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5 * Also available: CHURCH OF THE SMALL THINGS Church of the Small The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life Things Study Guide Melanie Shankle (9780310081340) Is my ordinary, everyday life actually significant? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and cooking chicken for dinner? It’s been said, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” The pressure of that can be staggering as we spend our days looking for that big thing that promises to take our breath away. Meanwhile, we lose sight of the small significance of fully living with every breath we take. Melanie Shankle tackles these questions head on in her fourth book, Church of the Small Things. Easygoing and relatable, she speaks directly to the heart of women of all ages who are longing to find significance and meaning in the normal, sometimes mundane world of driving carpool to soccer practice, attending class on their college campus, cooking meals for their family, or taking care of a sick loved one. The million little pieces that make a life aren’t necessarily glamorous or far-reaching. But October 3, 2017 God uses some of the smallest, most ordinary acts of faithfulness—and sometimes they $22.99 look a whole lot like packing lunch. Jacketed Hardcover 224 pages Through humorous stories told in her signature style, full of Frito pie, best friends, the love 9780310348870 of her Me-Ma and Pa-Pa, the unexpected grace that comes when we quit trying to measure RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / up, and a little of the best TV has to offer, Melanie helps women embrace what it means to PERSONAL GROWTH live a simple, yet incredibly meaningful life and how to find all the beauty and laughter that lies right beneath the surface of every moment.

Melanie Shankle writes regularly at The Big Mama Blog and is the New York Times best- selling author of three books including Nobody’s Cuter Than You. She is a graduate of Texas A&M and loves writing, shopping at Target, checking to see what’s on sale at Anthro- pologie, and trying to find the lighter side in every situation. Most of all, she loves being the mother of Caroline, the wife of her husband, Perry, and the official herder of two wild dogs named Piper and Mabel. The five of them live in San Antonio, Texas.

DAILY POWER 365 Days of Fuel for Your Soul Craig Groeschel Power—God’s power. You’ve got to have it to stand strong in these times and become who God says you are. Daily Power will help you develop a consistent, daily pursuit of Jesus that releases his power in your life. These 365 brief devotions by pastor and New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel deliver what no instant energy drink can: strength and insight for the here-and-now of your life, your marriage, your workplace, family matters, temptations, hopes and dreams, possibilities and decisions. Groeschel shares wisdom from personal experience as a spouse, parent, son, and pastor that can help you write your own life story the way you’d like it to read. Each devotion includes a Scripture quote, a short reading, and a simple prayer to connect you with God. You’ll get honest talk, simply told stories your heart will own, and truth wrapped in a grin. “You know how we grow? We practice daily,” Groeschel writes. Daily Power is here to guide October 3, 2017 and inspire you on your journey. $18.99 New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of Printed Caseside Hardcover Life.Church, an innovative and pacesetting church meeting in multiple locations around 368 pages the United States and globally online, which also created the popular and free YouVersion 9780310343080 Bible App. He is the author of several books, including #Struggles, Fight, Soul Detox, RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / The Christian Atheist, and It. Craig, his wife, Amy, and their six children live in Edmond, DEVOTIONAL Oklahoma. Visit craiggroeschelbooks.com.

6 A CRAZY, HOLY GRACE The Healing Power of Pain and Memory Frederick Buechner When pain is real, why is God silent? Frederick Buechner has grappled with the nature of pain, grief, and grace ever since his father committed suicide when Buechner was a young boy. He continued that search as a father when his daughter struggled with anorexia. In this essential collection of essays, including one never before published, Frederick Buechner finds that the God who might seem so silent is ever near. He writes about what it means to be a steward of our pain, and about this grace from God that seems arbitrary and yet draws us to his holiness and care. Finally he writes about the magic of memory and how it can close up the old wounds with the memories of past goodnesses and graces from God. Here now are the best of Buechner’s writings on pain and loss, covering such topics as the power of hidden secrets, loss of a dearly beloved, letting go, resurrection from the ruins, peace, and listening for the quiet voice of God. And he reveals that pain and sorrow can be a treasure—an amazing grace. October 3, 2017 Buechner says that loss will come to all of us, but he writes that we are not alone. Crazy $16.99 and unreal as it may sometimes seem, God’s holy, healing grace is always present and Softcover available if we are still enough to receive it. 144 pages 9780310349761 Frederick Buechner is the author of more than thirty published books and has been an RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / important source of inspiration and learning for many readers. A prolific writer, Buechner’s INSPIRATIONAL books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He has been called a “major talent” by the New York Times, and “one of our most original storytellers” by USA Today. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Buechner has been awarded honorary degrees from institutions including Yale University and Virginia Theological Seminary.

THE REMARKABLE ORDINARY How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life Frederick Buechner Your remarkable life is happening right here, right now. You may not be able to see it – your life may seem predictable and your work insignificant until you look at your life as Frederick Buechner does. Based on a series of mostly unpublished lectures, Frederick Buechner reveals how to stop, look, and listen to your life. He reflects on how both art and faith teach us how to pay attention to the remarkableness right in front of us, to watch for the greatness in the ordinary, and to use our imaginations to see the greatness in others and love them well. As you learn to listen to your life and what God is doing in it, you will uncover the plot of your life’s story and the sacred opportunity to connect with the Divine in each moment.

Frederick Buechner is the author of more than thirty published books and has been an important source of inspiration and learning for many readers. A prolific writer, Buechner’s books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He has been called a “major talent” by the New York Times, and “one of our most original storytellers” by USA Today. October 3, 2017 A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Buechner has been awarded $16.99 honorary degrees from institutions including Yale University and Virginia Theological Softcover Seminary. 144 pages 9780310351900 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / SPIRITUAL GROWTH

7 A LIFE BEYOND AMAZING 9 Decisions That Will Transform Your Life Today Dr. David Jeremiah If not the end, then what’s next for Christian believers in these turbulent times? In the 2016 New York Times bestseller, Is This the End?, David Jeremiah walked readers through the many cultural and spiritual challenges that are rapidly increasing in this divisive world. Although Jesus Christ made it clear that no one knows the day or the hour of His return, many have been wondering if the end indeed may be near. Regardless of whether this time is just around the corner or far in the future, the days are challenging to say the least. What will happen next and how is the Christian going to be prepared for the societal onslaught that is building against many people of faith? A Life Beyond Amazing answers these questions and more as Dr. Jeremiah unpacks the spiritual principles that help develop a strategy for life that includes God’s answers to the things that keep us up at night. Human answers have failed us. But God has given wisdom for these days. After all, wisdom is the ability to do the right thing without a precedent. For October 3, 2017 these unprecedented times, wisdom is exactly what we need. $24.99 Jacketed Hardcover In addition to cultural application and important updates on crucial issues, the book ex- 240 pages plores nine qualities of character that will carry us forward. Three of these have to do with 9780718079901 our relationship with ourselves, three deal with interactions with other people, and three of RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / them focus on our relationship with God. SPIRITUAL GROWTH A Life Beyond Amazing is an incredibly important exploration of Jesus’ admonition to worry more about who we are than simply what we do in perilous times.

David Jeremiah is the founder of Turning Point, an international ministry committed to providing Christians with sound Bible teaching through radio and television, the Internet, live events, and resource materials and books. He is the author of more than fifty books including Captured by Grace, Angels—Who They Are and How They Help, What in the World Is Going On? and Agents of the Apocalypse.

MERE SEXUALITY Rediscovering the Christian Vision of Sexuality Todd Wilson What do Christians believe about human sexuality? In Mere Sexuality, author and pastor Todd Wilson presents the historic Christian consensus about human sexuality, the Great Tradition of the church for centuries as taught in each of its major expressions - Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant. Wilson highlights the stunning shift of opinion on issues of sexuality in the evangelical church and why this break with the historic church is problematic for the future of Christianity. Along the way he provides ordinary believers with an introduction to the historic Christian vision of sexuality, yet does so in conversation with some of the twenty-first century’s leading challenges to this vision. In a culture that is deeply confused about human sexuality, Wilson believes it is time for evangelicals to retrieve the historic Christian tradition and biblical teaching on the question of sexuality. Mere Sexuality seeks to guide readers back to the beauty and coherence of this vision of sexuality in the face of an aggressive and all-consuming pagan and secular worldview.

October 3, 2017 Todd A. Wilson (PhD, University of Cambridge) is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Memorial $16.99 Church in Oak Park, Illinois and the chairman and co-founder of the Center for Pastor Softcover Theologians, a ministry dedicated to resourcing pastors engaged in biblical and theological 176 pages scholarship. He is the author of Galatians: Gospel-Rooted Living and Pastors in the Classics. 9780310535355 Todd is married to Katie, his high school sweetheart, and they have seven children, three RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / biological and four adopted from Ethiopia. SOCIAL ISSUES

8 STRONG THROUGH THE STORM How to Be a Christian in the World Today Jim Cymbala with Jennifer Schuchmann The Church today is in the middle of a powerful storm, the intensity of which is likely to increase in the future. Many Christians are bewildered and concerned by what they see—a culture that’s become increasingly hostile to biblical Christianity and a church whose vital signs are quickly waning. In Strong through the Storm, pastor and bestselling author Jim Cymbala speaks to every Christian who is concerned about the challenges the church is facing in America today. Using powerful stories of people who have been transformed by Christ, Cymbala offers hope, helping Christians to understand that a life surrendered to Christ will not be easily defeated, even in the midst of growing hostility toward Christians. No matter how much spiritual darkness encompasses the world, the light of the gospel cannot be suppressed. Some churches are coming at the storm with harsh legalism, but Cymbala explains that the message needs to be grace. We need to understand the spiritual battle we are in and use the right weapons against it, says Cymbala. We are not struggling against the leaders of this world or the people in the battle, we are struggling against our spiritual enemy, and we October 3, 2017 need to fight with the Word of God, prayer, and the Holy Spirit. $16.99 Softcover We don’t need more church growth programs to turn the church around. What’s needed is 192 pages a transformation so that the gospel is preached, the Holy Spirit is allowed to lead, and lives 9780310349327 are changed. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / SPIRITUAL GROWTH Jim Cymbala has served as pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle for more than thirty-five years. He is the author of many bestselling titles, including Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire; Fresh Faith; and Fresh Power; and curriculum, including When God’s People Pray and When God’s Spirit Moves, which is linked to his book Spirit Rising. He lives in New York City with his wife, Carol, who directs the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.

BUILDING A STORYBRAND Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen Donald Miller New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with cus- tomers and grow their businesses. Donald Miller’s StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides readers with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching readers the seven universal story points all humans respond to; the real reason customers make purchases; how to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and how to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing di- rector of a multibillion dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your October 10, 2017 customers. $24.99 Donald Miller helps people live a better story at storylineblog.com and helps leaders Hardcover Jacketed grow their businesses at storybrand.com. He is the author of several books, including the 256 pages bestsellers Blue Like Jazz and A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. He lives in Nashville, 9780718033323 Tennessee, with his wife, Betsy, and their chocolate lab, Lucy. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / MARKETING

9 LOVE THAT LASTS How We Discovered God’s Better Way for Love, Dating, Marriage, and Sex Jefferson & Alyssa Bethke In Love That Lasts, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion Jefferson Bethke and his wife, Alyssa, expose the distorted views of love that permeate our culture and damage our hearts, minds, and souls. Drawing from Jeff’s “prodigal son” personal history and from Alyssa’s “True Love Waits” experience, the Bethkes point to a third and better way. Blending personal storytelling with biblical teaching, they offer readers an inspiring, realistic vision of love, dating, marriage, and sex. Young people today enter adulthood with expectations of blissful dating followed by a romantic, fulfilling marriage only to discover they’ve been duped. They learned about love and sexuality from social media, their friends, Disney fairy tales, pornography, or even their own rocky past, and they have no idea what healthy, lifelong love is supposed to be like. The results are often disastrous, with this generation becoming one of the most relationally sick, sexually addicted, and divorce ridden in history.

October 10, 2017 Looking to God’s design while drawing lessons from their own successes and failures, the $16.99 Bethkes explode the fictions and falsehoods of our current moment. One by one, they peel back the lies, such as the belief that every person has only one soul mate, that marriage will Softcover complete you, or that pornography and hook-ups are harmless. 256 pages 9780718039189 Jefferson Bethke is the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion and It’s RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Not What You Think. He and his wife Alyssa host the highly successful online challenge RELATIONSHIPS 31 Creative Ways to Love and Encourage Him & Her, make YouTube videos watched by thousands of viewers each month, and host a podcast about relationships and faith that can be found on iTunes. They live in Maui with their daughter, Kinsley, and son, Kannon. Visit: http://jeffandalyssa.com

Alyssa Bethke talks about love, sex, dating, and marriage alongside her husband Jefferson Bethke on YouTube and iTunes podcasts that are watched by thousands of viewers each month. Together, she and Jefferson also cohost the highly successful online challenge 31 Creative Ways to Love and Encourage Him & Her. She loves being a mom to their daughter, Kinsley, and son, Kannon, and enjoying the beaches and beautiful sights of Maui as a family.

THE NEW COPERNICANS Understanding the Millennial Contribution to the Church John Seel The millennial generation is steering the church in a new direction and is providing a mis- sional opportunity for the church. The church will either follow their lead, or meander in a direction leading them further away from the ultimate path of making disciples. Millennials are the carriers of a profound shift in the culture narrative, one that will reshape our understanding of human society in the coming years. Rather than being a problem for the church to lament, this shift represents an occasion to celebrate. Yet it demands being able to understand this direction to a more accurate assessment of human nature and reality. In The New Copernicans: Understanding the Millennial Contribution to the Church, author John Seel, PhD, provides a road map to this new millennial landscape, and an antidote to being drawn off course. Rather than give the reader a formula for their local church, Recal- culating will provide a lens though which to see the world in the light of the millennial frame. It addresses the “why” questions, empowering the reader to assess their own situation and October 10, 2017 apply the appropriate direction. It will not advocate “cookie cutter” programs, rather provide $16.99 a refreshed vision with which to interact along side this important generation. Softcover 224 pages John Seel is a cultural renewal entrepreneur and social impact consultant. He was the former director of cultural engagement at the John Templeton Foundation and is the 9780718098872 founder of John Seel Consulting LLC, specializing on millennial research. He has a Ph.D. RELIGION / LEADERSHIP in American Studies from the University of Maryland, an M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary, and a B.A. from Austin College.

