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Freefall, by Kristin Heitzmann, Published by Bethany House, 2006, 464 pages In a style familiar to Heitzmann fans, this story starts with a plunge – literally – and never lets go. When a young girl falls (or is pushed?) off a cliff and ends up under a waterfall, she miraculously survives and crawls to safety, only to realize that she doesn’t remember who she is. The stranger who takes her in, Monica Pierce, tries to help, but ultimately it is Monica’s pushy older brother Cameron who gets Gentry’s memory jump-started. And she needs all the help she can get, between her injured uncle and the invasive press, not to mention that someone is still determined to kill her. Integrating faith realistically into current issues and personal concerns, Heitzmann crafts another suspenseful tale which will garner her new fans and please the rest of us. - READ MORE |
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Recommended Reading--A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini follows his bestseller, The Kite Runner, with another saga of life in Afghanistan during the turbulence of the last 30 years. This novel deals graphically with the treatment of women under the regimes of the Communists and various Muslim factions. - READ MORE |
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The memory keeper’s daughter by Kim Edwards It is 1964, and when Norah Henry goes into labor during a freak snow storm in Lexington, Kentucky , her doctor –husband David is unable to make it to the hospital in time, so he stops at his own clinic, and with the help of his nurse, Caroline, delivers his son. It is only when he delivers an unexpected second child that a crisis begins that forever changes his life. He recognizes immediately that his second baby, a girl, has Down’s syndrome. David, who had grown up poor, had a sister born with a heart defect that took her life at ten years of age, a death that deeply affected him. Remembering the heartbreak and wanting to spare his beloved wife that same agony, he hands the girl to his nurse with instructions to take her to a home for the mentally impaired and tells Norah that the baby girl died in childbirth. - READ MORE |
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Jance, J. A. (2007). Web of evil. New York: Simon & Schuster. After years of chronicling the exploits of her characters, Seattle Homicide Detective, J. P. Beaumont, and Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady, Jance presents a new protagonist in Ali Reynolds. In her first offering, - READ MORE |
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Recommended Reading: The beach house. When San Diego OB/GYN doctor Josephine Zambruski reflects on reaching her fortieth birthday, she begins to think of her three friends with whom she grew up in Chicago and has not seen for twelve years. On a whim she invites Char Wilcox, Andie Sinclair, and Molly Preston to spend a week with her at a rented beach house in California. Each comes with her own emotional baggage that they confront together. Good Christian fiction selection. - READ MORE |
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Recommended Reading: 90 Minutes in Heaven Don Piper shares a remarkable journey in his book, 90 Minutes in Heaven. As the cover indicates it is a true story of death and life. Don could not understand and kept asking himself why God had brought him back from the dead after being in a perfect place to live a pain-filled life on earth. He constantly asked God to please take him back to heaven. But God had chosen to keep him alive. God brought him back to earth for a purpose. - READ MORE |
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Recommended Reading: For One More Day Mitch Albom follows his highly successful Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven with another book dealing with the end of life. For One More Day tells the story of Charles “Chick” Benetto, beginning with the day he tried to commit suicide. His life had been wracked with guilt because of a selfish act of playing baseball to please his divorced father and lying to his mother as to why he could not be there for her seventy-ninth birthday celebration—the day she died. When his self-destructive path cost him his own family, he decided to end it all. In that time between life and death, Chick had the opportunity to spend one more day with his mother, to say to her things he had failed to say during her life, and to learn why some things in his life happened as they did. He sums up: “Life goes quickly, doesn’t it, Charley?...It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.” - READ MORE |
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Recommended Reading: How Do You Know He’s Real? Hagberg has given us the stories by thirty-four celebrities who share their experiences of being Christians in their respective professions and tell us how those experiences have shaped their lives. Testimonies from those in the entertainment field include Gary Burghoff, Ricky Skaggs, John Schneider, and Kirk Cameron. Several sports figures, such as David Carr, Andrew DeClercq, and Jason Hanson, tell of how Christ has been with them during the tough times and how they were able to help teammates because of their faith. Each testimony is only a few pages long and can be read in a few minutes. It contains an index of problems faced by the celebrities for ease in finding a story to illustrate a point. This book would be an excellent resource in working with youth groups but is also valuable for anyone interested in reading current Christian biography. - READ MORE |
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Recommended Reading: A Vase of Mistaken Identity Thea James lives in a small Gold Rush town that has recreated itself into a tourist shopping destination. She is the proprietor of James and Company Antique Emporium and buys a lovely vase from the town homeless man. When she discovers a piece of paper inside the vase with her name, her sister’s, and those of two friends from camp when she was twelve years old, she is shocked. She is even more shocked to learn that the friend whose name in first on the list has had a bad car accident and is in a coma. When the second friend goes missing, she begins trying to track down the original owner of the vase and is forced off the road herself. Add to this the fact that an old high school heartthrob returns to town to investigate the murder of a body discovered at the resort close to the town and is interested in renewing his acquaintance with her, and we have the makings of a novel. Thea wrestles with how past sorrows have affected her faith in God, but finds herself in need of divine intervention when a killer makes her his next target. - READ MORE |
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Recommended Reading: Strange Piece of Paradise In this true crime memoir, author Terri Jentz recounts the horrific attack she and a college friend suffered in the summer 1977. Jentz and her friend were a week into a cross-country bike ride when they camped at Cline Falls State Park in central Oregon. She was awakened in the middle of the night by a vehicle driving over their tent. Trapped under the vehicle, Jentz listened as the driver attacked her friend then turned to her with the hatchet he wielded. Amazingly, both girls survived. The crime was never solved. In 1992, Jentz returned to central Oregon to investigate the crime herself and try to purge her own demons. In - READ MORE |
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Recommended Reading: When the News Went Live: Dallas 1963 | |
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Recommended Reading: The Dead Don’t Dance | |
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Recommended Reading: Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel | |
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Recommended Reading: The Sign of the Book | |
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Recommended Reading: House | |
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Recommended Reading: When Crickets Cry | |
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Recommended Reading: Gideon the Cutpurse | |
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Recommended Reading: The Shaping of a Christian Family | |
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Recommended Reading: A Distant Music | |
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Recommended Reading: What She Left for Me | |
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Mark DeVine. Bonhoeffer Speaks Today: Following Jesus at All Costs. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2005. | |
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Recommended Reading:Maximum Ride, School's Out Forever | |
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Recommended Reading:Breathing Underwater | |
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Recommended Reading: The Preacher's Daughter | |
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Recommended Reading: Diamond Place | |
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Recommended Reading: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | |
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Recommended Reading: Grand & Humble | |
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Recommended Reading: Dead Man's Rule | |
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Recommended Reading: The Alchemist’s Daughter: A Novel | |
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Recommended Reading: Battle of Jericho | |
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Recommended Reading:The Unsigned Valentine | |
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Recommended Reading: The Loud Silence of Francine Green | |
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Crystal L. Downing. How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2006. 234 pp. | |
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Recommended Reading: The Witness | |
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Recommended Reading: Veterans Way | |
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The memory keeper’s daughter by Kim Edwards | |