because of his stand for Christ, he finds himself at war with the New World Order, a precursor to the rise of Antichrist.
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Nick Gyver : Nick Gyver Revealed The Battle Begins
$19.99Add to cartNickGyver is the fictional sole-surviving grandson of Nicola Tesla, the inventor who developed Alternating Current and our worldwide electric grid and transmission system, motors, generators, transformers, fluorescent/ neon lights, solar cells, remote control, robotics, the automotive ignition system, the speaker, wireless radio, radar, X-rays, and more. NickGyver is a “Nick” name Nicolus got due to his inherited creative genius and ability to come up with a solution to anything. Nick began his inventive days at age three, in a poor village in Yugoslavia. His natural parents were killed in a village raid by mercenaries while he was performing electronic experiments in some nearby caves. Nick gets adopted by the Jamesons, both college professors residing in Connecticut, and continues inventing where his great grandfather left off. Because of his stand for Christ, he finds himself at war with the New World Order, a precursor to the rise of Antichrist.
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Ill Accept The Charges
$10.99Add to cartHousewife and mother Ashley Hawthorne takes you into the harrowing corridors of a state prison to share the love of God. She was willing to risk her reputation to do what we are all called to do as Christians, trusting in her faith for strength and safety. God protected Ashley and her family when the befriended betrayed the purest friendship he would ever know. Experience trust beyond our earthly abilities as the Hawthornes share traits that have become nearly extinct and are charged with more than a collect call.
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Evil Among Us
$17.99Add to cartEvil moves among us in a constant search for prey. Though we often believe it is readily avoidable, sometimes evil can unsuspectingly creep into our lives through the mundane and commonplace. Jason Shepard discovered that evil had found him. With his family’s lives hanging in the balance and no sense of who he could trust, Jason has to rely on his faith in God to help him fight back and protect all he holds dear.
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RV There Yet
$17.99Add to cartRoad trip! Join three 40-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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Man Who Saved Christmas
$13.49Add to cartChristmas-only days away; plastic snowmen and glowing reindeer adorn the lawns of neighborhoods all across America. All is calm, all is bright, and yet there is something tragically wrong about this Christmas night. With swift passage through Congress, the Anti-Intolerance legislation was signed into law prohibiting the public display of religious symbols. The traditional centerpiece enjoyed by millions every Christmas, the Nativity Scene, is now gone. This is one of those perennial issues that often stir emotions to the brink. But taking a lighter approach to the argument, wouldn’t it be fun if, somehow, through some bizarre chain of events, the person who most fervently opposes open displays of religion, became the mouthpiece from which a fictitious law like the Anti-Intolerance bill, was overturned? This story brings to life a witty rendition of the political struggles fought every December over something as humble and yet powerful as the display of the Nativity Scene.
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Savannah By The Sea
$17.99Add to cartThe only constants in reporter Savannah Phillips’s life are her best friend Paige, her workplace tormenter Joshua, her steady father—and her crazed mother. In spite of that, she agrees to take a Florida vacation with her parents and enjoy some seaside “rest and relaxation” for a week. What could possibly go wrong? 320 pages, softcover from WestBow.
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Saved Folk In The House
$21.99Add to cartIn Part One, Saved Babies Daddies, Zakia, part tomboy and part princess, is left alone and a single parent. Hard- working and determined, she puts her hopes and dreams into her child, her career, and her new marriage. Still feeling a void in her life, she returns to church. But the more she becomes immersed in God, the more her life begins to crumbleuntil faith pulls her through. The story continues with Real Saved Folks. Nikki, the newly divorced best friend of Zakia, believes her life will improve if she joins a church she has watched on television for years. Instead, she finds more challenges. Falling for a younger man doesnt make her life easier, but she soon discovers that where her spirit resides is what truly matters. Finally, in Out of the Mouths of Saved Babies, the children, grandchildren, and friends of the earlier characters are gathered together for what will prove to be a very eventful summer where God will use children to show adults what true faith really means.
