Book Review
On Love's Gentle Shore
Gentle allusions to the power of belief and of God form the story’s foundation. Liz Johnson combines a tender inspirational romance with the gritty impact of childhood abuse for a powerful story about the struggle to find, accept, and...
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The Actress
A subtle faith-based perspective and an uncommon heroine make this mystery one very worth investigating. Michael Hicks Thompson’s charming and compelling whodunit, "The Actress", falls between a hard-boiled detective novel and a cozy...
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Against the Fading of the Light
This surprising apocalyptic novel is edgy within its faith-based genre, and has the action of a wartime thriller. "Against the Fading of the Light" is the third gripping and graphically violent installment of Stu Jones’s Action of...
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The 13th Month
Religious fiction meets thriller as a priest and a group of supernatural investigators battle the evil that plagues a town. Evil exists. Despite mankind’s efforts to address the world’s wrongs—crime, abuse, poverty, hatred,...
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The Dolomite Challenge
This page-turning thriller covers a rarely seen side to history—cleaning up the mess left by war. In "The Dolomite Challenge", Tom Joyce’s third novel about Vienna police inspector Karl Marbach, investigations merge with spy craft in...
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System
Classic sci-fi, mystery, and noir fiction mix with futurist questions about where society’s slippery slope may be taking us. The traditions of great early science-fiction novels like Brave New World and 1984 meld with our modern world...
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How Alligator Got His Smile Back
Clever, vivid storytelling helps convey a message of self-acceptance and humility. Author Jayne Moraski and illustrator Carl Kocich join forces for a picture-book folktale in the tradition of Rudyard Kipling. "How Alligator Got His Smile...
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The Christmas Code
A sweet hidden Christmas message highlights the difference people can make when they reach out to others with compassion, love, and understanding. Ed J. Pinegar’s novella, "The Christmas Code", provides a heaping helping of the...