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This
Month on
You’ve Got Books!
Did you ever want to sample a book before you buy
it? Now you can! The Christian Authors
Network’s online book club
lets you read excerpts from books by your favorite
authors. New excerpts are posted
on Mondays and, if
we have a lot to share that week,
on Thursdays. This
month’s book club schedule has many excellent book
excerpts you won’t want to miss. So mark your
calendar and pop over this month to sample our
highlighted books.
Find
Gripping Fiction at:
www.canblog.typepad.com/youve_got_books_fiction
Sunday, June 7
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Sunset
Beach
Trish Perry
ISBN :
978-0736926751
Sonny Miller plans
to use a week’s vacation at a
San Diego beach house
to find the answers she has wanted all her life.
Her mother ran away from home before Sonny was
born; now it’s time to know why. She invites her
mother, Teresa, and her mother’s estranged twin,
Melanie, to the quiet and quirky beach house.
They both show up…and with surprises of their
own. Teresa, a successful classical singer,
brings her latest protégé, and Melanie brings
along secrets about Teresa and the identity of
Sonny’s father. Strong personalities cause big
waves, and Sonny quickly finds herself in over
her head. But as the twins begin to reconcile
and reconnect, Sonny makes some surprising
connections—romantic and otherwise—of her own.
Topics Addressed:
Mothers and daughters;
Family secrets; Life-changing
events; Betrayal and forgiveness
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Sunday, June 14
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Witness to Murder
Jill Elizabeth Nelson
ISBN:
978-0373443451
Poised for an interview, TV reporter Hallie
Berglund walks into a murder scene instead. The
victim’s boyfriend stands over the body, murder
weapon in hand. Hallie couldn’t stop the crime,
but as the star witness, she’ll see the man
brought to justice . . . right? Not according to
her colleague Brody Jordan, who is convinced the
police—and Hallie—are targeting the wrong man.
To prove it, he’ll need Hallie’s help. The
victim was wearing a bracelet handcrafted by
Hallie’s long-dead mother. Now Hallie is the
only one who can unearth the secrets of the
past—and bring the sinister truth to light.
Special Considerations: some violence (mostly
off-scene)
Topics Addressed: judging by appearances, cults,
rivalry, jealousy
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Sunday, June 21
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Scent of Murder
Virginia Smith
ISBN: 978-0373443437
Scent of Murder
is the third and final book in Virginia Smith’s
Classical Trio series, following A Taste of
Murder and Murder at Eagle
Summit.
This time the trio is scheduled to play their
music at an artist colony in the Blue Hills of
Indiana. Caitlin, who is reeling from being
dumped by her long-time boyfriend, has sworn off
men for a full year to give herself time to
heal. But that’s before she meets Chase
Hollister, the handsome owner of a scented
candle factory. Before she knows it, she and
Chase are caught up in a haunting crime from his
past – and pursued by a deadly killer in the
present.
Special Considerations: some violence
Topics Addressed: not losing faith in times of
crisis
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Sunday, June 28
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MorningSong
Shelly Beach
ISBN: 978-0825425417
Mona VanderMolen, a former English teacher
turned entrepreneur, is battling her way back
from an accident that nearly took her life when
she discovers her teenage niece Hallie has
delivered Mona’s alcoholic sister Ellen to
Stewartville in an alcohol-induced coma. Hallie,
still reeling from the drowning death of her
younger sister, the near-death of her Aunt Mona,
the inattention of her absentee father, and the
continual binges of her alcoholic mother, is
ready to dump the fragments of her battered life
in Mona’s lap. Can Mona deal with her own
crumbling health and blossoming romance, help
restore Hallie’s faltering faith, and show her
sister the face of a faithful God in the middle
of chaos and pain?
