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A Purpose Under Heaven
By Derek V. Smith
Review by Roseanna White
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Technology—a force that defines our age. Alone, it is
nothing. Just a tool, neither good nor bad. But as a tool, it can be used for
great things or evil things depending on the hand that wields it. This is a
truth that Derek V. Smith, CEO and chairman of a firm dealing in decision-making
technology, is well acquainted with. In A Purpose Under Heaven, Smith
sets out to tell a story that will hammer this point home.
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June Rain
By Brandon Knightley
Review by Irene Grove |
This book
tells the story of a high school boy falling in love. The author does a great
job letting you into the mind of the main character. Dante, the teenage boy and
main character, feels things deeply but quietly. He notices a girl in class and
is drawn to her. I love how the story centers on the young mans viewpoint and
yet you get to know the other characters as well. Even as an adult reading this
story you can relate to the emotions the characters feel. The girl Dante is
attracted to is Helen. She comes alive in the pages with her well written
responses to Dante’s advances. Her family life is an intricate part of the
story and helps you understand her character even better. She has an adorable
younger sister, Maristella, whose interaction with Dante is priceless.
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A Promise to Remember
By Kathryn Cushman
Review by Sarah Katie |
Andie and Melanie both lost their teenage sons in the same accident. When
Melanie decides to defend her son’s legacy, things start turning sour. Andie
blames herself for her son’s death. Will both learn to forgive each other and
themselves? Read the full review
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One Smooth Stone
By Marcia Lee Laycock
Review by Leslie Granier |
Alex Donnelly, a twenty-one year old man,
receives news that he is to receive a substantial amount of money from a trust
his birth mother set up for him years ago before she deserted him. Upon learning
the source of the money, the anger Alex feels toward his mother for causing him
to grow up in an abusive foster home surfaces. He begins a journey on which he
must deal with his past and learn how to forgive those who have wronged him.
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Family Secrets
By Elisabeth H. Bantz
Review by Bonnie Engstrom |
One of the most fascinating and memorable
books I’ve read in a long time. Occasionally a heart-stopper, and often bringing
me to tears, Family Secrets was impossible to put down. Yet the story is
so intricately layered, I found myself rereading some portions – not for
clarification, but because I had become absorbed in the drama of the narrative
and wanted to relive each spell-binding layer.
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One Little Secret
By Allison Bottke
Review by Roseanna White |
In a world that’s obsessed with
celebrity and reality TV, Allison Bottke brings a new novel on the scene that’ll
satiate the appetites of those American Idol lovers, and nurture their
souls a little too. And it all starts with One Little Secret. . .
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The Election
by Jerome Teel
Reviewed by Jake Chism |
Jerome Teel has penned a worthy
addition to the ever expanding market of faith-based legal thrillers.
Vice-President Ed Burke has long had his eyes on the Presidency, and he is so
close he can taste it. His opponent, Mac Foster, is a faithful Christian who
believes God is leading him to be the next President. In order to ensure
victory, Vice-President Burke joins force with the Federalists, a trio of
power-hungry men who are secretly planning to take over the country. They will
stop at nothing to make sure their man wins.
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The Divine Appointment
By Jerome Teel
Review by Roseanna White |
In Tennessee, a young lawyer is murdered,
and the main suspect is Dr. Tag Grissom. Eli Faulkner is hired to defend the
arrogant cardiologist, but the deeper he gets into the case, the more questions
arise—and the fewer answers he’s sure about. He agreed to defend Tag mainly
because Anna Grissom pled her husband’s case so genuinely. But even her story
seems to have holes. So who really murdered Jessica Caldwell and her unborn
baby?
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As I Have Loved You
By Nikki Arana
Review by Roseanna White |
Wow. Really, that’s the first word that springs to mind
when you ask me to sum up Nikki Arana’s new release, As I Have Loved You.
