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Hi Ya’ll – Tomorrow I will be unable to post the freebies – so I rustled up 7 for today! 2 Christian Living, 5 Fiction.  Prices subject to change at any time.  If it says “read for free with Prime”, it’s no longer free for everyone!

The Narrow Path via Amazon – Contemporary Romance – Although both Miranda Klassen and Ted Wiebe are part of the Mennonite church, these two young adults couldn’t be any different. Inside out and outside in, Miranda and Ted look different (she’s modern, he’s Old Order conservative) and think different (she’s into electronic gadgets, he’s into plain and simple). Thrown together when Miranda is hired to organize Ted’s Old Order Mennonite church’s anniversary celebration, each balks at the other’s mode of living. Once Ted gets past Miranda’s red earrings, insanely high heels, and cellphone, and sees her heart for God, things begin to thaw between the two. With a bevy of delightful characters, Sattler takes what could be just another toss ‘em together and it will all work out in the end faith-based romance and makes it something more, much more. Winsome and warm, this story tickles the funny bone and teases the heart in equal measure. (May)  Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Diagnosis Death via Amazon – Suspense/Thriller – Personal drama and spooky circumstances permeate this third and final installment of the physician-author’s “Prescription for Trouble” series. When her husband is taken off life support in the hospital where she works, Elena Gardner becomes a grieving widow who must still perform her duties as doctor. A procedural blip complicates the circumstances of her husband’s death and, to make matters worse, the emotionally devastated Gardner cannot recall her actions at the time of his death. Did she pull the plug on her husband? Her colleagues seem understanding, but when another patient in her care mysteriously dies, the hospital staff become suspicious. All the while, Gardner gets cryptic, threatening phone calls that follow her even when she relocates to Texas. Is Gardner at the center of these mercy killings or is someone close to her trying to sully her name? Mabry (Medical Error) crafts a tight medical drama that will have readers guessing. For fans of the gory, gritty details of patient trauma and hospital gossip, this book certainly will be an enjoyable page-turner. (Apr.)  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Relentless via Amazon – Suspense/Thriller – Parrish’s latest opens upon a world so tilted–people are “shifted” into new bodies, while their old bodies and personalities proceed–that it brings Philip K. Dick to mind. Gradually, the Dick-like paranoia itself shifts into flourishes of sword-and-sorcery and a cast of characters rather like X-Men. Psychokinesis is the theme, and Parrish makes it seem plausible, as his reluctant hero, Collin Boyd/Grant Borrows, discovers his powers in a kind of spiritual journey. The cliff-hanging plot mostly holds up, and the pace is, well, relentless. It’s almost as though Parrish has too much talent and can’t quite bring it under control. Nonetheless, another of Bethany’s sf writers, Randall Ingermanson comes to mind, and Parrish is every bit as skilled. John Mort copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

The Dead Saint via Amazon – Suspense/Thriller – Bishop Lynn Peterson starts her Wednesday sipping coffee in the French Quarter when whizzing bullets and a dead New Orleans Saints kicker send her on a worldwide journey of espionage, secret messages, and life-threatening situations. The peace-loving bishop is pitted against a mysterious enemy known as “The Patriot,” whose reach and power extend even to still restive postsiege Sarajevo. “Start with St. Sava” is Lynn’s first clue that her life might no longer be solely under her own command. Oden (Crested Butte) has written an international adventure that will keep readers guessing, though her propensity to halt action with Lynn’s self-talk and introspection (” âÇÿEnough, Lynn! Open the letter or tear it up!’ “) can get annoying. The casual yet taut style will keep readers turning pages to find out if Bishop Lynn can prevent disaster that involves the highest echelons of the U.S. government. Oden’s Bishop Lynn is likable and smart, a combination that could make for a bestseller and more thrillers in the future. (Apr.)  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Gone to Green via Amazon – Contemporary/Romance – Starred Review. Lois Barker, a successful big-city journalist, never imagined ending up in the tiny town of Green, La. She never guessed that within months she would unexpectedly inherit a smalltown newspaper. She never believed she would leave her rising-star career impulsively after a quiet, inner prompting urged, Go… I’ll help you. Yet that improbable route to upheaval is precisely where Christie (Goodbye, Murphy’s Law) engagingly guides both readers and the charming yet flummoxed Barker. As the editor and owner of the Green News-Item, the ever uncertain Barker transforms from an overwhelmed and overly self-reliant Jane Doe into a considerable power for reform and revitalization in her depressed Louisiana borough. Refreshingly realistic religious fiction, this novel is unafraid to address the injustices of sexism, racism and corruption as well as the spiritual devastation that often accompanies the loss of loved ones. Yet these darker narrative tones beautifully highlight the novel’s message of friendship, community and God’s reassuring and transformative love. (Aug.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

