WriterFest Nashville, a new festival celebrating books and writers, debuts November 8 - 9, 2018, on the Lipscomb University campus.

Ticket price includes admission to the two-day event; three meals; three keynote sessions; and your choice of over 30 classes with bestselling authors across genres, successful screenwriters, poets, songwriters PLUS the folks behind the art: agents, editors, and producers. 

Lipscomb University’s College of Entertainment & the Arts will host the festival along with the Department of English & Modern Languages in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. WriterFest Nashville sponsor and retail partner, Parnassus Books, will host book sales at the festival and will feature speakers' books in store.

“Nashville is a magnet for writers,” says Ami McConnell, Founder and Festival Director for WriterFest Nashville. “WriterFest aims to empower, inspire, and connect them.”  

Ami McConnell is founder and Festival Director of WriterFest Nashville. She is former Editor-in-Chief and Vice President, Howard Books/Simon & Schuster, and her editing credits include numerous New York Times bestsellers and award-winning titles. Ami has edited renowned authors Colleen Coble, Ted Dekker, Karen Kingsbury, Max Lucado, Frank Peretti, and Wm. Paul Young. She has served on the Advisory Board of The Buechner Institute at King College and is an active member of the Women’s National Book Association. Ami is co-author with Candace Cameron Bure of Kind Is the New Classy (2018, HarperCollins).

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Release Date: November 8-9, 2018

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Building Our Lives on the Promises of God

With more than 130 million products in print, Max Lucado is America’s bestselling inspirational author. His writings have been shaped into bestselling books, videos, devotionals, songs, greeting cards, booklets, Bible studies, commentaries and theatrically-released movies. Lucado has been featured on countless national media outlets including The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, NPR’s All Things Considered and Fox & Friends. Max and his wife of over 35 years, Denalyn, call San Antonio, Texas, home. Max has served the people of Oak Hills Church since 1988.

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Title: Unshakable Hope
Subtitle: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date: August 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0-71809-6144
Category: Religion / Christian Life
Retail Price: $22.99
Binding: Hardcover, Jacketed
Number of Pages: 240

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How do we understand our changing times in light of God’s unchanging Word?This timely question is addressed by Trevin Wax, David Dockery, and other experts in the new CSB Worldview Study Bible(Holman Bibles, May 15, 2018). For more than five years, General Editor Dockery has overseen a team of scholars who developed study notes and articles on the relevance of Scripture to the deepest questions we have about the purpose and nature of our lives.

The CSB Worldview Study Bible features 130 articles from noted scholars such as John Stonestreet (Colson Center for Christian World View), James Emery White (Mecklenburg Community Church), Robert Smith, Jr. (Beeson Divinity School), Mary Jo Sharp (Houston Baptist University), Mark Noll (University of Notre Dame), Choon Sam Fong (Singapore Baptist Theological Seminary), Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary), Aida Besancon Spencer(Gordon Conwell), and Carl Trueman (Westminster Theological Seminary) to name a few. Holman Bibles is launching a customized website with excerpts, sample pages and more on the Bible, www.CSBWorldviewStudyBible.com. 

Title: The CSB Worldview Study Bible
Release Date: May 2018
ISBN-13: 78-1-4336-0433-1
Category: Bibles / Christian Standard Bible / Study
Retail Price: $49.99
Number of Pages: 2208

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The CSB Study Bible for Women is the most comprehensive study Bible of resources for women, bywomen with all editors and contributors of this new Bible being women who have been extensively educated in biblical studies. Edited by Dr. Dorothy Kelley Patterson and Dr. Rhonda Harrington Kelley, both long-time women’s ministry leaders, authors, and seminary professors at two of the nation’s most respected seminaries.

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Title: The Study Bible for Women
Release Date: April 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-4336-4420-7
Category: Bibles / Christian Standard Bible / Study

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A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural

Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor at The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of more than twenty books. He currently serves as Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University and a Teaching Pastor at Woodlands Church, one of the largest congregations in the country.

Lee’s book, The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus, became an immediate bestseller upon release 20 years ago. The Case for Christ and Strobel’s following books have sold more than 10 million units to date.

Described in the Washington Post as "one of the evangelical community's most popular apologists," has created content for dozens of popular books, curriculum products and films. Lee shared the Christian Book of the Year award in 2005 for a curriculum he co-authored with Garry Poole about the movie The Passion of the Christ. He also earned Christian Book Awards for The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creatorand The Case for Grace, all of which have been made into documentaries distributed by Lionsgate. 

Lee was educated at the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Journalism degree) and Yale Law School (Master of Studies in Law degree). He was a journalist for 14 years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois' highest honor for public service journalism from United Press International. He also led a team that won UPI’s top award for investigative reporting in Illinois. In addition, Lee taught First Amendment Law at Roosevelt University.

After investigating the evidence for Jesus, Lee became a Christian in 1981. He joined the staff of Willow Creek Community Church in 1987 and later became a teaching pastor. He joined Saddleback Valley Community Church as a teaching pastor in 2000. He left Saddleback to write books and host the national network TV program "Faith Under Fire."

In recognition of the extensive research for his books, Southern Evangelical Seminary honored Lee Strobel with the conferring of a Doctor of Divinity degree in 2007. Lee's books include The Case for Miracles (2017), The Case for Grace, In Defense of Jesus, Finding the Real Jesus, God's Outrageous Claims, The Case for Christmas, The Case for Easter, The Unexpected Adventure (co-authored with Mark Mittelberg), and Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage, which he wrote with his wife, Leslie. Lee also co-authored the Becoming a Contagious Christian course, which has trained nearly two million Christians on how to naturally and effectively talk with others about Jesus. His recent works include his first novel, The Ambition, and The Case for Christ Study Bible which features hundreds of notes and articles. Pureflix released a film in 2017, now available on DVD, which is based Lee's life as recounted in The Case for Christ.

Leehas been interviewed on such national TV networks as ABC, Fox, PBS and CNN, and his articles have appeared in a variety of periodicals, including the online editions of the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. He has been a recurring guest on "The Bible Answer Man" and "Focus on the Family" radio programs. He is a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

Lee and Leslie have been married for 45 years and live in Texas.

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Title: The Case for Miracles
Subtitle: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural
Author: Lee Strobel
Release Date: March 27, 2018
ISBN-13: 9780310259183
Retail Price: $22.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 352

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One of the great blessings of being a Christian is the opportunity to help make other disciples. The CSB Disciple’s Study Bible features discipleship-themed study notes, as well as tools and resources that equip Christians for deeper intimacy with Jesus and more strategic discipling of others. Included is the Foundations 260 Reading Plan (F260), featuring 260 concise daily readings with commentary from Gallaty, and ample page space to engage the text and complete the proven H.E.A.R journaling method (Highlight-Explain-Apply-Respond). With additional articles on discipleship from the team at Replicate Ministries, the CSB Disciple’s Study Bible will help foster engagement and practical application of God’s Word in the life of a disciple on a daily basis.

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Title: The CSB Disciples Study Bible
Release Date: November 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-4627-5370-3
Category: BIBLES / Christian Standard Bible / Study
Retail Price: $59.99
Number of Pages: 1800

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The CSB Spurgeon Study Bible the first study Bible to feature extensive notes, biographical information, sermon outlines and more from noted 19th century preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The Spurgeon Study Bible will release exclusively in the Christian Standard Bible® (CSB) version.

Edited by Alistair Begg and his team at “Truth for Life” ministry, the CSB Spurgeon Study Bible will be the first Bible to include original texts, handwritten notes and never-before published works by Charles Spurgeon. Called the “Prince of Preachers,” Charles Spurgeon preached to more than 10 million people in his lifetime and his written sermons have impacted millions since 1866. 

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Title: CSB Spurgeon Study Bible
Author: General Editor Alistair Begg
Release Date: November 2017
ISBN-13: 987-1-5864-0972-2
Category: Bibles / Christian Standard Bible / Study
Retail Price: $69.99
Trim Size: 6.75 x 9.125
Number of Pages: 1840

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Why Four Scholars Changed their Minds

Dr. Lynn K. Wilder, Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, is a former Mormon and once tenured Professor at Brigham Young University, now a biblical Christian. With a doctorate in education, emphasis in emotional/behavioral disorders, Lynn is a researcher, scholar, journal editor, and author of more than 60 refereed publications and five books in both her professional field and that of faith. Unveiling Grace: the Story of How We Found Our Way Out of the Mormon Church(Zondervan, 2013) is her best-selling book. Michael (husband) and Lynn founded the ministry Ex-Mormon Christians United for Jesus (www.unveilingmormonism.com). Featured in Christian publications and radio, the Wilders frequently speak in churches. It is their passion to introduce the many Mormons currently questioning their faith to the biblical Jesus. Many have come to trust Him. Her newest book is entitled Leaving Mormonism: Why Four Scholars Changed their Minds (Kregel Publications, November 2017).

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Title: Leaving Mormonism
Subtitle: Why Four Scholars Changed their Minds
Author: Lynn K. Wilder
Release Date: November 2017
ISBN-10: 0825444810
ISBN-13: 978-1-8826-4481-4
Category: Theology and Religious Studies
Retail Price: $17.99
Binding: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches
Number of Pages: 320

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What Happens When God's People Grow

Robby Gallaty is the Senior Pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, TN. He was radically saved out of a life of drug and alcohol addiction on November 12, 2002. In 2008, he founded Replicate Ministries to educate, equip, and empower men and women to be disciples who make disciples ( www.replicate.org ). He is also the author of eight books including Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple WhoMakes Disciples (B&H, 2013) and Firmly Planted: How to Cultivate a Faith Rooted in Christ (B&H, 2015). 

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Title: Bearing Fruit
Subtitle: What Happens When God's People Grow
Author: Robby Galaxy
Release Date: October 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1462743797
Category: Christian Life / Discipleship / Faith
Retail Price: $16.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 144

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Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

Max Lucado is the leading inspirational author in the United States. His writings have been shaped into bestselling books, videos, devotionals, songs, greeting cards, booklets, Bible studies, commentaries and theatrically-released movies. More than 125 million Lucado products have been printed in 43 languages, including 97 million books to date. According to a recent LifeWay national survey, 1 in 6 Americans are familiar with Max Lucado and 1 in 7 Americans have read a Lucado book. Lucado has been featured on countless national media outlets including The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, and Fox & Friends. Max and his wife of more than 30 years, Denalyn, call San Antonio, Texas, home. Max has served the people of Oak Hills Church for 28 years. 

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Title: Anxious For Nothing
Subtitle: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date: September 2017
ISBN-13: 978-0-7180-9612-0
Category: Religion / Christian Life
Retail Price: $22.99
Binding: Hardcover, Jacketed
Number of Pages: 240

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Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

Clay Scroggins is the lead pastor of North Point Community Church, providing visionary and directional leadership for all the local church staff and congregation. Clay works for Andy Stanley and understands firsthand how to manage the tension of leading when you’re not in charge. Starting out as a facilities intern (a.k.a. “vice president of nothing”), he has worked his way through many organizational levels at North Point Ministries and knows all too well the challenge of authority deprivation. Clay holds a degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate with an emphasis in online church from Dallas Theological Seminary. He lives in Forsyth County, Georgia, with his wife, Jenny, and their four children.