She grabbed me in the prologue, when she parts the misty veil between heaven and
earth and reveals the plan of God on one boy’s life, and she kept me hooked
until the last page. This book made me cry—which is a real feat—and kept me
thinking for days on end. Read the full review
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The Heir
By Paul Robertson
Review by Cara Putman
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I've noticed a trend in the
books I'm seeing from Bethany House. More of their books seem targeted at men,
and this one is no exception. My husband thoroughly enjoyed this book, and beat
me to finishing it off. He's been waiting for me to finish it so we could talk
about what worked and didn't.
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Summer of Light
By W. Dale Cramer
Review by Laura V. Hilton
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Mick Brannigan is a man’s man. A construction worker who’s
changed his share of diapers, but is horrified when his wife suggests that he
quit his job to stay home with their son, Dylan, when he is expelled from day
care due to inappropriate behavior. Mick has to work. If someone has to stay
home with the kids, why can’t it be Layne?
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In High Places
By Tom Morrisey
Review by David White
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In High Places is not an
average coming of age story. It’s a story of continued hope and faith made real
by the fact that even years later the narrator continues to struggle with those
events.
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Sunrise
By Karen Kingsbury
Review by Roseanna White
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Katy Hart and Dayne Matthews are
finally approaching their wedding day. The time they spend together in Indiana
draws them closer, but Dayne’s fears about the paparazzi are always in the back
of his mind. What will it take to have the wedding of their dreams without it
being crashed by his continual nightmares?
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A PAGAN’S NIGHTMARE
By Ray Blackston
Review by Laura V. Hilton |
Who’s ever heard of a reverse
rapture?
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WEDGEWOOD GREY
By John Aubrey Anderson
Review by Laura V. Hilton |
Years earlier, the small
Mississippi community of Cat Lake suffered from spiritual warfare, but now time
has passed, and many of its previous residents have either moved away or passed
on—but the method is unlike any other community. The previous war between
spiritual forces will always be remembered.
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The
Recital
By: Robert Elmer
Review by Laura V. Hilton |
Gerrit Appledoorn and Joan Horton are dating, and
things are perfect. At least until Gerrit goes over to Joan’s house one
evening after she burned her supper and when he takes out the trash he
discovers a letter from a school of music in Chicago buried in the
trash. Gerrit wonders what it’s about, but he doesn’t want to confess to
Joan that he’s been digging around in her garbage. So he waits for Joan
to mention it. Read the full review |
Charade
By Gilbert Morris
Review by Laura V. Hilton |
Ollie Benson is a computer video repairman who loves to
invent computer programs in his spare time. At the urging of a friend, he sends
his latest program in to a company and, to his surprise, they want to buy it!
Suddenly, Ollie is rich beyond belief and everyone wants to be his friend. Even
as they are repulsed by his obesity, they are drawn by his wealth.
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Life Support
by Robert Whitlow
Review by Roseanna White |
If I had to tell you my
opinions of Robert Whitlow’s Life Support in the way of a
movie critic or a Roman emperor, it would be as two thumbs way
up. As anyone who has read my reviews can attest to, I’m a big
fan of the real-life characters who exist in this world,
not a rosy picture of it. So I really, really appreciated that
this novel presented the hard choices of life that are
universal, not the ones the just strike Christians. Indeed,
through the first chunk of the book, I actually wondered how any
Christian aspect was going to be thrown in, since all of our
characters were as closed-off to faith as they could be. And
when it did enter, it was gracefully, subtly, and so beautifully
that it was really no wonder it caught hold. The Lord moves in
many ways, and Life Support gives us a picture of several
of them, both the gentle and the sudden.
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WORLDS COLLIDE
By Alison Strobel
Review by
Laura V. Hilton
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Jada Eastman thinks she has seen it all. As a biography
writer for big Hollywood stars, she no longer looks at them through rose-colored
glasses. The stars are all the same disillusioned folk who stumbled into the
limelight and then turned to a life of drugs, alcohol, and sex in order to try
to fill a void in their life. And when that doesn’t work, they turn to a variety
of different religions, none of which fill the void either.
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