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Bumbleweed Field
$20.99Add to cartWhat should parents do when their children refuse to get along? All the arguing and fighting, bickering and yelling can almost tear a family apart! Jim Carter wrote this book for his pre-teen nieces nearly twenty years ago. After changing the names to protect the “innocent”, this charming short story marshals all the elements of growing up as siblings and charts a course to becoming friends as well as sisters. Jim flies for a major airline and knows how critical the proper course is for a safe and happy arrival! He and his wife Susan live in Northern Virginia. Bible study, horses and travel fill their “empty nest” and they happily wing their way to see grown children in Texas and South Carolina.
Local artist Cortney Matz adds a colorful and simple beauty to the Bumbleweed Field’s pages. Cortney was in high school when she added her rich and textured style of water colors to The Bumbleweed Field. Her father, Dan was in the same men’s Bible study with Jim Carter and her Dad’s glowing endorsement sealed the venture. Today Cortney is a producer and communications specialists for CDR Productions and 1Voice Films in Northern Virginia. Her company’s most recent release is “For the Glory”. Look for more projects from Cortney’s fertile imagination in the near future.
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Time To Surrender
$17.99Add to cartAfter a season of loss and restoration, Claire and Max Beaumont find themselves in a season of letting go.Claire and Max Beaumont nearly lost it all, but their marriage and their homestead have now been restored. As they grow in love, they watch as their children feel the effects of their reconciliation:Their son Danny falls in love and lets go of his pride .Daughter Jenna lets go of preconceived notions about marriage when her husband, Kevin the marine, is injured in Iraq. All the Beaumonts ultimately learn that letting go is the best way to receive back healed relationships.
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Sweet Caroline : A Novel
$17.99Add to cartWhen a waitress inherits the restaurant she works in, she’s got to start balancing more in life than just her next food order.When ownership of a lowcountry bistro falls into Caroline Sweeney’s lap, she nearly drops it like a bowl of hot frogmore stew. But her best friend challenges her to do something daring for a change and Caroline finds she loves the restaurant business, crazy as it may be. Soon a blossoming relationship with local boy turned country music star Mitch O’Neal threatens to tear her away from the business–and the bistro staff and patrons who’ve become friends and family to Caroline. Then a devestating fire at the bistro illuminates the way for Caroline and the community she’s come to love.
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Perfect Life
$15.99Add to cartLooks can be deceiving.
Katherine has a perfect life. Brad is an affectionate and caring husband. They are active in their church, both serving in leadership positions. Katherine bakes, ministers, serves, leads a Bible study, sings. They have it all.
Then a corporate scandal leads to Brad’s arrest. Reporters dig into every aspect of their private lives, digging up the smallest of details and hidden secrets. Brad loses his job, and their finances are ruined.
As they struggle to piece together their once-perfect life, Katherine wonders: can their marriage survive Brad’s breach of trust?
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Germ : If You Breathe It Will Find You.
$17.99Add to cartThe list of 10,000 names was created for maximum devastation. Business leaders, housewives, politicians, celebrities, janitors, children. None of them is aware of what is about to happen-but all will be part of the most frightening brand of warfare the world has ever known.The germ-an advanced form of the Ebola virus-has been genetically engineered to infect only those people whose DNA matches the codes embedded within it. Those whose DNA is not a match simply catch a cold. But those who are a match experience a far worse fate. Within days, their internal organs liquify.Death is the only escape.The release of the virus will usher in a new era of power where countries are left without defense. Where a single person-or millions-could be killed with perfect accuracy and zero collateral damage. Where your own DNA works against you.The time isn’t coming. It is now. Pray the assassins get you first.
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Mountain Top
$17.99Add to cartCan he trust his client’s dreams and visions-even when they threaten to destroy his future?Supernatural visions filled with images of keys, hatchets, hammers, and fires. An eccentric old man in jail-accused of robbing a church and knowing things he has no right to know. A lawyer turned pastor-suddenly summoned to a stranger’s cell by a dream.How much will one man risk to defend another, when the truth lands him in prison…and the only evidence proving his innocence comes by a dream?New from Practicing Attorney Robert Whitlow-The Master of Southern Legal Thrillers with a Supernatural Twist.
