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Karen Kingsbury: Loving

The 4^th , and final book in the Bailey Flanigan series; Bailey is planning a wedding and making decisions that will shape her future. Bailey enjoys the beginning of her new career and time spent with Brandon while Cody faithfully coaches his team on and off the field. Will she spend her life with Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, or will her heart draw her back to Bloomington, Indiana and Cody Coleman, her first love? Bailey has learned much and grown over the years, but the greatest challenges, the richest joys, and the deepest heartaches are still to come. Featuring members from Karen Kingsbury’s popular Baxter family, Loving completes Bailey and Cody’s story --- the finale thousands of fans have been waiting for.

Melody Carlson: The jerk magnet

Is the first book in a new series by this author; Life at Kingston High.    We meet 16yr old Chelsea and her future step-mother. Chelsea under goes a ‘makeover at her step-mothers encouragement and becomes a ‘bombshell’. As a result, she attracts the attention of the wrong boys and drives away many potential friends.

Kristin Billerbeck: a billion reasons why

Katie McKenna has never loved any man but one: billionaire Luc DeForges. He was her first love. But there are a billion reasons why shes engaged instead to Dexter Hastings, a solid and stable man who wants the same things she does: marriage and a family but all of the things that she wants without the deep-seeded pain and fear of being abandoned that Luc brings. Dexter and she have worked an arrangement thats akin to faith without action, love without deeds -- a dead faith. Going home to New Orleans to sing for her childhood friends wedding, Katie must search her heart to find out if any of her reasons for being with Dexter are stronger than love. Only when Katie steps fully into faith and jumps off the cliff of life into the arms of Luc does she understand the fullness of Gods grace.

Bodie and Brock Thoene: Beyond the farthest star

Their news novel is based on the screenplay by Andrew Librizzi, which  is an insightful, mesmerizing story that centers on the Wells family. Adam, Maureen, and their teenaged daughter, Anne, are each struggling with internal demons that are destroying their family. Once a world-renowned preacher, this move to the small town of Leonard, Texas, is Adam's last hope of restoring his dream of living up to the approval he craves, but instead brings mounting tensions, revealed secrets, and an unexpected confrontation that leads to the ultimate sacrifice.

Tim Shoemaker: Code of Silence

After witnessing a brutal crime the boys don’t know who to trust, two of the thieves seemed to be wearing policemen uniforms.  Cooper is afraid to go to the police with the information.  He comes up with the idea of having a Code of Silence in order to keep them all safe from the thieves. Cooper finds that maintaining silence comes with a price. He finds himself having to lie to his parents, his teachers, his friends, himself and ultimately to God.

Robert Liparulo: The 13^th Tribe

The 13th Tribe is the first in a new series ' revealingly titled the Immortal Files that can perhaps be described best as biblically-inspired, speculative, suspense. To summarize the basic premise;  ' a group of Israelites who sinned against God in the desert by worshipping the gold calf, were cursed with immortality. 3,500 years later we find them in the current age, bedecked with cutting-edge technology, equipped with deep financial resources, they have taken on the responsibility of punishing sinners ' by killing them.
The suspense comes into the picture when other individuals try to stop their plans once they begin to more directly involve innocents. Jagger ' a depressed family man and security specialist recovering from the loss of his arm and best friend, taken from him by a drunk driver, finds himself unexpectedly drawn into the fray as he crosses paths of this group.  There is violence (this is adult Liparulo after all), blood, and darkness ' these immortals are somewhat obsessed with the deaths that they themselves cannot experience.

Johnathan Cahn : The Harbinger

An ancient mystery involving a series of prophetic signs, harbingers, once given to a nation on the verge of destruction has reappeared in modern times. Written in an engaging narrative style, the book opens in an executive office with the appearance of a man burdened with a message he has received from a mysterious figure he calls the prophet. He tells the story of his encounters with the prophet and as the narrative unfolds, each revelation becomes a puzzle piece in a still greater mystery, the ramifications of which keep growing larger and larger. In the final scene, with the unlocking of the last seal, the man, for the first time, realizes the reason for it all and the book comes full circle.