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Title: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge
Subtitle: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
Author: Clay Scroggins
Release Date: August 22, 2017
ISBN-10: 0310531578
ISBN-13: 9780310531579
Retail Price: $21.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 240

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The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed

Sara Hagerty is the author of Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet, a wife to Nate, and a mother of six, including four children adopted from Africa and two miracle babies. After almost a decade of Christian life, she was introduced to pain and perplexity and, ultimately, intimacy with Jesus. God met her and moved her when life stopped working for her. His Word and His whisper took on new shape and form to her in the dark. Sara writes regularly about life delays, finding God in the unlikely, motherhood, marriage, and adoption at www.SaraHagertyAuthor.com.

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Title: Unseen
Subtitle: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed
Author: Sara Hagerty
Release Date: 8/29/17
ISBN-13: 9780310339977
Category: Religion / Christian Life
Retail Price: $18.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 224

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Finding Your Identity in a Selfie World

Kristen Hatton is the author of the  two books for teens  Face Time: Finding Your Identity in a Selfie World and Get Your Story Straight. In addition to her own blog, she is a frequent contributor to The Rooted Ministry blog and enCourage women’s blog. Kristen lives in Oklahoma with her pastor husband and their three teenagers. Learn more by visiting her website at www.kristenhatton.com.

New Growth Press publishes gospel-centered Christian books, small group, and kids Bible resources for discipleship, biblical counseling, and missional ministry. For more information about Face Time and other releases from New Growth Press, visit www.newgrowthpress.com. 

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Title: Face Time
Subtitle: Finding Your Identity in a Selfie World
Author: Kristen Hatton
Release Date: May 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-942572-99-2
Category: Religion / Christian Ministry / Youth
Retail Price: $15.99

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She Reads Truth™ has become the fastest growing Bible reading community online, connecting with more than one million women via its website, mobile app and social media platforms. Founders Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams launched a multi-year partnership in 2015 between B&H Publishing Group, LifeWay Christian Resources and She Reads Truth™. This spring they’ll celebrate the release of the She Reads Truth Bible (April 15, 2017), featuring numerous study tools, unique design elements and fresh devotional readings. The She Reads Truth Bible will be one of the first Bibles published in the Christian Standard Bible® (CSB) translation.

“This Bible is our humble attempt to honor the inherently beautiful gospel with the aesthetic beauty it deserves,” explains Amanda Bible Williams, Chief Content Officer of She Reads Truth™. “Scripture is a glorious collision of beauty, goodness and truth, and we pray this Bible will represent that.”

Adds Raechel Myers, She Reads Truth™ CEO: “Our heart for the She Reads Truth Bible is not to add to or improve on the perfect and complete gift of Scripture God has given us. Rather, our heart is for everything we’ve included in this Bible to point back to God and His Word. Every human word and element in this book is an intentional invitation for you to both read Scripture and grow in your affection for it.”

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Title: She Reads Truth Bible
Release Date: April 2017
ISBN-13: 9781433613814
Binding: Hardback
Trim Size: 8 x 6.13 x 1.25
Number of Pages: 2226

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Biblical Reflections to Help You Grasp God's Purpose in Your Suffering

Suffering is real. But so is hope.

Kristen and Sarah have walked through, and are walking in, difficult times. Their collection of thirty biblical reflections ring with honesty about the hurts of life even as they gently encourage other women who are suffering physically, emotionally or psychologically. Each chapter contains a biblical reflection, with questions and prayers, and a space for journaling.

Suffering may last for a season or lifelong, but there is hope -- not just for life beyond suffering, but for life in the suffering.

Kristen Wetherell is Ministry Content Manager at Unlocking the Bible and blogs at kristenwetherell.com. She is married to Brad and lives in Chicago.

Sarah Walton is married to Jeff and is mother to four young children. She lives in Chicago and blogs at setapart.net.

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Title: Hope When It Hurts
Subtitle: Biblical Reflections to Help You Grasp God's Purpose in Your Suffering
Author: Kristen Wetherell & Sarah Walton
Release Date: April 2017
ISBN-13: 9781784980733
Retail Price: $19.99
Binding: Hardback Cloth
Trim Size: 7.75" x 5.125"
Number of Pages: 256

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Sheila Walsh is a powerful communicator, Bible teacher, and best-selling author from Scotland with over 5 million books sold. She is author of the “5 Minutes with Jesus” devotional series, Peace for Today, Loved Back to Life, The Storm Inside, The Longing in Me, and the award-winning “Gigi, God’s Little Princess” children’s series. Her next trade book, In The Middle of the Mess, Strength for This Beautiful Broken Life (Nelson Books), is set to release November 2017. Sheila is also cohost of the “Life Today” television program with James and Betty Robison. Her international ministry has reached more than 5.5 million women by combining honesty, vulnerability, and humor with the transforming power of God's Word. Sheila lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, Barry, her son, Christian, and three little dogs. More at braveheartsisterhood.com. 

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Title: Five Minutes with Jesus: Quiet Time for Your Soul
Author: Sheila Walsh with Sherri Gragg
Release Date: March 7, 2017
ISBN-13: 9780718032531
Retail Price: $9.99
Binding: Hardcover

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The Bible is meant to be read, understood, and shared. So your translation of God’s Word should be true-to-the-original and one you like to read. 

The Christian Standard Bible ® captures the Bible’s original meaning without compromising clarity. An optimal blend of accuracy and readability, this new translation helps readers make a deeper connection with God’s Word and inspires lifelong discipleship. The CSB is for everyone—for readers young and old, new and seasoned. It’s a Bible pastors can preach from and a Bible you can share with your neighbor hearing God’s Word for the very first time. 

You’ll find the CSB to be highly trustworthy and deeply satisfying.

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Becoming the Man God Created You to Be

Mark Batterson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker, The Grave Robber, A Trip Around the Sunand If. He is the lead pastor of National Community Church, one church with eight campuses in Washington, DC. Mark has a doctorate of ministry degree from Regent University and lives on Capitol Hill with his wife, Lora, and their young adult children, Parker (21), Summer (19) and Josiah (15). 

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Title: Play the Man
Subtitle: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
Author: Mark Batterson
Release Date: May 2, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-0-8010-1898-5
Category: Religion / Christian Life/ Men's Issues
Retail Price: $19.99
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Number of Pages: 224

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Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel

TREVIN WAX is Bible and Reference Publisher for LifeWay Christian Resources and has served as Managing Editor of The Gospel Project, a gospel-centered small group curriculum for all ages. He is also a contributor to numerous publications including The Washington Post, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, and World. Trevin writes daily at Kingdom People, a blog hosted by The Gospel Coalition, and co-hosts the Word Matters podcast. Christianity Today has identified Trevin as one of 33 millennials leading the next generation of evangelicalism.

Trevin is the author of five books from B&H Publishing including This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light in the Gospel (available March 2017), Gospel-Centered Teaching: Showing Christ in All the Scripture (2013), Clear Winter Nights: A Journey into Truth, Doubt, and What Comes After (2013), Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hope (2011), and Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals (2010).

Trevin earned his Ph.D in Theology at Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, NC, and his Master of Divinity at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. He served as a missionary to Romania for five years. Trevin lives in Middle Tennessee with his wife, Corina, and their three children. Learn more about Trevin at TrevinWax.com.

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Title: This Is Our Time
Subtitle: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel
Author: Trevin Wax
Release Date: March 1, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-4336-4847-2
Category: Religion / Christian Life/ General
Retail Price: $16.99
Binding: Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5.5 in x 8.5 in
Number of Pages: 208

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Love is Born, Hope is Here

Max Lucado is the leading inspirational author in the United States. His writings have been shaped into bestselling books, videos, devotionals, songs, greeting cards, booklets, Bible studies, commentaries and theatrically-released movies. More than 125 million Lucado products have been printed in 43 languages, including 97 million books to date. According to a recent LifeWay national survey, 1 in 6 Americans are familiar with Max Lucado and 1 in 7 Americans have read a Lucado book. Lucado has been featured on countless national media outlets including The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Huckabee and Fox & Friends. Max and his wife of more than 30 years, Denalyn, call San Antonio, Texas, home. Max has served the people of Oak Hills Church for 28 years.

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Title: Because of Bethlehem
Subtitle: Love is Born, Hope is Here
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date: September 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-4759
Category: Religion / Christian Life / Inspirational
Retail Price: $19.99
Binding: Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Trim Size: 5.5 in x 8.375 in
Number of Pages: 208

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A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus

This updated and revised edition of The Case for Christfeatures new content, including an extensive Q&A with the author. More than five million sold to date!

Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, a former award-winning legal editor at The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of more than twenty books. He currently serves as Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University and a Teaching Pastor at Woodlands Church, one of the largest congregations in the country.

Lee’s first book, The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus, is being released September 2016 n an updated and revised paperback edition which includes new material, including updated material on archaeological and manuscript discoveries, and an interview with the author revealing behind-the-scenes information. The Case for Christ and its ancillary products have sold more than 10 million units to date.

Described in the Washington Post as "one of the evangelical community's most popular apologists," has created content for dozens of popular books, curriculum products and films. Lee shared the Christian Book of the Year award in 2005 for a curriculum he co-authored with Garry Poole about the movie The Passion of the Christ. He also earned Christian Book Awards for The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creatorand The Case for Grace, all of which have been made into documentaries distributed by Lionsgate.

Lee was educated at the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Journalism degree) and Yale Law School (Master of Studies in Law degree). He was a journalist for 14 years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois' highest honor for public service journalism from United Press International. He also led a team that won UPI’s top award for investigative reporting in Illinois.

After investigating the evidence for Jesus, Lee became a Christian in 1981. He joined the staff of Willow Creek Community Church in 1987 and later became a teaching pastor. He joined Saddleback Valley Community Church as a teaching pastor in 2000. He left Saddleback to write books and host the national network TV program Faith Under Fire. In addition, Lee taught First Amendment Law at Roosevelt University. In recognition of the extensive research for his books, Southern Evangelical Seminary honored him with the conferring of a Doctor of Divinity degree in 2007.

Lee's books include The Case for Grace, The Case for Faith, The Case for the Real Jesus, Finding the Real Jesus, God's Outrageous Claims, The Case for Christmas, The Case for Easter, The Unexpected Adventure (co-authored with Mark Mittelberg), and Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage, which he wrote with his wife, Leslie. Lee also co-authored the Becoming a Contagious Christian course, which has trained nearly two million Christians on how to naturally and effectively talk with others about Jesus. His recent works include his first novel, The Ambition, and The Case for Christ Study Bible, which features hundreds of notes and articles.

He has been interviewed on such national TV networks as ABC, Fox, PBS and CNN, and his articles have appeared in a variety of periodicals, including the online editions of the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. He has been a recurring guest on The Bible Answer Man and Focus on the Family radio programs. He is a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

Lee and Leslie have been married for 42 years and live in Texas.

