Once in a Blue Moon Leanna Ellis Paperback, 320 pp., $14.99 B&H Books (March 1, 2010)
Bryn Seymour was nine when her mother died under mysterious circumstances on the day Apollo 11 made its lunar landing. Forty years later—divorced, an obituary writer, and cynical—she meets Howard, a conspiracy theorist who knew her mom and believes a small Texas town may hold clues to what really fueled her demise. Seeking closure, Bryn goes along for this men-in-black ride. But upon meeting Howard’s son Sam, an outspoken Christian, she can’t decide whose beliefs are more pie-in-the-sky. The gravity of life has pulled Bryn down, but a perfect love could set her soaring.
In 1808, when Emma marries Eric Montclaire, she believes a fairy tale has just begun. Instead, her husband’s angelic looks only mask a monstrous soul. Praying for mercy, she is devastated when Eric insists on her joining his yearlong group expedition to the Pacific Ocean, following the trail Lewis and Clark blazed just a few years earlier. By the time cartographer Luke Bowen realizes Emma’s plight, it’s too late to easily untangle what has become an epic web of lies, theft, murder, courtroom drama, and a deep longing for love. Only God can show them the way out.
Deliver Us from Evil Robin Caroll Paperback, 320 pp., $14.99 B&H Books (February 1, 2010)
A beautiful yet tough woman, Brannon Callahan is a search and rescue helicopter pilot for the Great Smoky Mountains. After a small plane carrying U.S. Marshal Roark Holland (already haunted by a recent tragedy), Brannon must save him in more ways than one and safeguard the donor heart he’s transporting to a government witness on the edge of death. Otherwise the largest child trafficking ring in history—with shocking links from Thailand to Tennessee—will slip further away into darkness along the Appalachian Trail.
The Power of Prayer and Fasting Ronnie W. Floyd, Bill Bright Paperback, 240 pp., $12.99 B&H Books (January 1, 2010)
Prayer and fasting is not a gimmick or a fad, although it is new for many Christians. Ronnie Floyd explains how prayer and fasting is a Scripture-ordained act of obedience—a means of humbling ourselves before God, drawing closer to Him, and making room for Him to speak and act in our lives. This newly revised and updated edition offers fascinating firsthand stories of the difference prayer and fasting has made in Floyd’s life and others, compelling explanations of how this discipline works in a Christian’s life, practical guidance, and a stirring call to revival.
She knew this earth when it was perfect—like her, for a time. Made by God in a manner like no other, she lived in utter peace without flaw in paradise until one fateful decision changed everything. Now, all humanity suffers for her mistake. But what did it feel like then to first sin and be exiled, to see all innocence crumble so vividly, and a strange new world take its place? Experience the epic dawn of mankind through the eyes and heart of Eve—the woman first known as Havah.