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    A Most Peculiar Circumstance by Jen Turano

    A Most Peculiar CircumstanceA Most Peculiar Circumstance
    by Jen Turano

    Miss Arabella Beckett has one driving passion: to help the downtrodden women of America. Naturally, she supports the women’s suffrage movement and eagerly attends rallies and lectures across the country. On her travels, she makes a simple offer of assistance to a young woman in need that goes sadly awry and lands both ladies in more trouble than they can manage. An independent sort, Arabella is loath to admit she needs help and certainly doesn’t need help from an arrogant, narrow-minded knight in shining armor.

    Mr. Theodore Wilder, private investigator extraordinaire, is on a mission. A mission that began as a favor to his good friend Hamilton Beckett, but swiftly evolved into a merry chase across the country. By the time he finally tracks down Hamilton’s sister, Arabella, he is in a less than pleasant mood. When the lady turns out to have radical ideas and a fiercely independent streak, he soon finds himself at his wit’s end.

    When they return home to New York, circumstances force their paths to continue to cross, but the most peculiar feelings growing between them certainly can’t be love. When the trouble Arabella had accidentally stirred up seems to have followed her to New York and threatens her very life, the unlikely couple must face the possibility that they might have landed in the most peculiar circumstance of all: love.

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    The Miner’s Lady by Tracie Peterson

    The Miner's LadyThe Miner’s Lady
    by Tracie Peterson

    When Chantel Panetta’s younger sister claims to be in love with Orlando Calarco, Chantel knows there is no hope. The Panettas and Calarcos have been sworn enemies for decades, and young love cannot heal the deep wounds between the two iron-mining families. Yet, unable to resist Isabella’s pleas, Chantel agrees to help her sister spend time with Orlando…only to have a run-in with Dante, Orlando’s brother. The older, more handsome one.

    Chantel can’t deny the attraction that flares when she’s with Dante. But when a tragedy occurs at the mine, is there any hope that the hatred that has simmered between these two families might be resolved? Or will Chantel’s hope for love be buried amidst decades of misunderstanding?

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    Still Growing: An Autobiography by Kirk Cameron

    Still Growing: An AutobiographyStill Growing: An Autobiography
    by Kirk Cameron

    Kirk Cameron is best known for his role as lovable teenage troublemaker Mike Seaver on the award-winning TV series Growing Pains, but his rise to fame and fortune is only part of his incredible story. In this intimate autobiography, Kirk opens up about his early years, his rocket to stardom, his life-changing encounter with Jesus, and the hard choices he’s made along the way to live in the Way of the Master. Fans will get an up-close and personal look at what drives the former teen-magazine heartthrob and find out how God and family became the secrets behind his celebrated smile. In his own words, Kirk shares how he’s still growing–even through the triumphs and temptations of his Hollywood career.

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    Between Sundays by Karen Kingsbury

    Between SundaysBetween Sundays
    by Karen Kingsbury

    Aaron Hill has it all – athletic good looks and the many privileges of a star quarterback. His Sundays are spent playing NFL football in front of a televised audience of millions. But Aaron’s about to receive an unexpected handoff, one that will give him a whole new view of his self-centered life.

    Derrick Anderson is a family man who volunteers his time with foster kids while sustaining a long career as a pro football player. But now he’s looking for a miracle. He must act as team mentor while still striving for the one thing that matters most this season – keeping a promise he made years ago.

    Megan Gunn works two jobs and spends her spare time helping at the youth center. Much of what she does, she does for the one boy for whom she is everything – a foster child whose dying mother left him in Megan’s care. Now she wants to adopt him, but one obstacle stands in the way. Her foster son, Cory, is convinced that 49ers quarterback Aaron Hill is his father.

    Two men and the game they love. A woman with a heart for the lonely and lost, and a boy who believes the impossible. Thrown together in a season of self-discovery, they’re about to learn lessons in character and grace, love and sacrifice. Because in the end life isn’t defined by what takes place on the first day of the week, but how we live it between Sundays.

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    The Edge of Recall by Kristen Heitzmann

    The Edge of RecallThe Edge of Recall
    by Kristen Heitzmann

    Tessa Young, an up-and-coming landscape architect who specializes in the design and creation of labyrinths, has immersed herself in the mythological, spiritual, and healing aspects of the elaborate structures. She also is searching for God and hoping to make sense of the nightmares that have plagued her since childhood. When Smith Chandler, an estranged colleague–with whom she’d half fallen in love a dozen times before catching herself every time–calls to propose a project he claims is the opportunity of a lifetime, she reluctantly agrees to check it out.

    Smith is reconstructing a pre-Revolutionary War abbey for wealthy clients. Among its remarkable features is an overgrown labyrinth. Unable to resist, Tessa accepts his offer to work with him.