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Island Inferno : A Novel
$20.99Add to cartFernanda Gracioli Viera is a twenty-three-year-old student in Panama City . When she joins a bioprospecting expedition, the team is taken captive by island pirates and only she escapes. Now she’s on the run for help. Euripides “Rip” Rubio is a twenty-six-year-old staff sergeant with Task Force Valor. TFV’s mission: Stop the “middle man” distributing the colorless, odorless, explosive liquid, ITEB. Rip’s mission: Investigate the island of Coiba for modern-day pirates operating a transshipment point for stolen goods. One night, Rip’s path literally collides with Fernanda’s, and they find themselves caught in the middle of a turf war. Can they use the chaos to their advantage? Or will one false step set the entire island ablaze?
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Plague Maker : A Thriller
$17.99Add to cartJuly Fourth: New York City… Hundreds of thousands line the banks of the East and Hudson Rivers awaiting the nation’s largest fireworks display. Soon the sky will explode in cascading showers of silver and gold. Everywhere, faces will turn skyward in wide-eyed wonder. Then the sky will grow dark again–but it will not be empty. The air will be filled with clouds of smoke and specks of debris will rain down everywhere. Some will pick bits of paper from their children’s hair. Some will brush away still-burning sparks or embers. And some will absentmindedly scratch at the tiny, biting specks that dot their necks and arms. Will the beginning of the show mark the beginning of the end? That’s what FBI agent Nathan Donovan must decide. When he is forced to enlist the help of ex-wife Macy Monroe, an expert in the psychology of terrorism, the fireworks really begin–but she may be the only one who can help him stop the Plague Maker in time.
Christy Award Winner 2007
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Adelaide Piper : A Novel
$15.99Add to cartAdelaide Piper, small-town Gen-X debutante and renegade poetess, calls her own tune. But Piper’s tunes lead her and those closest to her to dangerous places. Tragedy and heartbreak mean a return to the very ground that she once cursed, though with a deeper appreciation for that southern heritage, however infirm it may be.
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Jimmy : A Novel
$17.99Add to cartOnce you look at the world through Jimmy’s eyes, you’ll never see it the same again.
Jimmy’s world is a place where a boy can grow to be a man, even if he’s “special.” Where angels hover, mostly unseen. Where danger can happen, and hearts can falter-but love is never wasted.
From best-selling author Robert Whitlow comes a poignant tale of innocence and courage in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird.
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RV There Yet
$17.99Add to cartRoad trip! Join three 40-something women as they hop in their “vintage” Winnebago and go on a wild rescue mission. When DeDe, Millie, and Lydia discover that their old Bible camp is closing, they’re determined to save it. Little do they realize that bears, chiggers, laughs, and love await them on the bumpy highway ahead.
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Wings Of The Wind
$17.99Add to cartA recent graduate of Harvard Medical School, Hunter McGuire moves to Lexington, Virginia, to complete his internship at a large clinic. There, he falls in love with young nursing student Jodie Lockwood, who is just leaving town to finish training as a surgeon’s assistant. Sadly, by the time he musters up enough courage to follow her to Baltimore, she has moved on, and Hunter can no longer find her. In the years that follow, Dr. Hunter McGuire joins his childhood friend Tom — now “Stonewall” — Jackson at the front lines of the Civil War, while praying for God to return to him his lost love. Miraculously, years later Hunter and Jodie cross paths once again and pledge their love to one another. Yet, out of the past comes a deep, dark family secret that threatens their future, and only the God of heaven can save their love.
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Beloved Enemy
$18.99Add to cartJenny’s allegiance lay with the Confederate Army. But her heart belonged to the enemy. Faithful to her family and the land of her birth, young Jenny Jordan covers for her father’s Confederate spy missions. But as she grows closer to handsome Union soldier Buck Brownell. Jenny finds herself torn between devotion to the South and her feelings for the man she is forbidden to love. Overwhelmed by pressure to assist the South, Jenny agrees to carry critical information over enemy lines. But when she is caught in Buck Brownell’s territory, will he follow orders to execute the beautiful spy or find a way to save his Beloved Enemy?
