CCC Apr 30, Kathi Macias "Special Delivery"

Kathi Macias
"Special Delivery"
New Hope Publ., 2012, 978-1-59669-307-4
In book 2 of the “Freedom” series, Mara fights against her attraction to Bible college student Jonathan Flannery even while wrestling with risking her own safety to become involved in the rescue of another girl who wants to escape her captors. Halfway around the world in a brothel in Thailand, a young girl is rescued by friends of Jonathan’s family. Meanwhile, Jefe—Mara’s uncle, who held her as a sex slave in San Diego for years—seeks revenge for Mara’s testimony that put him behind bars for life. www.kathimacias.com 

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CCC Apr 27, Roger Helland "Missional Spirituality"

Roger Helland & Leonard Hjalmarson
"Missional Spirituality"
IVP, 2011, 978-0-8308-3807-3, $16
"Embodying God's Love From the Inside Out" In this book the authors helpfully reconnect spirituality and mission, showing you how the spiritual life, when lived properly, follows a similar progression: we "come home" to Christ, loving him from our heart and soul and mind and strength. And then we set forth to love our neighbors as ourself. Discover how through this process you can reclaim the whole of God's kingdom for his glory and the fulfillment of your heart's longing. www.ivpress.com www.missionalspirtuality.com

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CCC Apr 26, Janet Thompson "Face To Face Series"

Janet Thompson
"Face To Face with Lois and Eunice"

New Hope Publishers, 2012, 9781596693227, $8.99

Face-to-Face with Lois and Eunice focuses on how women today can be grandmothers, mothers, aunts, and mentors whose faith takes root in the next generation.
"Face to Face With Sarah, Rachel and Hannah"

New Hope Publishers, 2012, 9781596693210, $8.99

Face-to-Face with Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah explores various issues in women’s lives that lead to pleading with God and ways they react when He doesn’t immediately respond or they don’t like His answer, as well as guiding women to learn to rest in God’s sovereignty and wait on His timing. www.newhopedigital.com www.womantowomanmentoring.com 

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CCC Apr 25, Mark David Hall "America's Forgotten Founders"

Mark David Hall & Gary L. Gregg II
"America's Forgotten Founders"
ISI Books, 2008. 2012, 1-610170-23-9, $18.00
Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton—while such Founders remain as famous as ever, many other men (and women) who made prodigious contributions to the American Founding are all but forgotten. America’s Forgotten Founders corrects this injustice. For the first time ever, top scholars have ranked the most neglected contributors to the American experiment. This unique book profiles the top ten “forgotten Founders,” presenting engaging short biographies, handy lists of their major accomplishments, and revealing quotations. www.isi.org/books


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CCC Apr 24, Dorothy Love "Beauty For Ashes"

Dorothy Love
"Beauty For Ashes"
Thomas Nelson Publ., 2012, 1-59554-901-3, $15.99
For Carrie Daly, life seems to consist mostly of mourning and ashes. Widowed when her young husband died at the battle of Shiloh, Carrie has spent the intervening years living quietly on her family’s farm with Henry, her older brother. But then Henry marries a difficult widow with two rowdy sons in tow. Feeling that there is no longer a place for her on the farm, Carrie moves, intending to make a new life for herself. But a chance meeting with Griff Rutledge changes everything. It will take a leap of faith on both their parts to redeem the hurts of the past and claim God’s promise of beauty for ashes. www.dorothylovebooks.com

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CCC Apr 23, Jackie Cogswell "Super Luke Faces His Bully"

Dr. Jackie C. Cogswell
"SuperLuke Faces His Bully"
Divine Inspiration Publishing, 2012, 978-0-9820490-2-0
Have you ever been bullied?  Or maybe you have bullied someone.  If you have never been either of these, I’ll bet that you have witnessed someone being bullied. ”SuperLuke Faces His Bully”, the second in the GiggleHeart Adventures series, takes us on a journey into the heart of a bully.  It then explores how to handle the bully from a Biblical perspective. www.giggleheart.com

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CCC Apr 20, Dannah Gresh "Six Ways To Keep The "Good" In Your Boy"

Dannah Gresh
"Six Ways To Keep The "Good" In Your Boy"
Harvest House, 2012, 978-0736945790, $13.00
As the culture presses our girls to grow up too fast, it is pressing our boys to stay in a continual state of childhood by playing video games and living with their parents until they are thirty. They're too busy playing Call of Duty to actually have a real live call of duty. Dannah Gresh unveils six practical ways to call your son to grow up into goodness—that is, usefulness to society and family. www.harvesthousepublishers.com www.purefreedom.org 

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CCC Apr 19, Ron Rhodes "Unmasking The Antichrist"

Ron Rhodes
"Unmasking The Antichrist"
Harvest House, 2012, 978-0-7369-2850-2, $13.99
The identity of the Antichrist is a topic of hot debate today. Adding fuel to the flame of rampant speculation are voices saying the Antichrist might be a Muslim or a Jew—a view that respected Bible scholar and bestselling author Ron Rhodes argues against in this Scripture-based book. It is time for a trustworthy study of this topic to take the place of emotion-based suspicions. www.harvesthousepublishers.com www.ronrhodes.org

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CCC Apr 18, Douglas A. Jacoby "A Quick Overview Of The Bible"