10 CAPITAL GAINES The Smart Things I’ve Learned by Doing Stupid Stuff Cover to come Chip Gaines with Mark Dagostino The most important step is taking the first one. The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn’t quite work out as planned. Whether it was buying a neighborhood laundromat or talking a bank into a loan for some equipment to start a lawn-mowing service, Chip always knew that the most important thing was to take that first step. In Capital Gaines, we walk alongside him as he relives some of his craziest antics and the lessons learned along the way. His mentors taught him to never give up and his family showed him what it meant to always have a positive attitude despite your circumstances. Throw in a natural daredevil personality and a willingness to do (or eat!) just about anything, and you have the life and daily activity of Chip Gaines. October 17, 2017 $24.99 Capital Gaines is the perfect book for anyone looking to succeed not only in business but Jacketed Hardcover more importantly in life. 208 pages 9780785216308 SELF-HELP / PERSONAL GROWTH / SUCCESS

* Also available: IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MESS In the Middle of the Strength for This Beautiful, Broken Life Mess Study Guide Sheila Walsh (9780310089438) How do you turn your struggles into strengths? Beloved Bible teacher Sheila Walsh teaches readers how the daily spiritual practices of confession, meditation on God’s Word, and prayer result in fresh freedom in Christ. In her long-awaited new book, Sheila Walsh equips women with a practical method for connecting with God’s strength in the midst of struggle. From daily frustrations that can feel like overwhelming obstacles to hard challenges that turn into rock-bottom crises, women will find the means to equip themselves for standing strong with God. Using the spiritual applications of confession, prayer, and meditation on Scripture to form a daily connection to Jesus, women will learn how to experience new joy as a child of God who is fully known, fully loved, and fully accepted. In In the Middle of the Mess, Walsh reveals the hardened defenses that kept her from allowing God into her deepest hurts and shares how entering into a safe place with God and practicing this daily connection with him have saved her from the devil’s prowling November 7, 2017 attacks. Though we will never be completely “fixed” on earth, we are continually held by $22.99 Jesus, whatever our circumstances. Jacketed Hardcover 224 pages Sheila Walsh is a powerful communicator, Bible teacher, and bestselling author with 9781400204915 more than five million books sold. She is the author of the award-winning Gigi, God’s Little RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Princess series, Peace for Today, Loved Back to Life, The Storm Inside, Five Minutes with Jesus and The Longing in Me. She is cohost of Life Today with James and Betty Robison. WOMEN’S ISSUES Sheila lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, Barry, and son, Christian.

11 LAUGH IT UP! Embrace Freedom and Experience Defiant Joy Candace Payne, Viral Sensation, Chewbacca Mom The world knows Candace Payne as “Chewbacca Mom,” the wife and mother of two from Dallas who captured the hearts of nearly 200 million people around the world with nothing but a toy Chewbacca mask, a smart phone, and infectious laughter.

Candace’s viral moment of simple joy became Facebook Live’s top video. But what the video doesn’t show is Candace’s storied journey of daunting obstacles on the way to the joy-filled life—extreme poverty, past trauma, and struggles with self-worth. Laugh It Up! tells the rest of the story behind the woman in the mask. Like most of us, Candace has often felt overlooked, undervalued, and insignificant. But she has also discovered the secrets to unshakable joy that no circumstance can take away, and Laugh It Up! will help you discover and experience the same. Join Candace to discover the gift God has given us all to experience life to the fullest. All you need to do is answer “yes” when joy, whom Candace personifies as a friend, calls you to come and play. • Do you feel tempted to give up on your dreams? Joy stays the course. November 7, 2017 • Do your knees knock when thinking about the future? Joy hopes for what can be. $16.99 • Do you feel unseen and unnoticed? Joy is content whether backstage or center stage. • Do you feel crushed under the weight of regret? Joy loves you enough to weep with Softcover you, but also enough to help you move on. 224 pages 9780310350569 When life punches you in the gut, it can be difficult to muster a smile—much less a laugh. SELF-HELP / PERSONAL But with humor and power, wit and wisdom, Candace lights the way forward to a life that is GROWTH / HAPPINESS free indeed.

Candace Payne is a viral sensation whose Facebook Live video of trying on a Chewbacca Mask became the most-viewed Facebook Live video to date (165+ million views). She has been featured in more than 3,000 media outlets and has interviewed with major media such as “Good Morning America,” “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” the New York Times, PEOPLE and Cosmopolitan. Candace lives in Texas with her husband, two children, and ornery pug. Connect with Candace online at CandacePayne.me.

STRANGER NO MORE A Muslim Refugee’s Story of Harrowing Escape, Miraculous Rescue, and the Quiet Call of Jesus Annahita Parsan with Craig Borlase The riveting true story of one refugee’s miraculous escape first from Iran, then from imprisonment in Turkey, and her gradual discovery of freedom, hope, and the inexplicable love of Jesus, which she now shares with others who are leaving Islam behind. Annahita Parsan was born into a Muslim family in Iran and grew up with the simple hope of one day finding a good husband, having children, and doing some good in the world. Married and a mother before she turned eighteen, Annahita found herself unexpectedly widowed and trapped for years in an abusive second marriage that she later fled--discovering instead a God who might love her. Stranger No More is the remarkable true story of Annahita’s path from oppression to the life- changing hope of Jesus. Fleeing Iran across the mountains into Turkey, she spent months in the terrifying Agri prison before a miraculous release and flight to Europe, where she and her two children knelt in a church and prayed, “God, from this day on we are Christians.” November 14, 2017 $22.99 Filled with unthinkable circumstances, miraculous rescues, and the quietly constant voice of Jacketed Hardcover Jesus, Stranger No More leads readers deep into the heart of God and draws them toward the 288 pages same call that Annahita heeds today: using her past to save others from theirs. As the leader of two congregations in Sweden, Annahita has baptized hundreds of former Muslims since her 9780718095710 own conversion, has seen firsthand the powerful ways God is at work among those who have RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / left Islam behind, and is reminded every day that saying yes to God is always worth the risk. INSPIRATIONAL Annahita Parsan is an ordained minister in the Church of Sweden and leads two congregations, one of which ministers to the growing number of former Muslim refugees. She is a confident public speaker who has regularly shared her testimony with live audiences, journalists, and TV interviewers, even speaking one time at the invitation of the Queen of Sweden. Annahita has worked pastorally with hundreds of former Muslims and regularly trains churches to reach out to Muslims and disciple them once they join the church.

12 HELLO MORNINGS How to Build a Grace-Filled, Life-Giving Morning Routine Kat Lee Are you ready to wake up for your life and not just to your life? Don’t worry; you don’t have to be a morning person to start each new day well. Join Kat Lee and thousands of women from countries around the world who have learned to max- imize their mornings. In Hello Mornings, Kat introduces a simple yet powerful three-min- ute morning routine that integrates Bible study, planning, and fitness into a foundational morning habit that fits into every schedule. She then helps you build each of these core habits for life-long growth. Everyone can find three minutes. And instead of adding one more thing to the list, Hello Mornings lifts the weight off women by revealing a grace-filled way to establish a powerful morning routine that offers • a simple way to incorporate the most-sought-after daily habits into a simple morning routine: God. Plan. Move. • the latest research on habit formation and development December 5, 2017 • practical tools to help readers develop and grow their own personalized, adaptable plan for mornings $16.99 • stories of transformed mornings from women in every season and stage of life Softcover 208 pages Hello Mornings helps readers renovate their mornings to establish and grow a powerful 9780718094171 daily routine—a long-term, Jesus-centered habit to anchor them in every season. Each RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / morning can then become a launch pad into God’s amazing plan for their lives. PERSONAL GROWTH Kat Lee is passionate about teaching others how to jump-start each day with a grace- filled, life-giving morning routine. She is a writer, speaker, podcaster and founder of HelloMornings.org. She and her husband, Jimmy, live in Waco, Texas, with their three children. Stay connected with her at TheKatLee.com.

SPIRITUAL MISMATCH Hope for Christians Married to Someone Who Doesn’t Know God Lee Strobel and Leslie Strobel Lee Strobel was the legal editor for the Chicago Tribune, a Yale graduate, and an atheist when his wife, Leslie, became a Christian early in their marriage. She began going to church; she found new friends; she became a different person. But Lee didn’t believe in any of it. Both Lee and Leslie felt they were losing each other. Despite all the emotional clashes they experienced, God answered Leslie’s prayers in miraculous ways. He gave her peace when she was feeling worried, gave her friends to walk with her, and gave her his Holy Spirit to comfort and guide her. Over time, she learned to live out her faith and be an example of Christ’s love to Lee. Today, they’re both Christians and Lee’s conversion story is now a major motion picture, The Case for Christ. In this personal and practical book, Lee and Leslie share the lessons they’ve learned, including • Surprising insights into the thoughts of non-Christian spouses • Eight principles for reaching out to your partner with the gospel • Advice for raising your children in a spiritually mismatched home March 7, 2017 • How to pray for your spouse, with a 30-day guide to get you started • Helpful tips on what to do if you’re both Christians but one lags behind spiritually $16.99 • Advice for single Christians about marriage Softcover • Twelve steps to making the most of your marriage 288 pages 9780310350354 With these trusted principles and helpful suggestions, Lee and Leslie Strobel share God’s RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / peace, encouragement, and hope for your marriage. LOVE & MARRIAGE Lee Strobel was the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and is the bestselling author of The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and The Case for Grace. With a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale, Lee has won four Gold Medallions for publishing excellence and coauthored the Christian Book of the Year. He serves as Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University. His story is now featured in the motion picture The Case for Christ. Visit Lee’s website at: leestrobel.com

13 GOING DEEP & WIDE A Companion Guide for Churches and Leaders Andy Stanley Every Sunday people walk onto your church campus and decide if they will return the following week before the preacher even opens his mouth. Many of those people don’t know what to make of Jesus. They’re hesitant to be in a church. They’re not sure they belong. But over and over in the pages of the gospels, we see something extraordinary. People who were nothing like Jesus liked Jesus. Shouldn’t that be true of his church as well? In Going Deep & Wide, Andy Stanley lays out a blueprint for becoming that kind of church. Going Deep & Wide offers practical steps to help church leaders create irresistible environments, define ministry goals, and communicate more effectively with unbelievers. Each section includes discussion materials that walk you more deeply into the content of Deep & Wide and invites conversations about how to apply what you’ve learned.

Communicator, author, and pastor Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point August 1, 2017 Ministries in 1995. Today, NPM consists of six churches in the Atlanta area and a $14.99 network of more than 50 churches around the globe that collectively serve nearly 90,000 Softcover people weekly. As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which delivers over six million 128 pages messages each month through television and podcasts, and author of more than 20 9780310538301 books, including The New Rules for Love, Sex & Dating; Ask It; How to Be Rich; Deep RELIGION / CHRISTIAN & Wide; Visioneering; and Next Generation Leader, he is considered one of the most CHURCH / LEADERSHIP influential pastors in America. Andy and his wife, Sandra, have three grown children and live near Atlanta.

DAILY GUIDEPOSTS 2018 A Spirit-Lifting Devotional Daily Guideposts, America’s bestselling annual devotional, is a 365-day devotional from the Editors of Guideposts that will help readers grow in their faith every day of the year. Daily Guideposts 2018 centers on the theme “Unfailing Love” from Psalm 33:22, and is filled with brand-new devotions from forty-nine writers. Each day readers will enjoy a Scripture verse, a true first-person story told in an informal, conversational style, which shares the ways God speaks to us in the ordinary events of life, and a brief prayer to help focus the reader to apply the day’s message. For those who wish for more, “Digging Deeper” provides additional Bible references that relate to the day’s reading. Enjoy favorite writers like Debbie Macomber, Edward Grinnan, Elizabeth Sherrill, Patricia Lorenz, Julia Attaway, Karen Barber, Sabra Ciancanelli, Marion Bond West, Brian Doyle, and Rick Hamlin. In just five minutes a day, Daily Guideposts helps readers find the spiritual richness in their own lives and welcomes them into a remarkable family of over one million people brought together by a desire to grow every day of the year. October 3, 2017 $19.99 Printed Caseside Hardcover 432 pages 9780310346470 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / DEVOTIONAL

14 MORNINGS WITH JESUS 2018 Daily Encouragement for Your Soul “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matt. 11:28) We hear Jesus’s words and want to respond, but so often we feel we’re too busy, too anxious, or too heavily burdened to take hold of his invitation. Mornings with Jesus 2018, an annual, 365-day devotional, is your entrée into his world. Jesus will comfort you, and you’ll experience the delight and challenge of knowing him and living for him. In Mornings with Jesus 2018, you can read and reflect on one all-new devotion each day that will encourage you to embrace Jesus’s love, to lay down your worries and walk with Him, and to focus on Him as Redeemer, Friend, and Faithful One. Lifting up their voices in heartfelt gratitude, ten writers consider the character and teachings of Jesus and share how He enriches and empowers them daily and how He wants to do the same for you. Every day you will enjoy a scripture verse, reflection on Jesus’s words, and a faith step that inspires and challenges you in your daily walk of living a Christ-like life.

October 3, 2017 $16.99 Softcover 384 pages 9780310347163 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / DEVOTIONAL

KILL THE SPIDER Getting Rid of What’s Really Holding You Back Carlos Whittaker Are you tired of trying to live for Christ—only to fail time and time again with the same old behaviors? Do you pray for guidance, ask for deliverance, and vow to do better, yet fail to progress? As an author, speaker, pastor, and blogger at Ragamuffin Soul, Carlos has lived much of his spiritual life in the spotlight. But, like any Christian, his faith story has its ups and downs. He spent decades trying to figure out how to be a “better person.” Time and time again, he strived for holiness only to get caught in the web of destructive habits, behaviors, and thought patterns. But, the buck stops here. Or, rather, the spider is killed here. In Kill the Spider, Carlos shares personal material ranging from hilarious, self-deprecating stories to passion-filled wisdom—to show others it’s not enough to try and “stop sinning.” He teaches that knocking out deep-rooted habits and issues comes by treating the issue, not just the symptoms. October 3, 2017 $16.99 With transparency, humor, and vulnerable stories, Carlos offers a breath of fresh air to any Softcover believer looking to finally step into the freedom in Christ. So, sit down. Open the book. And 224 pages grab a shoe. We’re going on a spider hunt. 9780310338000 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Carlos Whittaker is an author, blogger, speaker and worship leader. He has been on SPIRITUAL GROWTH the leadership team for Catalyst as well as leading worship at many of their events. He regularly speaks at the largest churches all over the country. He and his wife Heather and their children live in Nashville, TN. Carlos blogs at: ragamuffinsoul.com

15 THEY CAME FOR FREEDOM The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims Jay Milbrandt A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the course of history. Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries since America began, the Pilgrims have been rel- egated to folklore and children’s stories, fairy-tale mascots for holiday parties and greeting cards. The true story of the Pilgrim Fathers could not be more different. Beginning with the ex- ecution of two pastors deviating from the Elizabethan Church of England, the Pilgrims’ great journey was one of courageous faith, daring escape, and tenuous survival. Theirs is the story of refugees who fled intense religious persecution; of dreamers who voyaged the Atlantic and into the unknown when all other attempts had led to near-certain death; of survivors who struggled with newfound freedom. Loneliness led to starvation, tension gave way to war with natives, and suspicion broke the back of the very freedom they endeavored October 3, 2017 to achieve. $24.99 Jacketed Hardcover Despite the pain and turmoil of this high stakes triumph, the Pilgrim Fathers built the cor- 320 pages nerstone for a nation dedicated to faith, freedom, and thankfulness. This is the epic story of 9780718037857 the Pilgrims, an adventure that laid the bedrock for the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, HISTORY / UNITED STATES / and the American identity. GENERAL Jay Milbrandt is the author of The Daring Heart of David Livingstone and a professor at Bethel University in Minnesota. He formerly directed the Global Justice Program and served as Senior Fellow in Global Justice with the Nootbaar Institute at Pepperdine Univer- sity School of Law. He has traveled throughout the world as a lawyer, managing global ini- tiatives in Africa and Southeast Asia, and consulting with organizations engaged in human rights and legal development efforts.