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When Crickets Cry
$17.99Add to cartIn a small town square of a sleepy Georgia town, seven-year-old Annie sits at her lemonade stand, raising money for her own heart transplant. At a nearby store, Reese flips through the newspaper, thinking about the latest boat he’s restoring. As a beat-up bread truck careens around the corner, a strong wind blows Annie’s money into the road. Reese looks up in time to see Annie’s yellow dress fluttering in the wind as she runs into the road. What happens next will change both of their lives forever. Richly atmospheric and evocative, with the kind of characters that move into your heart and take up residence, Charles Martin’s new novel will resonate with fans of God-haunted southern fiction, and with anyone who enjoys a solidly crafted, heart-touching story.
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Something That Lasts
$17.99Add to cartRising from his pew, Ted accuses Pastor David of an affair with his wife, then shoots himself—in full view of the preacher’s wife and 12-year-old son. The sound of the exploding gun fades, but still echoes years later in the hearts it shattered. Can they ever heal from the rage, lies, and fear? 336 pages, softcover from Integrity.
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5 People You Meet In Heaven
$17.99Add to cartIn this book, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you’ve ever thought about the afterlife–and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesday with Morrie, will treasure
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Who Would Know
$18.99Add to cartSixteen-year-old Rosalie Bennett, a high school Junior, learns her illness is a case of pregnancy. Jack Weaver, her boyfriend, becomes hostile and demands that Rosie get rid of her problem. Her parents feel the same way! But Rosie feels differently, yet she can’t explain why. Through trickery or fate, the world accidentally discovers Rosie’s secret. Jack denies being the father, and because he is popular, he is believed. Ugly rumors circulate, and issues arise, causing Rosie to be ostracized and threatened. Her life is changed drastically! However, a few people stand-by her. Thelma Feldman, her neighbor, finds hope in the situation and helps Rosie during her challenging time. Aisha Summers, a classmate, doesn’t like the way people are treating Rosie, and Brad Underwood, Rosie’s boss at the cinema, would like to become a closer friend. Rosie learns that no matter which decision she makes, her life will never be the same, she will live with this choice forever. ——————————————————————————– When Pope John Paul II speaks and writes about “the new evangelization”, he does so with a sense of urgency. He is uniquely aware of the problems that face the world in the 21st century. Many of these problems stem from a lack of understanding about “life issues”, especially abortion, which is the definitive moral issue of our time. Jean Nietubicz has addressed the issue ( for many young people it is still a “question”) of abortion through her novel “WhoWould Know?” As never before, the novel is becoming one of the greatest instruments of the new evangelization. Although most teenagers spend hours in front of the TV each day, many of them love to read in order to find relief from and answers to the problems that confront them each day. “WhoWould Know?” goes directly to the heart, more so than any sermon or classroom lecture could possibly do. The dialogues are real, the pace is just right and the lessons obvious. There should be at least one copy in every high school. Those of us who are engaged in young adult education owe a great debt to Jean Nietubicz. She has helped us proclaim the new evangelization in a way that young people can understand. It is the lesson of the heart. Father Joseph M. Doyle, SSJ President, St. Augustine High School New Orleans, LA
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Hot Flashes And Cold Cream
$14.99Add to cartMidlife isn’t a crisis for Clair Hayden until the day a former classmate fails to recognize her. Then her world spins out of control. With an empty nest, a body heading south, and a marital spark that seems to be sputtering, she knows she has to do something. But what? A job, the gym, a romantic getaway are all distinct possibilities. But the real challenge, Clair discovers, is learning to trust what she cannot see. That even while she’s “wasting away” on the outside, with God’s help she’s being renewed inwardly day by day.
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Grace At Low Tide
$17.99Add to cartDeVeaux DeLoach enjoys her privileged life on her family’s 150-year-old Edisto Island plantation. But her world turns upside down when her daddy declares bankruptcy and sells their home. Now her family lives in the caretaker’s cottage and works for the new Japanese owners. Can her stubborn faith give her hurting family hope for the future? A sensitive coming-of-age tale set amidst the beautiful low country. 320 pages, softcover from WestBow.