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Title: The Case for Christ
Subtitle: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
Author: Lee Strobel
Release Date: September 2016
ISBN-13: 9780310345862
Retail Price: 16.99 
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A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam & Christianity

Nabeel Qureshi was the author of the New York Times bestsellers No God But One and Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, the only book ever to win Christian Book Awards for both "Best New Author" and "Best Nonfiction." Nabeel was an accomplished global speaker and held an MD from Eastern Virginia Medical School, an MA in Christian apologetics from Biola University, an MA in religion from Duke University, and an MPhil in Judaism and Christianity from Oxford University.

Raised as a devout Muslim in the United States, Nabeel grew up studying Islamic apologetics with his family and engaging Christians in religious discussions. After one such discussion with a Christian, the two became friends and began a years-long debate on the historical claims of Christianity and Islam. Nabeel chronicled his resulting journey in his first book, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus. 

Throughout his years of ministry, Nabeel lectured to students at more than 100 universities, including Oxford, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Hong Kong. He participated in 18 moderated, public debates around North America, Europe, and Asia. Christianity Today heralded Nabeel as one of “33 Under 33” in its cover story on emerging religion leaders in July 2014.

Other works of Nabeel's include Answering Jihad—a balanced examination of jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism—and the Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Video Study, which goes deeper into the apologetics that led Nabeel himself to Christ.

Following a year-long battle with stomach cancer, heaven welcomed Nabeel home on September 16, 2017. He leaves behind his wife and young daughter who aspire to honor the ministerial legacy Nabeel established during his brief 34 years on earth.

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Title: No God But One - Allah or Jesus?
Subtitle: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam & Christianity
Author: Nabeel Qureshi
Release Date: August 30, 2016
ISBN-13: 9780310522553
Category: Religion / Christianity, Religion / Islam
Retail Price: $17.99
Binding: Softcover
Number of Pages: 320

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Discovering Fierce Faith, Unquenchable Passion, and a Life-Giving God

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Bianca Juarez Olthoff fires up audiences around the world with hilarious stories and profound Bible teaching as she inspires women to live with unquenchable passion. Bianca has been in ministry for fifteen years and wholeheartedly believes that everything we do—whether we walk, talk, preach, or teach—we do it all in the name of LOVE.

Bianca’s parents raised her to believe in prayer and miracles in the tough streets of East Los Angeles. Her Puerto Rican mother homeschooled four children as her father, a Mexican immigrant, led mission trips and worked multiple jobs to feed their family of six.  

Through the years, Bianca has clung to the faithfulness of God even when she’s faithless. She loves God and is committed to speaking truth when it hurts, loving when it’s hard, and living life out loud. She earned a Master’s degree in Humanities and is now a writer and teacher in love with two men: Jesus and her husband, Matt. Bianca is also a stepmom who loves to have dance parties with Parker, Ryen, and Ricci [aka The Cutest Dog In The World].

Whether discussing topics from justice to pop culture Bianca is passionate about God’s word and teaches around the globe about life, love, and the pursuit of Jesus. She has spent the last ten years building the Church and mobilizing God’s people to action alongside her husband Matt, who serves as Executive Director and Pastor for Project Europe. Bianca currently works as the Chief Storyteller for The A21 Campaign and Creative Director for Propel Women.

This fall, fans can experience Bianca’s humor and insight as her first book arrives on August 30, 2016: Play with Fire: Discovering Fierce Faith, Unquenchable Passion, and a Life-Giving God (Zondervan). With her trademark humor and honesty, Play with Fire reminds women that God has huge dreams for each of his children. In Bianca’s words, “He’s whispering in the wind and speaking through the fire and shouting in silence the extraordinary dream. His dream for you is far greater than the dream you have for yourself. It’s not your identity, income or influence that will make this happen. Like Zechariah 4:6 says, ‘It’s not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord.’ It’s time to play with fire.”

“I love this book written by my fiery Puerto Rican sister, Bianca! Her transparent stories will stir your passion and position you to flourish amid the fires of chaos, exhaustion, and confusion.”      
–Lisa Bevere, Messenger International, Best-Selling Author Lioness Arising, Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry, and Fight Like a Girl

"Bianca, thank you for being so vulnerable and sharing your story, as well as the truths you’ve discovered along the way. This book is a treasure. If you’re experiencing a struggle, desire to know God on a more passionate level or simply want to be encouraged, you’ve found the perfect book!”  
 -Kari Jobe, Grammy-nominated Christian music artist

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Title: Play with Fire
Subtitle: Discovering Fierce Faith, Unquenchable Passion, and a Life-Giving God
Author: Bianca Olthoff
Release Date: August 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0-3103-4524-4
Retail Price: 16.99 
Binding: Softcover 
Number of Pages: 208  

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Find Your Personal Calling and Live Life to the Fullest Measure

As founder of Exponential, Todd Wilson has inspired and empowered new church leaders all around the world. Wilson hones a laser focus for his first trade book, More: Find Your Personal Calling and Live Life to the Fullest Measure (April 2016, Zondervan), as he shifts from launching healthy churches to shaping healthy & fulfilled lives. Wilson has authored an immensely practical guide for discovering personal calling and finding the “something more” so many feel is missing from their lives

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Title: More
Subtitle: Find Your Personal Calling and Live Life to the Fullest Measure
Author: Todd Wilson
Release Date: April 2016
ISBN-13:978-0-3105-2425-0
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Softcover
Number of Pages: 224

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Discover and Learn Your Child’s Intelligences

Dr. Kathy Koch (pronounced “Cook”) is the Founder and President of Celebrate Kids, Inc., a Christian ministry based in Fort Worth, Texas. She is an internationally celebrated speaker and popular radio guest who has influenced thousands of parents, teachers, and children in 30 countries through keynote messages, workshops, seminars, assemblies, and other events. Her practical, relevant, results-oriented concepts and engaging, honoring, and humorous speaking style draw enthusiastic raves from children, teens, parents, and educators. They leave her events armed with new beliefs, attitudes, and practical tools and increased hope in God to build healthy relationships and increase success in family, life, and school.
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Title: 8 Great Smarts
Subtitle: Discover and Learn Your Child’s Intelligences
Author: Dr. Kathy Koch
Release Date: March 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0718039851
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Women's Issues
Retail Price: $24.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 256

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A Better Way Forward

Nabeel Qureshi was the author of the New York Times bestsellers No God But One and Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, the only book ever to win Christian Book Awards for both "Best New Author" and "Best Nonfiction." Nabeel was an accomplished global speaker and held an MD from Eastern Virginia Medical School, an MA in Christian apologetics from Biola University, an MA in religion from Duke University, and an MPhil in Judaism and Christianity from Oxford University.

Raised as a devout Muslim in the United States, Nabeel grew up studying Islamic apologetics with his family and engaging Christians in religious discussions. After one such discussion with a Christian, the two became friends and began a years-long debate on the historical claims of Christianity and Islam. Nabeel chronicled his resulting journey in his first book, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus. 

Throughout his years of ministry, Nabeel lectured to students at more than 100 universities, including Oxford, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Hong Kong. He participated in 18 moderated, public debates around North America, Europe, and Asia. Christianity Today heralded Nabeel as one of “33 Under 33” in its cover story on emerging religion leaders in July 2014.

Other works of Nabeel's include Answering Jihad—a balanced examination of jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism—and the Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Video Study, which goes deeper into the apologetics that led Nabeel himself to Christ.

Following a year-long battle with stomach cancer, heaven welcomed Nabeel home on September 16, 2017. He leaves behind his wife and young daughter who aspire to honor the ministerial legacy Nabeel established during his brief 34 years on earth.

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Title: Answering Jihad
Subtitle: A Better Way Forward
Author: Nabeel Qureshi
Release Date: March 8, 2016
ISBN-13: 9780310531388
Category: Religion/Christianity and Religion/Islam
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Softcover
Number of Pages: 176

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The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation

Dan B. Allender has pioneered a unique and innovative approach to trauma and abuse therapy over the past 30 years. Central to Dr. Allender’s approach are the categories of Faith, Hope and Love and their converse betrayal, ambivalence, and powerlessness. Through engaging these categories and in learning to identify them in one’s personal story, healing and transformation can occur by bridging the story of the gospel and the stories of trauma and abuse that mark so many.

Having received his Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary, Allender went on to earn his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Michigan State University. He taught in the Biblical Counseling Department of Grace Theological Seminary for seven years (1983-1989). From 1989-1997, Allender worked as professor in the Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling program at Colorado Christian University, Denver, Colorado. In 1997, Allender with a cadre of others founded The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology in order to train therapists and pastors to more effectively serve in the context of the 21st century. He served as President of The Seattle School from 2000-2009.

Allender continues to serves as Professor of Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School. He travels and speaks extensively to present his unique perspective on sexual abuse recovery, love & forgiveness, worship, and other related topics. Allender is the author of The Wounded Heart and The Healing Path and has co-authored several books with Dr. Tremper Longman (Intimate Allies, The Cry of the Soul, Bold Love, Bold Purpose and most recently God Loves Sex from Baker Books. His latest book is Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation, also coming from Baker and releasing in March 2016. Allender lives with his wife Becky in the Seattle area.

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Title: Healing the Wounded Heart
Subtitle: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation
Author: Dan B. Allender
Release Date: March 2016
ISBN-13: 9780801015687
Retail Price: $16.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288

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Your Model for a Lasting and Fulfilling Marriage

Jackie Bledsoe—thought leader, author and blogger—believes married life can be the best life, no matter what stage of marriage you may be living. He’s identified seven “rings” or stages all marriages have in common, and is equipping couples to enjoy a more fulfilling marriage through every ring. In Bledsoe’s new book, The 7 Rings of Marriage, he prepares engaged, newlywed and long-time married couples for each of the seven stages, and offers practical advice for creating a lasting and fulfilling marriage.
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Title: The 7 Rings of Marriage
Subtitle: Your Model for a Lasting and Fulfilling Marriage
Author: Jackie Bledsoe
Release Date: February 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-4336-8864-5
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Love & Marriage
Retail Price: $16.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 208

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An African Boy, An American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom

Jim Gash was living a comfortable life as a Los Angeles lawyer and law professor at Pepperdine University. Henry was a teenage boy wrongly accused of murder, languishing in a Ugandan detention center for almost two years without trial. Henry was losing hope, and prayed for a sign from God. Halfway around the world, Jim Gash listened to attorney and philanthropist Bob Goff encourage lawyers to use their legal training to help imprisoned children in Africa. Jim felt an irresistible urge to respond to this call and told Bob to count him in. Little did Henry know, his prayer had been answered.

