by admin | Nov 26, 2007 | Books, Giveaways
About the book:
For every bewildered parent, there’s a kid longing to be understood. What parent hasn’t occasionally looked at their beloved but bewildering offspring and wondered, What in the world is he thinking? or Why is my sweet little girl acting like that?
In this remarkable book, Shaunti Feldhahn and Lisa Rice take you inside the mind of teens and preteens through the same innovative approach that seized national attention in the best-selling books For Women Only, For Men Only, and For Young Women Only. They explore the results of a nationwide survey and personal interviews with more than 1,000 real-life teens and tweens to tackle those things parents often don’t “get” about their kids. You’ll hear first-hand about the longings that drive your kids’ seemingly illogical decisions, the truth behind those exasperating “attitude problems,” and what your children would tell you if they could trust you to truly listen.
About the Authors:
Shaunti Feldhahn is the author of For Women Only and numerous other books, with sales totaling nearly one million copies. A nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and public speaker, Feldhahn earned her master’s degree at Harvard University. She and her husband, Jeff, have two young children. Lisa A. Rice is the associate editor of Christian Living magazine, the mother of two teenage girls, and a screenwriter and producer.
My Review:
I will be totally honest and admit that I have not finished reading the book yet. I have read enough to wish that it had been available over a decade ago when I was raising teens. Everything I have read so far has resonated with me as truth and gave me a few “ahah” moments as I recognized my children and even myself as a teen.
For Parents Only has a fresh, easily read approach that helps the reader to see inside teens’ minds to understand why they are behaving the way they are and the correct parental response. I will be passing my copy on to a friend who has a teen and preteen.
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by admin | Nov 21, 2007 | Books
This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducing
THE YADA YADA PRAYER GROUP
GETS DECKED OUT
Thomas Nelson (October 2, 2007)
byNeta JacksonABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Neta Jackson Neta Jackson’s award-winning Yada books have sold more than 350,000 copies and are spawning prayer groups across the country. She and her husband, Dave, are also an award-winning husband/wife writing team, best known for the Trailblazer Books–a 40-volume series of historical fiction about great Christian heroes with 1.8 million in sales–and Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes (vols 1-4).Dave and Neta live in Evanston, Illinois, where for twenty-seven years they were part of Reba Place Church, a Christian church community. They are now members of the Chicago Tabernacle, a multi-racial congregation that is a daughter church of the well-known Brooklyn Tabernacle.ABOUT THE BOOK:
Turkey dinners, tree trimming, and decking the halls–it’s that time of year again! And I Jodi Baxter, can’t wait to celebrate. My kids are coming home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and then all of us Yadas are getting decked out for a big New Year’s party.But God’s idea of “decked out” might just change the nature of our party plans. A perplexing encounter with a former student, a crime that literally knocks me off my feet, a hurry-up wedding, and a child who will forever change our family…it’s times like these that I really need my prayer sisters.This holiday season, we Yada Yadas are learning that no one can out celebrate God. So let’s get this party started!
THE YADA YADA PRAYER GROUP GETS DECKED OUT is a festive novella featuring America’s favorite prayer group, the Yada Yadas!
Sometimes dubbed “chick-lit” for their bright covers and catchy titles, this series provides far more depth than witty banter and wacky situations. Inspired by a prayer group of real women, each book will have you laughing, crying, and perhaps praying anew.
In this highly anticipated installment, the Yada Yada sisters-a group of multi-cultural friends-and their families prepare for the event of the season.
But yes, eager readers, this novella—which picks up a year and a half after the end of book #6 The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling concludes the series with some twists and turns that will amaze and encourage you. Plus, it sets the stage for Neta’s new series with new characters and new situations but also occasional roles for the beloved Yada Yada sisters in familiar Chicago neighborhoods with all their cultural richness.
To purchase your own copy of The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Decked Out”
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by admin | Nov 14, 2007 | Books, Suspense
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing TRY DYING
(Center Street October 24, 2007)
by
James Scott Bell
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
James Scott Bell is a former trial lawyer who now writes full time. He is also the fiction columnist for Writers Digest magazine and adjunct professor of writing at Pepperdine University.
His book on writing, Plot and Structure is one of the most popular writing books available today. The national bestselling author of several novels of suspense, he grew up and still lives in Los Angeles, where he is at work on his next Buchanan thriller.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
On a wet Tuesday morning in December, Ernesto Bonilla, twenty-eight, shot his twenty-three-year-old wife, Alejandra, in the backyard of their West 45th Street home in South Los Angeles. As Alejandra lay bleeding to death, Ernesto drove their Ford Explorer to the westbound Century Freeway connector where it crossed over the Harbor Freeway and pulled to a stop on the shoulder.Bonilla stepped around the back of the SUV, ignoring the rain and the afternoon drivers on their way to LAX and the west side, placed the barrel of his .38 caliber pistol into his mouth, and fired.His body fell over the shoulder and plunged one hundred feet, hitting the roof of a Toyota Camry heading northbound on the harbor Freeway. The impact crushed the roof of the Camry. The driver, Jacqueline Dwyer, twenty-seven, an elementary schoolteacher from Reseda, died at the scene.
This would have been simply another dark and strange coincidence, the sort of thing that shows up for a two-minute report on the local news–with live remote from the scene–and maybe gets a follow-up the next day. Eventually the story would go away, fading from the city’s collective memory.
But this story did not go away. Not for me. Because Jacqueline Dwyer was the woman I was going to marry.
In Try Dying, this fast-paced thriller, lawyer Ty Buchanan must enter a world of evil to uncover the cause of his fiancee’s death–even if hie has to kill for the truth.
“Bell is one of the best writers out there…he creates characters readers care about…a story worth telling.”
~Library Review~
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by admin | Nov 6, 2007 | Books, Suspense
Deadfall is the first book I have read by Robert Liparulo. It won’t be my last. I was hooked from the first page although my cowardly side wanted me to put it away where I wouldn’t have to face what I knew was coming if I read it all.
The burning question raised by Deadfall is “What would happen if the wrong people got hold of the ultimate weapon?” Robert Liparulo explores that question in a frighteningly realistic manner that is totally believable. He gives us a glimpse of characters who have absolutely no conscience or concern for life of any kind. Yet to counterbalance the depravity, he introduces characters who risk everything to help total strangers.
This book is a nail-biter that could keep you awake for hours – both from wanting to see what happens next and the disturbing possibilities it presents. I believe Mr. Liparulo has written a story that is not as far fetched as it might seem. With our rapidly advancing technology and the current generation who have been desensitized by violent video games, TV and movies, we could be looking at a similar scenario before we know it. I applaud his courage in addressing this issue in such a thought provoking manner.
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