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Mixed Signals
$20.99Add to cartLove Is on the Air Belle O’Brien, the woman behind the warmest voice in Virginia radio, has one problem: Her oldies show on WPER-FM is a solid-gold hit, but her love life, at thirty-two years and counting, is an off-the-charts disaster. The pickings are slim in small-town Abingdon. Will it be smooth-talking Patrick Reese, the man who launched her radio career a decade earlier? Moody but handsome David Cahill, the chief engineer with a mysterious past and a new life in Christ? Or Matthew the Methodist, her pastor across the street? Surrounded by an on-air cast of colorful characters, Belle’s journey toward joy is filled with humor, heartache, and endless surprises. Norah Silver-Smyth, her friend and encourager, will join Belle in discovering that it’s never too late to listen to your heart.
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1 : A Novel
$18.99Add to cartJesus prayed in John 17 for His followers to be one. What will it take for this to become a reality? One small Montana town is about to find out. As one by one local churches are vandalized, and one is burned to the ground, two pastors from opposite ends of Christian belief strive to ignite unity. But opposition erupts from within as well as from without. As violence escalates and the stakes get higher, the outcome becomes more and more uncertain. ONE is their story.
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Sacrifice Of Honor
$18.99Add to cartShawn Miller, recently widowed from his wife Amanda, is no stranger to tragedy. Twenty-four years ago, his father John Miller, a decorated Vietnam hero, mysteriously died in a car crash. Inspired by his faith, the love of his daughter, and his newfound friendship with a beautiful teacher at his school, Shawn finds a new lease on life, until once again, tragedy occurs. While on a trip to Europe, the plane Shawn is on suddenly gets hijacked by the radical Islamic group al Jihad. Their leader, Muhammad Azeim, the most feared terrorist in the world, has vowed death and destruction to the United States. From a prison camp in Libya to a remote village in the jungles of Africa, Shawn must rely on his faith in God and the love of his family. He is also troubled over one burning question: Is this crisis somehow connected to John Miller’s death? This is the story of one man’s faith, courage, and above all, his quest for the truth.
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Crystal Lies
$17.99Add to cartShaken by her 19-year-old son’s crystal-meth addiction, Glennis Harmon is further devastated by the discovery of her high-profile attorney husband’s affair. Plunging into the role of rescuer, Glennis is determined to save Jacob at any cost. Will that high price include her relationship with her daughter, her marriage—and her own sanity?
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Trial Movie Edition
$17.99Add to cartA murder in a small Georgia town is at the center of this legal drama, written by a real-life lawyer! When a wealthy young college student is found dead in Dennison Springs, her male companion claims he knows nothing about it. Attorney Kent McClain takes on his case, but it is Kent’s life that undergoes examination as a personal trial brings him to his knees.
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Boo Who : A Novel
$19.99Add to cartWhen horror-novelist-turned-Christian Wolfe “Boo” Boone quits writing, the tourist-haunted Skary, Indiana, becomes a ghost town at a frightening pace. Now with his closet cleared of skeletons, Boo must sell cars to scare up a living—and Skary must fish for funds without a marketing hook. Meanwhile Boone’s fiance, Ainsley Parker, discovers success as a domestic diva. Can “Boone town” boom again . . . without Boo?
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Winter Winds
$18.99Add to cartPastor Trevelyan returns to his congregation with a surprise – his estranged wife. Church discord and a sinister luggage mix-up force the stubborn spouses to take a new look at each other. As Dori and Trev face physical and spiritual danger together, their marriage of convenience becomes one of love and commitment.
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Dead Dont Dance
$17.99Add to cartLast October, after the soybeans had peaked at four feet, the corn spiraled to almost double that, and the wisteria had shed its purple, a breeze picked up, pushed out the summer heat, and woke Maggie. She rolled over, tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Let’s go swimming.” We held hands down to the river where Maggie took a swan dive into the South Carolina moonlight.