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Title: Divine Collision
Subtitle: An African Boy, An American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom
Author: Jim Gash
Release Date: January 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-6179-5671-3
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Inspirational
Retail Price: $21.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 300

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The Response of God to the Cries of our Heart

LAUREN CHANDLER is a wife and mother of three. Her husband, Matt Chandler, serves as the lead teaching pastor at The Village Church in Dallas, Texas. Lauren is passionate about writing, music and leading worship, not only at The Village Church, but also for groups across the country. The Lord has taken Matt and Lauren on a challenging journey, beginning with the November 2009 discovery of a malignant brain tumor in Matt. The Lord has been infinitely merciful to provide peace and comfort in uncertainty, and joy in times of victory and healing. Lauren and her family have been given a deeper trust in clinging to the Lord and his cross during this appointed season of valleys and storms.

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Title: Steadfast Love
Subtitle: The Response of God to the Cries of our Heart
Author: Lauren Chandler
Release Date: January 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-4336-8378-7
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life/Women’s Issues
Retail Price: $17.99
Binding: Hardcover
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.55
Number of Pages: 208

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Why Christianity Is So Much More Than Going To Heaven When You Die

Jefferson Bethke is the author of New York Times bestseller Jesus > Religion.  Bethke’s message connects at a heart level with an audience ranging from atheists to nationally recognized religious leaders.  He lives in Maui, Hawaii.

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Title: It's Not What You Think
Subtitle: Why Christianity Is So Much More Than Going To Heaven When You Die
Author: Jefferson Bethke
Release Date: October 15, 2015
ISBN-10: 1400205417
ISBN-13: 9781400205417
Category: Religion/Christian Life/Inspirational
Retail Price: $16.99
Binding: Paperback
Trim Size: 5.5” x 8.38”
Number of Pages: 240

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Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World

Christianity Today named Carolyn Custis James one of their "50 Women to Watch" in 2012. She continues to impact the church and culture with her latest book, Malestrom.

Carolyn Custis James (M.A., Biblical Studies) thinks deeply about what it means to be a female follower of Jesus in a postmodern world. Carolyn is president WhitbyForum, a ministry dedicated to addressing the deeper needs which confront both women and men as they endeavor to extend God's kingdom together in a messy and complicated world.

Carolyn’s latest book, Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World (Zondervan, June 2015), builds on and expands her previous books by exploring the idea of manhood and offering a revolutionary global vision for men. Carolyn reveals how Western culture’s narrow definitions of manhood and the oppressive patriarchy of the Old Testament are challenged by God’s original vision for men. Her book points to God’s original vision for men, which calls for and empowers a Blessed Alliance between men and women.

Carolyn Custis James’ previous books have been described as "provocative," "deeply inspiring," and "compelling." They include:

When Life and Beliefs Collide: How Knowing God Makes a Difference (Zondervan, 2001)

Lost Women of the Bible: The Women We Thought We Knew (Zondervan, 2005)

Understanding Purpose (Thomas Nelson, 2006)

The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules (Zondervan, 2008)

Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women (Zondervan, 2011)

Carolyn is an adjunct professor at Biblical Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. She blogs at www.whitbyforum.com and Huffington Post/Religion, and also serves as a consulting editor for Zondervan's Exegetical Commentary Series on the New Testament as well as a contributing editor for Leadership Journal. Carolyn travels extensively both in the US and abroad as a speaker for churches, conferences, colleges, theological seminaries, and other Christian organizations.

A pastor's daughter, Carolyn grew up in Portland, Oregon. During the years between seminary and her present ministries, she had her own business as a computer software developer in Oxford, England. Today, as a cancer survivor, she is grateful to be alive and determined to address the issues that matter most. Carolyn and her husband live in Sellersville, Pennsylvania.

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Title: Malestrom
Subtitle: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World
Author: Carolyn Custis James
Release Date: June 2, 2015
ISBN-10: 0310325579
ISBN-13: 9780310325574
Category: Religion / Christian Life
Retail Price: $18.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 224

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The Final Thoughts of a Wandering Pilgrim

From his miraculous roadside conversion to his 13 letters canonized in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul’s life seems larger than life. Yet every Christian alive today can aspire to the same legacy as the apostle, who wrote: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

Brent Crowe, an author, speaker and Vice President of Student Leadership University, enjoys introducing Christians of all ages to the legacy of the Apostle Paul and the implications for their own life journeys. Crowe’s new book, Moments ‘til Midnight: The Final Thoughts of a Wandering Pilgrim (B&H, September 2018), creatively peels back the curtain of Paul's final hours on earth to reveal the legacy of a faithful life.

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Title: Moments 'til Midnight
Subtitle: The Final Thoughts of a Wandering Pilgrim
Author: Brent Crowe
Release Date: September 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1462787777
Category: Christian Living
Retail Price: $16.99
Binding: Paperback
Trim Size: 8.5" x 5.5"
Number of Pages: 208

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God’s Redemptive Story

The Action Bible has been crafted to communicate clearly and forcefully with readers of all ages via high-energy illustrations of the highest caliber. Comic book illustrator Sergio Cariello, who has drawn Spiderman, Superman, Batman and dozens more iconic characters for Marvel and DC Comics, focused three years of labor on new illustrations for The Action Bible. Cariello comments, “I’ve worked on many comics that I’m proud of, but there is nothing like doing a relevant story with eternal value. All those other characters and stories will someday end, but the stories and impact of The Action Bible will last forever. It is a privilege and the honor of a lifetime for a Christian cartoonist to get to draw and bring to life God’s own stories.”

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Title: The Action Bible
Subtitle: God’s Redemptive Story
Illustrator: Sergio Cariello
Release Date: September, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0781444996
Category: JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / Bible Stories / General
Retail Price: $24.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 752

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A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

In his latest book, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives, best-selling author Lee Strobel focuses his award-winning journalism skills on a new topic. This popular Evangelical apologist has penned his most personal book since his first book, The Case for Christ, as he shares his own personal transformation alongside stories of men and women whose lives have been revolutionized by God’s grace. These powerful life stories reveal how the grace of God offers freedom and hope that is unique to Christianity.

More than any of his previous books, The Case for Grace shares Strobel’s personal experience of God’s grace. “I embarked on a lifelong pursuit of grace as I graduated high school,” Strobel explains. “I hadn’t experienced a grace-based relationship with my father, and the concept was a puzzle to me.” The stories recounted in this new book, helped the author solve the very personal puzzle of a heavenly Father whose love is rooted in grace.

While Strobel’s previous books have explored scientific evidence for God, historical evidence for Jesus, or addressed objections to Christianity and the Bible, The Case for Grace reveals evidence of transformed lives. He makes the case for grace by showcasing God’s power at work: turning a homeless junkie into an ordained pastor; an adulterer into a marriage counselor; a reckless rebel into a selfless servant of God; and a mass murderer into a pardoned saint.

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Title: The Case for Grace
Subtitle: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
Author: Lee Strobel
Release Date: February 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0-3102-5917-6
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $22.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 352

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Pete Scazzero is the founder of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York City, a large, multiracial church with more than seventy-three countries represented. After serving as senior pastor for twenty-six years, Pete now serves as a teaching pastor/pastor at large. He is the author of The Emotionally Healthy Leader and two bestselling books: The Emotionally Healthy Church and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. He is also the co-author of The Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Course and The Emotionally Healthy Relationships Course.

Pete is co-founder, along with Geri, of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (www.emotionallyhealthy.org), a global ministry active in over twenty-five countries. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry in Marriage and Family.

For more information, join the conversation with Pete on Facebook, and follow along with @petescazzero on Twitter.

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Title: The Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Courses
Subtitle: Leaders Kit
Author: Peter Scazzero
ISBN-13: 9780310085232
Category: Religion / Christian Life /Spiritual Growth
Retail Price: $149.99

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Inside History’s Bestseller for Believers and Skeptics

Pastor and author John Dickson grew up in Australia as a religious skeptic, which explains why he still feels at home with those who question Christianity. Conversations with doubters are Dickson’s specialty, from national television panels to primetime documentaries and university lectures. Now this researcher, historian and preacher introduces doubters to history’s bestselling book through his latest published work: A Doubter’s Guide to the Bible: Inside History’s Bestseller for Believers and Skeptics

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Title: A Doubter’s Guide to the Bible
Subtitle: Inside History’s Bestseller for Believers and Skeptics
Author: John Dickson
Release Date: February 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0-3105-1843-3
Category: RELIGION / Christianity
Retail Price: $12.99
Binding: Softcover
Number of Pages: 128

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How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World

Have you as a leader ever avoided meetings you knew would be hard or stressful? Have you massaged the truth when being completely honest would be too painful? Have you walked into important meetings without specific goals or an agenda, but only offering a small prayer? Have you failed to allow adequate time to follow through on your commitments, which meant dropped balls so staff or volunteers couldn’t do their best work? Pastor and international best-selling author Peter Scazzero, in more than 28 years of pastoral leadership, freely and candidly admits he has done this and more.

Peter Scazzero’s new book The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World is both spiritual and practical, looking at the theological integration of internal emotional health and effective Christian leadership. Scazzero offers a road map forged by more than 28 years of pastoral leadership in his new book, complete with specific ideas and practices, to build teams that deeply transform people who, in turn, deeply transform the world.

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Title: The Emotionally Healthy Leader
Subtitle: How Transforming Your Inner Life WIll Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World
Author: Peter Scazzero
Release Date: June 2015
ISBN-13:  9780310494577
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $22.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 224

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Living Your Promised Land Life Now

According to Pastor Max Lucado, the majority of Christians aren’t living up to their God-given potential. Lucado backs his claim by citing a 2007 surveyi of more than 100,000 members of 1,000 churches in the US: nearly nine out of ten churchgoers admit they feel “stalled” in their spiritual growth and that they aren’t as close to God as they’d like to be. In his latest book, Glory Days: Living Your Promised Land Life Now (Thomas Nelson, September 2015), Lucado gives hope to the stalled-out and shows Christians how to enjoy full throttle living.

“As a follower of God, do you sense a disconnect between the promises of the Bible and the reality of your life?” asks Lucado. “With God’s help you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be.”

Glory Days is based on his life-long favorite book of the Bible, Joshua in the Old Testament. Lucado uses the life of Joshua and the Israelites as a model for modern victorious Christian living. After 400 years in slavery and 40 years wandering the wilderness, the nation of Israel was primed to claim Canaan, the Promised Land. After crossing the Jordan River, they experienced unprecedented victory, changing from hopeless wanderers to hope-filled homesteaders. The walls of Jericho crumbled and enemies fell, just as God promised.

But this isn’t just a story of the past. It’s a hope-filled template for the future. “The book of Joshua dares us to believe our best days are ahead of us. God has a Promised Land for us to take, just like the Israelites,” says Lucado.

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Title: Glory Days
Subtitle: Living Your Promised Land Life Now
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date: September 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-4849-7
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Inspirational
Retail Price: $26.99
Binding: Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Number of Pages: 240

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God’s Design for Love, Sex, Marriage & Redemption

Does a little-known book in the Bible have anything relevant to say to modern marriages, dating relationships, love and sex? Pastor Matt Chandler says emphatically, “YES!” In his first book on relationships, Chandler mines the wisdom and allegory in the Old Testament book Song of Songs in The Mingling of Souls: God’s Design For Love, Sex, Marriage & Redemption (David C Cook, January 2015).