WHY I DIDN’T REBEL A Twenty-Two-Year-Old Explains Why She Stayed on the Straight and Narrow—and How Your Kids Can Too Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach In this unique combination of personal history, interviews, and social science, a young millennial shares surprising reasons that youthful rebellion isn’t inevitable and points the way for raising healthy, grounded children who love God. Teen rebellion is seen as a cultural norm, but Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach begs to differ. In Why I Didn’t Rebel—based on a viral blog post that has been read by more than 750,000 people—Lindenbach shows how rebellion is neither unavoidable nor completely understood. Based on interviews with her peers and combining the latest research in psychology and social science with stories from her own life, she gives parents a new paradigm for raising kids who don’t go off the rails. Rather than provide step-by-step instructions on how to construct the perfect family, Lindenbach tells her own story and the stories of others as examples of what went right, inviting readers to think differently about parenting. Addressing hot-button issues such as October 3, 2017 courtship, the purity movement, and spanking—and revealing how some widely—held $16.99 beliefs in the Christian community may not actually help children—Why I Didn’t Rebel Softcover provides an utterly unique, eye-opening vision for raising kids who follow God rather than 224 pages the world. 9780718090005 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach is a writer, blogger, and psychology graduate from FAMILY Ottawa, Canada. The daughter of blogger and author Sheila Wray Gregoire, Lindenbach is an online entrepreneur passionate about challenging common patterns of Christian thought.

16 MUSLIM What You Need to Know About the World’s Fastest Growing Religion Hank Hanegraaff Is Islam a peaceful and tolerant religion? For all the debate over Islam and its growing presence in the world, one thing is often overlooked: Islam is not a religion in the sanitized Western sense. It is, in contrast, an all-encompassing sociopolitical legal matrix that has bred a worldview antagonistic to anything but itself. While there may be millions of peaceful and tolerant Muslims, many of them our neighbors, Islam itself is hardly peaceful and tolerant. Islam is the only significant religious system in the history of the human race with a sociopolitical structure of laws that mandate violence against the infidel. The current narrative is that to tell the truth in this regard is tantamount to radicalizing Muslims and exacerbating hostilities that may otherwise lie dormant. A common refrain has reverberated throughout the West: “Islam is not our enemy.” As well-intentioned as this mantra may be, it is a potentially dangerous stance once someone understands Islam in full. Despite its incoherence, Islam—one billion six hundred million strong and growing—is poised to fill the vacuum left by a Western culture slouching inexorably towards Gomorrah. Demographics alone are alarming. While polygamist Muslims boast a robust birth rate, native Westerners are moving rapidly toward self-extinction. Filling the void are multiplied millions of Muslims who have October 10, 2017 no intention of assimilating into Western culture. $24.99 Jacketed Hardcover Equally grave is the specter of global Islamic jihadism now exacting mass genocide on Christians 288 pages in the East and ever-multiplying terrorist attacks throughout the West. We are also witnessing the 9780785216025 co-belligerency of fantastically wealthy Saudis spending multiplied billions of dollars exporting RELIGION / GENERAL virulent Wahhabism to the West. Worse still, Western governments, academic institutions, and media outlets seem bent on exporting a false narrative respecting the religious animus animating global Islamic jihadism. In MUSLIM: What You Need to Know about the World’s Fastest Growing Religion, Hanegraaff not only outlines the problems in accessible and memorable fashion, but moves toward potential solutions in the clash of civilizations.

Hank Hanegraaff serves as president and chairman of the board of the North Carolina–based Christian Research Institute. He is also host of a nationally syndicated radio broadcast, which is heard daily across the United States and Canada—and around the world via the Internet at equip.org. Hank is the author of more than twenty books. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading Christian authors and apologists, Hank is deeply committed to equipping Christians to be so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon, they recognize them instantaneously.

THE DANIEL DILEMMA * Also available: The Daniel Dilemma How to Stand Firm & Love Well in a Culture Study Guide of Compromise (9780310088578) Chris Hodges Bestselling author and influential pastor Chris Hodges uses the wisdom of the bookof Daniel to show Christians how to stand firm in their biblical beliefs while still loving people vastly different from them in attitudes and lifestyles. Christians face a major dilemma today. How can they not only stay engaged with the shifting and increasingly ungodly culture around them but also influence it for good? Is there a way to love people with significantly different attitudes and lifestyles without compromising biblical beliefs? From breakfast tables to boardrooms to Bible studies, Christians are wrestling with these questions today on issues such as politics, gender identity, and the nature of marriage. Pastor Chris Hodges points readers to the book of Daniel for timely answers and shows how one man with a heart faithful to God remained firm in his faith without yielding to the pagan culture around him or becoming rude, insulting, or mad. Daniel kept God’s standards high and his grace deep—just as Jesus did. Just as we’re called to do when culture shifts. October 17, 2017 $16.99 Chris Hodges is the founding and senior pastor of Church of the Highlands. Under his Softcover leadership, Church of the Highlands offers fifty-four worship services each weekend 256 pages at fifteen campuses with over 43,000 people attending weekly. He also co-founded the 9780718091538 Association of Related Churches, launched a coaching network called GROW, and serves RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / as Chancellor of The Highlands College, an accredited two-year ministry training college. SPIRITUAL GROWTH Chris and his wife, Tammy, have five children and live in Birmingham, Alabama.

17 GRACE FOR AMATEURS Field Notes on a Journey Back to Faith Lily Burana Lily Burana was in crisis. Therapy, medication, and meditation had failed to lift her worsening depression, and the punk-rock-girl-turned-writer feared she would die. Desperate for rescue, Lily turned to her remedy of last resort: faith. A lapsed Presbyterian who had drifted away from the church and into a life on the margins during her young adult years, Lily had long believed that Christianity had nothing to offer her. But in a last-ditch effort to save her life, she railed at God to send her a sign—and was shocked when he followed through. Reluctantly but resolutely, she decided to let God in, just a little bit, and commit to believing that the gospel is true. Grace for Amateurs is a collection of linked essays that chronicles Lily’s rocky road back to spiritual recovery. “I’m not so much looking ‘to be made new’ through Christ,” she says, “but to be made, I don’t know, 17 percent less horrible.” Addressing themes as diverse as coming out as Christian to your non-Christian friends, the wonderful awfulness of Christian rock music, the intersection of faith and motherhood, and the effects of trauma on our souls, October 17, 2017 Lily holds nothing back as she wrestles with the obstacles that make belief so challenging. $22.99 Jacketed Hardcover Readers of Rachel Held Evans, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and Anne Lamott will recognize Lily 272 pages Burana as a kindred spirit who is honest about her struggles with a faith that sometimes 9780718095987 seems exclusionary and hostile. Whether the material is heart-wrenching or humorous, RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY Lily’s writing is both intelligent and down-to-earth, and her sentences are artful while still capturing the rawness and intensity of her emotions.

Lily Burana is the author of three books: Strip City: A Stripper’s Farewell Journey Across America (Miramax Books, 2001), Try (St. Martins Press, 2006), and I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles (Weinstein Books, 2009). Her recent interest in religious and spiritual issues has broadened her audience, with pieces about faith published in the New York Times Sunday Edition, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and syndicated by the Religion News Service. She has had numerous other articles published in The Washington Post, GQ, Self, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The Village Voice, Slate, Salon, and The New York Observer.

* Also available: DANCE, STAND, RUN Dance, Stand, The God-Inspired Moves of a Woman on Run Study Guide Holy Ground (9780310090212) Jess Connolly Grace is always good news. But it’s not cheap—true grace compels us to change. That’s where holiness comes in. Beloved writer, speaker, and bestselling coauthor of Wild and Free Jess Connolly will be the first to admit that not long ago, like many women, she grasped grace butshe had forgotten holiness. Dance, Stand, Run charts her discovery that holiness was never meant to be a shaming reminder of what we “should” be doing, but rather a profound privilege of becoming more like Christ. That’s when we start to change the world, rather than being changed by it. Dance, Stand, Run is an invitation to the daughters of God to step into the movements of abundant life: dancing in grace, standing firm in holiness, and running on mission. Through story and study, Jess casts a fresh vision for how to live into your identity as a holy daughter of God, how to break free of cheap grace and empty rule-keeping, and October 24, 2017 finally, how to live out your holy influence with confidence before a watching world. Spoiler $16.99 alert: it’s a beautiful thing. Softcover For anyone longing to take their place in what God is doing in the world, Dance, Stand, 224 pages Run will rally your strength, refresh your purpose, and energize your faith in a God who 9780310345640 calls us to be like Him. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / WOMEN’S ISSUES Jess Connolly is a gal who wants to leave her world more in awe of God than she found it. She’s the founder of Amen Paper Company, the cofounder of The Influence Network, and she is passionate about using her words to point women to Jesus through writing and speaking. She coauthored the bestselling book Wild and Free and writes at jessconnolly.com. She and her husband planted Gospel Community, a church in Charleston, SC where they live with their four wild kids and their sweet dog.

18 NEVER LOOK AT THE EMPTY SEATS A Memoir Charlie Daniels The Incredible Story of a Country Music Legend Few artists have left a more indelible mark on America’s musical landscape than Charlie Daniels. Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie Daniels that has never before been documented. In his own words, he presents the path from his post-depression childhood to performing for millions as one of the most successful country acts of all time and what he has learned along the way. The book also includes insights into the many musicians that orbited Charlie’s world, including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette and many more. Charlie was officially inducted into The Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016, shortly before his 80th birthday. He now shares the inside stories, reflections, and rare personal photographs from his earliest days in the 1940s to his self-taught guitar and fiddle playing high school October 24, 2017 days of the fifties through his rise to music stardom in the seventies, eighties and beyond. $24.99 Jacketed Hardcover Charlie Daniels presents a life lesson for all of us regardless of profession: 252 pages 9780718074968 “Walk on stage with a positive attitude. Your troubles are your own and are not included in BIOGRAPHY & the ticket price. Some nights you have more to give than others, but put it all out there every AUTOBIOGRAPHY / show. You’re concerned with the people who showed up, not the ones who didn’t. So give COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS them a show and…Never look at the empty seats!” Charlie Daniels’ career spans 50+ years, including selling more than 20 million albums and receiving a Grammy in 1979 for his Charlie Daniels Band signature song, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” In 2016 alone, Daniels was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, performed over 100 concerts, and had his 80th birthday “Volunteer Jam” in front of 15,000 people in Nashville. Charlie Daniels is the quintessential Southerner with a healthy dose of Wild West Cowboy, seldom seen without his signature bull-rider hat and belt. It’s not so much the style of music, but the values consistently reflected in the varying genres that connect Charlie Daniels with his millions of fans.

RESYNC® YOUR LIFE 28 Days to a Stronger, Leaner, Smarter, Happier You Samir Becic Named “#1 Fitness Trainer in the World” four times in a row, health and fitness expert Samir Becic motivates readers to become a stronger, leaner, smarter, and happier version of themselves in 28 days by using his revolutionary and highly effective ReSYNC® Method. Samir Becic is one of the most celebrated fitness trainers in the world. His revolutionary ReSYNC® Method shows people how to resync their minds and bodies for optimum health and fitness so that they live fully and healthy, the way God created them. A whole body-mind approach, ReSYNC® is an alternative training program that encompasses physical fitness, nutritional health, and mental and spiritual balance. The power of the ReSYNC® Method comes from its simplicity. It uses the body’s own movement and natural resistance instead of costly or heavy equipment, which allows followers to push their bodies to their full potential without harming themselves. As a result, athletes and exercise buffs consistently tout it as more effective than gym training. The nutrition plan includes foods that lead to glowing health, a leaner physique, and increased October 31, 2017 brain power. And the spiritual component encourages prayer and meditation techniques $24.99 linked to better health. Jacketed Hardcover 272 pages Samir Becic’s proven strategies, implemented with tens of thousands of clients for more than 9780718089887 15 years--from Lakewood Church to Bally Total Fitness Clubs--will help readers ReSYNC® HEALTH & FITNESS / EXERCISE their body, mind, and spirit to be everything they were meant to be.

Former fitness director at Bally Total Fitness, Samir Becic earned the company’s highest accolades and created his own fitness approach. The founder of HealthFitnessRevolution. com and the creator of the ReSYNC Method, Samir’s work is featured in many top media outlets. He lives in Houston, Texas.

19 BEARDED GOSPEL MEN The Epic Quest for Manliness and Godliness Jared Brock and Aaron Alford Is there a connection between hairiness and holiness? Some would say a hearty “Yes!” In fact, the world is in the middle of a beard mania. Events like Movember and Decembeard are becoming global movements and manly sites are appearing all over the internet. Is this just another fad? And what does it say that so many of the most famous Christian communicators have or did have a beard? Throughout history, Christian men have gloried in male pattern magnificence. Saint Benedict of Nursia wore a superb double forker. The benevolently-bushed Euthymius wouldn’t allow clean-shaven monks to enter his Judean Desert monastery. St. Francis of Assisi had a beard, and now there’s a Pope named after him. He’s clean-shaven, but we’re praying for him. Of all the great Christian men who wore beards, none stands so highly as the headless martyr Sir Thomas More. On the day of his beheading, the tufted knight supposedly positioned his beard away from his soon-to-be-severed neck, saying: “My beard has not been guilty of treason, and it would be an injustice to punish it.” November 7, 2017 $16.99 But of course, Bearded Gospel Men is about far more than beards – it’s about manliness Softcover and godliness. Through this 31-day devotional, men are inspired to rise to a higher calling. 240 pages The humor and facial hair is the perfect means to have a broader conversation about living 9780718099305 a faithful life. So, let’s study some of these famous Bearded Gospel Men! RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / MEN’S ISSUES Jared Brock is the co-founder of Hope for the Sold, a non-profit organization dedicated to combating human trafficking, and the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Catalyst, Relevant, Huffington Post, Elite Daily, TODAY.com, and Writer’s Digest. Brock runs a documentary production company, is the director of the film Red Light Green Light, and has been interviewed on 100 Huntley Street and The 700 Club.