And so the story begins for Dylan and Maggie Styles, a young couple in love, who wait expectantly for the birth of their first son. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room, and their child is delivered stillborn. When Maggie hemorrhages and slips into a coma, Dylan too slips into what can only be described as a walking coma, holding vigil at Maggie’s bedside. Usually tough and self-reliant, an outdoorsman and a farmer, Dylan finds that everything he has known and relied upon, even his deepest sense of who he is as a person, is suddenly thrown into doubt. In a desolate place, naked and alone, he asks “Why live?” and hopes someone is listening who has the answer. Through friends and grace-filled moments of insight, the defenses around Dylan slowly break away, but it will take a second tragedy_and an anxious period of wrestling with God_to truly awaken him from his stupor and open him up to a new life.
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Churchin Is Big Business
$27.49Add to cartChurchin’ is Big Business is a modern-day adventure about six uniquely different people from all walks of life who have one thing in common: a need for a relationship with God. This is their story…. Johnny Ray Moore: He just found out that he has been chosen to be the firstround draft pick for the NBA. Does he play ball or does he answer the call? Leeza Piddler: This single mother leaves everything behind to answer the call. Will she continue her journey or fall in love? Vivian Daisie: She runs from a broken relationship. Will her heart be broken again? Shabba Lanier: He is the center of baby momma drama. Does he find peace? Smooth Johnson: This former player finds love.Will it last? Santiago Martinez: He is described as every woman’s fantasy. Does he have what it takes to be a true friend?
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Brink Of Death
$14.99Add to cartBook one of the new edge-of-your-seat Hidden Faces series, featuring forensic artist Annie Kingston Annie Kingston moves to Grove Landing for safety and quiet_and finds herself face to face with evil. The noises, faint, fleeting, whispered into her consciousness like wraiths in the night. Twelve-year-old Erin Willit opened her eyes to darkness lit only by the dim green nightlight near her closet door and the umbra of a street lamp through her front window. She felt her forehead wrinkle, the fingers of one hand curl as she tried to discern what had awakened her. Something was not right. An oak tree lifted gnarled branches between the street lamp and her window, its leaves casting eerie spider-shadows across the far wall. When she’d been younger, Erin had asked that a small lamp on the desk by that wall be left on at night. Anything to dispel the jerking dances of those leaves. Lately she could watch the dark trembling across the posters of pop stars on her wall and be unafraid. But not tonight. On this night the shadows writhed and twitched. Erin listened . . . When Annie’s neighbor, Lisa Willit, is killed by an intruder in her home, Sheriff’s detectives are left with little evidence. Lisa’s daughter, Erin, saw the killer, but she’s too traumatized to give a description. The detectives grow desperate. Because of her background in art, Annie is asked to question Erin and draw a composite. But Annie knows little about forensic art or the sensitive interview process. A nonbeliever, she finds herself begging God for help. What if her lack of experience leads Erin astray? The detectives could end up searching for a face that doesn’t exist. Leaving the real killer free to stalk the neighborhood . . .
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True Self Society
$23.99Add to cartWhen the chips were down-when things seemed at their bleakest-when all of their worst fears were coming true-six very different people gathered together in the heart of London and helped each other to change their lives. They helped each other to become the people they were truly meant to be. They helped each other to replace fear with confidence, doubt with faith, despair with joy. This is their story.
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True Self Society
$15.49Add to cartWhen the chips were down-when things seemed at their bleakest-when all of their worst fears were coming true-six very different people gathered together in the heart of London and helped each other to change their lives. They helped each other to become the people they were truly meant to be. They helped each other to replace fear with confidence, doubt with faith, despair with joy. This is their story.