    Soon she is immersed in the project of a lifetime. But one evening, after weeks of work in the labyrinth, Tessa and Smith are attacked. While protecting Tessa, Smith is stabbed, and the nightmare begins…again.

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    When Mountains Move by Julie Cantrell

    When Mountains MoveWhen Mountains Move
    by Julie Cantrell

    It is the spring of 1943. With a wedding and a cross-country move, Millie’s world is about to change forever.

    If only her past could change with it.

    Soon after the break of day, Bump will become Millie’s husband. And then, if all goes as planned, they will leave the rain-soaked fields of Mississippi and head for the wilds of the Colorado Rockies. As Millie tries to forget a dark secret, she hasn’t yet realized how drastically those past experiences will impact the coming days.

    For most of Millie’s life, being free felt about as unlikely as the mountains moving. But she’s about to discover that sometimes in life, we are given second chances, and that the only thing bigger than her past… is her future.

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    Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage by Lee Strobel

    Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in MarriageSurviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage
    by Lee Strobel

    Someone came between Lee and Leslie Strobel, threatening to shipwreck their marriage. No, it wasn’t an old flame. It was Jesus Christ.

    Leslie’s decision to become a follower of Jesus brought heated opposition from her skeptical husband. They began to experience conflict over a variety of issues, from finances to child-rearing. But over time, Leslie learned how to survive a spiritual mismatch. Today they’re both Christians–and they want you to know that there is hope if you’re a Christian married to a nonbeliever. In their intensely personal and practical book, they reveal; surprising insights into the thinking of non-Christian spouses, a dozen steps toward making the most of your mismatched marriage, eight principles for reaching out to your partner with the gospel, and more…

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    Plain Trouble by Rachel Bauer

    Plain TroublePlain Trouble
    by Rachel Bauer

    Sadie Zook and Abram Byler have begun a tentative and sweet new relationship. They write to each other in a secret journal, and they take walks after church services. Sadie’s humble, yet observant nature makes Abram think about his life and his faith differently, yet they are always true to the Plain lifestyle. Everything is going well, but Abram’s mother, Ruth, is not pleased.

    Ruth Byler believes that Sadie is worldly and wicked, and Ruth will stop at nothing to tear Abram and Sadie apart. Will Abram and Sadie’s new relationship be able to withstand Ruth’s attacks? Will Abram’s new perspective affect his relationship with his parents? Will Ruth be forced to reveal the secrets she has kept for so many years? Will a sign from God change everything?

    Plain Trouble continues the The Diary: Lines from Lancaster County Saga begun in Plain Living. See what God has in store for Sadie and Abram.

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    Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions

    Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of DistractionsLiving into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions
    by Arthur Boers

    In today’s high-speed culture, there’s a prevailing sense that we are busier than ever before and that the pace of life is too rushed. Most of us can relate to the feeling of having too much to do and not enough time for the people and things we value most. We feel fragmented, overwhelmed by busyness and the tyranny of gadgets.

    Veteran pastor and teacher Arthur Boers offers a critical look at the isolating effects of modern life that have eroded the centralizing, focusing activities that people used to do together. He suggests ways to make our lives healthier and more rewarding by presenting specific individual and communal practices that help us focus on what really matters. These practices–such as shared meals, gardening, hospitality, walking, prayer, and reading aloud–bring our lives into focus and build community. The book includes questions for discernment and application and a foreword by Eugene H. Peterson.

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    Death of the Couch Potato’s Wife by Christy Barritt

    Death of the Couch Potato's WifeDeath of the Couch Potato’s Wife
    by Christy Barritt

    Welcome to Boring, Indiana, home to patio cookouts, homeowner dues, carpeted lawns, and neighbors so welcoming they’re dying to meet you — literally.

    City slicker turned suburbanite housewife Laura Berry isn’t taking well to life in her new neighborhood. She moved to follow her husband’s dream, and now she can’t tell if she’s clinically depressed or just bored half to death. But Boring becomes anything but when Laura discovers her neighbor Candace Flynn face up on a sofa with her hand buried in a snack bag. With a healthy dose of neighborly suspicion and street smarts, Laura sets out to find Flynn’s killer, but her curiosity becomes desperation when the killer targets Laura.

    Someone is determined to stop her from digging deeper into the murder, but Laura is just as determined to figure out who’s behind the death-by-poisoned-pork-rinds.

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    Secret Sisters: Volume Five by Sandra Byrd

    Secret Sisters: Volume FiveSecret Sisters: Volume Five
    by Sandra Byrd

    TWO COMPLETE BOOKS!

    Book Nine: First Place
    Will the Rim-to-Rim hike make Tess a hero – or a big-time loser?

    The Secret Sisters are minding their own business at a Little League game when the snooty Coronado Club stirs up trouble – again! Tess and her friends have earned the best cabin at Outdoor School – the one that Lauren and her gang wanted – and now they’re out for revenge.

