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Vivian manages the Band Box Cleaners & Laundry on North Clark Street. She’s accepted her dull life as what she expects to have at her age. But could they both be wrong? When Leon answers an ad to be a night watchman at the Band Box Cleaners, their lives—and the neighborhood of Clark Street—are turned upside down. The Accidental King of Clark Street, set in the 1960s, proves that love can bloom the second time around. Or is it really the first time? The Accidental King of Clark Street by Diane Dryden  How could his childhood friend, BJ, be dead? God has really messed up this time, Peter thinks angrily. If he even exists at all. Then Peter has an idea. As a physics professor at the USC, he’s been working with the EMSM, the Electro Magnetic Spectrometer, to harness the weightless qualities of a newly discovered particle. What if he could ricochet an intense beam of light through a black hole—back in time? Could he send a message to avert the tragedy that altered the trajectory of their lives? With the help of colleague Jimmy Bouillon, Peter launches his scheme to create a ripple in time. But could it affect more than he thinks? Especially since a terrorist ring watches from the sidelines, determined to heist his invention for their own dastardly purposes? Beyond Time |
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Can a woman who doesn't believe in God help a shattered man rediscover his faith?
In The Kevlar Heart, by Janice Cantore, two cops are unwillingly thrown together at the same time a monster preying on children makes his presence known in their city.
Brinna Caruso is a K-9 officer who specializes in finding lost children. She herself is a survivor -- abducted at six, and rescued two days later. She grew up with a passion to help other missing children.
Once, Jack O'Reilly was a model officer. But a personal tragedy has devastated him -- he's struggling to recover a year after his wife was killed by a drunk driver.
When Brinna and Jack are thrown together as partners, both would rather be anywhere than with each other.
But when a monster begins to prey on innocent children, both learn that each might just learn from the other as they race to stope this monstrous predator.
Fifteen years ago, Peggy Luther took her infant daughter, Maggie, and ran away from her husband and ten-year-old daughter, Martha.
In The Color of Love, by Hilary Hamblin, Peggy settled in Arizona and started over. But there was always something not quite right about Peggy Luther...something Maggie could never identify.
When Peggy takes her own life, Maggie’s life tumbles into chaos.
She’s forced to move to a small town in Tennessee, to live with a sister she never knew existed.
Worse, Martha’s lifestyle is entirely different from hers.
But they will need each other far more than they ever dreamed when the truth about their mother is revealed...and their father comes to visit.
It’s a hot Georgia afternoon, and Melissa has been dumped at a stranger’s house for the entire summer ... just because she’s in the way at home.
Worse, Miss Vellie, the owner of the farm, lives alone. Melissa is sure she’ll be bored to death.
In Light at Summer's End, by Kim Ballard, Melissa discovers that Miss Vellie didn’t even know she was coming! Melissa cries herself to sleep the first night...and the next....and the next. Is Melissa just homesick, or is there something deeper going on?
What on earth can an angry fourteen-year-old and a retired English teacher have in common?
Brock Stowolski always thought he’d grow up to be a priest. He’s spent the last two years in seminary, preparing for just that.
In CULPA, by Morgan Jones, Brock realizes one day that he no longer wants the make-believe, we-trust-in-God, He’ll-makeit- all-right world any longer.
He craves the real world—where men with ambition rely on themselves and their own labors to make their own fame, power, and wealth.
Leaving seminary and a devoted friend behind, Brock plunges headlong into a career in design, determined to make it to the pinnacle of success.
But he could never dream where his life's journey would take him...or what his crowning culpa -- his life achievment -- would be.
In A Stranger With You, by Sarah Stranske, the northern and southern empires retain a fragile peace.
When an unknown uncle rescues little Nahol, daughter of two traitors, from her abusive father in a daring raid, she has no idea how much that act of kindness threatens his country, his family, and her life.
Years later the northern empire shatters the tenuous truce in an unexpected attack. If anyone uncovers Nahol’s identity, her uncle’s people will reject her, forcing him to decide between family and country.
And what if her father, the commander of the northern empire, discovers where she is?
Ten generations have passed since Yah-Adon, the Placer-of-Stars, created His tiny, blue planet. Sin and corruption have worked their devastation into the land and the people.
An ancient holy woman and a young man named Noah are now among the few who remember the story written in the skies.
In the Eyes of the Serpent, by Carole Cargal Reeves, foretells the coming of the Promised One who will redeem the human race from Abaddon and his unholy minions.
For centuries these demonic beings have waited to marshal their dark forces. Now the time has arrived.
Will Utriel, the young woman Noah loves, be caught in their web of deceit and seduction?
 VANESSA TYLER, author of The Body of Dan Raven, wrote her first book at age six. It was six pages long and about her grandfather. She still has it to this day. After spending several years as a youth pastor, she has recently decided to try her hand at children’s ministry and is having a blast. She lives in sunny Florida with her husband, T. J., and her miniature schnauzer, Groucho. She is currently working on her next two novels, Deception Pass and Death and Dentures, the first Darcy McQueen Novel. She loves to hear from readers, so please feel free to visit her web site: www.vanessatyler.com. |
Today she is Church Schools Director for the Anglican Province of Christ the King and Vice-President of the American Church Union. “In order to write Pilgrimage,” Christine says, “I traveled extensively in Italy to Christian historical sites. It was a fascinating quest.” Christine holds a B.A. in English Literature and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop and the Maui Writers Retreat. Pilgrimage is the first of a trilogy. For more information on Christine, visit her website: www.christinesunderland.com. |
 Antony Barone, a major in the Air Force, is the author Shadow in the Dark, the first book in the Chronicles of Xan series. Tony served as both a firefighter and military intelligence officer prior to completing his law degree at the University of Florida and entering the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps. As a prosecutor and defense attorney, he has presented hundreds of written and oral arguments before military courts-martial, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He has also taught law at the U.S. Air Force Academy and published law-related articles in America magazine and various professional journals. Shadow in the Dark and The Haunted Cathedral are the first two books in his inspirational fiction series for young adults, The Chronicles of Xan. As parents of five children, Tony and his wife, Alisa, have been involved in home-schooling for over a decade. He has worked with youth through church ministry, home-school groups, Boy Scouts, and pro-life activities. For more information on Antony Barone and The Chronicles of Xan series: www.chroniclesofxan.com |
 Jane St. Clair, author of Walk Me to Midnight, has worked as a production staff member of the television program Sesame Street in She has published more than fifty children’s short stories and adult fiction in literary magazines such as Thema, QWF, and Red Rock Review. Her stories also appear in four literary anthologies, including Times of Grace, Times of Sorrow published by the She is the 2007 winner of the True Life Story contest, 2006 first-place winner of The Writers Network contest, American Accolades, For more information about Jane St. Clair: |
 Sharon McAnear grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where cotton reigned as king and small-town drama was his queen. Corner of Blue and In My Bones are the first two books in the Jemma series by OakTara. “The Jemma series is more than a love story,” Sharon and her family live in |
 MICHAEL SWIGER, author of Lethal Ambition, is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Ohio University and an honors student at Reformed Theological Seminary. He has published two novels under the pen name Michael Andrew. His first, A Trial of Innocents, was nominated for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. His short stories and essays have appeared in numerous national publications. Michael serves on the pastoral staff at The Gospel House Church in Walton Hills, Ohio, where he works in prison ministry. He is currently finishing the second in the Edward Mead Legal Thriller series: Lethal Objection. For more information on Michael Swiger: www.MichaelSwiger.com |
