New Releases, Outdoors and Adventure, Picture Books, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
Isaac and Izzy’s Magical Maples Written by Angela HendersonIllustrated by Rachael Koppendrayer Autumn is painting the world in vibrant colors, and Isaac and Izzy want to give back to their favorite magical maple tree. A normal present won’t do, though. They want to...
Outdoors and Adventure, Picture Books, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
Isaac and Izzy’s Tree House Written by Angela HendersonIllustrated by Rachael Koppendrayer With summer painting the world in vibrant colors, Isaac decides it’s time for some special fun with his favorite Sugar Maple. But his plans for a tree house turn out to be a...
Historical Fiction, Quick Reads, Romance and Love Stories
Simply Lila by Suzie Johnson Based on Lady Susan Living in the shadow of her mother has always been part of Lila Wentworth’s everyday life. Filled with self-doubt and uncertainty, Lila seeks solace among the pages of Jane Austen’s captivating novels; she even...
Historical Fiction, Quick Reads, Romance and Love Stories
Sense and Nonsense by Lisa Karon Richardson Based on Sense and Sensibility Super serious Evangeline Bennett has no time for frivolities like courtship. Besides, she tried it once and doesn’t intend to lay her heart open to that sort of pain again. Now she has her...
Historical Fiction, Quick Reads, Romance and Love Stories
Mansford Ranch by Dina L. Sleiman Based on Mansfield Park As an aspiring novelist, Franny Sue Price prides herself in being a student of human nature. When dashing Hank Crawfield returns from his studies back East, he sets his Stetson on wooing her. Although he...
Historical Fiction, Quick Reads, Romance and Love Stories
Fully Persuaded by Niki Turner Based on Persuasion Annie Ellis fell in love with Ford Winters at the tender age of 19, but her family persuaded her to end the relationship. Eight years later and still alone, Annie is resigned to life as a spinster. She pours...
Historical Fiction, Quick Reads, Romance and Love Stories
Romantic Refinements by Anita Mae Draper, Based on Sense and Sensibility Naïve Marion McDermott spurns the love of quiet Brandon Tabor in favor of a handsome cowboy closer to her own age. An idealistic romantic, she wants to be swept off her feet, not aid a...
Historical Fiction, Quick Reads, Romance and Love Stories
One Word from You by Susanne Dietze Based on Pride and Prejudice Urged by her family to marry for the sake of their dwindling finances, Eliza Branch prefers to pay for the remainder of her time at the Austen Academy by writing for the local paper. There’s...
Historical Fiction, Quick Reads, Romance and Love Stories
If I Loved You Less by Gina Welborn Based on Emma Hotel heiress Emmeline Travis knows true love. After all, thanks to her, her former governess is now happily married to the livery owner who works next to her father’s hotel. Austin banker Noah Whitley knows...
Historical Fiction, Quick Reads, Romance and Love Stories
Alarmingly Charming by Debra E. Marvin Based on Northanger Abbey As travel companion to her condescending cousin, Philadelphian Kathryn Morton dreamily anticipates a week in the Wild West as the best cure for meekness. After a long rail journey and a steady diet...
Non-Fiction, Quick Reads, Spiritually Challenging
Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear the Shepherd’s Voice by Joanne Hillman Listening Prayer is a Bible-based method of hearing God’s precious voice, so relationships can be healed and personal struggles overcome. The simple technique presented is so appealing...
Non-Fiction, Quick Reads, Spiritually Challenging
by Gail Kittleson Many of us long for rest, as the author did while renovating an old house after her husband’s first deployment to Iraq. Yet a different hunger undergirded that desire: a hunger for wholeness. No fast track exists to a closer walk with God, but...
Historical Fiction, Poignant and Deep, Quick Reads
Hopeless The Woman with the Issue of Blood by Golden Keyes Parsons Children love her. Dinah thought when she married she would have a house full of children. The days melted into weeks and the months sped by with no pregnancy. At last, the long-awaited pregnancy,...
Historical Fiction, Poignant and Deep, Quick Reads
Trapped The Adulterous Woman by Golden Keyes Parsons A trap has been set…by her own foolish heart. A stranger approaches Anna’s house in the oppressive heat of the late afternoon before Sabbath. Shielding her eyes against the penetrating rays of the sun, she...
Historical Fiction, Poignant and Deep, Quick Reads
Broken The Woman Who Anointed Jesus’s Feet by Golden Keyes Parsons Tirzah follows Jesus along outskirts of the crowd. She watches him raise the son of the widow of Nain from the dead. That day as he glanced her way, her spirit pleads with him to free her of the...
Outdoors and Adventure, Picture Books, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
Isaac’s Ice Cream Tree Written by Angela HendersonIllustrated by Rachael Koppendrayer Isaac loves the sugar maple in his yard, and he can’t help but feel bad for it when its branches are winter-bare. He decides to give it a gift…and is surprised when the tree returns...
Middle Grade, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
Picture Imperfect by Susan Thogerson Maas Twelve-year-old JJ loves three things: her great-grandma, her cat, and photography. But she’s never going to be a real photographer unless she gets better equipment. When her best friend, Kat, discovers a photo contest with...
Middle Grade, Quick Reads, Share with the Family, Speculative, Suspenseful
Cosmic Chaos By CM Shelton A defective robot sends him to the Garden of Eden. And that’s just the beginning. This futuristic middle grade novel will take you on an exciting, time-traveling adventure from the moon to creation and everywhere in between! Logan...
Lighty and Funny, Middle Grade, Outdoors and Adventure, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
The Water Fight ProfessionalT by Angela Ruth Strong I, Joey Michaels, am the Water Fight Professional. Basically this means that customers pay me to soak other people. But my super-competitive best friend is sucking all the fun out of summer. All because I made a...
Lighty and Funny, Middle Grade, Outdoors and Adventure, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
The Pillow Fight Professional by Angela Ruth Strong I, Joey Michaels, am the Pillow Fight Professional. Basically this means I’m training a bunch of my sister’s friends to hold their own against older siblings. Unfortunately, when the girls win a pillow fight at...
Christmas, Lighty and Funny, Middle Grade, Outdoors and Adventure, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
The Snowball Fight Professional by Angela Ruth Strong I, Joey Michaels, am the Snowball Fight Professional. Basically this means that customers pay me to shoot snowballs at other people. I’m going to use the money I make to buy Grandma a great gift that will...
Lighty and Funny, Middle Grade, Outdoors and Adventure, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
The Food Fight Professional by Angela Ruth Strong I, Joey Michaels, am the Food Fight Professional. Basically this means that if food is flying in the school cafeteria, people think I’m responsible.Working at a soup kitchen as punishment shows me how I can...
Christmas, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Quick Reads, Share with the Family
Benjy and the Belsnickel By Bonnie Swinehart The Belsnickel is coming… Dressed in black from head to toe.Porcupine quills in his hat. A whip in hand.And bells that jingle with every step. Benjy, a lovable eleven-year-old in the 1930s, just can’t seem to...
Historical Fiction, Poignant and Deep, Quick Reads
Alone The Woman at the Well by Golden Keyes Parsons Marah’s life has been difficult. Her father died when she was three, and a succession of men began the parade through her life—men who disappointed and abused her. Her heart withers away. Her youth fades. She...