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Forever New
$16.49Add to cartYoung Dan Hunt reluctantly accepts the invitation of his Bible college classmate to make Saturday night visits to witness for Christ in the waterfront area of Port Palms. This community has long been known as a cesspool of crime, immorality, drunkenness, and drug addition. He, however, becomes deeply involved with the troubled people he meets and returns often to help them. Dan decides he should continue serving in the waterfront community after graduation instead of accepting the pastorate of a prestigious church. His fiancee breaks their engagement. A mounting number of problems troubles Dan, including the efforts of the waterfront’s “Jezebel” to gain his affection. With the help of others, however, he continues his work, and by God’s grace and power, he eventually sees a new day come to the waterfront, as many testify that in Christ “all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
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Maggies Miracle
$32.00Add to cartMegan Wright spent one unforgettable summer week with a boy when they were both teens. And despite a lifetime of heartache and bad choices, she has never let go of his magical definition of love, even if she has trouble believing in it. After college Megan settled for a relationship of convenience. Now she’s a high powered attorney and, after the death of her husband two years ago, has been looking for help with her lonely young son.
Across town, Casey Cummins is still dealing with the tragic loss of his wife. His search for meaning and hope leads him to contact the Manhattan Children’s Organization, who connects him with a fatherless child. Life suddenly takes a series of unusual twists, and soon Megan will learn that the teenage boy from all those years ago actually kept his promise, and the miracle she prayed for as a girl is only a breath away.
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Mercy Mercy Me
$36.00Add to cartUnable to get over the death of his wife, psychotherapist Dwayne Gradison meets former actress and Christian Nina Jordan but finds he is unable to pursue his feelings for her, a situation that is tested by his subsequent relationship with a scandalous evangelistic performer.
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Boo : A Novel
$18.99Add to cartTalk about Working out Your Faith with Fear and Trembling.
The biggest thing to happen to Skary, Indiana, is renowned horror novelist Wolfe Boone-or, “Boo,” as the locals fondly call him. For the past sixteen years, the reclusive writer has been the town’s greatest attraction, having unintentionally turned the once-struggling Skary into a thriving tourist-trap for the dark side: from the Haunted Mansion restaurant, famous for its “bloody fingers” (fries splattered with ketchup) to Spooky’s Bookstore (where employees dress like the walking dead).
But when a newly reformed Wolfe suddenly quits the genre and subsequently starts to pursue Skary’s favorite girl-next-door, Ainsley Parker, the little town made famous by his writings becomes truly horrified. Soon, a scheme is plotted to put the fright back into Skary-and get their most famous resident out of love and back into the thrill business.
Filled with humor, small town charm, and a gentle message of enduring faith, Boo shows how even the most colorful group of busybodies and hypocrites can become a community changed forever by God.
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Finding Alice
$19.99Add to cartBright, inquisitive, and excited about her life ahead, Alice Laxton seems no different than any other college girl. But when a genetic time bomb detonates, strange experiences threaten to break her grip on reality. Carlson weaves a raw yet poignant tale of one woman’s journey through schizophrenia toward hope, recovery, and spiritual healing.
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Sliver Of Presence
$16.99Add to cartThe sunset was a sliver of proof that a place outside the prison walls of flesh existed, and the never born resided there, frolicking with the never met, and he, an invalid castaway, could feel it beckoning him, calling for him through the wide open fields. “All of flesh is but a purifier of souls,” it said. Simon and David are born on a small farm, a Garden of Eden. Their grandfather and Rufus work the farm, their grandmothers work the family, and their mother works magic. Their father is Jesse. Football and alcohol are the flesh gods of south Georgia. Jesse worships both. Simon and David pay for Jesse’s sins. The price is steep in flesh. They both love Elizabeth. She is far too weak for what she must endure. At sunset, when the house had cooled enough to allow intruders, and the golds of the fields had gone, all that remained were shed crosses, of straw and wood and stone. The bright orange from the fire now covered the sky, God’s work on a canvas of air. The flesh that cowers from demons has the heaviest cross to bear, for in all things can be found heaven, and it is always sunset, somewhere.