Aaron Alford is originally from Ontario, Canada. He has studied improv at The Second City, hitchhiked across Ireland and Italy, and, as a missionary with Youth With A Mission in Modesto, California, helps run a street café for the homeless with his friends. He enjoys beautifying the world with whimsy, compassion, pipe smoke, and an admirable beard.

HOW TO FIX A BROKEN RECORD Thoughts on Vinyl Records, Awkward Relationships, and Learning to Be Myself Amena Brown Your soul holds a massive record collection: melodies, rhythms, and bass lines. Memories that ask you to dance and memories that haunt you in a minor key. Lies that become soundtracks to your days while truths play too softly to be heard.

Spoken word poet Amena Brown’s broken records played messages about how she wasn’t worthy to be loved. How to Fix a Broken Record chronicles her journey of healing as she’s allowed the music of God’s love to replace the scratchy taunts of her past. From bad dates to marriage lessons at Waffle House, from learning to love her hair to learning to love an unexpected season of life, from discovering the power of saying no and the freedom to say yes, Amena offers keep-it-real stories your soul can relate to. The hurtful words of others and the failures of your past often determine what record you play the most in your mind. Those painful repetitions can become loud at the most inopportune time, keeping you from speaking up, pursuing your dreams, and growing closer to God. November 7, 2017 $16.99 Recognize the negative messages that play on repeat every day in your mind. Learn how to Softcover replace them with the truth that you are a beloved child of God. And discover how to laugh 224 pages along the way as you find new joy in the beautiful music of your life. 9780310349334 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Amena Brown is an author, spoken word poet, speaker, and event host. The author of five PERSONAL GROWTH spoken word albums and two non-fiction books, Amena performs and speaks at events from coffeehouses to arenas with a mix of poetry, humor, and storytelling. She and her husband, DJ Opdiggy, reside in Atlanta, GA.

20 WORRY LESS, LIVE MORE God’s Prescription for a Better Life Robert J. Morgan How do you bury worry before it buries you? Worry, which is essentially a strain of fear, is a rational response to real pressures and problems. Life is harder than we expect, and even the Lord Jesus, the Prince of Peace Himself, admitted, “Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34). He said, “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33). On one occasion, He even said, “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say?” (John 12:27). Our souls are easily troubled. The world and its trials seem to only increase. In nearly forty years of pastoral counseling, Rob Morgan has seen a lot of changes in our culture. People are anxious, and everyone seems increasingly tense and taunt. We’re overextended, running on empty, and often running late. We’re worried and we’re weary. One moment we’re alarmed about global politics and the next we’re frustrated with a clogged commode or a cranky boss. Stress can have a way of keeping us on pins and needles from dawn to darkness. November 7, 2017 $22.99 In this book Pastor Morgan leads the way through the investigation of the Bible’s premier Jacketed Hardcover passage on the subject of anxiety. Philippians 4:4–9 is God’s most definitive word about 208 pages overcoming anxiety and experiencing His overwhelming peace. 9780718079611 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / When we study and employ these practices effectively, we have the power to erase anxious thoughts and compose our minds with peace in any situation. SPIRITUAL GROWTH Rob Morgan is the pastor of The Donelson Fellowship in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has served for more than thirty years. He is a bestselling and Gold-Medallion winning writer of more than twenty books with four million in print circulation. Rob has written articles for numerous publications and has appeared on national television and radio shows. He and his wife, Katrina, have three daughters and twelve grandchildren.

MADISON PARK A Place of Hope Eric L. Motley Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed for his journey to the Oval Office as a Special Assistant to President George W. Bush. Eric grew up among people whose belief was to “give” and never turn away from your neighbor’s need. There was Aunt Shine, the goodly matriarch who cared so much about young Motley’s schooling that she would stand up in a crowded church and announce Eric’s progress or his shortcomings. There was Old Man Salery, who secretly siphoned gasoline from his beat-up car into the Motley’s tank at night. There were Motley’s grandparents, who bought books for Eric they couldn’t afford, spending the last of their seed money. And there was Reverend Brinkley, a man of enormous faith and simple living. It was said that whenever the Reverend came your way, light abounded. Life in Madison Park wasn’t always easy or fair, and Motley reveals personal and heartbreaking stories of racial injustice November 14, 2017 and segregation. But Eric shows how the community taught him everything he needed to $24.99 know about love and faith. Jacketed Hardcover This charming, engaging, and deeply inspiring memoir will help you remember that we 320 pages can create a world of shared values based on love and hope. It is a story that reveals the 9780310349631 amazing power of faith in God and each other. If you’re in search of hope during troubled RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / times, look no further than Madison Park. INSPIRATIONAL Eric Motley grew up in Alabama, the son of adoptive parents who raised him in the freed slave’s town of Madison Park, Alabama. From this beginning in the black community he rose to become a special assistant to President George W. Bush. Eric is Executive Vice President of the think tank The Aspen Institute which on a national and international level discusses today’s global issues that face the United States and her partners across the world.

21 THE OTHER SIDE OF BEAUTY Embracing God’s Vision for Love and True Worth Leah Darrow Former America’s Next Top Model contestant and Christian speaker Leah Darrow challenges readers not to settle for popular culture’s distorted idea of beauty but to discover how their natural desire for beauty is a good thing, revealing a deep desire for God. Starting in preschool and continuing through adulthood, young women are told both explicitly and subliminally that their worth depends on their appearance, leading to an explosion of eating disorders, body image distortion, and many other significant issues. Leah Darrow was one of those girls, but after appearing on America’s Next Top Model and reaching her goal of a modeling career, she discovered in painful ways how a desire for physical beauty alone leads to a culture of use and abuse. In The Other Side of Beauty, Leah invites readers to delve deeply into the very meaning of beauty, and to learn that true and lasting beauty can be found only in a relationship with God. The desire for beauty resident in all our hearts is actually a desire for the Beautiful One, and only knowing him can satisfy us.

November 21, 2017 Leah writes as one who understands the pressures and lies that come at us from all sides $16.99 and helps readers live truly beautiful lives that ultimately point to God. Softcover 224 pages Leah Darrow is an international speaker, writer, wife to a US Army Green Beret, and mom 9780718090661 to three marvelous, crazy little kids. A former model and contestant on America’s Next Top Model, Leah has a driving passion to explore fashion’s ability to empower women RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / and highlight their irreplaceable worth. She and her family live near St. Louis, Missouri. WOMEN’S ISSUES

WOUNDS ARE WHERE LIGHT ENTERS Stories of God’s Intrusive Grace Walter Wangerin Jr. Many know the acclaimed author Walter Wangerin Jr., the storyteller who gave us the national bestseller The Book of the Duncow. In Wounds Are Where Light Enters, you’ll see how God’s love breaks into our lonely moments in unexplainable ways. Wangerin tells the stories of memorable characters facing the same struggles we all face as we try to trust in God’s faithfulness. Wounds Are Where Light Enters is a collection of stories that are warm, sometimes funny, sometimes not, but always taking unexpected turns to find the care of God in all the pathways of life. In them we find the grace that enables us to live with the answers we see and the answers we don’t see. In this collection we meet Arthur Bias, the retired black police officer who loves those who hate, Agnes Brill, the shrill piano teacher of patience, Junie Piper, precious of the homeless, Melvin, who honors his aging mother by honoring the little girl she has become, Lucian, the lover of thieves, and Blue Jack, the hammer of God. November 21, 2017 $19.99 Readers will discover in these stories a powerful display of God’s working in the lives of all Jacketed Hardcover of us. They’ll find a place where he works even in the dark, even in the struggles, even in 176 pages the wounds. This is the place where God’s light enters. 9780310240051 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Walter Wangerin Jr. is widely recognized as one of the most gifted writers writing today INSPIRATIONAL on the issues of faith and spirituality. Known for his bestselling Book of the Dun Cow, Wangerin’s writing voice is immediately recognizable, and his fans number in the millions. The author of over forty books including The Book of God, Wangerin has won the National Book Award and the New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year Award. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University.

22 BLESSED ARE THE MISFITS Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They’re Missing Something Brant Hansen While American church culture (and American culture at large) seems largely designed for the extroverted, it’s estimated that half of the American population is introverted, and they’re often left wondering how, even if, they fit in the kingdom of God. As one of them, popular radio host Brant Hansen brings news. It’s wonderful, refreshing, and never-been-said-this- way-before good news. In his unique style, Hansen looks to answer questions that millions of people carry with them each day: If I don’t relate to God as emotionally as others do, is something wrong with me? How does one approach God, and approach faith, when devoid of the “good feelings” that seem to drive so much of evangelical church culture? How does God interact with those who seem spiritually numb? Is the absence of faith-based emotion a sign of that God has moved on or was never there? What if we aren’t good at talking to people about our faith, or good at talking to people at all? What if I’m told I’m too analytical, that I “think too much”? Where does a person who suffers from depression fit in the kingdom? Is November 28, 2017 depression a sure sign of a lack of faith? $16.99 Softcover This book is good news for people who are desperately looking for it. (And for their loved 224 pages ones!) It’s also for those who want to believe in Jesus, but inwardly fear that they don’t 9780718096311 belong, worry that don’t have the requisite emotion-based relationship with God, and are starving for good news. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / SPIRITUAL GROWTH Blessed Are the Misfits is going to generate discussion, and lots of it. It’s simultaneously highly provocative and humbly personal. It’s also leavened with a distinct, dry, self-effacing humor that is a hallmark of Hansen’s on-air, writing, and public speaking style.

Brant Hansen is a radio host who has won multiple National Personality of the Year awards. He also works with CURE International, a worldwide network of hospitals that brings life- changing medical care and the good news of God’s love to children with treatable conditions. Brant currently lives in Northern California with his wife, Carolyn; his son, Justice; and his daughter, Julia. He can be found at branthansen.com and @branthansen on Twitter.

FAITH FORWARD FUTURE Moving Past Your Disappointments, Delays, and Destructive Thinking Chad Veach Popular Southern California millennial pastor Chad Veach casts a vision for a future beyond what most dare to imagine and guides readers toward the abundant plans God has for his children. Pastor Chad Veach lives in Los Angeles, a place many have dubbed the “City of Broken Dreams.” Each year, thousands of people move there, hoping to make it big, but most fall short of achieving their dreams. This is reflective of the wider world as well. In fact, only 6 percent of people actually end up doing what they dreamed of as a child. The hard truth is, dreams--whether they have to do with relationships, career, or world impact--often don’t pan out. So many are left to wonder, Where do I go from here? In this new book, Veach meets readers in the middle of their disappointments, introduces them to the God who throws his arms around them, and offers a new way to define success. He takes them through the words of Jesus and helps them to understand what the Bible says about ambition, purpose, and fulfillment. Then he casts a vision that inspires readers November 28, 2017 to reach for a better dream than all the broken ones they tried to pursue on their own, $16.99 challenging them to put their faith in the person of Jesus every day and follow his lead to a Softcover brighter future. 224 pages Chad Veach is the pastor of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, California. Chad and his wife, 9780718038373 Julia, have two beautiful children, Georgia Estelle and Winston Charles. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / PERSONAL GROWTH

23 PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES FOR YOUR ADULT CHILDREN Trusting God with the Ones You Love Jodie Berndt As parents of adult children, we often wonder: Will my children make good choices when they’re on their own? How can I let them go when I’ve held them for so long? Parent and author Jodie Berndt understands what it’s like to release children into the world and still care deeply about them and everything they will face in life from relationships to career decisions and everything in between. In Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children, Jodie continues her Praying the Scriptures series with biblical prayers for your adult children, whether they are just leaving the nest, flying well on their own, or struggling to take off at all. Each section focuses on a different aspect of adulthood, with encouraging stories from experienced parents who are praying their children through rocky marriages, health concerns, financial challenges and other real-life issues. At the end of each chapter, you’ll find personalized prayers for your children taken straight from Scripture. Each chapter also includes verses for you to pray for yourself as you take the challenging step of trusting God to care for your children in ways that you can’t. December 5, 2017 $15.99 With grace and wisdom, Jodie addresses cultural trends such as couples living together Softcover before marriage and young adults leaving the church, as well as the painful realities of 256 pages loneliness, addiction, and mental health issues. With hope-filled words for the parents of the 9780310348047 prodigal, she is particularly sensitive to the long-term prayers we offer, even as we doubt RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / ourselves and grieve over our children’s choices. PRAYER Whatever you are praying for, you will find confidence and peace in these powerful prayers for your kids. Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children guides you to the bedrock of God’s promises as you release your children to God’s shepherding care.

Jodie Berndt is an author and speaker. She has written or co-written seven books, including Praying the Scriptures for Your Children and Praying the Scriptures for Your Teenagers. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and is a former television writer and producer for CBN’s 700 Club. Jodie and her husband, Robbie, have four adult children.

FAITHFUL FINANCE 10 Secrets to Move from Fearful Insecurity to Confident Control Emily G. Stroud Many of us feel overwhelmed and ill-equipped to deal with our personal finances. We wonder if we will ever experience financial freedom. We want to make wise decisions and spend money on what matters, but we just don’t know how. Financial advisor Emily G. Stroud is a mom, businesswoman, and entrepreneur. She has two decades of experience with helping people make smart choices about money. She knows that money can be one of the great causes of stress in life—but that it doesn’t have to be that way. Finances, in fact, can be a great source of joy, security, and hope. In Faithful Finance, Emily comes alongside you to: • Develop a savings plan based on your unique goals • Make a monthly budget that actually works for you • Reduce your overall debt burden • Plan for your children’s college years • Insure your life without fear January 9, 2018 • Leave a legacy through estate planning $19.99 • Encourage you to give generously Jacketed Hardcover • And most importantly, discover the source of true wealth 192 pages 9780310349785 Presented in a conversational style, this practical guide offers ten life-changing secrets that RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / work in every financial situation, for every income level, at every stage of life. With engaging stories and practical examples, Emily empowers you to make choices that will allow you PROFESSIONAL GROWTH and your loved ones to enjoy financial freedom for years to come.

Emily G. Stroud owns and manages a boutique investment firm called Stroud Financial Management. She has been a Financial Advisor for nearly two decades. As both an MBA and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Stroud counsels people on how to handle their money, manage risk, and ensure a nice tidy retirement. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband and two children.