Topics addressed: Addiction, forgiveness,
chronic illness, caregiving, death, romance and
relationships, parental roles and relationships
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Awesome Nonfiction at:
www.canblog.typepad.com/youve_got_books_nonfictio
Sunday, June 7
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Ambushed by Grace
Shelly Beach
ISBN: 978-1572932425
This book provides both spiritual and practical
guidance on the complex issues that come into
play in caregiving relationships: forgiveness,
grace, boundaries, intergenerational
communication, and restoration, to name a few.
But while exploring the spiritual aspects of
caregiving, Ambushed by Grace also offers
practical help and resources—websites,
discussion starters, practical tips, and
information-gathering suggestions. This book is
a great balance of both useful resources and
life-changing inspiration.
Topics Addressed: caregiving
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Sunday, June 14
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Business Law
Cara Putman
ISBN: 978-1592578528
The only guide of its kind!
Undergraduate college students working toward
business degrees, MBA graduate students, and
first year law students have one thing in
common: they need to take courses in business
law. Unlike cumbersome and expensive textbooks,
The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Business Law
is the first and only series guide that explains
the major principles, phrases, and real life
implications of business law for students and
interested professionals.
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News From the Christian Authors Network
News from the Christian Authors Network
May is an exciting month for Christian authors,
because the finalists are named for several major
awards. Congratulations to the following CAN
authors, who received the exciting news that their
books are on the short list:
Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence
in Mystery/Suspense
Suspicious Minds,
by Christy Barritt
Pedigreed Bloodlines,
by Sandra Robbins
A Taste of Murder,
by Virginia Smith
Wiser Than Serpents,
by Susan May Warren
Holt Medallion
Family Ever After
and
Forsaken Canyon,
by Margaret Daley (double finalist!)
Inspirational Readers Choice Contest (IRCC)
Blue Heart Blessed, by Susan
Meissner
Lying on Sunday, by Sharon K Souza
Promises, Promises, by Amber
(Miller) Stockton
Congratulations to all the finalists!
The first book in
Shelley Adina’s
All About Us series for teens, It's All About Us,
shortlisted for the 2009 Canadian Christian fiction
awards sponsored by The Word Guild, in the young
adult category. Shelley will be signing books
three and four in the series, Be Strong &
Curvaceous and Who Made You a Princess?
on June 26 at 7:00 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble in
Greensburg, PA.
Bonnie Grove
will be
teaching fiction at Write!Canada, June 18-20 in
Guelph Ontario. Her short story The Stuckville
Café, which appears in the anthology Hot
Apple Cider has been shortlisted in The Word
Guild Christian Writers Awards. Winners will be
announced at the Gala Awards in Mississauga Ontario,
June 17th.
On June 19-20,
Virginia Smith
will teach two sessions at Kentucky Christian
Writers Conference in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. For
more information, visit
KCWC’s website.
Amber (Miller)
Stockton
will
sign copies of her books
12 other Christian authors at Spirit Fest, along
the river walk in Pueblo, Colorado. The event will
be held Friday, June 12th from 5-10pm, and Saturday,
13th from 4-10pm. Amber will be there with 2 other
authors from 4-6pm on Saturday, June 13th.
Karen Whiting’s
first article is published with
suite101.com
here.
It’s Video Game Benefits and several more will
follow. June 6th she’ll be signing books at a
children’s event at The Gospel Book Shop in
Salisbury, MD. She’ll be interviewed by Rest
Ministries (blog radio) on June 9th (9am Pacific
Time). June 25th she’ll be speaking at the Villages
in Florida (largest senior community in US) and then
doing her first day long seminar for girls on Inner
and Outer Beauty, in Myakka City, Florida. As the
featured YA nonfiction author for June for the
Sandbox Summer Festival of
Reading on Beach Reads she’ll be
interviewed several times: June 4, 18— General
interview about herself (will feature the Cup of
Comfort Devotional for Mothers and Teens that
she’s part of as a great book for moms and tweens to
read together); June 11, 23—Review of her family
devotional book and God’s Girls books.
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