The Art of Losing Yourself wins 2016 Carol Award

Colorado Springs, Colo. (August 30, 2016) – WaterBrook is proud to announce that The Art of Losing Yourself (WaterBrook, April 21, 2015) by Katie Ganshert has won the American Christian Fiction Writer’s 2016 Carol Award for Contemporary Novel. The 2016 Carol Award winners were named at the ACFW’s 2016 Gala on August 27, 2016 during the ACFW Conference held in Nashville, Tenn.

The Carol Awards are ACFW’s recognition for the best Christian fiction published in the previous calendar year.

 

About The Art of Losing Yourself
Just like in my dream, I was drowning and nobody even noticed.

Every morning, Carmen Hart pastes on her made-for-TV smile and broadcasts the weather. She’s the Florida panhandle’s favorite meteorologist, married to everyone’s favorite high school football coach. They’re the perfect-looking couple, live in a nice house, and attend church on Sundays. [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: Amish Christmas at North Star by Cindy Woodsmall

One night four lives entered the world by the hands of an Amish midwife, just outside North Star, Pennsylvania. 

 Click here to download chapter one of Amish Christmas at North Star.

Rebekah’s babies, as they are called, are now grown adults and in four heartwarming novellas each young person experiences a journey of discovery, love, and the wonder of Christmas.

Guiding Star by Katie Ganshert

Curiosity gets the best of Englisher Chase Wellington when he investigates the twenty-five-year-old disappearance of an Amish baby. When he finds adventurous Elle McAllister in Iowa will his discoveries upend her world?

Mourning Star by Amanda Flower

Eden Hochstetler slips from her parents’ fudge shop to investigate the death of her friend Isaac Yoder.  Who is guilty? Isaac’s handsome great nephew Jacob, an angry Englisher, or someone else?

In the Stars by Cindy Woodsmall

Kore [ … ]

The Wood’s Edge by Lori Benton – SNEAK PEEK

At the wood’s edge cultures collide. Can two families survive the impact?

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The 1757 New York frontier is home to the Oneida tribe and to British colonists, yet their feet rarely walk the same paths.

 On the day Fort William Henry falls, Major Reginald Aubrey is beside himself with grief. His son, born that day, has died in the arms of his sleeping wife. When Reginald comes across an Oneida mother with newborn twins, one white, one brown, he makes a choice that will haunt the lives of all involved. He steals the white baby and leaves his own child behind. Reginald’s wife and foundling daughter, Anna, never suspect the truth about the boy they call William, but Reginald is wracked by [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK – Rise of the Fallen by Chuck Black

Angels and demons collide over the fate of one unbelieving young man. One angel must unlock the mystery behind the man and God’s plan for humanity.

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  Validus is the last and least of God’s angels, but he’s seen much across the millennia since his creation. Empires have risen and fallen as angelic and demonic forces battle in a raging war that will determine humanity’s fate – and the fate of his defeated brothers.

 Eventually called to be an earth-bound warrior, Validus rises to a position of power and respect, commanding legions of angels through impossible battles and overwhelming odds. But when orders arrive from the Creator’s most elite Messenger, he finds himself suddenly demoted to a task of apparent insignificance considering [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: Thief of Glory by Sigmund Brouwer

A boy coming of age in a time of war…
the love that inspires him to survive.

Click here to download chapter one of Thief of Glory.

For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, the life of privilege as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies comes crashing to a halt in 1942 after the Japanese Imperialist invasion of the Southeast Pacific. Jeremiah takes on the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings when his father and older stepbrothers are separated from the rest of the family, and he is surprised by what life in the camp reveals about a woman he barely knows—his frail, troubled mother.

Click here to download chapter one of Thief of Glory.

NEWS: A Table by the Window Featured on FaithfulReader.com

FaithfulReader.com featured Hillary Manton Lodge’s A Table by the Window in the April eNewsletter. Reviewer Evelyn Bence wrote, “When I read Christian fiction, I often feel as if writers are trying too hard — to relay their faith, teach a lesson, show (never tell) an emotion, overblow a plotline, take a literary tack…or maybe it’s that they’re not trying hard enough. So what a pleasant surprise to find this novel that didn’t once make me sigh with irritation.” Go here to read the full review.

NEWS: RelzReviewz Features A Table by the Window

Popular blogger Relz Reviewz featured A Table by the Window by Hillary Manton Lodge. Go here to read the “Character Spotlight” piece on Juliette and Neil, and their sweet romance.