    Erin blurts out that Tess is racing across the Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim with her dad and certainly will win first place. Lauren insists Tess won’t make it. Even worse, Lauren makes sure the whole sixth grade will hear all about the race at the Outdoor School’s opening-night campfire! Tess is left worrying in silence, not wanting to share the secret that she knows could lead to disaster and embarrassment.

    Book Ten: Camp Cowgirl
    If you have a best friend can you have other friends, too?

    The Secret Sisters can’t wait to spend a week at an awesome summer camp on a Tucson dude ranch: the Lazy K. Could vacation get any better than this? They’ll be caring for their own horses and learning to ride better and faster. Most of all, it’s a chance for the Secret Sisters to grow closer together than ever before. At least, that’s what they think.

    When they get to the Lazy K, though, both Tess and Erin have to make some difficult choices about each other and new friends. Some of their choices are good. Some are bad. Can a friendship survive some mistakes? What if you want to be friends with others, too? Will what they learn change the Secret Sisters forever?

    Each volume includes: fun, friends, family, gentle Christian faith, and a fast-paced read. If you enjoy the Secret Sisters series, be sure to check out Sandra’s Hidden Diary series, also on Kindle, as well as these Kindle titles: Chopsticks, Red Velvet, and Daisy Chains.

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    Angel Sister by Ann H. Gabhart

    Angel SisterAngel Sister
    by Ann H. Gabhart

    It is 1936 and Kate Merritt, the middle child of Victor and Nadine, works hard to keep her family together. Her father slowly slips into alcoholism and his business suffers during the Great Depression. As her mother tries to come to grips with their situation and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to it, it is Kate who must shoulder the emotional load. Who could imagine that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be just what the Merritts need?

    In this richly textured novel, award-winning author Ann H. Gabhart reveals the power of true love, the freedom of forgiveness, and the strength to persevere through troubled times.

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    Beauty and The Bible by Reev Robledo

    Beauty and The BibleBeauty and The Bible
    by Reev Robledo

    What if we discovered the personal diaries of the Bible’s most well-loved, women of the faith?

    Each story, told in the first-person perspective, shows how one who has extraordinary beauty is faced with ordinary challenges that even modern women face:

    Childlessness (Sarah), manipulation (Rebekah), being a second wife (Rachel), genocide (Esther), submission (Abigail), rape (Tamar) and family issues (Daughters of Job).

    At the end of each chapter is a study guide for personal devotion or group studies.

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    Hiking Through by Paul V. Stutzman

    Hiking ThroughHiking Through
    by Paul V. Stutzman

    After Paul Stutzman lost his wife to breast cancer, he sensed a tug on his heart – the call to a challenge, the call to pursue a dream. Paul left his stable career, traveled to Georgia, and took his first steps on the Appalachian Trail. What he learned during the next four and a half months changed his life – and will change readers’ lives as well.

    In Hiking Through, readers will join Paul on his remarkable 2,176-mile hike through fourteen states in search of peace and a renewed sense of purpose, meeting fascinating and funny people along the way. They’ll discover that every choice we make along the path has consequences for the journey and will come away with a new understanding of God’s grace and guidance.

    Nature-lovers, armchair adventurers, and those grieving a loss may not be able to hike the AT themselves, but they can go on this spiritual pilgrimage with a truly humble and sympathetic guide.

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    Rumspringa’s Hope by Kelly Irvin

    Rumspringa's HopeRumspringa’s Hope
    by Kelly Irvin

    Torn between the affections of two men, will Emma’s time away from home help her choose?

    Although promised to the widowed neighbor Zeb, Emma is considering leaving her Amish community to watch over her younger brother Mark when he leaves for Philadelphia to explore the outside world during his Rumspringa. There, she reconnects with her former beau Caleb, who protects the Amish teens, introducing them to his life evangelizing and helping the homeless. Unbeknownst to Emma, Caleb is glad for the opportunity to spend time with her and hopes to win her back.

    Struck by the power of evangelism and outreach, Emma begins to feel a draw to Caleb’s way of life. When she doesn’t return home when she promised, Zeb goes to the city to find her, forcing Emma to choose in which of their two worlds she really belongs.

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    Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion’s Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream by Meb Keflezighi

    Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big DreamRun to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion’s Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream
    by Meb Keflezighi

    The incredible true story of Meb Keflezighi, winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon!

    When Meb Keflezighi signed up to run the Boston Marathon in 2014, no one expected him to be the first to cross the finish line. But if there’s one thing Meb knows how to do, it’s overcome. Yet Meb is the living embodiment of the American dream. His family came to the U.S. to escape poverty and a violent war; 12-year-old Meb spoke no English at the time and had never raced a mile. Thanks to hard work and determination, he excelled academically and became an Olympic silver medalist. But it all came crashing down when Meb, a favorite for the Beijing Olympics, fractured his hip and pelvis during the trials and was left literally crawling. That same day, he lost his close friend and fellow marathoner to a cardiac arrest. Devastated, Meb was about to learn whether his faith in God, the values his parents had taught him, and his belief that he was born to run were enough to see him through. Run to Overcome is the story of a true American champion who discovered the real meaning of victory against all odds.

