Death Panels Michelle Buckman Paperback, 270 pp., $11.95 TAN Books (August 2010)
2042: American Christians are decimated, persecuted. Tolerance is the highest virtue. Deviance is the norm; speaking out against it is a crime. Any lifestyle choice is fine as long as it doesn’t lower your federal Healthcare Score. For Senator Axyl Houston, this isn’t enough. He wants the Death Panels to have the power to euthanize the weak; he wants America to lead in purging future generations. Against him stands David Rudder, an escapee from the Christian reservation, who becomes entangled in a chain of events that could lead to a revolution for the Culture of Life, or to its destruction.
If a society had no knowledge of Christianity, and then a Bible were discovered, what would happen? Four hundred years after a deadly virus and nuclear war destroyed the modern world, a new and noble civilization emerges. In this kingdom, called Chiveis, the people live medieval-style lives, with almost no knowledge of the “ancient” world. Safe in their natural stronghold, the Chiveisi have everything they need, even their own religion. Christianity has been forgotten—until a young army scout comes across a strange book…
The Skin Map Stephen Lawhead Hardcover, 448 pp., $24.99 Thomas Nelson (August 31, 2010)
Kit Livingstone’s great-grandfather has reappeared with an unbelievable story: the ley lines throughout Britain are not mere legends but truly are pathways to other worlds. So few people know how to use them, that doing so is fraught with danger. One legendary explorer developed an intricate code and tattooed his map onto his skin, but the map has since been lost. Rival factions are in desperate competition to recover it, though what none of them yet realize is that the skin map itself is not the prize at the end of this race… but merely the first goal of a vast and marvelous quest to regain Paradise.
Nathan Shepherd, in the company of his restored mother and two mysterious beings called supplicants, searches for his father in the land of dreams. With the collapse of the entire cosmos at hand, only his father holds the answers to what Nathan must do to save billions of lives.
Tomorrow’s Paper Richard Wunderlich Paperback, 232 pp., $16.95 OakTara (December 1, 2008)
Lisa’s kidnapping is brutal and merciless, but her terror is only beginning. Her abuctor plans to use portions of Lisa’s brain to create a C.O.B.R.A. (COmputer BRAin Interface), a new technology so universally therapeutic that no human will want to resist its power… or be left alive if they choose to resist. But not all are fooled. Jerry, a computer genius troubled by the ethics, teams up with financial consultant Edward Calais and his wife, Jane, an astute lawyer, to combat the unholy unfolding. But will they—and Lisa—be able to stop C.O.B.R.A. before it becomes a reality?