24 FINDING SELAH The Simple Practice of Peace When You Need It Most Kristen Kill That something you’ve been looking for in the empty stress of your mad-dash days? It has a name. The Psalms call it selah—the pause, rest, or interlude between the notes in a song. More than merely an empty space, selah is a chance to stop and resync with the story and song of God. For all the ways life keeps you running, this word and practice offers a way to re- center yourself on the One who holds all things together and makes all things beautiful. Stretched beyond her capacity in caring for a large family in the middle of Manhattan, Kristen Kill was exhausted, depressed, and desperate for a change. Then something sparked within her when she read the Psalms, and found that often all that stood between the psalmist’s cries for help and celebrations of praise was this simple word, selah. Join Kristen in Finding Selah for a journey that will transform the way you think about work, rest, and the little spaces in between that make all the difference. This book will show you January 9, 2018 how to tune your ear to the song God is singing over you, embrace the “selah moments” $16.99 able to transform your daily rhythms, and most of all, encounter the ultimate Selah in Christ, Softcover who stands in the gap between heaven and your most hectic of days. There is hope for the 224 pages dissonance you feel. Finding Selah will show you not only how to sing a new song, but to 9780310347699 live a new way. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / SPIRITUAL GROWTH Kristen Kill is a woman transformed by the delight of God. A contributing editor at The Better Mom, and co-host of At Home, a popular podcast with Sally Clarkson, Kristen is passionate about encouraging women who feel stretched thin with the truth that, even in the tension, God is singing over them with love. After spending the last seven years in the hustle of New York City, Kristen and her husband, Josh, are learning to go slow as they raise their five kids in the Pacific Northwest. Her days are filled with homeschooling, walking her slightly anxious hound dog, and putting off the cleaning for one more day. Find Kristen writing at kristenkill.com and follow her on Instagram @kristenkill.

STRONGER THAN THE STRUGGLE Uncomplicating Your Spiritual Battle Havilah Cunnington Popular Bible teacher and Bethel Church pastor Havilah Cunnington reveals the truth about spiritual warfare, helping readers discern the source of their struggles and how to do battle with good old-fashioned theology and practical tools for their everyday lives. Over the years Bible teacher and Bethel Church pastor Havilah Cunnington has talked to people across the spectrum of Christianity--from those who completely avoid mentioning the devil to those who see him lurking around every corner--and she has seen the dangers of ignoring or misrepresenting Satan’s true power. Whether we talk about it or not, every follower of God is in a war against a very real enemy, one who wants to steal, kill, and destroy. In Stronger than the Struggle, Cunnington shows readers what God’s Word has to say about this issue--and what it doesn’t. In a down-to-earth, let’s-get-real approach, the author applies good old-fashioned theology to the tough topic of spiritual warfare and helps readers discern whether their struggles are coming from God, themselves, or the enemy. She teaches them the right questions to ask January 9, 2018 in order to see adversity from a new perspective and helps them to create realistic battle $16.99 plans to win every day. An inspiring, personal approach to spiritual warfare, Stronger than Softcover the Struggle gives readers practical tools to thrive in the face of hardship, enabling them to 224 pages put the enemy in his place and start living. 9780718094195 Havilah Cunnington has been in full-time ministry for twenty years, and serves as the RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Executive Director of Moral Revolution and a pastor at Bethel Church. Havilah and her SPIRITUAL GROWTH husband, Ben, lead a nonprofit and an online platform called Truth to Table, reaching the world with Bible studies, messages, and lifestyle leadership tools. Havilah and Ben live in Redding, California, with their four sons: Judah, Hudson, Grayson, and Beckham.

25 FIERCE FAITH A Woman’s Guide to Fighting Fear, Wrestling Worry, and Overcoming Anxiety Alli Worthington Sometimes Jesus’s call to “fear not” seems like the hardest instruction to follow. Some days you faultlessly juggle everything that is your life—kids, husband, house, job, church, friendships, school, pets, appointments, and on and on. Other days the very thought of which ball you’re going to drop puts your anxiety level through the roof. You’re afraid you’re forgetting something. And you are: God’s advice to fear not. Alli Worthington knows all about the ways a woman can be hard on herself. She shares her own fear struggles with humor and honesty—while offering real strategies for coping with life’s big fears as well as those little everyday worries. She’s got tips to identify fear-based thinking and manage your anxiety, as well as biblical solutions to live a more confident, less worried life. January 23, 2018 $16.99 Grab a cup of coffee and sit down for some encouragement from a friend. Alli’s no-nonsense, Softcover wise advice will lighten your heart and help you cut through the daily clutter of fear and 224 pages worry to reconnect with your own fierce faith. 9780310342250 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Alli Worthington is an author, speaker, blogger, and the Executive Director of Propel SPIRITUAL GROWTH Women. As an executive coach, Alli has helped individuals, small business owners, and Fortune 500 companies be more successful. Alli’s no-nonsense, guilt-free take on motherhood, parenting, and balance has led to appearances on The Today Show and Good Morning America. She lives outside Nashville with her husband, Mark, their five sons, and a rescued dog and cat who moved onto their doorstep. You can connect with Alli at AlliWorthington.com.

THE PRAYER THAT TURNS THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN The Lord’s Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution R. Albert Mohler Jr. A groundbreaking book from the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary that teaches readers how to participate in the radical, transformative prayer that Jesus taught his first disciples. The Lord’s Prayer has been domesticated and tamed, turned into a safe series of comforting words and made familiar by repetition. In reality, writes Dr. Albert Mohler, the Lord’s Prayer turns the world upside down, toppling every earthly power and announcing God’s reign over all things, in heaven and on earth.

The Lord’s Prayer is the most powerful prayer in all the Bible, taught by Jesus to his own disciples. This generation of Christians desperately needs to relearn the Lord’s Prayer and learn from Christ himself how we are to unleash the power and discipline of prayer.

R. Albert Mohler Jr. is president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the January 23, 2018 Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology. Described by Time magazine as the $19.99 “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement,” Dr. Mohler can be heard on The Briefing, Jacketed Hardcover a daily podcast which analyzes news and events from a Christian worldview. He also writes a 224 pages popular commentary on moral, cultural, and theological issues at albertmohler.com. He and 9780718090937 his wife live in Louisville, Kentucky. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / PRAYER

26 SUPERNATURAL POWER FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE Experiencing God’s Extraordinary Spirit in Your Ordinary Life Jared C. Wilson Acclaimed writer and pastor Jared C. Wilson reveals how God has a plan for you that involves doing the ordinary, mundane stuff of life in a supernatural way. Would it change your life to know that there is a way to live your everyday life supernaturally? Most of us would say “yes,” and Jared C. Wilson’s new book reveals how. For the homemaker wondering how to get through the stress of washing dishes and making meals nobody seems to appreciate; for the cubicle jockey punching her time-card every day wondering if what she does really matters; for the teacher or leader wondering if he is making an impact; for the student afraid of the future; for every believer struggling to get through daily life, Supernatural Power for Everyday People offers the hope of meaning and purpose, and also the promise of power. We can get beyond just “getting by.” We can prevail and live a life of far more joy, contentment, and peace than we ever thought possible. A practical book written in a devotional tone, Supernatural Power for Everyday People shows readers how to rely more fully on the power of the Holy Spirit for growth and satisfaction in January 23, 2018 their lives. $16.99 Jared C. Wilson is the director of content strategy at Midwestern Baptist Theological Softcover Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, and managing editor of the seminary’s website for gospel- 224 pages centered resources, For the Church. He is a popular author and conference speaker, and also 9780718097509 blogs regularly at the Gospel Coalition. His books include Your Jesus Is Too Safe, Gospel RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Wakefulness, The Story of Everything, Unparalleled, and The Imperfect Disciple. SPIRITUAL GROWTH

WHEN IS IT RIGHT TO DIE? NEWLY A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying UPDATED Joni Eareckson Tada More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. When Is It Right to Die? offers a different path with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity. Joni Eareckson Tada knows what it means to wrestle with this issue and to wish for a painless solution. For the last 50 years she has been confined to a wheelchair and struggled against her own paralysis. And she sat by the bedside of her dying father, thinking, So much suffering, why not end it all quickly, painlessly? The terminally ill, the elderly, the disabled, the depressed and suicidal, can all be swept up into this movement of self-deliverance. Skip the suffering. Put a quick end to merciless pain and mental anguish. These are tempting enticements to the hurting. Joni doesn’t give pat answers. Instead, she gives warm comfort from God and practical help to meet the realities for those facing death. When Is It Right to Die? tells the stories of families who have wrestled with end-of-life questions and found that death with dignity does not necessarily mean three grams of Phenobarbital in the veins. Behind every right-to-die situation is a family. A family like yours. In her warm, January 30, 2018 personal way, Joni takes the reader into the lives of families and lets them speak about $16.99 assisted suicide. What they say is surprising. Softcover 208 pages Whether you have a dying family member, facing moral and medical choices, or struggling 9780310349945 with a chronic condition that feels overwhelming, this book will help you find practical RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / encouragement and biblical advice to help you make difficult decisions. DEATH, GRIEF, BEREAVEMENT This book is revised and updated to examine the current events, trending issues, and the rising acceptance of assisted suicide in this country.

Joni Eareckson Tada is CEO of Joni and Friends, an organization that accelerates Christian outreach in the disability community. Joni and Friends provides practical support and spiritual help to special-needs families worldwide, and equips thousands of churches in developing disability ministry. Joni is the author of numerous bestselling books, including When God Weeps, Diamonds in the Dust, A Step Further, winner of the Gold Medallion Award, and her latest A Spectacle of Glory. Joni and her husband, Ken, have been married for 35 years. For more information on Joni and Friends, visit joniandfriends.org.

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29 CHRISTMAS AT CARNTON A Belle Meade Plantation Novel Tamera Alexander Amid the shadow of war, the fading dream of the Confederacy, and the faith of a child, a former soldier and a destitute woman discover the true meaning of Christmas and a most unanticipated friendship—and love. Jake Winston, a revered Confederate sharpshooter, has suffered a head wound at the Battle of Chickamauga. His injuries may or may not result in blindness, which for Jake, would mean losing not just his greatest skill but his identity. As he waits to learn his fate, he observes and captures the bruising realities of war around him in his sketchbook and his journal, which become a lifeline for him. When ordered to assist with a local Ladies Aid Society Christmas Auction, Jake respectfully objects, but orders are orders. As he is preparing for the auction, he meets Aleta Prescott, who has been hired by the Society as a cook. Aleta is struggling to hold life together for herself and for her six-year old son Andrew. Her husband, also has soldier, hasn’t been heard from him in several weeks, and Aleta fears the worst. October 3, 2017 $12.99 A friendship develops both between Jake and Aleta and between Jake and Andrew. Aleta Softcover and Jake learn that their paths have crossed in other ways that neither of them could have 240 pages imagined. As they learn the truth about each other, they strive to find hope and build a future 9780310293248 together from amidst the ruins of their pasts. FICTION / CHRISTIAN / HISTORICAL Tamera Alexander is a USA Today bestselling novelist whose works have been awarded and nominated for numerous industry-leading honors, including the Christy Award (two-time winner, seven-time finalist), the RITA Award (two-time winner, four-time finalist), the Carol Award, the Maggie Award, the Booksellers Best Award, and Library Journal’s top distinction, among others. After seventeen years in Colorado, Tamera and her husband now reside in Nashville, Tennessee, where they live a short distance from Belmont Mansion and Belle Meade Plantation, the setting of Tamera’s two USA Today bestselling Southern series.

LOVE HELD CAPTIVE A Lone Star Hero’s Love Story Shelley Shepard Gray After the War Between the States, a Confederate officer longs to heal the heart of Lizbeth Barclay—but first he’ll have to right the wrongs that were done to her. Major Ethan Kelly has never been able to absolve himself of the guilt he feels for raiding one woman’s home just days before he was taken prisoner. He is struggling to get through each day until he once again crosses paths with Lizbeth Barclay—the very woman he can’t forget. Life after the war is not much different for former Captain Devin Monroe. Until he meets Julianne VanFleet and knows that she is the woman he’s been waiting for. After calling on Julianne, Devin struggles to come to terms with the sacrifices she made to survive the war. When Ethan and Devin discover that their former colonel Adam Bushnell is responsible for both Lizbeth’s and Julianne’s pain, they call on their former fellow soldiers to hunt him down. The men band together in an effort to earn the trust of the women they love and October 10, 2017 bring them the justice they deserve. $15.99 Shelley Shepard Gray is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a finalist Softcover for the American Christian Fiction Writers prestigious Carol Award, and a two-time HOLT 320 pages Medallion winner. She lives in southern Ohio, where she writes full-time, bakes too much, 9780310345473 and can often be found walking her dachshunds on her town’s bike trail. Find Shelley on FICTION / CHRISTIAN / her website, shelleyshepardgray.com, on Facebook: ShelleyShepardGray, and on Twitter ROMANCE @ShelleySGray.

30 BLUE RIDGE SUNRISE A Blue Ridge Romance Denise Hunter Former free spirit Zoe Collins swore she’d never again set foot in Copper Creek or speak to the man who broke her heart. But return she must when her beloved Granny dies, leaving the family legacy to Zoe—a peach orchard nestled at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. When Zoe returns home with her daughter and boyfriend Kyle, she finds that she’s the only person in town who doesn’t expect her to give up the life she’s established far away from Copper Creek. Everyone believes she was born to run the orchard, but how can she make it her home after so many years? Cruz Huntley never quite got over his first love Zoe Collins, the little sister of his best friend Brady. Not when she cheated on him during their “break,” not when she took off to parts unknown with good-for-nothing Kyle Jenkins, and not even now—five years later. As life-changing decisions and a history with Cruz hang over Zoe’s head, tensions rise be- tween her and Kyle. Even as she comes to terms with the shifting relationships in her life, November 7, 2017 Zoe still isn’t sure if she can remain in Copper Creek with her new responsibilities . . . and $15.99 her first love. Softcover 320 pages Denise Hunter is the internationally published bestselling author of more than twenty- 9780718090500 five books, including A December Bride and The Convenient Groom, which have been FICTION / CHRISTIAN / adapted into original Hallmark Channel movies. She has won The Holt Medallion Award, ROMANCE The Reader’s Choice Award, The Carol Award, The Foreword Book of the Year Award, and is a RITA finalist. When Denise isn’t orchestrating love lives on the written page, she enjoys traveling with her family, drinking green tea, and playing drums. Denise makes her home in Indiana where she and her husband are rapidly approaching an empty nest. You can learn more about Denise through her website DeniseHunterBooks.com or by visiting her Facebook page at facebook.com/authordenisehunter.