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Touch Of Compassion
$17.99Add to cartIn southern Wyoming, an influenza epidemic sweeps in on the tails of a raging blizzard. An already tense situation between whites and the Cheyenne, Shoshoni, and Blackfoot Indian tribes is aggravated when the Indians begin attacking settlers and soldiers alike. Only the nearby Crow remain friendly, at one point even rescuing an army patrol under attack. When influenza and starvation threaten the Crow, Hannah and a young doctor come to their aid. The hungry settlers complain at first, but eventually come to admire and respect the example set by Hannah’s Touch of Compassion
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Turn Of Glory
$17.99Add to cartAt the Battle of Chancellorsville, four soldiers risk their lives to come to the aid of their friend Rance Dayton while he is under fire. An official commendation from General Stonewall Jackson follows, and the four are proclaimed heroes. But in a matter of days, their lives change drastically when the four mistake General Jackson and other approaching riders for Union soldiers and open fire. Jackson is killed and the four former heroes, now hounded and shamed, head west and turn to lives of crime. And it is Rance Dayton, now a U.S. marshal, who must bring the outlaws to justice.
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Undying Love
$17.99Add to cartNineteen-year-old Stephan Varda flees his father’s wrath over the death of his beloved brother in unstable 1880s Hungary. It doesn’t take long for Miklos Varda to regret losing yet another son, but it’s already too late to find Stephan. Strong-tempered Miklos learns one bitter lesson after another until he becomes homeless himself — at the same time Stephan is learning about the mercy of Jesus Christ from a beautiful, devout young Hungarian-American. Intricately coordinated events lead both Stephan and Miklos to America and to a pivotal decision: whether or not to accept God’s undying love.
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Woman Of Means
$19.99Add to cartIn this second release in the Daughters of Jerusalem series, Thom Lemmons explores the question of what happened to Lydia, Paul’s first European convert. Woman of Means uses strong characters and an imaginative plot to take readers to biblical times for possible answers. As readers view the struggles of life through fresh eyes, they will be reminded of the commonality of all human struggle and our shared need for God’s grace. All those who seek to run well in the race of life will be inspired by the story of a young widow whose indomitable will helps her to survive, and whose restless soul leads her to God
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Something That Lasts
$17.99Add to cartRising from his pew, Ted accuses Pastor David of an affair with his wife, then shoots himself—in full view of the preacher’s wife and 12-year-old son. The sound of the exploding gun fades, but still echoes years later in the hearts it shattered. Can they ever heal from the rage, lies, and fear? 336 pages, softcover from Integrity.
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My Life As A Doormat In 3 Acts
$16.99Add to cartPlaywright Leah Townsend’s career is careening downhill when her boyfriend, after a minor argument, has the nerve to enroll her in a “conflict resolution” class. Enter annoying radio host “Cinco” Dublin and sparks begin to fly. How can a habitual people-pleaser find happiness with a man who thrives on controversy? 320 pages, softcover from WestBow.
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Hot Flashes And Cold Cream
$14.99Add to cartMidlife isn’t a crisis for Clair Hayden until the day a former classmate fails to recognize her. Then her world spins out of control. With an empty nest, a body heading south, and a marital spark that seems to be sputtering, she knows she has to do something. But what? A job, the gym, a romantic getaway are all distinct possibilities. But the real challenge, Clair discovers, is learning to trust what she cannot see. That even while she’s “wasting away” on the outside, with God’s help she’s being renewed inwardly day by day.
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Eye Of The Beholder
$19.99Add to cartGuy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky needy friends and misses his victory dinner. Little does she know that Kinsey Abbott, Guy’s pretty legal secretary, is more than happy to keep him company. Communication between the Jones rapidly deteriorates when Ellen’s stubborn loyalty to an Iranian couple lands her in the FBI’s spotlight–and Guy’s bad graces. Guy soon discovers Kinsey’s dark side, which inevitably pulls him into a web of danger and deceit. Her decides not to tell Ellen. But it’s going to cost him.
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Grace At Low Tide
$17.99Add to cartDeVeaux DeLoach enjoys her privileged life on her family’s 150-year-old Edisto Island plantation. But her world turns upside down when her daddy declares bankruptcy and sells their home. Now her family lives in the caretaker’s cottage and works for the new Japanese owners. Can her stubborn faith give her hurting family hope for the future? A sensitive coming-of-age tale set amidst the beautiful low country. 320 pages, softcover from WestBow.