101 Faith Notes via Amazon – Bible Meditations – Scriptures and Meditations on Faith and God’s promises. This is a short book designed to make you think and consider God’s word in one of its many facets. Hopefully you’ll see God’s word in a new way.

Open Your Hymal via Amazon – Christian Living – Do you ever catch yourself singing a song in church without paying attention to the words? Open Your Hymnal is a collection of thirty devotions that transport the wisdom of classic hymns and gospel songs into the twenty-first century. Introduce yourself to the rich spiritual heritage that hymnals contain or gain a new perspective on songs you’ve sung since childhood. Whether you sing in the choir loft, the worship team, or the pew, the refreshing biblical insights in this book will enhance your appreciation of the words you sing every time you open a hymnal.

3 Free Books Today – All Christian Fiction.  Prices subject to change without notice.  If it says “read for free with Prime”, it’s no longer free for everyone!

Undercover Angels via Amazon - Children’s Lit – Kayla, a twelve-year-old girl who recently lost her father during a school shooting, is facing many changes. Raised in a Christian home, she has learned to take her religion for granted. Now, she is starting seventh grade in a new town, a new school, with no friends, and no father. Her problem escalates when she makes friends with two girls who seem to be archenemies. For the first time, being a Christian seems to interfere with being popular, and she is faced with one of the biggest decisions of her life: Does being a Christian mean more than just believing in God…and if so, does she really want to be one?

Wildflowers of Terezin via Amazon – Historical – This book is based around the days of 1943, WWII, a Lutheran Pastor named Steffen, and a Jewish Nurse named Hanne. Set in a time I have never known, other than through books, I found that this particular story at times took my breath away as I put myself in the characters world. Steffen steps outside his comfort zone of “behind the pulpit” and the pages begin to turn…

I’ll Watch the Moon via Amazon - Historical – When polio stalked Minnesota in 1948, fear was every mother’s constant companion, as Tatlock (All the Way Home) shows in this well-written story for the evangelical Christian market. Young Nova Tierney and her older brother, Dewey, live a mostly idyllic life despite sharing living space with a motley assortment of tenants at the boarding house run by their Aunt Dortha and mother, Catherine. Dewey, nicknamed “Galileo” for his love of astronomy, dreams of some day walking on the moon, and he and Nova spend many happy hours looking at the night sky together in their backyard. When Dewey is hospitalized with polio, Nova promises to watch the moon for him (thus the title) until he is well. But will he recover? In her bitterness over a childhood secret, her late husband’s infidelity and her son’s desperate illness, his mother turns her back on God. “Sometimes, I wonder how we all go on living,” she muses. Hope begins to return when she strikes up a friendship with boarder and Auschwitz survivor Josef Karski. Meanwhile, Nova exchanges letters with her brother and dreams of having a father again. She takes comfort in the stars: “as long as the moon was in its place and the stars were burning and the planets were moving through their spheres… everything was all right.” This beautiful story laced with hope, redemption and forgiveness should find wide appeal among CBA readers.  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

6 FREE Books today – 1 Christian Living, 5 Fiction.  Prices subject to change at any time.  If it says “read for free with Prime” it’s no longer free for everyone.

Putting God in His Place via Amazon – Christian Living – How culture recasts your church in its image and what to do about it. In Putting God in His Place, four young evangelicals look at the American church and find that in its uneasy dance with modern culture it has moved the individual into the center of its concerns and pushed God toward the margins. Together, they examine the way the cultural forces of the marketplace, technology, democracy, and entertainment media have seeped into the church, shaping the way we see God and ourselves.

