Title: The Reckoning Author: Tanya Parker Mills Publisher: BookSurge Release Date: September 17, 2008 ISBN: 978-1439200704 Size: 384 pages, 5×8″, Softcover Genre: Romantic Suspense Read the review. The Reckoning, by Tanya Parker Mills, tells the story of a journey home gone terribly wrong, but even when all the light has gone, forgiveness and redemption can heal the past and show a way to the future. […]
Title: Where Hearts Prosper Author: Suzanne V. Reese Publisher: Cedar Fort Release Date: December 1, 2008 ISBN: 978-1599551920 Size: 262 pages, softcover Genre: Romance Carmen Anderson has spent her entire life avoiding the place she grew up: the town tiny of Prosper, Arizona. When she makes the impulsive decision to move back with her rebellious teenage daughter Paige, she has no idea that the worst […]
Title: The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love Author: A.E. Canon Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: June, 2008 ISBN: 978-0061128462 Size: 272 pages, hardcover Genre: Young Adult Ordinary, boring Ed works a loser summer job at Reel Life Movies, where he doesn’t even have his own name tag. He’s stuck with “Sergio.” Ed’s only consolations are his two best friends. Shelving DVDs isn’t so mind-numbingly dull […]
Title: Pretty Like Us Author: Carol Lynch Williams Publisher: Peachtree Publishers Release Date: October 1, 2008 ISBN: 978-1561454440 Size: 224 pages, hardcover Genre: Middle Grade For Beauty McElwrath, the first day of sixth grade in small-town Green River, Florida, proves to be exactly the catastrophe she expected. Beauty is acutely shy, and she s sure she s doomed to be a social outcast for yet […]
Title: The Christmas Sweater Author: Glenn Beck Publisher: Threshold Editions Release Date: November 11, 2008 ISBN: 978-1416594857 Size: 284 pages, 5×7″, hardback Genre: Christmas When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. Although his life had gotten harder —and money tighter—since his father died and the family bakery closed…Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to […]
Title: A Christmas Grace Author: Anne Perry Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: October 28, 2008 ISBN: 978-0345502032 Size: 224 pages, 5×7″, hardback Genre: Christmas A few weeks before Christmas, 1895, Emily Radley, the sister of Charlotte Pitt (last seen with husband, Thomas Pitt, in Buckingham Palace Gardens), answers a summons from Father Tyndale, spiritual leader of a small Western Ireland community. The Catholic priest is […]
Title: Jenny’s Dream Author: Linda Weaver Clarke Publisher: American Book Publishing Release Date: December 1, 2008 ISBN: 978-1589824461 Size: 280 pages, softcover Genre: Historical Romance When Jenny Roberts arrives home from college in the summer of 1908, she yearns to escape her small hometown of Paris, Idaho, and accomplish something remarkable in the world. She develops a promising friendship with Will Jones, a young farmer […]
Title: Stonefather Author: Orson Scott Card Publisher: Subterranean Press Release Date: October 31, 2008 ISBN: 978-1596061941 Size: 112 pages, Hardcover Genre: Speculative Novella length; not eligible for Whitney Award. When Runnel leaves his mountain valley to head for the great city of the water mages, he has no idea of his own magical talents. But he soon finds that without meaning to, he complicates and […]
Title: The Spirit of Christmas Author: Jennie Hansen, Betsy Brannon Green, Michele Ashman Bell Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc. Release Date: November 2008 ISBN: 978-1598115811 Size: 5×8, softcover Genre: Christmas Not eligible for a Whitney award. Rekindle the spirit of Christmas with this touching trio of timeless stories told by some of the finest LDS storytellers — each with a heartwarming message for the Season. Will […]
Raquel has a secret. As the daughter of one of King Noah’s priests, she enjoys a luxurious life and the admiration of powerful men. But her heart belongs to a commoner, a man with no earthly wealth but rich heavenly gifts. When King Noah demands that Raquel join his harem, she flees the only life she has known and marries her secret love. His name […]