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Mixed Signals
$20.99Add to cartLove Is on the Air Belle O’Brien, the woman behind the warmest voice in Virginia radio, has one problem: Her oldies show on WPER-FM is a solid-gold hit, but her love life, at thirty-two years and counting, is an off-the-charts disaster. The pickings are slim in small-town Abingdon. Will it be smooth-talking Patrick Reese, the man who launched her radio career a decade earlier? Moody but handsome David Cahill, the chief engineer with a mysterious past and a new life in Christ? Or Matthew the Methodist, her pastor across the street? Surrounded by an on-air cast of colorful characters, Belle’s journey toward joy is filled with humor, heartache, and endless surprises. Norah Silver-Smyth, her friend and encourager, will join Belle in discovering that it’s never too late to listen to your heart.
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Woodlands : A Novel
$17.00Add to cartThe charming town of Glenbrooke, Oregon, welcomes readers once more to delight in a contemporary love story. In this all-new offering in the heartwarming Glenbrooke series, bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn’s characters get two lessons on love: it’s not based on performance and its motives must be pure. When Leah Hudson, the “ugly duckling” among beautiful sisters, meets mysterious newcomer Seth Edwards, she thinks someone could love her after all. Their friendship grows, but Seth has things he must work through before he can open himself to anyone. An unexpected inheritance serves to complicate matters that strike to the core of Seth’s and Leah’s hearts and faith.
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Last Bullet
$12.99Add to cart256 Pages
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Clay Bostin’s fortune changes quickly on the Nebraska plains. Left to die in excruciating pain by marauding Indians, he is rescued by a wagon train and nursed back to health by lovely Rachel Flanagan. Soon afterwards, the Cheyenne attack, and Clay is chosen to replace their fallen trail boss. Now it’s his fate to protect the pioneers from the relentless assault of the Cheyenne warriors. What will happen if brutal Black Hawk reached the beautiful girl? -
Lights Of 10Th Street
$27.99Add to cartThey have the house, the two kids, and the minivan. They have a well-meaning but shallow church. What Sherry doesn’t know is that Doug has a shameful struggle with his thought life. When an exotic dancer’s life intersects theirs, this suburban couple has to make a hard choice: do they risk their convenience and security for her sake, or do they cross to the other side of the road? The dark forces will not easily give up their most important pawn. But Ronnie must come out of the darkness, for only she can unravel a plot of devastating destruction.
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Final Justice
$17.99Add to cartSilver Moon is in her teens when her Cheyenne village is destroyed by Colonel John Chivington’s cavalry unit. As Silver Moon grows, she becomes consumed with hatred until her one goal is to kill the man responsible. But when a smallpox epidemic breaks out among the Cheyenne, Christian nurse Breanna Baylor Brockman comes to care for the sick, and the nurse’s compassion for Silver Moon and her people begins the girl’s journey toward conversion and healing.
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Miniatures And Morals
$16.00Add to cartJane Austen’s novels are not only still widely read, but also continue to influence modern film and literature. In both their moral content and their focused, highly detailed, “miniaturist” execution, they reveal Austen’s mastery of the art of fiction and her concern for Christian virtues exercised within communities. Her sharp wit and sense of irony entertain, edify, and challenge both men and women alike. From theological and literary angles, Leithart unpacks both character and theme while summarizing each of Austen’s major works. For all who desire a richer appreciation of her enduring genius, Leithart offers a hearthside seat.
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Not By Might
$18.99Add to cartNurse Natalie Fallon has brought her ailing mother to Denver for her health and starts a job at Denver’s Mile High Hospital, where she meets fellow nurse Breanna Baylor Brockman. In Natalie’s past is a relationship with Rex Rawlins, a young medical student. Two years prior she had ended the relationship when she learned Rex was planning a rural practice. She is determined not to marry a country doctor like her father, who died at age 43 from overwork. But she has never stopped loving Rex, and now, little does she know that Rex is a rural doctor in the surrounding mountains. A serious accident brings them together, but it will take a miracle to give them the promise of a life together
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Whither Thou Goest
$18.99Add to cartContinuing with the adventures of Old West heroine Breanna Baylor, book six of the Angel of Mercy series begins with the planning of a wedding — between Breanna and the legendary Stranger, whose true identity has now been revealed. Before the wedding, however, John’s best man, Chief U.S. Marshal Solomon Duvall, disappears. And after the wedding, both John and Breanna — who has pledged, “Whither thou goest, I will go” — put their own lives in danger as they set out to find him.
