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Book Beat CR September 2010 Print Email
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 09:55 AM America/New_York

ThingsIWishIKnownMarriage counselor and No. 1 New York Times best-selling author Gary Chapman aims to help couples make their marriage last, in Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Got Married. Chapman explains how couples can develop a loving and mutual beneficial marriage in the Northfield Publishing/Moody Publishers book that releases this month and retails for $12.99.

 

Howard Books’ suspense novel Drift by Sharon Carter Rogers (April) has been named winner of the 2010 International Book Award for Religious Fiction. The supernatural mystery is Rogers’ third novel, after Sinner (RiverOak Publishing/David C. Cook), a 2007 National Best Books Award finalist, and Unpretty (Howard). Rogers’ name is a pseudonym for a former English teacher who now writes full time.

 

The Message: Solo New Testament Pink from NavPress is a leather-look devotional that uses an ancient approach to exploring the Scriptures, lectio divina, or “divine reading,” encouraging readers to “Read, Think, Pray and Live.” The devotional includes a topical index and 162 numbered devotions. It releases Sept. 13 and retails for $14.99.

 

Pastor and best-selling author Andy Stanley shows how God’s grace can transform a life in The Grace of GodBarbourLydiasCharm from Thomas Nelson. Releasing this month, the jacketed hardcover book retails for $21.99.

 

Adding to the Amish fiction category, Barbour Publishing releases Lydia’s Charm by best-selling author Wanda E. Brunstetter this month. Set in Ohio’s Amish country, the stand-alone novel retails for $14.99.

 

Believing that the simplicity of biblical discipleship has become lost in today’s postmodern church, international church planter Floyd McClung encourages readers to use Christ’s life as a pattern for living in Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus. The David C. Cook title releases this month.