Count the Nights by Stars

Author(s): Michelle Shocklee
Publisher: Tyndale Fiction
Price: $1.99       (Aug 29-31)

A 2023 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award-winner!

Count your nights by stars, not shadows. Count your life with smiles, not tears.
1961. After a longtime resident at Nashville’s historic Maxwell House Hotel suffers a debilitating stroke, Audrey Whitfield is tasked with cleaning out the reclusive woman’s room. There, she discovers an elaborate scrapbook filled with memorabilia from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Love notes on the backs of unmailed postcards inside capture Audrey’s imagination with hints of a forbidden romance . . . and troubling revelations about the disappearance of young women at the exposition. Audrey enlists the help of a handsome hotel guest as she tracks down clues and information about the mysterious “Peaches” and her regrets over one fateful day, nearly sixty-five years earlier.

1897. Outspoken and forward-thinking Priscilla Nichols isn’t willing to settle for just any man. She’s still holding out hope for love when she meets Luca Moretti on the eve of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Charmed by the Italian immigrant’s boldness, Priscilla spends time exploring the wonderous sights of the expo with Luca—until a darkness overshadows the monthslong event. Haunted by a terrible truth, Priscilla and Luca are sent down separate paths as the night’s stars fade into dawn.

 

A Harvest of Thorns

Author(s): Corban Addison
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $2.99       (Ends Sept 30)

A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. And a corporate executive with nothing left to lose.

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women. Amid the rubble, a bystander captures a heart-stopping photograph—a teenage girl lying in the dirt, her body broken by a multi-story fall, and over her mouth a mask of fabric bearing the label of one of America’s largest retailers, Presto Omnishops Corporation.

Eight thousand miles away at Presto’s headquarters in Virginia, Cameron Alexander, the company’s long-time general counsel, watches the media coverage in horror, wondering if the damage can be contained. When the photo goes viral, fanning the flames of a decades-old controversy about sweatshops, labor rights, and the ethics of globalization, he launches an investigation into the disaster that will reach further than he could ever imagine—and threaten everything he has left in the world.

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Coming to Grips with Genesis

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Author(s): Terry Mortenson
Publisher: Master Books
Price: $2.99       (Sept 11-12)

Fourteen theological scholars address key topics related to the age of the earth, which is the crucial issue of debate in the church today regarding origins. Bringing to bear rigorous biblical, theological, and historical arguments in favor of a six-day creation, the global Flood, and a young earth, they also provide much-needed critiques of a number of contemporary old-earth interpretations of the book of Genesis.

This fresh defense of the literal history of Genesis 1-11 nicely complements other studies which focus more on the scientific evidence of young-earth creationism. As such, this book can serve as a versatile supplement to other works, but is also designed to be used as a standalone text for seminary and Bible college professors and students, pastors, missionaries, and others who want in-depth apologetic resources.

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The Living Room

Author(s): Robert Whitlow
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $3.99       (Ends Sept 30)

Amy Clarke’s dreams are coming true—and that’s the problem.

Legal secretary by day, romance novelist by night, Amy Clarke lives with a precious secret. For years, she has traveled to a holy place in her dreams—a sublime place she calls the Living Room. When she awakes, her faith and energy are supernaturally restored. And when she dreams, she receives vibrant inspiration for her novels.

As she begins to write her third book, the nature of her dreams shifts. Gone are the literary signposts. Instead, her dreams are studded with scenes that foreshadow real life. Before long, the scenes begin to spill over into her waking hours too.

As Amy becomes entangled in a high stakes case at work, her visions take on a dark hue—implicating someone dear to her, causing her to question everything. And convincing her to trust someone with his own shadowy secrets.

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The List

Author(s): Robert Whitlow
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $2.99       (Ends Sept 30)

The book that launched bestselling author Robert Whitlow’s career!

“Fans of John Grisham will find much to like here.” —Library Journal review of The Confession

In a world of secrets, where evil has reigned for over a hundred years, the power of an ancient covenant will change the life of one man forever.

As a struggling young attorney fresh out of law school, Renny Jacobson pines for the day he can afford the luxuries of the partners in his Charlotte firm. With news of his father’s death and a secret inheritance, Renny’s life will surely change forever. But the clandestine society that provides the inheritance soon threatens to change him in more ways than one.

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Precarious Summer: A Christian Romantic Suspense

Author(s): Lyn Cote
Price: $2.99      

A single mom, a sheriff with a past—face escalating danger to their small tourist town.

Her future and her child’s hinges on her new business’s success.

Audra Blaire opens a waterfront coffee and pastry shop. Summer tourists flock to the southern shore of Lake Superior’s beautiful clean blue waters and the Apostle Islands National Park. And Audra hopes they enjoy her wares!

But Memorial Day, the start of the all important summer tourist season, begins with an unnerving bang. A tripwire detonates a blaze near town—someone practicing, preparing?

He is the new sheriff intent on overcoming his past.

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Joe the Carpenter

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Author(s): David Falcon
Price: $6.99      

Joe the Carpenter is about a blue-collar, middle-aged working man who is not very religious. Joe is a widower going through a mid-life crisis and spends his days sulking in a bar until he meets a long-lost childhood friend who sets Joe up with a teenager half his age. When Mary, the girl, mentions she is pregnant with another man’s child. Joe attempts to back out of the marriage until his friend threatens to report Joe to the authorities for a crime he did not commit. The couple weds, and Mary gives birth to a son called Jesus. The child is brought up like any other boy and eventually becomes a man whose only intention is to do good and preach the word of God. Then, one day, Jesus loses his temper (a trait inherited from his mother) and gets in trouble with the authorities. Jesus is arrested and sentenced to death by crucifixion. Joe’s only hope to save Jesus is to trust a plan devised by the childhood friend who arranged the marriage in the first place. For those who may have difficulty accepting some of the written Christian dogma, Joe the Carpenter brings a pragmatic view of the most incredible story ever told.