Matt Chandler is not only the lead pastor at The Village Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (with five campuses and 10,000 attendees) and the President of the Acts 29 Network, he is a former college pastor and has been married to Lauren for 15 years. He has spent countless hours counseling people about love, marriage and relationships. And in each encounter and in his own marriage, he comes back to the eternal, counter-intuitive perspective from the Biblical book of Song of Songs.

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Title: The Mingling of Souls
Subtitle: God’s Design for Love, Sex, Marriage & Redemption
Author: Matt Chandler
Release Date: February 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-4347-0686-7
Category: RELIGION / Pracitcal Life / Christian Life / General
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Paperback Trade
Number of Pages: 240

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Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World

It’s reaching epidemic proportions. You can see it everywhere you go. Today’s kids are disconnecting from their parents and dissolving into their cell phones, headphones, and computer screens. Technology has made some aspects of parenting hard and is affecting the minds, hearts, and souls of teens in ways we desperately need to understand. Child education expert, author and popular speaker, Dr. Kathy Koch (pronounced “Cook”)’s new book, Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World offers parents timely and invaluable insights on how today’s generation is being shaped by tech devices. She offers advice to parents on how to create redemptive moments—encouraging positive uses of technology like playing together and decreasing its negative effects by learning how to rest and handle boredom.

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Title: Screens and Teens
Subtitle: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World
Author: Dr. Kathy Koch
Release Date: March 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0-8024-1269-0
Category: Christian Living / Relationships / Parenting
Retail Price: $13.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256

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Launching Your Full-Time Career in Our Part-Time Economy

The times have changed, and so have the rules for how to succeed in today’s economy. President of Crown Financial, Robert Dickie, III, has delivered a comprehensive rulebook on how to create career success in an ever-changing job world. In his new book, The Leap: Launching Your Full-Time Career in Our Part-Time Economy (Moody Publishers, January 2015), Dickie unveils a plan for reworking of how job seekers approach making a living. And it’s all about taking a giant “leap” out of the known and into the unknown. While this kind of leap induces fear in many, Dickie lays out a solid, confident plan of attack to ensure the greatest potential business success.

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Title: The Leap
Subtitle: Launching Your Full-Time Career in Our Part-Time Economy
Author: Robert Dickie
Release Date: January 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0-8024-1260-7
Category: Practical Life / Business / Leadership
Retail Price: $19.99
Binding: Hardback
Number of Pages: 192

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The Power of a Simple Prayer

People pray. New York Times Bestselling Author and Pastor Max Lucado cites in his new book Before Amen: The Power of A Simple Prayer (Thomas Nelson, October 2014) that every week, more people will pray than will exercise, go to work, or have sex. But when it comes to praying, many don’t know where to begin.

Before Amen, Lucado’s most personal and candid humble book to date, is written for everyone who wants to pray more, better and stronger, with more fire, faith and fervency. He admits to his own failures in this area, calling himself a “recovering prayer wimp” and offering specific ways people can experience a heart connection with God through prayer.

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Title: Before Amen
Subtitle: The Power of a Simple Prayer
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date:  October 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-4848-0
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $19.99
Binding: Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Number of Pages: 192

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Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things

Ministry burnout, infertility, international adoption, financial crisis, failed business, father with cancer and marriage struggles. Author Sara Hagerty has experienced significant pain and disappointment in her 30-something years. Yet she has chosen not to become bitter about the bitterness of life. Instead, Hagerty has come to view life’s setbacks as opportunities to be near enough to smell God’s skin. awaken to God’s love for her. In Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things (Zondervan, October 2014), Hagerty shares in her lyrical and honest voice how her own heart-rending circumstances were transformed into a hope-filled journey.

Using the wisdom of Proverbs as her foundation – “A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet” – Hagerty describes how a hunger for more of God has changed her view of suffering and pain. Writes Hagerty: “I don’t want to be a hungry soul just for a season. I want to live hunger. This is what draws

me to Him. This is what fills every single bitter circumstance with the opportunity to know Him more. This is what brings me to the sweetness of His presence. And hope happens here at this nexus of bitter and sweet.”

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Title: Every Bitter Thing is Sweet
Subtitle: Tasting the Goodness of God is All Things
Author: Sara Hagerty
Release Date:  October 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0310339946
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $16.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 224

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Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World

According to current popular books, the best life for a Christian is radical, crazy, emergent, innovative, or restless. Authors such David Platt, Francis Chan, Jennie Allen, Shane Claiborne, and Kyle Idleman have dominated the best-seller lists by challenging “comfortable Christianity.” Yet Michael Horton believes too many Christians are chasing the next big thing, a bigger and better faith adventure, which may not be conducive to the slow-growing fruits of the spirit. Instead, Horton advocates for an ordinary and sustainable faith, the type that changes the world dramatically through daily faithfulness.

In his new book, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World, Horton suggests that the greatest fear of most modern Christians is boredom—a deep sense that they are missing out on the radical life Jesus promised.

Horton, a noted pastor and author, admits his own struggles with boredom in the Christian life: “Even more than being afraid of failure, I’m terrified by boredom. Facing another day, with ordinary callings to ordinary people all around is much more difficult than chasing my own dreams that I have envisioned for the grand story of my life.”

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Title: Ordinary
Subtitle: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World
Author: Michael Horton
Release Date: October 2014
ISBN-13: 9-7803-105-1737-5
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Softcover
Number of Pages: 224

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A Memoir of God Found, Lost, and Found Again

Just six years ago, Preston Yancey entered Baylor University with his life figured out: he was Southern Baptist, moderately liberal, had a girlfriend he thought he would soon propose to, and planned to study political science. Then God slowly allowed Preston's secure world to fall apart until every piece of what he thought was true was lost: his church, his life of study, his girlfriend, his best friend . . . and his God. Preston’s first book, Tables in the Wilderness: A Memoir of God Found, Lost, and Found Again (Zondervan, October 1, 2014) recounts his honest and slow return to the God he thought he knew.

Tables in the Wilderness reflects the words of Psalm 78, which questions whether God can do the impossible, whether God can or will feed God’s wandering people. Preston’s own journey is one of coming to terms with a bigger God than he knew before -- the God of a common faith, the God who makes “tables in the wilderness,” the God who is found in cathedrals and in forests and in the Eucharist, the God who is so big that everything must be God’s. Today Preston is a patchwork of Anglican spirituality and Baptist sensibility – with fans of his writing spanning Christianity’s spectrum.

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Title: Tables in the Wilderness
Subtitle: A Memoir of God Found, Lost, and Found Again
Author: Preston Yancey
Release Date: October 2014
ISBN-13: 9780310338826
Category: Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Retail Price: $19.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 240

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Recovery for the Rushed Soul

Brady Boyd is a mega-church pastor, and he’s quite familiar with being insanely busy for God. He also knows firsthand that a busy life, even one focused on “kingdom work,” eventually bottoms out: your relationships rust, your soul shrivels, and your body rebels in exhaustion. In his new book, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul (September 1, 2014, David C Cook), Brady Boyd invites Christians to slow down and discover the rest and peace of Jesus.

“Every problem I see, in every person I know,” writes Brady Boyd, “is ultimately a problem of moving too fast for too long in too many aspects of life. Speed is the single greatest threat to a healthy life. Margin, space and time are things I desperately want these days. I know I’m not alone.” __________________________________________

Title: Addicted to Busy
Subtitle: Recovery for the Rushed Soul
Author: Brady Boyd
Release Date: September 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0-7814-1034-2
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Personal Growth
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Trade Paper
Number of Pages: 256

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Captured By God’s Vision for Diversity

We’ve reached a critical point regarding racism and diversity within America - our culture has made great strides toward racial unity, especially since the passionate plea 50 years ago of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Our public facilities, parks, pools, and educational facilities—once segregated—are now filled with a variety of ethnic groups enjoying the benefits of togetherness. The “Jim Crow” laws that enforced segregation no longer stand. And yet, we’re fair from full reconciliation and unity. Deep divisions and, at times, outright hatred still mark this issue. The problem is that for many Christians, they don’t grasp God’s heart on this issue.

Sharing her unique experiences as a black woman growing up in the South, attending a predominately white college and church, marrying a white man, and raising biracial children, in her first book, United: Captured By God’s Vision for Diversity, author Trillia Newbell unveils a “theology of diversity.” Explains Newbell: “Seeing the importance of diversity in Scripture should make us want to explore how we can emulate this today. Ultimately it’s all about His glory on this earth and reflecting Him to a broken world.”

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Title: United
Subtitle: Captured By God’s Vision for Diversity
Author: Tirllia J. Newbell
Release Date: March 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0-8024-1014-6
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / General
Retail Price: $12.99
Binding: Trade paper
Number of Pages: 160

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Because You Were Made For More

Why are so many Christian women feeling restless? Even after committing their lives to Christ and attending church for years, these women feel a nameless stirring in their hearts. Jennie Allen believes that restlessness is from God -- urging women to explore their personal stories and passions so they can embrace a unique life purposes.

Bible teacher Jennie Allen’s new book, Restless: Because You Were Made For More (W Publishing Group) meets women in their restlessness and helps each person sort out the unique vision God has for her life. Jennie believes discovering this vision is quite possibly a Christian’s greatest responsibility, second only to knowing and loving God. She dares women to believe that God has a vision for how each person should spend her life – then dares each reader to discover her own personal life calling.

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Title: Restless
Subtitle: Because You Were Made For More
Author: Jennie Allen
Release Date: January 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-4706-3
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / General
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Trade paper

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Uncovering the Biblical Perspective on Women, Work and the Home

Women’s roles are changing, but are Christian women caught in a “no win” situation? Can a woman be feminine, godly and ambitious? Is there room in the church for stay-at-home moms and aspiring female executives? How does a modern woman’s productivity differ from a man’s? Author Carolyn McCulley examines women’s changing roles in light of unchanging scripture in The Measure of Success: Uncovering the Biblical Perspective on Women, Work and the Home (B&H Publishing Group, February 2014). Providing a blueprint to guide women of all ages—whether married or single, and whether working inside the home or in the marketplace—The Measure of Success points to a deeper understanding of the biblical call of female productivity.

American women are currently being encouraged to “lean in” and build their careers, yet Christian women acknowledge there is a faith element to be included in this discussion. McCulley offers an in-depth look at what it means to be a productive, godly woman in the workplace or in the home—and suggests guidelines for living a life that glorifies God. By examining the historical role of working women have held and the role the church played in shaping profession and home, she creates a context for the modern Christian woman. McCulley fleshes out the theology of work—what God says about being productive, and how it relates to a woman’s concept of identity whether old or young, working outside of the home or within.