Douglas A. Jacoby
"A Quick Overview of the Bible"
Harvest House Publ., 2012, 978-0-7369-4424-3, $12.99
Bible scholar Douglas Jacoby bridges the gulf between the biblical world and the twenty-first century. He uses clear, easy-to-understand language to explain the big picture of the Bible and show how the pieces fit together. www.harvesthousepublishers.com www.douglasjacoby.com 

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CCC Apr 17, Jennifer Kennedy Dean "Altar'd"

Jennifer Kennedy Dean
"Altar'd: Experience The Power of the Resurrection"
New Hope Publ., 2012, 978-1-59669-331-9
Through careful exposition and biblical teaching, author and prayer expert Jennifer Kennedy Dean guides readers on a 40-day exploration of the Scriptures and what it means to truly live a life dead to flesh and alive to the spirit. Let the altar do its work in you, transforming fear to faith, worry to worship. Each time that old pattern starts asserting itself in your thoughts, overlay it with the new reality: I’m altar’d. www.prayinglife.org

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CCC Apr 16, Rhonda Rhea "How Many Lightbulbs...?"

Rhonda Rhea
"How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take To Change A Person?"
New Hope Publ., 2012, 978-1-59669-325-8, $16.99
Through humor and stories, Rhonda Rhea explores many of the almost 300 references to light in the Bible to draw us back to the real light found in Christ. This light is the only light that can provide change in our lives, and is ultimately not just a light that changes us, but the lives of those we come in contact with as well. www.NewHopeDigital.com 

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CCC Apr 10, Scotty Smith "Everyday Prayers"

Scotty Smith
"Everyday Prayers"
Baker, 2011, 978-0-8010-1404-8, $15.99
With this collection of 365 Scripture-centered prayers, pastor Scotty Smith helps you pray the Scriptures through the lens of the gospel, mining the great resources of God's grace and applying them in every season of your life. Each day includes a Scripture reference and an inspirational original prayer, born from moments of great faith and times of crisis. Like a modern-day book of Psalms, Everyday Prayers is a pathway to growing in grace that you will want to explore year after year. www.bakerbooks.com

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CCC Apr 9, Chris Fabry "Not In The Heart

Chris Fabry
"Not In The Heart"
Tyndale, 2012, 978-1-4143-4861-2, $13.99
Truman Wiley is an out-of-work journalist with the chance to write the story of a death row inmate willing to donate his heart to Truman's dying son. As the execution clock ticks, Truman uncovers disturbing evidence that may point to a different killer. For his son to live, must an innocent man die? Fabry weaves a story of redemption, in which two men from different worlds get second chances. ccc.chrisfabry.com

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CCC Apr 4, Susan May Warren "Baroness"

Susan May Warren
"Baroness"
Summerside Press, 2012, 978-1609366315, $14.99
The nineteen-twenties birthed a time of turbulence and change. The end of a "war to end all wars" will do that. Young cousins Lilly, a Montana girl, and Rosie, a New York girl, find these times reflective of their personal lives. Both young women, touched by the cruelty of war, seek assurance of love and belonging: Lilly believes fulfillment lies back in Montana; Rosie, only in bright lights and adoration of the masses. Expected to marry well and to take the reins of the family empire, they have their lives planned out for them. But following their dreams -- from Avant garde France, to Broadway, to the skies in the world of barnstormers and wing-walkers -- will take all their courage.  And if they find love, will they choose freedom or happily ever after? www.susanmaywarren.com

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CCC Apr 3, Kim Cash Tate "Cherished"

Kim Cash Tate
"Cherished"
Thomas Nelson Publ., 2011, 978-1-59554-855-9, $15.99
Kelli London once dreamed of being a songwriter. As crazy as it seemed, she hoped that God would use the lyrics that came to her even while she slept. She dreamed about Brian too, that the love they shared as high-school students would grow into marriage. But choices that still haunt her destroyed those dreams. Until now-when a series of love letters reawakens her hope for the future. Heather Anderson's life has spun out of control. Broken and alone, she cried out to the only One able to save her. He met her there, but it was just the beginning. Because now she must take a different path. And the one God has planned for her looks nothing like the one she envisioned. As Kelli and Heather awaken to their true worth, they find the freedom to pursue their dreams-and relationships-based on the security of knowing God's unconditional love. www.kimcashtate.com

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CCC Apr 2, Denise Hunter "The Accidental Bride"

Denise Hunter
"The Accidental Bride"
Thomas Nelson Publ., 2012, 9781595548023, $15.99
Having agreed to play the bride in the Founders’ Day wedding reenactment, Shay is mortified to be greeted at the end of the aisle by none other than Travis McCoy, her high-school sweetheart—the man who left her high and dry for fame and fortune on the Texas rodeo circuit. Then the unthinkable happens. Thanks to a well-meaning busybody and an absentminded preacher, the make-believe vows result in a legal marriage. But before Shay can say annulment, Travis comes up with a crazy proposal. If she refuses his offer, she may lose her home. If she accepts, she may lose her heart. Shay isn’t sure if the recent events are God’s will or just a preacher’s blunder. Will trusting her heart to the man who once shattered it be the worst mistake of her life? Or could their marriage be the best accident that ever happened? www.thomasnelson.com

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