Running Home via Amazon – Romance – Ivy’s husband has always been a cheat and a liar, but when he gets caught up in a game of espionage he flees the country with his latest bimbo, and Ivy has finally had enough. She packs up the kids and moves back to her hometown to escape the fallout. Trouble is – her problems don’t stay behind in California, but follow her all the way to Omaha, Nebraska. The FBI is tracking her every move, hoping she’ll lead them to her fugitive husband, while evil men threaten her family’s safety if she doesn’t give them what they want. Agent Samson Sinclair is assigned to keep an eye on Ivy. He is her only ally against threats and suspicions that come from every side. But can he keep their relationship professional when he finds himself falling for the woman he’s supposed to be protecting? Ivy’s attempt to assemble the broken pieces of her life may prove harder than she anticipated. Especially on her own. When the past intrudes on the present Ivy is forced to deal with why she ran from God in the first place and whether faith, once lost, can ever really be found again.

Reclaiming Lily via Amazon – Contemporary – A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Dallas hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who had to give up her little sister during the Cultural Revolution and has since discovered that an inherited genetic defect may be waiting to fatally strike Lily. Gloria’s relationship with her daughter is tattered and strained, and the arrival of Kai, despite the woman’s apparent good intentions, makes Gloria fearful. Gloria longs to restore her relationship with Lily, but in the wake of this potentially devastating diagnosis, is Kai an answer to prayer…or will her arrival force Gloria to sacrifice more than she ever imagined?

A Rat and A Ransom via Amazon – Children’s Lit – Tom ran as fast as he could along the forest path, his leaden legs refusing to go any faster.
He was sure the kidnappers were after him, but he dare not stop and look back. Frantic with worry he put his hand inside his jacket pocket and felt for her, but the pocket was empty. In despair he shouted her name.
It was always the same dream and each time he awoke at the same point, gasping for breath and calling for her. An exciting fantasy for nine year olds, and all who are young at heart.

Safe at Home via Amazon- Historical – The spring of ’53 started out like any other for sports columnist Jack Hall, as he and the rest of his small southern town, Whitney, eagerly awaited the magical first pitch that would open the Bobcat’s season. But when ticket sales wane with the new distractions of air conditioning and I Love Lucy, the Bobcats face an early end not only to the season but to their careers as well. The team needs a white knight to save them and ironically, that white knight seems to be a 17 year old “colored kid”, Percy Jackson, who’s got a .364 batting average and has never seen a grounder he couldn’t chase down. Not everyone—not even most people—though can wrap their heads around an integrated baseball field, even if they have seen them on TV. This is Whitney. Things don’t change and they don’t need to change. Do they? Hearts, minds, faith and tradition will be tested as will friendships and marriages when this sleepy southern town comes to grips with itself amid the early years of the Civil Rights Movement.

Worlds Unseen via Amazon – Fantasy – Quiet, timid, and still haunted by the murder of her childhood guardians, Maggie Sheffield wants peace and healing—not an opportunity to uncover truths so frightening that they threaten to forever unravel the world she thinks she knows. But when a dying friend gives her an ancient scroll that purports to contain just such truths, Maggie finds the lure of understanding too hard to resist: For the power that killed Maggie’s guardians was not human—and she has reason to believe the same power is controlling the Seventh World. Leaving her hopes for peace behind, Maggie sets out to carry the ancient scroll to the far eastern city of Pravik, seeking the only man in the world who can read it. Along the way, Maggie falls into the companionship of a charismatic young wanderer called Nicolas Fisher, who has secrets of his own that he has long been trying to keep hidden. Together, their journey plunges them into a strange new world of colourful Gypsies and ancient legends, of death-hounds and beautiful witches, of wilderness treks, unexpected love, and political rebellion. But the price of truth may be too high: for Maggie, Nicolas, and the rebels of Pravik are tearing at the veil between the seen and the unseen, between good and evil, between forgotten past and treacherous future—and when that veil grows thin enough, it’s anyone’s guess what may come through.

4 FREE Books today – 2 Christian Living, 2 Fiction.  Prices subject to change at any time.  If it says “read for free with Prime,” it’s no longer free for everyone.