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Title: The Measure of Success
Subtitle: Uncovering the Biblical Perspective on Women, Work and the Home
Author: Carolyn McCulley
Release Date: February 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-4336-7992-6
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Trade paper
Number of Pages: 192

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End Your Cravings, Eat Well, and Live Better

With more than 74% of American adults overweight1 and almost 36% qualifying as obese2, the nation’s weight-related health-care costs now exceed those of smoking or problem drinking. Aware of the danger of eating ourselves to death, Americans spend $33 billion a year3 on weight- loss products—yet the obesity rate holds steady. What has gone so terribly wrong with American’s eating habits? Dr. Rhona Epstein, Psy.D., CAC, believes many Americans have been faulting their willpower when the spotlight should instead fall on their wiring. Dr. Rhona reveals the truth about our chemical reactions to food, and how we can finally break free, in her new book, Food Triggers: End Your Cravings, Eat Well, and Live Better (Worthy Publishing, December 2013).

Dr. Rhona has helped thousands of people transform their crazy-making relationships with food over the past twenty-eight years. But her first client was the most pivotal—herself. By age seventeen, Rhona had already developed a complicated history with food, including bingeing, secretive eating, compulsive exercising, and self-loathing. The hope and freedom she finally found also became her career and calling. Food Triggers shares a proven process of physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation for those who abuse food.

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Title: Food Triggers
Subtitle: End Your Cravings, Eat Well, and Live Better
Author: Dr. Rhona Epstein
Release Date:  December 2013
ISBN-13: 9781617951589
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life/Personal Growth
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224

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Why Serial Innovators Succeed Where Others Fail

Innovation has a dirty little secret. Larry Osborne, a mentor and well-known innovator among pastors and leaders, refuses to sweep it under the rug. The secret, he says, is that most innovations fail. Larry know innovation - the Southern California church he has pastored for three decades is widely recognized as one of the most successful and innovative in the U.S. Osborne has discovered the essential secrets of successful serial innovators, and he’s sharing it in a new book: Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret: Why Serial Innovators Succeed Where Others Fail (Zondervan, October 2013). Osborne offers transferable leadership concepts for fostering creativity while reducing the insecurity of change within churches, non-profits and for-profit ventures.

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Title: Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret
Subtitle: Why Serial Innovators Succeed Where Others Fail
Author: Larry Osborne
Release Date:  October 2013
ISBN-13: 9780310494508
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $19.99
Binding: Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Number of Pages: 224

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The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk

It all began with eHarmony and a lengthy compatibility questionnaire. Dana Trent, a 20- something Christian minister with a Masters of Divinity under her belt was giving online dating a try. So was Fred, a devout Hindu who had been living as a monk just 18 months previously. Somehow the eHarmony algorithms saw what human eyes might have missed: how two young adults of deep faith, but dramatically different faith traditions, could be a perfect match. J. Dana Trent shares the story of their interfaith love story in the pages of Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk (Fresh Air Books, October 2013).

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Title: Saffron Cross
Subtitle: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk
Author: J. Dana Trent
Release Date:  October 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-935205-16-6
Category: RELIGION / Relationships / Love & Marriage
Retail Price: $16.00
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 144

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Zondervan will launch The Story of God Bible Commentary series in October 2013, featuring unique attributes which separate it from all other evangelical commentary series. Most notably, the series of 43 volumes will share a common perspective—viewing each book of the Bible as part of the grand story of God, fulfilled in Jesus as the Messiah, Lord and Savior of all. The series examines scripture passages from three angles: Listen to the Story, Explain the Story, and Live the Story. Less prescriptive and more discussion-oriented, The Story of God Bible Commentary series suggests ways for readers to discover their unique roles within God’s story.

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Title: The Story of God Commentary
Subtitle: Philippians
Author: Lynn Cohick
Release Date:  October 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-310-32724-0
Category: RELIGION / Biblical Commentaries / New Testament
Retail Price: $29.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 320

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Title: The Story of God Commentary
Subtitle: Sermon on the Mount
Author: Scot McKnight
Release Date:  October 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-310-32713-4
Category: RELIGION / Biblical Commentaries / New Testament
Retail Price: $29.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 320

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A (Mercifully) Short Book About a (Really) Big Problem

I’m SO busy! We’ve all heard it; we’ve all said it. Sometimes being busy seems like the theme of our lives, and it’s overwhelming. Other times, telling people we’re busy makes it sound like we matter—like we are extra important. Either way, a crazy busy life isn’t what God intended when he sent his Son to give us life to the full.

In fact, this frenetic pace poses a serious threat to our physical, social, and even spiritual well-being. It runs us down and not only affects the people around us, but also makes it more difficult to hear from God. No doubt our issue is endemic—it’s a problem that must be solved.

Who better to write on busyness than a best-selling author, full-time senior pastor, circuit conference speaker, active board member, loving husband, and dedicated father of five?! It’s no wonder Kevin DeYoung knows how to break the “busyness as usual” mindset—he’s had years of experience being way too busy!

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Title: Crazy Busy
Subtitle: A (Mercifully Short Book About a (Really) Big Problem
Author: Kevin De Young
Release Date:  September 2013
ISBN-13: 9781433533389
Category: Christian Living / Spiritual Growth
Retail Price: $11.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 128

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Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

What do you say when a friend’s job is eliminated, when your mom receives a tough diagnosis, when your neighbor’s husband abandons home and family? There are no easy words, no quick fixes. Best- selling author and long-time pastor Max Lucado offers a first-response of encouragement to those in the doorway of despair: You’ll Get Through This. Lucado doesn’t promise easy roads out or simple solutions, but in his decades of pastoral experience he has seen the continuous truth of those four words.

You’ll Get Though This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times (Thomas Nelson, September 2013) is Lucado’s 30th trade book in more than 25 years of publishing. Lucado uses the life of Joseph—the biblical figure, who was sold into slavery by his brothers, falsely accused and wrongfully imprisoned—along with testimonials of 21st century survivors to model the promise of the book’s title. Just as Joseph told his brothers, “You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good,” Lucado reminds readers that God is still transforming evil and pain into goodness and blessing.

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Title: You’ll Get Through This
Subtitle: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date:  September 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-4847-3
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Inspirational
Retail Price: $24.99
Binding: Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Number of Pages: 240

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Conquering Your Giants

Abingdon Press announces the publication of Five Stones: Conquering Your Giants written by pastor and author Shane Stanford alongside business and government leader R. Brad Martin. These two leaders have faced giants in their respective professional and personal lives, and their new book offers wisdom and encouragement for readers facing their own life challenges. Releasing August 2013, Five Stones leverages the Old Testament story of David facing the giant Goliath to illustrate how ordinary people can still overcome the greatest odds they face. Whether the “giants” are faced in arenas of business, personal health, relationships or soul matters, Stanford and Martin bring life experience, practical advice, and insightful questions to each battleground.

Brad Martin, as the former CEO of Saks Incorporated and youngest member ever elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, knows what it’s like to face overwhelming odds. “No one thought I could win an election as a 20-year- old junior in college facing a two-term incumbent, but I did,” says Martin. Likewise, Stanford, an HIV+ hemophiliac and successful pastor, has faced a chronic and often misunderstood illness for most of his life. Both men have dedicated their energies to encouraging and teaching others, using their own challenges and successes as examples of God’s faithfulness.

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Title: Five Stones
Subtitle: Conquering Your Giants
Authors: Shane Stanford and R. Brad Martin
Release Date:  August 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-4267-7172-9
Category: RELIGION / Christian Church / Leadership
Retail Price: $18.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 160

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The Story of How We Found Our Way Out of the Mormon Church

More than ever, Mormonism is gaining a foothold in mainstream culture, drawing hundreds of thousands of new followers each year and employing an aggressive public relations campaign to convince even prominent Christians that Mormonism is a Christian faith, too. U.S. News & World Report claims Mormonism is the fastest-growing faith group in American history, in spite of its beleaguered past and rumors of controversial church practices. In her new book, Unveiling Grace: The Story of How We Found Our Way Out of the Mormon Church, former tenured BYU professor Lynn K. Wilder who left the Mormon Church in 2008, courageously sets the record straight on how Mormons attract and keep their millions of followers, and what exactly separates Mormonism from biblical Christianity.

Wilder shares the unbelievable story of her family’s journey out from under the priesthood authority of the Mormon Church, and into the grace-filled arms of the biblical Jesus. Not only does her book expose secret details about the inner-workings of the Mormon Church and how its influence can permeate every area of members’ lives, but she explains what enticed her family, and many others, into the fellowship of Mormons.

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Title: Unveiling Grace
Subtitle: The Story of How We Found Our Way Out of The Mormon Church
Author: Lynn K Wilder
Release Date:  August 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-3103-3112-4
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 352

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It all started when his blog post went viral. Paul Angone posted his 21 Secrets for your 20's on his website AllGroanUp.com to share the funny, insightful truths he’d learned the hard way. He knew he had struck a chord when his site crashed - twice, and now the article has been read by nearly a million people in 190 countries. Angone has expanded the scope of that article for his new book, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties (Moody Publishers), which releases July 2013.

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Title: 101 Secrets for Your Twenties
Author: Paul Angone
Release Date:  July 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-8024-1084-9
Category: Christian Living / Practical Life / General
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192

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The Power of a Simple Prayer

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield’s latest book, Killing Jesus: The Unknown Conspiracy Behind the World's Most Notorious Execution (Worthy Publishing) reveals gritty details of political and religious intrigue. The book releases May 7, 2013, and electronic galleys are available now for select reviewers.

Mansfield warns readers that the drama behind this familiar story is intense and violent. He explains the book’s gritty realism in the introduction: “The execution of Jesus was a crime born of the streets, the barracks, the enclaves of the privileged, and the smoke-filled back rooms of religious and political power brokers. Its meaning lives in these places still.”

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Title: Killing Jesus
Subtitle: The Unknown Conspiracy Behind the World’s Most Notorious Execution
Author: Stephen Mansfield
Release Date:  May 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-61795-187-9
Category: RELIGION / Christianity / General
Retail Price: $22.99
Binding: Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Number of Pages: 288

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Autopilot is for Planes

Sissy Goff, David Thomas and Melissa Trevathan, with 75 years of collective counseling experience, see today’s parents are changing. These parents are honest. They’re more self-aware. And they want to learn what it means to be intentional parents, parenting with purpose and hope, not with fear and guilt. These three should know – they are currently counseling children and offering parenting consultations to families via Daystar Counseling Ministries and as they speak across the country to groups of parents. Their collective wisdom and experience forms the basis for their new book, Intentional Parenting: Autopilot is for Planes (Thomas Nelson Publishers, March 2013).

“When we parent out of fear, our kids never get the best of us, because it’s a reactive form of parenting. We invite you into more proactive and active parenting which we call intentional parenting,” explains David Thomas. “It asks you to become a student of your own maturity and a student of your child. And the reflection, study, and investment pays off when you and your child are able to grow into the people God intended you to be.”

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Title: Intentional Parenting
Subtitle: Autopilot is for Planes
Authors: Sissy Goff, David Thomas, Melissa Trevathan
Release Date:  March 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-6554-1
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Family
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Trade Paper
Number of Pages: 240

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Believing is Only the Beginning

Richard Stearns lives in a magic kingdom. That’s how he describes the wealthy existence of most people in first world countries like the U.S. As World Vision President, however, he’s also familiar with those living in a “tragic kingdom,” where food, clean water and medicine are chronically in short supply. Stearns says the common denominator between the two is what both are missing: both the Magic Kingdom and the Tragic Kingdom need a breakthrough of God’s kingdom.