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Autumn Dreams
$17.99Add to cartCassandra Merton, newly forty and never married, is intrigued and intimidated by the rich forty-four-year-old bachelor who arrives at her Seaside, New Jersey, bed-and-breakfast. Management and finance specialist Dan Harmon is there to contemplate his life’s significance as a result of witnessing the September 11 tragedy. Meanwhile, Cass dares to resist being the family doormat for the first time in her ife, as she struggles to care for her teenage niece and nephew as well as her aging, deteriorating parents. Strengthened by each other, the two Baby Boomers dedicate themselves to untangling life’s puzzles – a local mystery.
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Assassin : Attack On America
$20.99Add to cartThis is an adventure novel about two antagonists representing opposite poles of ethics and morality. An Iraqi revolutionary, Sabah Yamani, one of the world’s foremost assassins, conspires to attack America by spreading toxic mold on midwestern wheat fields. She kills Admad Jamal, her co-conspirator, and meets and eventually marries Liam Kirwan, a rogue IRA terrorist. They assassinate Anatoly Malikov, a Russian general who offered to sell them the toxin. Sabah and Liam arrive in America and choose the farm of Angus Finney in Nebraska as the first stage in blackmailing the U.S. government. Kirby McCormick, a half-breed Stockbridge Indian from Wisconsin, is a top Navy SEAL. He leaves the Navy and heads west, where he finds love with Jenny Finney. Kirby has a long-standing feud with Sabah who had tortured and killed his fiancee. Aware of Sabah’s intentions, Kirby heads a SEAL team to stop her. This ends in a violent climax.
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Assassin : Attack On America
$32.99Add to cartThis is an adventure novel about two antagonists representing opposite poles of ethics and morality. An Iraqi revolutionary, Sabah Yamani, one of the world’s foremost assassins, conspires to attack America by spreading toxic mold on midwestern wheat fields. She kills Admad Jamal, her co-conspirator, and meets and eventually marries Liam Kirwan, a rogue IRA terrorist. They assassinate Anatoly Malikov, a Russian general who offered to sell them the toxin. Sabah and Liam arrive in America and choose the farm of Angus Finney in Nebraska as the first stage in blackmailing the U.S. government. Kirby McCormick, a half-breed Stockbridge Indian from Wisconsin, is a top Navy SEAL. He leaves the Navy and heads west, where he finds love with Jenny Finney. Kirby has a long-standing feud with Sabah who had tortured and killed his fiancee. Aware of Sabah’s intentions, Kirby heads a SEAL team to stop her. This ends in a violent climax.
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Grazer 1
$15.99Add to cartAsteroids and comets travel through our solar system like runaway freight trains on a collision course with anything that might come in their way. Earth has had its experiences with these planet-colliding objects before, including one that crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula some 65 million years ago, causing what scientists believe today to be the Ice Age. It will happen again. The question to ask is when? Hale McCormick Trask (H.M.) is an ordinary person waiting for direction in life when he logs onto an Internet contest that will change his life forever. The winner spends two weeks aboard Grazer I, an international solar-array space station used to study ultraviolet light, near earth objects, and short period comets that come in contact with the sun. What he does not realize is that his life is about to be changed from fame to destiny. What starts out as a space contest for fame and recognition just could end up in the ultimate struggle for survival for him and all humanity.
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October 16th : A Novel
$15.49Add to cartOctober 16th is a refreshing contemporary Christian romance novel. The pages will come alive to enter hearts with hope and faith where there is none. This is a journey through JaNae Bogart’s life. She realizes that she has left the Lord out of her life and decides to put him back in again. When JaNae Bogart loved a man, she loved with all of herself deep from within. She gave new meaning to the word “passion.”All she wanted was just a tiny bit of that love returned to her, which never seemed to happen. When dreams of going to college and becoming a journalist were shattered, JaNae takes to the world in a different direction. After a life that had fallen apart too many times, JaNae wakes up from an attempted suicide to find the genuine love of her life-one who would love her for eternity, Jesus Christ.His spoken promises would all come to pass. Demitri was a man with more pride than the word itself. After getting close to being married, he decided to become the oldest bachelor alive, never again letting another women enter that special place in his heart.He put all his love, energy, and emotions into his business until he laid his eyes on JaNae Bogart. After all the ups and downs, JaNae and Demitri lose their pride, expose themselves, and let the Lord be the head of their lives.