40 Devotions for Horse Lovers via Amazon – Devotional – A 40 day devotional for horse lovers. This series of short 2-minute devotions relates the Scriptures to Horsemanship, giving the reader and rider a new insight into God’s word. First begun as a weekly devotion in “More From Ruby” – the website addition from RUBY FOR WOMEN Magazine.

Does God Change Lives? via Amazon – Christian Living – Concise and Informative – Designed to be read in 20 to 40 minutes – God puts in us and provides to us all we need to change our lives. It is not about our abilities but about our surrendering and yielding, our faith and our trust in God. It is about Jesus becoming our Lord and being guided by the power of the Holy Spirit. A journey like you have never experienced. God Desires to Change Us! “Is this really a possibility in my own life?”

Day of War via Amazon – Historical – In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start in life. He has joined a band of soldiers led by a warlord named David, seeking to bury the past that refuses to leave him. Their ragged army is disgruntled and full of reckless men. Some are loyal to David, but others are only with him for the promise of captured wealth. While the ruthless and increasingly mad King Saul marches hopelessly against the powerful Philistines, loyal son Jonathan in tow, the land of the Hebrew tribes has never been more despondent—and more in need of rescue. Over the course of ten days, from snowy mountain passes to sword-wracked battlefields, Benaiah and his fellow mercenaries must call upon every skill they have to survive and establish the throne for David—if they don’t kill each other first. Day of War brings to life the exploits of the Mighty Men of Israel, a rag-tag band of disgruntled warriors on the run with David, the soon-to-be King. Their legendary deeds are recorded in 2 Samuel 23 and 1 Chronicles 11

To Love Anew via Amazon – Historical/Romance – Hannah Talbot has no one. Forced to leave the only home she’s ever known, she works for a cruel employer who brutally takes the one thing she has left–her dignity. When she is banished from London, she is certain God has turned his back on her. John Bradshaw was a successful businessman whose untamed spirit sometimes wanted more. When he is betrayed by those closest to him, he loses everything–his wife, his business, even his freedom. John’s and Hannah’s paths are about to cross. Aboard a ghastly, nineteenth-century prison ship from London to Australia, John and Hannah must keep hope alive and trust God’s unconditional love.

4 Free books today.  All 4 are Christian Fiction. Prices subject to change at any time.  If it says “read for free with Prime,” it’s no longer free for everyone.

Valeria’s Cross via Amazon – Historical – In the 3rd century, pampered Roman princess Valeria falls in love with Mauritius, captain of the Theban Legion. She sends him off to battle, where he suffers under the schemes of a notorious pagan general with an ambition for power and a lust for Valeria.

Always the Wedding Planner Never the Bride via Amazon – Romance – Wedding planner Sherilyn Keyes has left Chicago behind to marry Andrew Drummond IV, an Atlanta native with a family name that tops all the social registers. She joins Emma, her old college roommate and baker, in working at the Tanglewood Inn, a destination wedding hotel. But Sherilyn faces a series of challenges to her relationship and her faith as she and Andrew settle into their new jobs and begin planning their own wedding.

Chasing Mona Lisa via Amazon – Historical – It is August 1944 and Paris is on the cusp of liberation. As the soldiers of the Third Reich flee the Allied advance, they ravage the country, stealing countless pieces of art. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring will stop at nothing to claim the most valuable one of all, the Mona Lisa, as a post-war bargaining chip to get him to South America. Can Swiss OSS agents Gabi Mueller and Eric Hofstadler rescue DaVinci’s masterpiece before it falls into German hands? With nonstop action, Chasing Mona Lisa is sure to get readers’ adrenaline pumping as they join the chase to save the most famous painting in the world. From war-ravaged Paris to a posh country chateau, the race is on–and the runners are playing for keeps.

My True Essence via Amazon – Contemporary – Rebecca has everything she ever prayed for and more, and is living like she doesn’t care if she loses it all. Dani’s business is thriving and her faith is strong. Her diagnosis will expose her own insecurities and life’s truth. Jenessa epitomizes the definition of a strong woman. A routine doctor’s visit forces her to confront the genetic cloud that has hovered over her since childhood.