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Giveaway: Olive Garden Giftcard & Dinner with a Perfect Stranger


You’re invited to eavesdrop on a life-changing conversation…

In 2005, Readers were invited to eavesdrop on a life-changing conversation for cynical business man Nick Cominsky while he dines with Jesus. Six years later the novella Dinner with a Perfect is still changing hearts and lives. Have you read it?

This summer, to celebrate the paperback releases of Dinner with a Perfect Stranger and A Day with a Perfect Stranger—now with study guides included!—we’re giving away three $50 gift cards to Olive Garden as well as copies of these newly released version.

Enter here and use the contest code DINNER. For complete contest rules, click here.

This giveaway ends July 31, 2011.

 

Congratulations to our Christy Award finalists!

We couldn’t be more excited for our Christy nominated authors! Did you miss them when they first released? Find out more about them below.

Indivisible

(Contemporary Romance category)

About the Book:
Everyone in Redford, Colorado, has a secret—even Police Chief Jonah Westfall and the woman who loves him. Will the revelations drive them apart? Or make them indivisible?

Read the first two chapters

Check out the Book Reporter Q&A

Get materials for your book club

TheCharlatansBoy

(Young Adult category)

About the Book:
Lies and ugliness are his living, but the charlatan’s boy is forever on the lookout for the truth about where he comes from. Owing more to Twain than to Tolkien, The Charlatan’s Boy is a rollicking fantasy novel about a boy’s desire to belong.

Read the first two chapters

Visit the author’s blog

LadyinWaiting

(Contemporary Standalone category)

About the Book:
Two women, separated by nearly five hundred years, face feeling powerless over their fates before finally discovering they’ve always had the ability to choose.

Read the first two chapters

Read the starred Publishers Weekly review

Get materials for your book club

LastChristian

(Visionary category)

About the Book:
After her remote village is annihilated, a cryptic message vaults Abby Caldwell into the seemingly-impossible task of re-introducing the Christian faith in  late twenty-first century, secular America—and rescuing the planet from spiritual oblivion.

Read the first chapter

Watch the video trailer

Get materials for your book club

To get news about upcoming books by these authors and more, subscribe to our monthly Fiction Reads eNewsletter on the right side of this post.  

NEWS: Best-Selling Author David Gregory Interviews With INSPY


Best-selling author David Gregory answers questions about his most recent novel The Last Christian. Read why he writes, challenges of incorporating faith into his writing, and more! Click here to read.

NEWS: Two WaterBrook Multnomah Titles Shortlisted in the Inaugural INSPY Awards


Two WaterBrook Multnomah titles have been Shortlisted in the INSPY Awards.  The INSPYs were created by bloggers to discover and highlight the very best in literature that grapples with expressions of the Christian faith.  Awarded for Creative Nonfiction is Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost by Matthew Paul Turner,  and for Speculative Fiction The Last Christian by David Gregory. To view the full list, click here.

SNEAK PEEK: The Last Christian by David Gregory


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What does this nation without God look like? A startling “what-if” look at the end of Christianity in America…

Download the first chapter of The Last Christian here.

A.D. 2088. Science is removing God from America—one person at a time. Can the faith of one woman bring restoration? In this futuristic thriller, one woman takes on  the seemingly-impossible task of re-introducing the Christian faith in  late twenty-first century, secular America—and rescuing the planet from spiritual oblivion. 

Download the first chapter of The Last Christian here.

NEWS: David Gregory Featured on NPR


Beth Pattillo in The Tennessean

Listen to the interview with NPR.

David Gregory, author of Dinner With a Perfect Stranger and The Last Christian, was featured on NPR and interviewed by Karen Girgsby Bates on his best-selling book, Dinner With a Perfect Stranger.

Listen to the interview with NPR.

VIDEO: The Last Christian – A Novel by David Gregory