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Gideons Gift : A Novel
$30.00Add to cartOne long-ago Christmas, Earl Gibson lost the two things most precious to him: his wife and daughter. Angry and heartbroken, he ended up living on the streets and abandoned any belief he’d once had in God.
Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that “Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us.” Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas–and he is just as determined to rebuff her. It will take a miracle for Earl to come to understand the true meaning of Christmas. But if he can accept what Gideon wants to give him, he might find that he can return the favor with a precious gift of his own.
In GIDEON’S GIFT, Karen Kingsbury reminds us that Christmas is still a time of miraculous possibilities if only we reach out to those around us.
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Acts By Email
$26.49Add to cartRead ACTS BY E-MAIL and you will discover the delightfully creative writing of Martha Hook. This book peels back the layers of quaint, small-town living to reveal unexpected psychological and spiritual tensions. It will certainly prompt you to contemplate how life is not always as it appears. Expect to have your own emotions stirred as you watch how the characters come to terms with unusual events.
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Justifiable Intent
$26.99Add to cartIs there a doctor in the house? Has he espoused the Hippocratic oath? Have his fellow professionals done so? And what ethical principles that should be abided by in a doctor’s treatment of patients evolve from this oath?
Follow the experiences of a young doctor, Jonathon McMasters, as he works his way through the channels of medical practice and its problems, both ethical and personal. Meet his family, his fiance’, his colleagues and patients. Accompany him as he wrestles with his problems, and find out what goes on in “doctor-patient” and “doctor-doctor” relationships. And rejoice with him when happy things happen.
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Summer Shadows
$15.99Add to cartThe car accident that killed Abby Patterson’s husband and daughter has left her with a limp and chronic pain. Still, Abby stikes out, determined to build a new life for herself away from her overbearing parents. Her perfect cottage home on the beach has one tiny irritant: Marsh Winslow, her landlord. But when Abby witnesses a hit-and-run accident and events make it clear that Abby is now a target, she and Marsh join forces to uncover a dangerous secret. Together they discover that God is in the business of putting broken lives back together so that they are more beautiful than ever.
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Pascals Wager
$17.99Add to cartConfirmed atheist Jill McGavock faces the mental deterioration of her brilliant mother. In a quest to cope with this devastating situation, Jill seeks out philosophy professor Sam Hunt. Savvy Sam challenges Jill to make “Pascal’s wager”_to “bet” that God exists by acting as if he does. The results not only change Jill’s mind but transform her life in ways she never could have imagined. An exciting, faith-building thriller!
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Swan House : A Novel (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cart30 Chapters
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A powerful novel of love, compassion and self-discovery.Mary Swan Middleton has always taken for granted the advantages of her family’s wealth. But a tragedy that touches all of Atlanta sends her reeling in grief.
When the family maid challenges her to reach out to the less fortunate as a way to ease her own pain, Mary Swan meets Carl-and everything changes. For although Carl is her opposite in nearly every way, he has something her privileged life could not give her. And when she seeks his help to uncover a mystery, she learns far more than she ever could have imagined.
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Joshua In The Holy Land
$15.99Add to cartBut home is no more peaceful than it was during the “time long ago” remembered by Joshua. Violent, seemingly intractable disputes poison the very air. It falls to Joshua, retracing the path taken two millennia ago, to lead his followers to peace in this world as well as in the next. Joshua in the Holy Land will carry every reader back to where it all began.
Back to Nazareth and Bethlehem.
Back to Capernaum and Bethany.
Back to Jerusalem.
Full of resonances with the Gospels, Joshua in the Holy Land is a profoundly satisfying addition to the Joshua phenomenon.
