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The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Author Jacqueline Woodson and illustrator Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone. “There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you.” It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.
Now by Antoinette Portis (ages 2 – 6)
This picture book captures a child’s lighthearted affection for the here and now. Even the very youngest listener will enjoy both the satisfaction of list making and this delicious embrace of the moment.
Maybe God is like That Too by Jennifer Grant
Every child wonders where God lives or what God is like. In this book a grandma invites her grandson to pay attention to where he sees the fruit of the Spirit. An ordinary day in the city opens this young boy’s eyes to God’s spirit at work around him.
Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner
In this gorgeous picture book, the author brings to life a secret underwater world. Readers will discover the plants and animals that make up the rich, interconnected ecosystem of a mountain pond. Over the pond, the water is a mirror. But under the pond is a hidden world of minnows, beavers, tadpoles, and secrets waiting to be discovered.
How to Survive as a Firefly by Kristen Foote
If you’ve ever wondered how these fascinating beetles grow and glow, and you like to laugh while you learn, then this book is for you!
He is Risen: Rocks tell the Story of Easter by Patti Rokus
Rokus has produced another remarkable children’s picture book combining her visionary rock sculptures, engaging narrative, and Scripture texts to tell the story of Jesus’ healing and teaching ministry, his death and resurrection, and his ascension into heaven and promised return.
A Kite for Moon by Jane Yolen
Yolen tells a heartfelt story about a young boy’s fascination and unlikely friendship with the moon. A little boy notices a sad Moon. He sends up kites to her, even writing notes to Moon promising he will come see her someday. This promise propels him through years of study and training to be an astronaut!
Paseka: A Little Elephant, Brave by Ruth James
Based on a true story, this is the incredible story of an orphaned elephant calf. Having escaped the poachers who killed her mother Paseka now faces other dangers in the African savanna. But when she mistakes a safari jeep for her mother, the miraculous happens!
We Are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines
In We are the Gardeners, Joanna and the kids chronicle the adventures of starting their own family garden. From their failed endeavors, obstacles to overcome, and all the knowledge they’ve gained along the way, the Gaines family shares how they learned to grow a happy, successful garden.
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All Saints - Micheal Spurlock and Jeanette Windle
Newly ordained, Michael Spurlock's first assignment is to pastor All Saints, a struggling church with twenty-five devoted members and a mortgage well beyond its means. The best option may be to close the church rather than watch it wither any further. But when All Saints hesitantly risks welcoming a community of Karen refugees from Burma--former farmers scrambling for a fresh start in America--Michael feels they may be called to an improbable new mission.
Michael must choose between closing the church and selling the property--or listening to a still, small voice challenging the people of All Saints to risk it all and provide much-needed hope to their new community. Together, they risk everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
Discover the true story that inspired the film while also diving deeper into the background of the Karen people, the church, and how a community of believers rally to reach out to those in need, yet receive far more than they dared imagine.
The Con Man's Daughters - Candice Curry
When Candice Curry was a little girl, she put her hand in her father's back pocket so that she wouldn't get lost in large crowds. Little did she know that as she followed him, he was plying his trade: conning people. Her family drove stolen cars, lived in stolen houses, and shopped with stolen credit cards. Drug use was regular, as were visits from strange people who were trying to track her father down. Though she eventually cut ties with her father, Candice could not ignore the scars that were left from her childhood.
This is her story, one steeped in secrets but one that, ultimately, led her to a place of forgiveness and freedom. As she struggles to understand her criminal father, as well as her own imperfect life, Candice comes to realize that we are not defined by our circumstances but rather by how we react to those circumstances. She's found peace in the knowledge that God doesn't love us because we're perfect--but because he is.
Play the Man - by Mark Batterson
In this inspiring call to something greater, Mark Batterson helps men understand what it means to be a man of God by unveiling seven virtues of manhood. Mark shares inspiring stories of manhood, and couples those stories with practical ideas about how to disciple the next generation of men who will put God first, family second and career third.