Richard Stearns encourages readers to discover their unique roles in God’s Kingdom, regardless of where they live. His new book, Unfinished: Believing Is Only the Beginning (Thomas Nelson, March 2013), describes how to find a life of true significance and meaning.

“I believe there is a direct connection between the unfinished work of God’s kingdom and our sense of feeling incomplete in our faith,” writes Stearns. “This is inevitable, because there is a direct connection between our story and God’s story. If we are not personally engaged in God’s great mission, then we have missed the very thing he created us to do.”

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Title: Unfinished
Subtitle: Believing is Only the Beginning
Author: Richard Stearns
Release Date:  May 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-7852-48511-0
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth
Retail Price: $24.99
Binding: Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Number of Pages: 272

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Chasing After the Heart of God

Christian women have just about worn themselves out in pursuit of good things – a sparkling reputation, perfect church attendance, a lovely home, charming children. And yet they may be missing the one pursuit that really matters – chasing after the heart of God.

Bible teacher Jennie Allen suggests that David may be the best role model for beginning a pursuit of God’s heart: “Yes – David sinned and wrestled. Just like me. But he was not so concerned about appearing godly, and he was terribly concerned about knowing God.

Jennie invites women to explore the life and psalms of David, whose dealings with God are more intimately portrayed in scripture than anyone other than Jesus Christ. Jennie’s new DVD-based curriculum, entitled Chase: Chasing After the Heart of God (Thomas Nelson, November 2012), offers eight teaching videos alongside an interactive study guide that focus on David, “a man after God’s own heart.”

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Title: Chase
Subtitle: Chasing After the Heart of God
Author: Jennie Allen
Release Date: November 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4185-4934-3
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / General
Retail Price: $39.99
Set Contains: DVD, Leader’s Guide, Study Guide, conversation cards, promotional resources

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Exposing the Deeper Meaning Behind Sexual Thoughts

Fifty Shades of Grey is a publishing and cultural phenomenon – the series hit the $20 million sales mark in the United States this summer, surpassing records set by both The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter. Though these healthy book sales have spiked the online sale of whips, chains, and other BDSM-related paraphernalia, some dare to question how healthy a super dose of sexual fantasy is for readers. When does sexual fantasy cross the line from healthy to harmful?

Best-selling author, speaker and counselor Shannon Ethridge, has penned a book to answer this and other questions about sexual fantasy in The Fantasy Fallacy: Exposing the Deeper Meaning Behind Sexual Thoughts (Thomas Nelson Publishers, October 2012).

Ethridge explains how some sexual fantasies can become harmful, particularly when acted upon with others. “Fantasies which push the envelope beyond what is socially or spiritually acceptable are most often rooted in childhood trauma or unresolved pain. The goal of this book isn’t to judge whether fantasies are ‘right or wrong,’ but to help people examine sexual fantasies closely enough to recognize their roots and help them heal their pain.”

The Fantasy Fallacy invites readers on a journey into the deeper meaning of sexual fantasy. Ethridge suggests that sexual fantasies reveal one’s interior motivations, fears and desires. Exposing the memories and meanings behind sexual thoughts, she explains, can remove the impulse to act on every imagination. The result of this insightful examination is the road to relational peace, emotional rest, and sexual fulfillment men and women really desire.

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Title: The Fantasy Fallacy
Subtitle: Exposing the Deeper Meaning Behind Sexual Thoughts
Author: Shannon Ethridge
Release Date: October 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-6469-5
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / General
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Trade Paper
Number of Pages: 224

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How Suffering Makes You Free

Suffering. Every person experiences it. Hundreds of books have been written about it, plays have dramatized it, and countless sermons are preached on this topic every Sunday. Yet pastor and award winning author Tullian Tchividjian (cha-vi-jin) believes many Christians are missing the purpose of suffering in their lives. In Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Makes You Free (September 1, 2012, David C Cook), uses the Biblical example of Job, to illustrate how God’s presence in suffering will always be enough. And experiencing the presence of God, Tchividjian explains, is the purpose of suffering.

“My prayer that readers of this book will begin to comprehend the height, depth, and length of the love of Jesus right in the middle of their present suffering,” says Tchividjian.

Tchividjian says Glorious Ruin is different than other books on suffering because it does not wrestle with the “why” of suffering only the “who.” “We don’t need answers and explanations as much as we need God’s presence in and through the suffering. For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you. The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God’s rescue through pain.”

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Title: Glorious Ruin
Subtitle: How Suffering Makes You Free
Author: Tullian Tchividjian
Release Date: September 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1434-704-023
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Personal Growth
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Trade Paperback
Number of Pages: 224

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Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

Thomas Nelson announces the next trade book from Max Lucado—GRACE: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine (Hardcover, September 18, 2012). This all-new book from pastor and internationally bestselling author Max Lucado marks his 29th adult trade book, and this is his first title to explore not only what grace is, but also what it does and why it is essential.

“Grace is God’s best idea,” Lucado explains. “His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and restore justly—what rivals it? Of all his wondrous works, grace, in my estimation, is the magnum opus.”

In GRACE, Lucado asks deeper questions about grace, avoiding easy platitudes. “Have you been changed by grace? Shaped by grace? Strengthened by grace? Emboldened by grace? Softened by grace? Snatched by the nape of your neck and shaken to your senses by grace?” He continues: “God’s grace has a wildness about it. A white-water, riptide, turn-you-upside-downness about it.”

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Title: GRACE
Subtitle: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date: September 2012
ISBN-13: 9780849920707
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / General
Retail Price: $24.99
Binding: Jacketed Hardcover
Number of Pages: 240

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Facing the Truth About Our Deepest Desires

“My name is Dee Brestin, and I am an idolater.” Best-selling author and popular Bible teacher Dee Brestin doesn’t mince words in her latest book for women, Idol Lies: Facing the Truth About Our Deepest Desires (Worthy Publishing, September 11, 2012). Most Christians associate “idolatry” with dusty Old Testament stories and classic Charlton Heston movies; however, Dee Brestin believes that modern Christian women have erected idols such as control, materialism, sex, food and the approval fo others to replace God.

in Idol Lies, this veteran author explores the hidden idols that destroy a woman’s love for God and eventually will destroy her relationships. Brestin explains her definition of idolatry: “Any time our deepest desire is for something other than God because we think that will satisfy or rescue us, a dangerous ‘soul idol’ is forming. We may idolize the approval of people, our own comfort, or maintaining control. All of these things can become ‘idol lies’ - things we value more than God.”

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Title: Idol Lies
Subtitle: Facing the Truth About Our Deepest Desires
Author: Dee Brestin
Release Date: September 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-61795-072-8
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth
Retail Price: $19.99
Binding: Jacketed Hardcover
Number of Pages: 256

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Most men don’t have any idea how to date their wives.Maybe they did before they got married, but once the kids arrived, andfinancial responsibilities mounted, dating their spouse can seem as difficult as Indiana Jones trying to uncover the Ark of the Covenant. But the treasure is there to find. In his new book, Date Your Wife, author Justin Buzzard claims there’s always the possibility for any marriage to be jumpstarted, and begin moving toward something exciting, mysterious and grand. Kind of like the way dating felt.

Pastor of Garden City Church in San Jose, CA, Buzzard says the main problem in marriage is that husbands leave their marriages in maintenance mode while they pursue other objectives. “Men date their girlfriend. And once they marry their girlfriend, they live with a wife they stop dating.”

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Title: Date Your Wife
Author: Justin Buzzard
Release Date: June 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0718096137
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $24.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 208

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The state of a typical family in the 21st century can be accurately summed up in one word: busy. Between work, school, church, and a plethora of after- school activities, parents and kids can easily find themselves spending more time in a drive-thru than the dinner table. Dave Stone’s Building Family Ties with Faith, Love & Laughter (Thomas Nelson, May 2012, $14.99) gives parents creative tools to reprioritize their lives and build a joyful family that both children and parents want to come home to every day.

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Title: Building Family Ties with Faity, Love & Laughter
Author: Dave Stone
Release Date: September 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-4003-1872-8
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Family
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 160

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Mother-Daughter Reflections on Life and Faith

When asked for the secret to her success, Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts gives a simple answer: “Being the daughter of Lawrence and Lucimarian Roberts, who made me believe anything was possible.” GMA viewers have come to know and love Lucimarian through the stories Robin has shared over the years from her hometown – from the loss of Robin’s father to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Now the mother and daughter have collaborated to create an inspiring new book entitled My Story, My Song: Mother-Daughter Reflections on Life and Faith (Upper Room Books, April 2012).

Robin Roberts writes in the introduction, “Folks are drawn to Mom’s humility, wisdom, and spirituality. Countless times I’ve been told: ‘Your mother should write a book.’ Well, just like the beautiful hymns I have been blessed to hear Mom sing… this is her story.”

My Story, My Song is the heartwarming memoir of Lucimarian Tolliver Roberts, detailing pivotal moments in her life and revealing how faith in God has provided her with strength and hope to face the challenges of life. Reflections from daughter Robin Roberts on her mother’s life and faith cap off each chapter.

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Title: My Story, My Song
Subtitle: Mother-Daughter Reflections on Life and Faith
Author: Lucimarian Roberts, as told to Missy Buchanan, with reflections from Robin Roberts
Release Date: April 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-8358-1107-1
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Inspiration
Retail Price: $18.00
Binding: Jacketed Hardcover
Number of Pages: 144

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Ask ten Christian parents what their greatest wish is for their children, and chances are those parents will give ten identical answers: they all want their children to faithfully walk with God for the rest of their lives. New and seasoned parents alike struggle with how to daily maintain a home that strives to serve the Lord. Father of three and pastor Dave Stone understands these struggles and offers encouragement and fresh insights on how to be a faithful parent who can raise a family of true believers in Raising Your Kids to Love the Lord (Thomas Nelson, May 2012, $14.99), the first installment of Thomas Nelson’s new “Faithful Families” series.

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Title: Raising Your Kids to Love the Lord
Author: Dave Stone
Release Date: May 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4003-1871-1
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Family
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 144

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The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul

It was a simple prayer of surrender, but within it were a thousand small deaths. Jennie Allen and her husband Zac prayed “God, we will do anything.” As a result, their life together, their family, even their church began to change in unexpected ways as the Spirit of God brought about soul-deep transformation and lives of focused passion. Part of Jennie’s transformation has been a willingness to expand her writing and Bible teaching ministry, which now includes a series of DVD-based Bible studies and trade books with Thomas Nelson. Her first book is aptly entitled Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul (Thomas Nelson) and will release April 2012.