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Joshua And The Shepherd
$15.99Add to cartJOSHUA AND THE SHEPHERD
A GENTLEMAN NAMED JOSHUA AND A SIMPLE MESSAGE THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE THE CHURCH…
It is the end of a bitter cold winter. A crowd of people files into a cathedral to celebrate the consecration of a new bishop-a good man, they think, strict in doctrine but capable of compassion. A man of tradition, not of reform. A ‘company man.’ His name is David Campbell.
And sitting in the last pew of the cathedral is a clean-shaven man of ordinary build, with gentle hazel eyes. His name is Joshua.
Within twenty-four hours of his first encounter with Joshua, David Campbell will propose the most far-reaching reforms in a millennium, reforms to destroy sectarian barriers, reforms to change the direction of the church, reforms to return Christianity to its founders with a simple message. With Joshua as his mentor, David Campbell-the Shepherd-preaches to Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, and Jews of the universal truth of God’s love. It is a message that changes everyone it touches. And no one who reads Joshua and the Shepherd will ever forget it.
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Going Somewhere : A Dan And Bea Adventure
$14.95Add to cartGoing Somewhere””: A Novel, by George Grant, is the first novel in the adventures of Dan and Bea, an extraordinarily ordinary middle-class and middle-aged couple. While to outside eyes they appear to be living the American dream, inwardly they are disturbed by the notion that their lives are going nowhere. They begin a hilarious sequence of cultural, emotional, and spiritual adventures.””
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On The Edge
$18.95Add to cartRichard Sullivan has a problem. His average American family is on the edge of ruin and they don’t even realize it. The Sullivans are struggling through everyday life with a dark power over them so strong that they cannot find their way-a power that is filling their minds with voices of greed, hate, pride and temptation. And now the very fabric of their lives is unraveling before their eyes. If only they would listen a little harder to the other voice trying to get through to tem-the voice of hope, forgiveness and love-before it’s too late.
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Joshua And The City
$17.00Add to cartThe fourth installment in the Joshua series, Joshua and the City reaches some encouraging and very important conclusions. In an urban community where poverty, senseless violence, racism and AIDS seem like insurmountable problems, Joshua manages to sow seeds of renewal with his words of love. He reaches out to every person with transforming openness, showing how to regenerate the city and bring about undreamed – of economic revitalization.
Yet, many other problems remain that money cannot help. And it is, most importantly, to these that Joshua address his healing message. In a world of despairing doubt, Joshua and the City gives the reader hopeful answers that lead toward peace and understanding.
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Always A Brother
$32.99Add to cartWho is Johnny Amund? He would describe himself as a frustrated man, a log-truck driver and mediocre employee. Mary Amund would explain it differently; the serious and purposeful young man she married has been dealt blows that are twisting him into a bitter recluse who doesn’t seem to care anymore.
An altercation at work gets Johnny’s attention and embarrassed, he evaluates his lifestyle and choices. Johnny realizes his life and marriage are worth saving and begins trying. Mary is ecstatic to see changes in her husband and is encouraged by her father to stick with the big trucker. When logging operations are shut-down during fire season, they take a trip and Johnny realizes what he has been taking for granted–a caring wife who has supported him through his pain and anger. Staggered by the sadness and loss his actions have caused, and how close he is to losing her, Johnny sets his mind to make things right.
The changes in Johnny are noticed and appreciated by his boss and coworkers and friendships grow. When a violent abduction of a newly hired trucker occurs, Johnny is surprised at how swiftly he moves from spectator to active participant, and the measure of trust he has recently earned propels him into new responsibility. Reflection on training he received as a child helps Johnny become the solid and caring person he used to be.
Unanswered questions abound regarding the abduction and through the busy winter, fear and uncertainty in the company give Johnny and Mary opportunity to share their growing strength with coworkers and in doing so, build rich friendships. At the same time, circumstances from Johnny’s past loom large. Mary helps him as he does his best to remember the positive and not obsess about the unknown. But when an unexpected and tragic message from the past arrives, Mary worries their newfound happiness will not survive.
Set in the beautiful Central Interior of British Columbia, this story revolves around an old Norse proverb and a young man with no blood family who reclaims his life and in doing so becomes the true brother he was expected to be.