A PLACE AT OUR TABLE An Amish Homestead Novel Amy Clipston In the midst of family heartaches, can two young Amish people move past their grief and trust that God’s will includes finding happiness again? Jamie Riehl might very well be burning both ends of the candle. Running the family farm keeps him busy enough, but add in his volunteering for the local fire department, and Jamie barely has time to eat at the family table, never mind find someone to date. But when he meets Kayla Dienner while responding to a fire, he is smitten. Kayla tries so hard to deny her attraction to Jamie. After all, she’s spent the last year trying to talk her younger brother, Nathan, out of joining the fire department. The death of their older brother in a fire a year ago has reinforced the dangers of just such a profession, and she can’t bear the idea of putting her heart on the line every time the sirens blare. When tragedy strikes, Jamie runs from the guilt he feels and buries himself in his work, extinguishing any flickers of a relationship between him and Kayla. In order to save the love she was so determined to deny, Kayla must set aside her own fears, trusting that the reward November 14, 2017 of love is far greater than the risk of pain. $15.99 Softcover Amy Clipston is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Kauffman Amish Bakery 336 pages series. Her novels have hit multiple bestseller lists including CBD, CBA, and ECPA. Amy 9780310349013 holds a degree in communication from Virginia Wesleyan College and works full-time for FICTION / CHRISTIAN / AMISH the City of Charlotte, NC. Amy lives in North Carolina with her husband, two sons, and & MENNONITE / ROMANCE three spoiled rotten cats. Visit her online at amyclipston.com Facebook: AmyClipstonBooks Twitter: @AmyClipston

31 PERENNIALS Julie Cantrell When two estranged sisters reunite for their parents’ 50th anniversary, a family tragedy brings unexpected lessons of hope and healing amid the flowers of their mother’s perennial garden. Eva—known to all as Lovey—grew up in Oxford, MS, surrounded by literary history and her mother’s stunning perennial gardens. But a garden shed fire and the burns suffered by one of her best friends seemed to change everything. Her older sister Bitsy blamed her for the fire— and no one spoke up on her behalf. Bitsy the cheerleader, Bitsy the homecoming queen, Bitsy married to a wealthy investor. And all the while, Lovey blamed for everything that goes wrong.

At eighteen, Lovey turns down a marriage proposal, flees from Oxford and the expectations of attending Ole Miss, and instead goes to Arizona—the farthest thing from the South she can imagine. She becomes a successful advertising executive, a weekend yoga instructor, and seems to have it all together. But she’s alone. And on her 45th birthday, she can’t help but wonder what’s wrong.

When she gets a call from her father—still known to everyone as Chief from his Ole Miss football days—insisting that she come home three weeks early for her parents’ 50th wedding November 14, 2017 anniversary celebration, she’s at wits end. She’s about to close the biggest contract of her $15.99 career, the one that will secure her financial goals and set her up for retirement. But his words, “Family First,” hit too close to home. Is there hope for her estranged relationship with Bitsy after Softcover all this time? 352 pages 9780718037642 Eva’s journey home, to the memory garden her father has planned as an anniversary surprise FICTION / CHRISTIAN / for her mother, becomes one of discovering roots, and truth, and love, and what living CONTEMPORARY WOMEN perennially in spite of disappointments and tragedy really means. Eva thought she wanted to leave her family and the South far behind . . . but she’s realizing she hasn’t truly been herself the whole time she’s been gone.

Julie Cantrell is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Into the Free, the 2013 Christy Award winning Book of the Year and recipient of the Mississippi Library Association’s Fiction Award. Cantrell has served as editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review and is a recipient of the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Fellowship. Her second novel, When Mountains Move, won the 2014 Carol Award for Historical Fiction and, like her debut, was selected for several Top Reads lists. Visit her online at juliecantrell.wordpress.com, Facebook: juliecantrellauthor, and Twitter: @JulieCantrell.

IMPERFECT JUSTICE Cara Putman The police say the woman was a murderer. Emilie Wesley knows they can’t be talking about her client . . . but she can’t prove it. To the world it seems obvious: Kaylene Turner snapped and killed her daughter and then was shot by police. However, attorney Emilie Wesley knows a different story. Kaylene was a nurturer at heart looking for a way out of a controlling, abusive marriage. Kaylene’s death shakes Emilie’s world and her belief that she can make a difference for these women. Self-doubt plagues her, and she finds herself struggling to continue her work in the wake of tragedy. Austen Billings thought he knew his sister—right up until he learned of the manner of her death. He receives a letter from Kaylene begging him to fight for custody of her daughters if anything should happen to her. No attorney in her right mind would take on his case, but Kaylene’s letter claims Emilie Wesley will help him. Thrown together in the race to save Kinley Turner from a father who isn’t all that he seems, Emily and Austen pursue the constantly evasive truth. But if they can hang on to hope to- December 5, 2017 gether, maybe they can save Kinley—and find a future for themselves in the process. $15.99 Softcover Cara Putman graduated high school at sixteen, college at twenty, and completed her 352 pages law degree at twenty-seven. She has published more than twenty books, teaches college courses, practices law, and is a homeschooling mom. She lives with her husband and 9780718083489 children in Indiana. Facebook: cara.putman Twitter: @cara_putman FICTION / CHRISTIAN / SUSPENSE

32 YOU’RE GONNA LOVE ME Robin Lee Hatcher Nick’s love of thrills and danger and Samantha’s love of safety and security drove them apart two years ago. After her worst fears came true, can they build something new upon the ashes of the past? Nick Chastain, a brilliant professor of fisheries and wildlife studies at Oregon State University, planned to spend spring break kayaking dangerous rapids in Colorado. But his thrill-seeking ways didn’t sit well with Samantha Winters, his girlfriend of over six months. Samantha lost her father in a skiing accident years before and has been fearful ever since. Finally, one argument too many—and a host of harsh words exchanged—ended their relationship. A few weeks later, Samantha emailed an apology, but Nick never replied. Two years later, Samantha comes to Thunder Creek, Idaho, to nurse her grandmother back to health after an accident. She is shocked when Nick walks into Gran’s hospital room and even more shocked to learn that he no longer teaches at the university, a profession he loved with a passion. As Samantha and Nick get to know one another again, Samantha realizes that she should use this time in Thunder Creek to evaluate her life—and her fears— and make some changes for the better. And Nick sets out to prove he has changed far more December 12, 2017 than Samantha might imagine. $12.99 Softcover Bestselling novelist Robin Lee Hatcher is known for her heartwarming and emotionally 320 pages charged stories of faith, courage, and love. The recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards 9780718085971 from both RWA and ACFW and winner of the Christy, RITA, and numerous other awards, Robin has authored over 75 books. She and her husband make their home in Idaho FICTION / CHRISTIAN / where she enjoys spending time with her family, her high-maintenance Papillon, Poppet, ROMANCE and Princess Pinky, the DC (demon cat). For more information, visit robinleehatcher.com, Facebook: robinleehatcher, Twitter: @robinleehatcher

STEAL AWAY HOME Billy Coffey Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of those loves ruined him. Now he’s counting on the other to save him. Baseball always came easy for Owen Cross. His innate talents were honed beneath the stiff hand of a father who wanted nothing more than for his son to succeed where he had failed. The girl was a little more complicated. Owen loved Micky Dullahan from the first time they met, on a lonely hill overlooking the depressed area where her troubled family had always lived. But she was from the wrong side of the tracks, and so that spot became their haven, the one place they could be together without worry of class or reputation. Owen’s career progresses just as everyone expects: college, the minors, even a few stints in the big leagues. But it is on a major league field that he has the epiphany that he has always given everything to baseball—and yet it cannot love him back. Micky’s advice comes back to haunt him. “You’ve got a second chance to love what will always love you back.” And so he returns home to that hill, to the last place he ever saw her, finally ready to stop running away. January 2, 2018 $15.99 Billy Coffey’s critically acclaimed books combine rural Southern charm with a vision far Softcover beyond the ordinary. He is a regular contributor to several publications, where he writes 416 pages about faith and life. Billy lives with his wife and two children in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Visit him at billycoffey.com. Facebook: billycoffeywriter Twitter: @billycoffey 9780718084448 FICTION / CHRISTIAN / COMING OF AGE

33 AMISH SWEETHEARTS Four Amish Novellas Amy Clipston Love and Buggy Rides (previously published in An Amish Harvest) Janie Lantz is a cashier at Lancaster Souvenirs and Buggy Rides, where Jonathan Stoltfuz is a buggy driver. A frightening accident brings Janie and Jonathan together in a blossoming friendship, yet daunting obstacles stand between them and something deeper. Can love kindle into flames that burn away fear and regret—and lead them to a life together?

A Home for Lindsay From Amy Clipston’s beloved Kauffman Amish Bakery series comes Lindsay Bedford’s story. Lindsay is happily looking forward to the day she becomes Matthew Glick’s wife and is excited for the plans he has for the house he will build her. So, when Matthew suddenly calls off the wedding, she is blindsided. She knows there is more to the story than what he is telling her, but will he open up and let her in on his own heartbreak?

Where the Heart Is January 9, 2018 $12.99 Tobias Smucker is back home, and it’s no secret he and his father are still not on the best of Softcover terms. But what is surprising is that his little sister’s best friend, Mariella, has been harboring 432 pages her own secret feelings for Tobias. With her help, he begins to unravel a family mystery and learns that everyone has their own hidden depths, including his father. 9780718091156 FICTION / CHRISTIAN / AMISH Love Birds (previously published in An Amish Market) & MENNONITE / ROMANCE While Ellie Lapp and her mother are still mourning the loss of her brother, Seth, Ellie starts working at one of the gift shops in town. Seth’s friend Lloyd is talented at carving wooden birds, but his father disapproves and expects him to take over the family farm someday. Ellie sees the beauty in Lloyd’s creations and insists Lloyd sell the birds in the gift shop where she works. As Ellie and Lloyd spend more time together, they begin to develop feelings for one another, but she accidentally betrays his trust. Will she lose any hope of a future with him? BENEATH THE SUMMER SUN An Every Amish Season Novel Kelly Irvin Jennie Troyer knows it’s time to remarry, and with two men pursuing her, she doesn’t have to look far. But after the pain she’s experienced, can she open her heart to love? It’s been four years since Jennie’s husband died in a farming accident. Long enough that the elders in her Amish community think it’s time to shed her grief and remarry for the sake of her seven children. What they don’t know is it isn’t grief that’s holding her back, but rather a fear of a repeat of her abusive marriage. Paul Graber has known--and loved--Jennie since they were children, and he’d hoped to court her when they were teenagers. But when he was fourteen, Paul’s father died sud- denly in his arms. Ever since he’s been afraid of the searing pain of loss that comes from opening himself up to love. Now Jennie’s free again and he’s fighting to have the courage not to lose her a second time. Nathan Walker is a Mennonite book salesman who makes it a point to stop by Jennie’s farm as often as he can. He’s grown to care for her, but he knows he has no right to court January 16, 2018 her unless he resolves his own struggle with his faith. He will have to change everything $15.99 about his life in order to join the Jamesport Amish community. But would he be embracing Softcover a new life or running from his old? 336 pages 9780310348085 The path isn’t clear for any of them. These three people, drawn together by circumstanc- FICTION / CHRISTIAN / AMISH es and God’s plan, must come to grips with their pasts in order to discern God’s plan for & MENNONITE / ROMANCE their futures and find peace beneath the summer sun.

Kelly Irvin is the author of several Amish series including the Bliss Creek Amish series, the New Hope Amish series, and the Amish of Bee County series. She has also penned two romantic suspense novels, A Deadly Wilderness and No Child of Mine. The Kansas native is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism. She has been writing nonfiction professionally for more than thirty years, including ten years as a newspaper reporter. A retired public relations professional, Kelly has been married to photographer Tim Irvin for twenty-nine years. They have two children, two grandchildren, and two cats.

34 THE VIEW FROM RAINSHADOW BAY A Lavender Tides Novel Colleen Coble From USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble comes a news series set amid the gorgeous lavender fields of Washington state—but the beauty masks deadly secrets. Shauna McDade is single mom to a five-year-old son after her husband was killed in a climbing accident. Her aerial photography business is on the verge of bankruptcy after a string of mechanical failures that don’t seem coincidental. She recently took pictures for an environmental study and noticed a dark spot in the Juan de Fuca Strait. Her pictures created a furor when it was discovered that the runoff is coming from one of the largest lavender growers in the valley, a family business inherited by Shauna’s estranged cousin. When her mentor and business partner is murdered, Shauna realizes that she’s in danger too. Fearing for her son, she turns to the only ally she has. Nate Bannister was her husband’s best friend—and is the person she blames for his death. Nate is only too happy to try to assuage his own guilt over Jack’s death by helping her in any way he can. But the lavender fields are a shroud for something much darker, and these are secrets that someone will do anything to keep buried. January 23, 2018 $15.99 USA Today bestselling author Colleen Coble has written several romantic suspense Softcover novels including Tidewater Inn, Rosemary Cottage, and the Mercy Falls, Lonestar, 336 pages and Rock Harbor series. Visit her website atcolleencoble.com; Twitter: @colleencoble; 9780718085766 Facebook: colleencoblebooks FICTION / CHRISTIAN / SUSPENSE

ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND STRANGE James Markert In the wake of World War I in the small, Southern town of Bellhaven, South Carolina, the town folk believe they’ve found a little slice of Heaven in a mysterious chapel in the woods. But they soon realize that evil can come in the most beautiful of forms. The people of Bellhaven have always looked to Ellsworth Newberry for guidance, but after losing his wife and his future as a professional pitcher, he is moments away from testing his mortality once and for all. Until he finally takes notice of the changes in his town . . . and the cardinals that have returned. Upon the discovery of a small chapel deep in the Bellhaven woods, healing seems to fall upon the townspeople, bringing peace after several years of mourning. But as they visit the “healing floor” more frequently, the people begin to turn on one another, and the unusually tolerant town becomes anything but. The cracks between the natural and supernatural begin to widen, and tensions rise. Before the town crumbles, Ellsworth must pull himself from the brink of suicide, overcome his demons, and face the truth of who he was born to be by leading the town into the woods to January 30, 2018 face the evil threatening Bellhaven. $15.99 Softcover James Markert lives with his wife and two children in Louisville, Kentucky. He has a 336 pages history degree from the University of Louisville and won an IPPY Award for The Requiem 9780718090289 Rose, which was later published as A White Wind Blew, a story of redemption in a 1929 tuberculosis sanatorium, where a faith-tested doctor uses music therapy to heal FICTION / RELIGIOUS / the patients. The Angels’ Share is his second novel, and he is currently writing his next HISTORICAL historical novel, All Things Bright and Strange. James is also a USPTA tennis pro, and has coached dozens of kids who’ve gone on to play college tennis in top conferences like the Big 10, the Big East, and the ACC. Learn more at jamesmarkertbooks.com; Twitter: @JamesMarkert

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37 GOBI: A LITTLE DOG WITH A BIG HEART Dion Leonard Bring home the incredible true story of a friendship so strong that it crosses the globe! Families everywhere will be delighted by the tale of Gobi and Dion—a little lost dog and the ultramarathon runner who saved her. Gobi: A Little Dog with a Big Heart is a fun, engaging picture book perfect for families to enjoy together. Prepare to fall in love with the heartwarming and true story of Gobi and Dion. Gobi, a scrappy little stray dog, latches onto a man named Dion and keeps pace alongside him as he runs his way across China in a long 155-mile race. Through cold nights and raging rivers, with little food and water, and through a long, hard journey, these two create a bond unlike any other. August 29, 2017 Cross the finish line with Gobi and Dion, the little pup who never quit and the ultramarathon $16.99 runner who loves her. This amazing true story sparked international attention and will Jacketed Hardcover continue to inspire readers as they enjoy this fun picture book perfect for children. 32 pages 9780718075293 Join these two unlikely friends as they form a winning team for both the race and life! JUVENILE NONFICTION / ANIMALS / GENERAL Dion Leonard is a 41 year old Australian who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with his wife Lucja. Dion has not only completed but competed in some of the world’s toughest ultra marathons across the planet’s most inhospitable landscapes. This includes running across the brutal Moroccan Sahara desert twice in the 250km Marathon Des Sables and also twice across South Africa’s Kalahari Desert, also 250km. Dion’s latest 250km race across the Gobi Desert in China turned out to be a completely different race where he fell in love with a stray dog (later named Gobi) that followed him during the week and who would change both of their lives forever.