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Title: Anything
Subtitle: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
Author: Jennie Allen
Release Date: April 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-4705-6
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Women’s Issues
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Trade Paper
Number of Pages: 192

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Building a Loving, Powerful Life Together

They might appear to be living a fairy-tale life—he’s a superstar NFL running back and broadcaster; she sings in a successful pop/R&B group. But success on the outside doesn’t always equate to success on the inside—or happiness under the same roof. Eddie & Tamara “Taj” George, who have worked hard to succeed at home, tell the honest truth about their life together while offering hope to others in Married For Real: Building a Loving, Powerful Life Together (Abingdon Press, February 2012). By sharing their stories and secrets to success, the Georges offer hope and practical advice for building an intimate and successful marriage.

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Title: Married for Real
Subtitle: Building a Loving, Powerful Life Together
Author: Eddie and Tamara George with Rob Simbeck
Release Date: February 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4267-2248-6
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Life & Marriage
Retail Price: $19.95
Binding: Jacketed Hardcover
Number of Pages: 144 +8-page photo insert

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The Redeeming Story of the Angel of Tucson, Christina-Taylor Green

You can’t make up a story like hers – Christina-
Taylor Green was born on September 11, 2001, a day of staggering terror, only to give her own life nine years later in another shocking act of terror. Her death saddened hearts, yet her life and legacy inspired a president and a nation.

The new book As Good as She Imagined (January 2012, Worthy Publishing) tells the story of the run-up and aftermath to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ tragic public event on January 8, 2011 at a Tucson grocery store. Written by Christina’s mother, Roxanna Green, along with New York Times best-selling author Jerry B. Jenkins, Christina- Taylor’s story is more heart-wrenching than any Hollywood movie.

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Title: As Good as She Imagined
Subtitle: The Redeeming Story of the Angel of Tucson, Christina-Taylor Green
Author: Roxanna Green with Jerry B. Jenkins
Release Date: January 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-61795-012-4
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / General
Retail Price: $24.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 256 (with photo insert)

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Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

Award-winning and bestselling authors Hayley and Michael DiMarco live in the real world. They understand that self-fulfillment is part of the American Dream. They also understand that the only way to a truly rich and fulfilled life is death: death to self. Their counter-cultural message is spelled out clearly in the pages of Die Young: Burying Your Self in Christ (Crossway, January 31, 2012). The DiMarcos guide readers into a practical understanding of what it means to become “living sacrifices” for Jesus Christ.

Die Young is a manifesto written by a transparent husband/wife duo who is committed to living intentionally and helping others do the same. Today’s culture drives people towards selfishness and ego, but Die Young flips that notion on its head and offers a better way—a way that leads to life as God intends. As Paul calls to readers in Romans 12, so the DiMarcos call their readers to become “living sacrifices.”

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Title: Die Young
Subtitle: Burying Yourself in Christ
Author: Hayley & Michael DiMarco
Release Date: January 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4335-3057-9
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Personal Growth
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192

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Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

The 70s songwriter bemoaned “rainy days and Mondays always get me down.” And everyone has days that go wrong, days that don’t go as planned, days that don’t turn out as hoped. But are bad days beyond redemption? In his new book, Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life’s Challenges with Promise and Purpose (Thomas Nelson, Hardcover, January 2012), Max Lucado assures readers that each day—regardless of circumstances—has a shot at being an outstanding day because every day is a gift from God.

In Great Day Every Day, New York Times best-selling author Max Lucado says it’s easy to credit God with usual good days: sunshine-drenched vacation days, Easter Sundays, super sale Saturdays and unscheduled holidays. Yet he urges readers to consider that every day—including divorce days, final exam days, surgery days, tax days and days when the cemetery dirt is still fresh—can be viewed as a gift from God. “It’s possible,” Lucado explains, “because God is at work in every situation. And when we begin to see our days from God’s perspective, our focus is sharpened; the good in every day becomes evident.”

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Title: Great Day Every Day
Subtitle: Navigating Life’s Challenges with Promise and Purpose
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date: January 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0- 8499-2073-8
Category: RELIGION / Christian Living / General
Retail Price: $18.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 176

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Mothers have a profound influence on their children, including those children who impact their world profoundly as Billy Graham has done. Now readers can see inside the dynamic faith of Billy Graham’s mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, known as “Mother Graham,” in a new devotional book chronicling her last years: Treasured Moments with Mother Graham by Rose Adams with Donna Lee Toney (B&H Publishing Group, January 1, 2012).

“The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured,” writes Billy Graham. “They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.”

For the last two years of Mother Graham’s life, Rose Adams was the daily caregiver for Mother Graham, providing physical care and companionship. But Adams never dreamt the profound impact Mother Graham would have on her spiritually. Writes Adams in the preface: “When I arrived at the Graham home in September 1979, Mother Graham welcomed me as a friend, not a caregiver. I embraced her not as an invalid (for she was still mobile), but a mother and a teacher. Whenever she had visitors and prayed for them, she ended her prayers by saying, ‘Precious Father, may all those who enter our home be blessed.’ I certainly was.”

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Title: Treasured Moments with Mother Graham
Author: Rose Adams with Donna Lee Toney
Release Date: January 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1—4336-7582-9
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Devotional
Retail Price: $14.99
Binding: Embossed Simulated Leather with half jacket
Number of Pages: 224

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Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life

Mountain climber and internationally known television personality, Bear Grylls knows about adventure. He’s led record‐breaking expeditions from Antarctica to the Arctic, yet he candidly declares that the greatest adventure he’s ever experienced is raising his three boys alongside his wife Shara. In his book, To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life (David C Cook, January 2012), Bear Grylls recounts his favorite quotes, words of wisdom, and spiritual insights for the benefit of his three boys and for the enjoyment of readers everywhere.

Bear’s advice to his sons is heartfelt and timeless. He writes in the introduction: “This little book is a culmination of all that I have learned about the game of life. I have learned these simple truths through many mistakes and many falls. I have learned them from watching and being around those I love and admire, and I have learned them through the hard times that life sometimes throws at us.”

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Title: To My Sons
Subtitle: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life
Author: Bear Grylls
Release Date: January 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-4347-0358-3
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life
Retail Price: $9.99
Binding: Printed Caseside

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How the Church Will End Extreme Poverty

Extreme poverty can seem like an ever-present blight, but Scott C. Todd, Ph.D., says it’s time to raise expectations. He believes the end of extreme poverty is in sight and will happen within the lifetime of this generation. Dr. Todd, a former biomedical researcher who now serves as an advisor for Christian child development ministry, believes extreme poverty will be completely eradicated in the next 25 years. His new book, Fast Living: How the Church Will End Extreme Poverty (Compassion International, September 2011), presents statistics that highlight how much has already been accomplished and how the rest of the work can and will be accomplished.

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Title: Fast Living
Subtitle: How the Church Will End Extreme Poverty
Author: Scott C. Todd, PhD
Release Date: September 1, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-936899-00-5
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
Retail Price: $12.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240

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The Great Story of Divine Intimacy

What is the heart of God’s story? Sin and punishment? Victory over God’s enemies? Or could it be something much more relational? Pastor and author Greg Paul suggests that the heart of scripture is relationship—specifically the relationship between Father and child. In his latest book, Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy (Thomas Nelson, October 2011), Greg Paul invites readers to consider the narrative of scripture from a personal perspective and to find their individual stories inside God’s great love story. Greg paints a compelling portrait of the Father’s heart for his children via stories from scripture and modern life.

Greg opens Close Enough to Hear God Breathe by recalling his daughter Rachel as an infant. He would rock his only daughter as she took her bottle, and she would fall asleep on his chest, close enough to hear her father breathe. Greg slides from this family memory into an intimate retelling of Jesus’ baptism, which concludes with God’s words over his son: “This is my son. My beloved. I am pleased with him.” It is, Greg writes, a pivotal moment in scripture.

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Title: Close Enough to Hear God Breathe
Subtitle: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy
Author: Greg Paul
Release Date: October 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-4002-0300-0
Category: RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth
Retail Price: $15.99
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224

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Heartwarming Tales of Angels, A Manger, and the Birth of Hope

Bestselling author Max Lucado has penned several popular Christmas novellas which have become seasonal bestsellers. Now for the first time, all three of Lucado’s novellas are

gathered into one hardcover gift book entitled Christmas Stories: Heartwarming Tales of Angels, a Manger, and the Birth of Hope (Thomas Nelson, September 2011, $17.99, jacketed hardcover). This collection features all of Lucado’s popular Christian novellas, plus many of his holiday short stories and reflections, in one volume.

“There is no season more apt to stir us,” Lucado comments. “Christmas opens our hearts to love and to the miraculous, so I’ve always enjoyed crafting stories about and for this special time of year.”

Christmas Stories includes three novellas, varied devotional writings about Christmas and brief retellings of the Christmas story in Lucado’s own words. The novellas include The Coming, The Christmas Candle, and The Christmas Child.

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Title: Christmas Stories
Subtitle: Heartwarming Tales of Angels, A Manger, and the Birth of Hope
Author: Max Lucado
Release Date: September 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-59554-543-0
Category: Fiction / Christian / General
Retail Price: $17.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 355

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Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

Co-parenting with your Ex. Dating after a big breakup. Navigating troublesome in-laws. Working with gossipy colleagues. Everyone experiences relationship challenges, and the most difficult relationships require setting personal boundaries for self-protection. These boundaries help one survive a challenging relationship, but how does someone know when it’s time to move beyond the pain and risk trusting again? Dr. John Townsend, a renowned clinical psychologist and bestselling author, has penned Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships (Zondervan, September 2011) to offer guidance for moving beyond self-protection into life-giving relationships. After selling three million copies in the Boundaries line of books, Dr. Townsend is regularly asked (often as he co-hosts a national call-in radio program) how to take the “next step” – how to enter into new or revitalized relationships with an open heart.

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Title: Beyond Boundaries
Subtitle: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships
Author: Dr. John Townsend
Release Date: September 2011
ISBN-13: 9780310330493
Category: Religion / Christian Life / Relationships
Retail Price: $24.99
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 304

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Fourth Film in the BASIC Series

he latest film in the groundbreaking Basic series from Francis Chan and Flannel, BASIC.Fellowship (David C Cook, June 2011, $14.99) joins the characters from the first three films and follows their story as they become the church.

As New York Times best-selling author and popular speaker Chan calls viewers to fellowship with the church like a family, the three characters in the film break out of their white rooms and discover a sprawling desert all around them. A character dubbed “The Teacher” introduces them to a landscape populated by thousands of other white rooms—with, presumably, thousands of others stuck inside.

Series creators explain that each previous film has been building toward the journey that kicks off in BASIC.Fellowship. “This is the film that both ties the series together and sets it off in a new direction,” says Steve Carr, executive director of Flannel. “As Francis Chan redefines how we think about ‘fellowship,’ the three characters discover what it means to be the church. In Fellowship, the BASIC film series rises to a new level of teaching and storytelling.”

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Title: BASIC.Fellowship
Author: Francis Chan
Release Date: June 2011
ISBN-13: 9-7814-347-008-03
Category: Religion / Christian Life / General
Retail Price: $14.99
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Running Time: 15 minutes

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