By editor on Dec 19, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction | 0 Comments
THE SPIRIT OF SWEETGRASS
by Nicole Seitz
Essie Mae Laveau Jenkins is 78 years old. To support herself, she weaves sweetgrass baskets and sells them in a little stand out on the highway. Her husband, Jim, who’d passed on close to ten years before, sits with her sometimes. Inspired by her Aunt Leona, Essie Mae starts weaving [...]
By editor on Dec 11, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction | 0 Comments
Monday Morning Faith
by Lori Copeland
The book actually starts at the end of the story. Johanna Holland is on an airplane. The reader isn’t told where she’s going or why, only that it’s far away and very hot. The author then goes back to fill in the rest of the story. [...]
By editor on Dec 8, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction | 0 Comments
Divas of Damascus Road
By Michelle Stimpson
When Dianne learns about her beloved Aunt Gloria’s upcoming nuptials, she must make a difficult decision. Dianne has lived away from Dentonville for over twenty years avoiding the woman who has brought her the most pain in her life, her mother. Besides staying away from Dentonville, Dianne has [...]
By editor on Nov 5, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction | 0 Comments
Zora’s Cry
Tia McCollars
Zora’s Cry is Essence bestseller Tia McCollars’ second novel. Readers will be introduced to four women whose very different lives merge into a friendship via a brand new women’s discipleship group.
Zora is looking forward to her upcoming wedding when tragedy strikes. In one horrible accident, she loses both her parents. The [...]
By editor on Nov 4, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction | 0 Comments
ACROSS THE CHINA SKY
by C. Hope Flinchbaugh
Mei Lin suffered for months in Shanghai Prison Number 14. When Mei Lin was released, she returned home to her village of Tanching. Now Mei lives at home with her grandmother and father, and works in the rice fields, while sharing the gospel with her preacher fiancé, Liko.
When [...]
By editor on Nov 3, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction | 0 Comments
FORGIVIN’ AIN’T FORGETTIN’
by Mata Elliott
Debut novelist Mata Elliott strikes it hot with her first novel, Forgivin’ Ain’t Forgettin’.
Cassidy Beckett arrives home from a conference to find her aunt has been up to her usual generous self – maybe too generous for Cassidy’s comfort. Recently widowed Theron Monroe and his two young daughters have been [...]
By editor on Oct 16, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction | 0 Comments
THE FRAGRANCE OF ROSES
by Nikki Arana
Angelica and Anthony Perez’s son, Manuel, has been in remission for the past five years. But a routine doctor’s exam comes with the dreaded news that the cancer is back, and in a more aggressive state.
The only hope of saving Manuel’s life is with a bone marrow transplant, but [...]
By editor on Sep 21, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction, Historical | 1 Comment
THE BRUSHSTROKE LEGACY
by Lauraine Snelling
As the book opens we find Ragni’s life is a mess. She’s going to be late for work if she doesn’t hurry and when she gets there she finds that someone has changed an ad layout that her team had worked so hard to perfect. She’d saved the original [...]
By editor on Aug 3, 2006 in Contemporary Fiction | 0 Comments
Uncharted
by Angela Hunt
Years earlier, six college students bonded when a professor asked them to help him sell his self-published book. The students became very close friends, and two of them, Karyn and Kevin marry and have a daughter. Other of the six, David, becomes a successful doctor and gives his vacation to work in missions. [...]