Contemporary Fiction
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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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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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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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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.