GOD’S GREAT LOVE FOR YOU Rick Warren God’s Great Love Created the entire universe And everything in it Including you. God’s Great Love for You, written by #1 New York Times bestselling author and respected pastor Rick Warren, takes children on a whimsical and heartfelt journey that lets them know God’s love is with them wherever they go. With breathtaking illustrations by Chris October 3, 2017 Saunders, the simple yet poignant text comes alive as a child journeys to places far and $16.99 near and discovers God’s great love is perfect, and everywhere, and will never end. Jacketed Hardcover 32 pages As founding pastor of Saddleback Church with his wife, Kay, Dr. Rick Warren leads a 9780310752479 30,000-member congregation in California with campuses in major cities around the world. JUVENILE FICTION / RELIGIOUS / As an author, his book The Purpose Driven Life has been called the bestselling non-fiction CHRISTIAN hardback in publishing history by Publishers Weekly, having sold more than 33 million copies. As a theologian, he has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, University of Judaism, and dozens of universities and seminaries. As a global strategist he advises world leaders and has spoken to the United Nations, US Congress, Davos Economic Forum, TED, Aspen Institute, and numerous parliaments.

38 I’M NOT A SCAREDY-CAT A Prayer for When You Wish You Were Brave Max Lucado From New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado comes I’m Not a Scaredy-Cat, a hilarious new picture book to help kids manage their fears and worries and learn to trust God. Follow a silly series of misadventures as scaredy-cat faces his worst fears: an appalling abundance of (gulp!) yellow and pink sprinkles on his donut, an elephant on the verge of a ginormous sneeze, and the terrifyingly loud chime of a clock. For each of the fears, Max provides this reassuring child’s version of Philippians 4:6–9: “God, you are good. October 3, 2017 God, you are near. $16.99 God, you are here! And, God, you love me.” Jacketed Hardcover 32 pages A fun read for children and parents, 9780718074913 I’m Not a Scaredy-Cat will open doors JUVENILE FICTION / for important conversations about RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN fear in a nonthreatening way and help you instill godly bravery in your kids. With more than 125 million products in print, Max Lucado is America’s bestselling inspirational author. He serves the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Denalyn, and their mischievous mutt, Andy.

LIZZY THE LIONESS Lisa Bevere Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is ask for help! Encourage your little ones with the true meaning of bravery through the beautiful story of Lizzy the Lioness by bestselling author Lisa Bevere. Boys and girls will love the story of Lizzy, a little lion who must learn what it truly means to be brave in the face of hard things. When she sees someone in danger, Lizzy tries her best to help, but she quickly learns that sometimes being brave means asking adults for help. With a unique spin on the concept of bravery, Lizzy the Lioness is a timely picture book in an ever-changing world. Children will see that bravery is so much more than big muscles or loud roars but often is found in the tiniest people who have the courage to speak up when no one else will. By asking God for help and then bringing grown-ups into the picture, Lizzy shows kids that being brave doesn’t have to happen by yourself—it happens with help! October 3, 2017 You don’t have to be the biggest to be the strongest, and you don’t have to be the loudest to $16.99 be the bravest. Show your children God’s truest definition of bravery with the timeless story Jacketed Hardcover of Lizzy the Lioness. 32 pages 9780718096588 Lisa Bevere is an internationally known speaker and the bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl, JUVENILE FICTION / RELIGIOUS / Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry, Out of CHRISTIAN / EMOTIONS & Control and Loving It! and Be Angry But Don’t FEELINGS Blow It! Her books have helped thousands of women of all ages find purity and restoration through Jesus Christ. In addition, Lisa is a frequent guest on television programs such as Life Today and radio shows such as Focus on the Family and FamilyLife Today. She co-hosts the television program The Messenger, which broadcasts to more than 200 nations, with her husband, John. She makes her home in Colorado Springs with her amazing husband and four sons.

39 INDESCRIBABLE 100 Devotions for Kids about God and Science Louie Giglio Indescribable: 100 Devotions for Kids About God and Science will engage curious minds and help them discover that God’s design truly is awe-inspiring. In 100 devotions on topics such as creation, the universe, our amazing bodies, and weather, kids will understand what millions of adults have gleaned from Louie Giglio’s beloved message Indescribable. Pastor and author Louie Giglio invites kids to think about the questions they encounter in day- to-day life and to find God’s glory in creation in his first-ever children’s book, Indescribable. Full of fun four-color illustrations and amazing photography to capture the beauty and wonder of the world we live in, Indescribable promises to challenge kids’ understanding as well as encourage their faith in God the Creator. Each devotion includes a science section that can range from amazing facts to awesome experiments kids can do on their own or with the help of a parent. Engage the hearts and minds of the young readers in your life, and satisfy the curious October 10, 2017 questions that pepper every day with Indescribable by Louie Giglio. $16.99 Hardcover This devotional will be unique, engaging, and beautifully 224 pages designed. Parents will be thrilled to share the messages 9780718086107 of both science and faith with their children, giving JUVENILE NONFICTION / Indescribable major appeal for years to come. RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / SCIENCE & NATURE Louie Giglio is pastor of Passion City Church and founder of the Passion movement, which exists to call a generation to leverage their lives for the fame of Jesus. Since 1997, Passion has gathered collegiate-aged young people at events across the U.S. and around the world, uniting millions of students in worship, prayer, and justice. Louie is the author of The Comeback, The Air I Breathe, I Am Not But I Know I Am, and Goliath Must Fall. Louie and Shelley make their home in Atlanta, Georgia.

JESUS CALLING LITTLE BOOK OF PRAYERS Sarah Young Talking to God is easy! Featuring darling artwork alongside Scripture, a short message, and prayers on topics such as God’s goodness, the importance of being kind, and how God makes our hearts happy, Jesus Calling® Little Book of Prayers will help even the littlest readers discover just how much God loves to hear from them. Help your children understand God’s love and plan for their lives as they develop a habit of prayer early in life. Carolina Farias, illustrator of the hugely successful Jesus Calling® Bible Storybook, also illustrates this adorable board book for toddlers and preschoolers. Simple prayers inspired by God’s Word will remind children that God made them, that He loves them, and that He loves to spend time with them. With simple language and engaging art, this sturdy board book will capture your little ones’ attention as they discover how to talk to Jesus in prayer.

Sarah Young, the author of the new 365-day devotional Jesus Always and bestselling Jesus Calling®, has sold more than 20 million books worldwide. Sarah’s writings include Jesus January 23, 2018 Calling®, Jesus Today™, Jesus Lives™, Dear $7.99 Jesus, Jesus Calling® for Little Ones, Jesus Board Book Calling® Bible Storybook, Jesus Calling®: 26 pages 365 Devotions for Kids, and Peace in His 9780718097530 Presence—each encouraging readers in JUVENILE NONFICTION / their journey toward intimacy with Christ. RELIGION / BIBLE STORIES Sarah and her husband were missionaries in Japan and Australia for many years. They currently live in the United States.

40 THE BEGINNER’S BIBLE 365 DEVOTIONS FOR KIDS Previously titled The Beginner’s Bible Kid-Sized Devotions The Beginner’s Bible® has been a favorite with young children and their parents since its release in 1989 with over 25 million products sold. Based on the bestselling The Beginner’s Bible brand, The Beginner’s Bible 365 Devotions for Kids is perfect for children 6 and under. The simple connections to Scripture make the content relevant and understandable for young readers, while the full-color artwork is sure to be a delight. Each of the 365 devotions has a theme to which the Scripture, story, and art relate. It’s the perfect starting point for children as they develop a stronger relationship with God, cuddle up with parents, or enjoy the devotions at church or daycare.

October 3, 2017 $9.99 Printed Caseside Hardcover 384 pages 9780310763062 JUVENILE NONFICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / INSPIRATIONAL

THE BEGINNER’S BIBLE THE VERY FIRST CHRISTMAS The Beginner’s Bible® has been a favorite with young children and their parents since its release in 1989 with over 25 million products sold. The Beginner’s Bible, The Very First Christmas introduces children to one of the most wonderful stories of all time, the birth of Jesus. With exciting new artwork, children will love learning about the events leading up to Jesus’ birth and his miraculous arrival. By the end of the story, children will understand why we celebrate this special day. This low-cost picture book is great for outreach events and distributing at Christmas celebrations.

October 3, 2017 $1.99 Saddle Stitch 32 pages 9780310762935 JUVENILE NONFICTION / HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS / CHRISTMAS & ADVENT

41 THE BEGINNER’S BIBLE THE VERY FIRST EASTER The Beginner’s Bible® has been a favorite with young children and their parents since its release in 1989 with over 25 million products sold. The Beginner’s Bible, The Very First Easter introduces children to one of the most inspiring stories of all time: Jesus’ death to save us from our sins. Readers will learn about the events leading up to Jesus’ death and his miraculous return to life. With exciting new artwork from the bestselling The Beginner’s Bible, this book will help children understand why we celebrate this special day. This low-cost picture book is great for outreach events and distributing at Easter celebrations.

January 30, 2018 $1.99 Saddle Stitch 32 pages 9780310763017 JUVENILE FICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / GENERAL

THE BEGINNER’S BIBLE DANIEL & THE LION’S DEN An I Can Read! Book The Beginner’s Bible® has been a favorite with young children and their parents since its release in 1989 with over 25 million products sold. This retelling of the story of Daniel and the Lions shows young readers how Daniel bravely stood up for his faith and faced a den of lions with God’s protection. Featuring vibrant art from the beloved The Beginner’s Bible, this book is great for children learning to read. This My First I Can Read!™ book, with basic language, word repetition, and great illustrations, is perfect for shared reading with a child.

January 30, 2018 $3.99 Softcover 32 pages 9780310760412 JUVENILE NONFICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / EARLY READERS

42 THE BEGINNER’S BIBLE NOAH & THE GREAT BIG ARK An I Can Read! Book The Beginner’s Bible® has been a favorite with young children and their parents since its release in 1989 with over 25 million products sold. This retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark will take young readers from the building of the ark to the adventure in the storm to finding God’s rainbow in the sky. Featuring vibrant art from the beloved The Beginner’s Bible, parents will love sharing this book with their children. This My First I Can Read!™ book, with basic language, word repetition, and great illustrations, is perfect for shared reading with a child.

January 30, 2018 $3.99 Softcover 32 pages 9780310760290 JUVENILE NONFICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / EARLY READERS

THE BEGINNER’S BIBLE JESUS LOVES THE WORLD The Beginner’s Bible® has been a favorite with young children and their parents since its release in 1989 with over 25 million products sold. Introduce children to the story of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Young readers will learn about Jesus’ miracles and teachings, his return to the world, and his promises to come back again one day. With short, simple text, this board book will connect children to the greatest story of all. Featuring brand-new art from the beloved The Beginner’s Bible, a die-cut format, and a beautiful foiled cover, parents will love sharing this board book with their children.

January 30, 2018 $8.99 Die-Cut Board Book 18 pages 9780310760047 JUVENILE NONFICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / EARLY READERS

43 BRIGHT NIGHT Lorie Ann Grover Share the joy of Christmas with your child through the colorful pages of Bright Night, a board book by Lorie Ann Grover that celebrates the season. Sweet rhymes and engaging illustrations show little ones the way Mary and Joseph traveled to Bethlehem on the bright night that Jesus was born. Filled with love and gentle storytelling, this padded cover board is perfect for the young child in your life.

Lorie Ann Grover is the author of young adult novels including Hit, which Hypable calls “a powerful book about tragedy and recovery which shows you both sides of the story, for better or worse.” She has authored Loose Threads, a Booklist Top 10 Youth First Novel, October 3, 2017 and On Pointe, a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year. As a literacy $8.99 advocate, she is a co-founder of readergirlz, which was awarded the National Book Padded Board Book Foundation’s Innovations in Reading Prize. 16 pages 9780310757368 JUVENILE NONFICTION / HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS / CHRISTMAS & ADVENT

JESUS ALWAYS: 365 DEVOTIONS FOR KIDS Sarah Young From the bestselling author of Jesus Calling® Embrace the true meaning of Joy with the young believers in your life in Sarah Young’s newest 365-day devotional, Jesus Always: 365 Devotions for Kids. In Sarah Young’s newest 365-day devotional for kids, Jesus Always: 365 Devotions for Kids, she focuses on the biblical teaching of the joy we can experience at any time and in all circumstances. With Scripture and new personal reflections, the #1 bestselling author brings Jesus’ message of joy—for today and every day—to children. Adapted from the bestselling Jesus Always, each day’s devotion has the same theme as the adult version, as well as written-out Scriptures. It is a great choice for families to read and discuss during devotional time together. Written as if Jesus Himself is speaking directly to the reader, Jesus Always: 365 Devotions for Kids will engage your children and help them find lifelong true contentment and joy. October 3, 2017 Reaching out with joy-filled reminders from the Word of God, these devotions will intimately $15.99 and gently connect your children with Jesus—the One who meets you where you are. Help Printed Caseside Hardcover your children draw near to Him in Jesus Always: 365 Devotions for Kids. 400 pages 9780718096885 Sarah Young, the author of the new 365-day devotional Jesus Always and bestselling Je- JUVENILE NONFICTION / sus Calling®, has sold more than 20 million books worldwide. Jesus Calling® has appeared RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / on all major bestseller lists. Sarah’s writings include Jesus Calling®, Jesus Today™, Jesus ™ ® ® DEVOTIONAL & PRAYER Lives , Dear Jesus, Jesus Calling for Little Ones, Jesus Calling Bible Storybook, Jesus Calling®: 365 Devotions for Kids, and Peace in His Presence—each encouraging readers in their journey toward intimacy with Christ. Sarah and her husband were missionaries in Japan and Australia for many years. They currently live in the United States.

