Good Girls Don’t Have to Dress Bad
Shari Braendel
Paperback, 208 pp., $14.99
Zondervan (July 16, 2010)

As the most sought-after and successful Christian speaker on fashion and beauty, Shari Braendel uses her twenty plus years of experience in the fashion field to inspire and motivate women of all ages and sizes to 1) learn to appreciate themselves regardless of what they look like or how much they weigh, and 2) understand exactly how they can look their best.

Never Without Hope
Michelle Sutton
Paperback, 280 pp., $12.99
Sword of the Spirit Publishing (June 1, 2010)

Hope believes she is above sexual temptation. After all, she’s a good Christian and has no reason to stray… until her husband starts neglecting her needs. Despite her pleas, he refuses to get help. She soon learns that she, too, is capable of such betrayal when she succumbs to the unthinkable. Steeped in the quagmire of adultery, Hope must find her way back to solid ground to save her marriage. But will she lose everyone she loves in the process?

A Wedding Quilt for Ella
Jerry Eicher
Paperback, 288 pp., $11.99
Harvest House Publishers (February 1, 2011)

Ella Yoder’s wedding with Aden Wengerd and the building of their dream house is set for June. But when Aden is suddenly taken from her, Ella begins to doubt God’s love. When her family pressures her to marry the new young bishop, Ella asks for six months to heal from Aden’s death. Meanwhile, Aden’s brother, Daniel, helps Ella build her dream house based on a drawing by Ella’s sister, Clara and now incorporated into Ella’s wedding quilt. Can healing come through a house…a quilt….a community?

Preparing To Be A Help Meet
Debi Pearl
Paperback, 296 pp., $19.95
No Greater Joy Ministries (April 9, 2010)

Being a good help meet starts long before marriage. It is a mindset, a learned habit, a way of life established as a young unmarried girl—or at least it should be. Most girls spend plenty of time planning for their wedding, but make no preparation for the weeks and years to follow. Trial and error is not the best teacher when it comes to marriage. All this could so easily be avoided with simple instruction. Preparing To Be A Help Meet contains six sweet love stories written by wives sharing how God taught them to be the help meets they are today.

Simple Secrets
Nancy Mehl
Paperback, 320 pp., $12.99
Barbour Publishing (June 1, 2010)

Can graphic designer Gracie Temple have it all: the big city life and a job at a successful advertising firm? Just when she feels life coming together she receives an unknown uncle’s inheritance in a quiet Kansas Mennonite community. The house comes with a dark legacy and a cast of interesting neighbors, including farmer Sam Goodrich. Can Gracie shake off the dust of this town or will its secret charms pull her in to stay?