God’s Crime Scene for Kids - by J. Warner Wallace and Susie Wallace
- In this book, you will learn how to use clues to solve Jason’s mystery, and you will discover how evidence in the universe points to the existence of God. Learn how to be a detective and find out how to make the case for God’s existence!
Threads of Suspicion - by Dee Henderson
Dee Henderson has written another exciting criminal investigation fictional novel featuring Evie Blackwell, whose reputation as a top investigator for the Illinois State Police has landed her an appointment to the governor’s Missing Person’s Task Force. Evie opens old wounds in a close knit neighbourhood over the disappearance of a college student.
The Christmas Blessing - by Melody Carlson
A heartwarming story of a young woman determined to give her baby a better life. Not long after she receives the news in 1944 that her baby’s father was shot down in the Pacific, Amelia Richards finds herself jobless and broke. She has nowhere to turn for help but her infant’s paternal grandparents. The only problem is, they don’t know that she – or their grandson – exists.
Always Watching - by Lynette Eason
This romantic suspense novel is one of the Elite Guardians series. When it becomes clear that popular psychiatrist and radio personality Wade Savage has a stalker, his father secretly hires Elite Guardians to protect his son. But when Wade’s bodyguard is attacked and nearly killed, agency owner Olivia Edwards must step in and fill the gap.
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
God is wrath? Or God is Love?
In his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards’s wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell.
What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father’s love—revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ—for all prodigal sons and daughters.
In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us?
Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love.
Many Sparrows - Lori Benton
Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would…
In 1774, the Ohio-Kentucky frontier pulses with rising tension and brutal conflicts as Colonists push westward and encroach upon Native American territories. The young Inglesby family is making the perilous journey west when an accident sends Philip back to Redstone Fort for help, forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail.
When Philip does not return and Jacob disappears from the wagon under the cover of darkness, Clare awakens the next morning to find herself utterly alone, in labor and wondering how she can to recover her son...especially when her second child is moments away from being born.
Clare will face the greatest fight of her life, as she struggles to reclaim her son from the Shawnee Indians now holding him captive. But with the battle lines sharply drawn, Jacob’s life might not be the only one at stake. When frontiersman Jeremiah Ring comes to her aid, can the stranger convince Clare that recovering her son will require the very thing her anguished heart is unwilling to do—be still, wait and let God fight this battle for them?
Invitation
Gathering four stories from four bestselling author friends, Invitation is the first collection in the ongoing Harbingers series.
In "The Call" by Bill Myers, four strangers are drawn together to help a student at the mysterious Institute for Advanced Psychic Studies. His gifts are supposedly being honed to assist world leaders . . . but there are some very disturbing strings attached. Frank Peretti's "The Haunted" confronts a supernatural mystery, a case of murder, and an exploration into the darkness of the human heart, all centering around a mysterious house.
In Angela Hunt's "The Sentinels," animals around the world are mysteriously dying. What could it mean? When the tragedy begins to touch Andi's dreams, she discovers a terrifying theory. "The Girl" by Alton Gansky is a gripping tale of a young barefoot girl found holding a scroll in the snowy Oregon mountains. She is sweet, innocent--apparently not of this world--and something wants to kill her.
Chasing Secrets - Lynette Eason
Elite Guardians bodyguard Haley Callaghan may be in South Carolina, but when a photo leads investigators in West Ireland to open a twenty-five-year-old cold case, her life is suddenly in danger. Haley knows how to take care of herself; after all, she's made a career out of taking care of others. But after an uncomfortably close call, Detective Steven Rothwell takes it upon himself to stay with her--and the young client she has taken under her wing. A protector at heart, he's not about to let Haley fight this battle alone.
In a sweeping plot that takes them into long-buried memories--and the depths of the heart--Haley and Steven will have to solve the mystery of Haley's past while dodging bullets, bombs, and bad guys who just won't quit.