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    Eight Twenty Eight: When Love Didn’t Give Up by Larissa Murphy, Ian Murphy

    Eight Twenty Eight: When Love Didn't Give UpEight Twenty Eight: When Love Didn’t Give Up
    by Larissa Murphy, Ian Murphy

    What if that thing you really feared happened? Would the joy you hold pop? Or would you experience love and joy deeper than you can imagine?

    They met in college and fell in love. They talked about getting married, and he started looking for a ring. They dreamed about life together, a life of beauty and joy, raising babies and laughing with friends and growing old.

    They did not imagine a car accident. They did not imagine his brain injury. They did not dream about the need for constant care and a wheelchair and fear that food might choke him.

    And they could not have imagined how persistent love would be. Theirs and God’s.

    Ian and Larissa Murphy tell their story of love in Eight Twenty Eight. Except, it’s not just their love story. Really, it’s yours as well. Read and gain a picture of love that will challenge all you think you know about what is true and what persists.

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    The Parable Series: The Pumpkin Patch Parable by Liz Curtis Higgs

    The Parable Series: The Pumpkin Patch ParableThe Parable Series: The Pumpkin Patch Parable
    by Liz Curtis Higgs

    This charming story for children illustrates how a loving farmer can turn a simple pumpkin into a simply glorious sight. In the same way, God’s transforming love can fill each of our hearts with joy and light. Liz Curtis Higgs created this parable as a way to share the Good News with her own precious children each harvest season… and now with children everywhere.

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    Though Waters Roar by Lynn Austin

    Though Waters RoarThough Waters Roar
    by Lynn Austin

    Harriet Sherwood has always adored her grandmother. But when Harriet decides to follow her footsteps to fight for social justice, she certainly never expected her efforts to land her in jail. Nor did she expect her childhood enemy and notorious school bully, Tommy O’Reilly, to be the arresting officer.

    Languishing in a jail cell, Harriet has plenty of time to sift through the memories of the three generations of women who have preceded her. As each story emerges, the strength of her family – and their deep faith in the God of justice and righteousness – brings Harriet to discovery of her own goals and motives for pursuing them.

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    So Not Okay: Mean Girl Makeover Series by Nancy Rue

    So Not Okay: Mean Girl Makeover SeriesSo Not Okay: Mean Girl Makeover Series
    by Nancy Rue

    There is no such thing as neutral.

    According to the Ambassadors 4 Kids Club, one out of every four students is bullied—and 85% of these situations never receive intervention. Parents, students, and teachers alike have amped up the discussion of how to solve the bullying problem for a networked generation of kids.

    Written by bestselling author, Nancy Rue, each book in the Mean Girl Makeover trilogy focuses on a different character’s point of view: the bully, the victim, and the bystander. Each girl has a different personality so that every reader can find a character she relates to. The books, based on Scripture, show solid biblical solutions to the bullying problem set in a story for kids.

    So Not Okay tells the story of Tori Taylor, a quiet sixth grader at Gold Country Middle School in Grass Valley, California. Tori knows to stay out of the way of Kylie, the queen bee of GCMS. When an awkward new student named Ginger becomes Kylie’s new target, Tori whispers a prayer of thanks that it’s not her. But as Kylie’s bullying of Ginger continues to build, Tori feels guilty and tries to be kind to Ginger. Pretty soon, the bullying line of fire directed toward Ginger starts deflecting onto Tori, who must decide if she and her friends can befriend Ginger and withstand Kylie’s taunts, or do nothing and resume their status quo. Tori’s decision dramatically changes her trajectory for the rest of the school year.

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    The Silent Gift by Michael Landon Jr. and Cindy Kelley

    The Silent GiftThe Silent Gift
    by Michael Landon Jr. and Cindy Kelley

    The 1930s were a decade of enormous uncertainty – for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son. Their story is one of love and enormous sacrifices in the face of circumstances horrendous beyond belief. When her husband leaves her for someone whose time isn’t wrapped up in a silent, handicapped kid, Mary and little Luke are out on their own in a world that has no room for the poor and disabled. Especially not at a time when most Americans are simply trying to survive their economic woes and job losses.

    But then arrives The Gift… Where has it come from, and why? How can a young boy who can neither hear nor speak provide comfort, direction, and sometimes challenges to seekers who learn of the special ability? Whatever the source, its presence brings a single shaft of light and hope to Mary and her beloved Luke. Will it be enough?

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