44 MY CHRISTMAS PRAYER Amy Parker New from award-winning author Amy Parker, My Christmas Prayer is a shiny, foil-embel- lished board book shaped like a Christmas gift that features playful puppies getting into the holiday spirit. Boys and girls will love the playful art and the simple message that Jesus is God’s gift to us. Christmas is a time for family fun, twinkly lights, and cozy cocoa! It is also a precious time to remember Jesus and the gift of His birth. My Christmas Prayer will help children celebrate the true reason for the season of Christmas. Featuring rhyming text from bestselling author Amy Parker, My Christmas Prayer captures October 3, 2017 the simple joys of the season. $8.99 Die-Cut Board Book Amy Parker’s children’s books have sold more than 1 million copies, including two Chris- 12 pages tian Retailing’s Best award-winning books and the bestselling A Night Night Prayer. She 9780718099527 lives outside Nashville with her husband and two children. JUVENILE FICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATION

ONE CHRISTMAS BEAR Anne Vittur Kennedy Count the Blessings of Christmas Follow the merry adventures of a polar bear and the artic animals as they enjoy winter fun! From crunchy candy canes and frosty snowballs to friends to play with and a family to love, your little one will enjoy counting God’s wonderful gifts. Anne Vittur Kennedy has been delighting young children with her humorous and playful books for thirty years. Her awards include American Library Association’s Notable Books List, Teacher’s Choice, The Green Earth Book Award, and The Green Prize for Sustain- able Literature.

October 3, 2017 Anne Vittur Kennedy loves the quiet space of her studio and lives in Ohio with her hus- $8.99 band, Jack; her dog, Brody; and her horses, Sitka and Frisco. Die-Cut Board Book 20 pages 9780718090142 JUVENILE FICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATION

45 THE PRINCESS PARABLES: DAUGHTERS OF THE KING 90 Devotions Inspired by Jeanna Young & Jacqueline Johnson, Illustrated by Omar Aranda Live Like a Daughter of the King Sometimes it seems like children have more faith than adults. It doesn’t matter to God how old you are. What matters is that you believe in him, trust him, and love him. The Princess Parables Daughters of the King, 90 Devotions is a collection of readings covering themes that are close to a young girl’s heart—love, friendship, generosity, joy, and courage. With Scripture, reflection, prayer, and gentle words of wisdom and encouragement from the princess sisters Faith, Joy, Charity, Hope, and Grace, these devotions are sure to inspire thoughts of love and peace in every little princess’s day. Perfect for bedtime or any time of day, parents and young girls will cherish their time together reading this devotional that encourages them to live like a daughter of the King.

Omar Aranda studied Fine October 3, 2017 Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, $14.99 where he was born. Many top Printed Caseside Hardcover publishers and companies 192 pages worldwide have commissioned 9780310756217 him for projects including story JUVENILE NONFICTION / artwork, comics, and character RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / design. He started his career as an artistic painter but now devotes DEVOTIONAL & PRAYER all of his time to illustrations for children’s products.

SNUGGLE TIME CHRISTMAS STORIES Glenys Nellist Christmas lights are twinkling, Candles all aglow. Christmas cookies baking, Stockings in a row. Happy Birthday, Jesus. We’ll sing and clap and cheer. Thank you, God, for Christmas— Our favorite time of year!

Snuggle Time Christmas Stories, written by Glenys Nellist and illustrated by Cee Biscoe, is a beautiful collection of thirteen poems that tell the story of Jesus’ October 3, 2017 birth. This padded board book with $9.99 glitter and foil uses simple concepts, rhyming text, and adorable art to help children engage Padded Board Book with the nativity story, delight in the Christmas season, and draw closer to God. 26 pages Glenys Nellist was born and raised in a little village in northern England. Her stories and 9780310761327 poems have been published in children’s magazines where her writing reflects a deep JUVENILE FICTION / passion for bringing the Bible to life for young children. Glenys lives in Grand Rapids, HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS / Michigan, with her husband, David. CHRISTMAS & ADVENT

46 ‘TWAS THE EVENING OF CHRISTMAS Glenys Nellist ’Twas the evening of Christmas, when all through the town, Every inn was so crowded, no room could be found. Tired Mary and Joseph, who went door to door, At last found a place on a small stable floor. For over 200 years, families have gathered on Christmas Eve to hear the much loved words of Dr. Clement C. Moore’s ’Twas the Night Before Christmas. This year, families can gather together to share the real Christmas story––the story of Jesus’ birth. ’Twas the Evening of Christmas echoes the familiar language and rhythm of Dr. Clements’ poetry, but instead of focusing on Santa, it focuses on the baby Jesus, who is, after all, the true hero of Christmas. All families will delight in this simple retelling of the most famous story ever told. With a cover that comes alive with foil and sculpted embossing, this book is sure to become a Christmas classic.

Glenys Nellist was born October 3, 2017 and raised in a little village $16.99 in northern England. Jacketed Hardcover Her stories and poems 32 pages have been published in 9780310745532 children’s magazines JUVENILE FICTION / where her writing reflects a HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS / deep passion for bringing CHRISTMAS & ADVENT the Bible to life for young children. Glenys lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband, David.

365 BIBLE ANSWERS FOR CURIOUS KIDS An If I Could Ask God Anything Devotional Kathryn Slattery How do I know the Bible is true? What does it mean when the Bible talks about the kingdom of God? How can God be three persons at the same time? Help the kids in your life find answers to the questions they ask and deepen their faith along the way with 365 Bible Answers for Curious Kids, a unique daily devotional full of biblical answers to curious questions about God, the Bible, and Christian faith.

365 Bible Answers for Curious Kids is a tremendous tool for every Christian home! Through a daily devotional, questions about God, the Bible, and faith are answered in a loving way that points children to God’s plan and His love. Parents will appreciate the thorough research and accuracy for this wide range of theological, historical, and faith topics. In addition to faith topics, this devotional addresses topics such as Christian traditions, the historic growth of Christianity, how to become a Christian, and what it means to be a Christian in today’s world. A helpful and complete index of questions includes the following topics: time; God; God’s promises; Jesus; God’s Holy Spirit; the Bible; the Old Testament; the New Testament; November 28, 2017 Christianity; prayer; the Church; Christian seasons, holidays, and traditions; being a Christian $15.99 here and now; and eternity. Hardcover 400 pages Each devotion is written so that it can be read and enjoyed on its own at any time, and many 9780718085643 include a “Want to know more?” cross-referencing section at the bottom of the devotional JUVENILE NONFICTION / for the extra-curious child who wants to learn more. At the end of the book, a special section RELIGION / BIBLICAL called My Notes and Prayers offers several lined pages for the thoughtful young reader to REFERENCE write his or her thoughts and prayers. 365 Bible Answers for Curious Kids will help you nurture and grow your child’s faith, as well as naturally and gently, day by day, grow the child’s knowledge about what it means to be a Christian.

Known by millions as a longtime contributing editor for Guideposts magazine, Kathryn “Kitty” Slattery has written hundreds of stories of hope and inspiration for a wide variety of publications, including ParentLife, Today’s Christian Woman, and Angels on Earth magazines.

47 MY BIBLE STORY COLORING BOOK The Books of the Bible More than 30 Stories from the NIrV Bible Children can now color their way through 32 beloved stories from the Bible, featuring text from the New International Reader’s Version (NIrV). Favorite characters such as Noah, Daniel, Mary, and Jesus are brought to life in this 144-page coloring book. After coloring, the pages can be displayed to encourage creativity and memory of the classic Bible stories. This book is perfect for young children just beginning their journey through the Bible.

November 28, 2017 $8.99 Softcover 144 pages 9780310761068 JUVENILE NONFICTION / RELIGION / BIBLE STORIES

GOD BLESS MY FAMILY Hannah C. Hall and Steve Whitlow Family time makes each day more fun! These furry families are enjoying each moment together. Whether splashing in puddles with cousins after a rainy day, going on a walk with Grandma, or having a fun summer picnic, everyone has a special place in the family!

Hannah C. Hall estimates that she has read approximately 4,500 bedtime stories to her children over the last few years. She is thankful to get to add her own books to their daily rotation. Hannah and her husband, Josh, have four children and live in a small town in Arkansas.

December 5, 2017 $9.99 Padded Board Book 20 pages 9780718092160 JUVENILE FICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / FAMILY

48 WITH LOVE, FROM ME TO YOU Dr. Mary Manz Simon A red heart sends a message that says “I so love you,” but we can send those same words in what we say and do. If I see someone crying or looking very sad, I’ll stop to show some kindness and he won’t feel so bad. With Love, From Me to You is a December 26, 2017 board book for little ones that will $8.99 remind them how important it is to Board Book love and be loved. With adorable 18 pages illustrations and sweet, rhyming text by bestselling author Dr. Mary Manz Simon, this book 9780310758150 shows children how important their actions and words are in expressing God’s great love JUVENILE FICTION / with one another. Parents will enjoy reading this book on Valentine’s Day or any day of the HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS / year to encourage their children to remember that love is more than gifts and candy; it’s VALENTINE’S DAY about doing for others and sending love to everyone who’s near. Mary Manz Simon has taught preschool and kindergarten and at the junior college, un- dergraduate and graduate levels. She is a columnist for Parent Life and Christian Parent- ing Today magazines, a contributing editor for Christian Retailing, and a member of the advisory board for the Christian Family Book Club. Since her first book released in 1987, her books have sold more than 1.5 million copies and are available in nine languages, her nationally syndicated radio program airs daily on more than 200 stations and her magazine articles and national convention presentations reach thousands more each year.

GOD’S LITTLE LAMBS, MY FIRST BIBLE Julie Stiegemeyer God’s Little Lambs, My First Bible is a storybook Bible written just for little ones. With a padded cover that sparkles with glitter, and simple text by Julie Stiegemeyer, children will learn about God’s love through stories such as Noah’s Ark, Jonah and the Big Fish, and Jesus Loves the Children. With soft brushstrokes and warm colors, Qin Leng provides illustrations readers will love to cuddle up with at bedtime or any time of the day.

Julie Stiegemeyer has authored more than twenty books for children. She has also written for magazines, newspapers, and devotional books. In addition to writing, Julie teaches writing and English as a Second Language. Julie and her husband and son live in Irvine, California. Find out more at juliestiegemeyer.net.

January 2, 2018 $9.99 Padded Board Book 32 pages 9780310761594 JUVENILE NONFICTION / RELIGION / BIBLE STORIES

49 TEN LITTLE NIGHT STARS Deb Gruelle One! One little night star, Twinkling in deep blue. I run inside to take my bath, Then there are… Two! Ten Little Night Stars is a sweet bedtime counting book perfect for the youngest readers. One by one the stars come out in the night sky as cute and cuddly animals go through their bedtime routines. This board book will encourage children to turn the page with interactive and engaging rhyme, and will take them through bath time, story time, and sleep. Written by Deb Gruelle, great-great-grand-niece of Johnny Gruelle, the creator of Raggedy Ann January 23, 2018 and Andy, Ten Little Night Stars is the perfect bedtime story for parents and children alike. $8.99 Padded Board Book Deb Gruelle is the great-great-grand-niece of Johnny Gruelle, the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy, so she grew up on his whimsical stories. She has been certified as a Court Ap- 22 pages pointed Special Advocate (CASA) to help children in foster care navigate the court system 9780310762126 and has volunteered at her local women and children’s shelter and at Habitat for Humanity. JUVENILE FICTION / BEDTIME & She also enjoys indoor skydiving, snorkeling, and counting stars. DREAMS

BUNNY BLESSINGS Kim Washburn Bunny Blessings celebrates the coming of spring and shows little ones there are blessings all around us, from blooming flowers to baby bunnies to buds on the trees. The sweet rhyming text by Kim Washburn and whimsical illustrations by Jacqueline East bring springtime alive for readers young and old as they take in the beauty and wonder of the season of rebirth. Featuring a beautiful foiled cover, this die-cut board book is perfect for parents to share with their young children.

Kim Washburn has been writing for children for more than ten years. While working at Focus on the Family, two of her original stories were recognized by the Evangelical Press Association, including first place in the fiction category. Her nonfiction books for young readers have reached a wide audience—including Breaking Through by Grace: January 30, 2018 The Bono Story and Defender of Faith: The Mike Fisher Story. $8.99 Die-Cut Board Book 18 pages 9780310762096 JUVENILE FICTION / HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS / EASTER & LENT

50 EASTER LOVE LETTERS FROM GOD Glenys Nellist Jesus came to teach people how to love. He came to heal us from everything that hurts us, and to fill our lives with joy, hope, forgiveness, and peace. And the more you get to know Jesus, the more you’ll discover that this can be your life too. Easter Love Letters from God, written by Glenys Nellist and illustrated by Sophie Allsopp, guides children and families through Holy Week with seven beautifully illustrated Bible stories. Following each story the child will find his or her own letter from God. Children will love the excitement of opening the letters and parents will love how the letters elaborate on the Bible stories being told. Each message gives the child a sense of wonder as they January 30, 2018 discover what happened leading up to Jesus’ resurrection on Easter Sunday. A very special $16.99 Bible verse, entitled God’s Wonderful Words to You will accompany each story and letter. Jacketed Hardcover Much more than a memory verse, each carefully chosen promise will be God’s very own 32 pages personal words of love, encouragement, and hope. 9780310760658 JUVENILE FICTION / Glenys Nellist was born and raised in a little village in northern England. Her stories and HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS / poems have been published in children’s magazines where her writing reflects a deep EASTER & LENT passion for bringing the Bible to life for young children. Glenys lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband, David.

A VERY HAPPY EASTER PRAYER Bonnie Rickner Jensen Snuggle up close with your little ones to see why the Easter season is such a very happy time. The weather is warming, flowers are blooming, and cuddly critters are leaving their nests. Join the adorable woodland animals as they thank God for all the blessings of Easter.

Bonnie Rickner Jensen is a bestselling author who for the past 20 years has written everything from children’s books to gift books to thousands of greeting cards. She is the writer behind the bestselling Really Woolly® brand, with nearly 1 million books sold and an ECPA Gold Award–winning Really Woolly Bedtime Prayers. Bonnie has won a Retailer’s Choice Award for her book I Love You Head to Toe and also several Louie Awards for her January 30, 2018 work in the social expression industry. Her favorite inspirations are her grandchildren, run- $8.99 ning, and sun- Die-Cut Board Book shine. She lives 24 pages and works from 9780718075231 her home in JUVENILE FICTION / Cleveland, Ohio. HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS / EASTER & LENT

51 FINDING GOBI: YOUNG READER’S EDITION The True Story of One Little Dog’s Big Journey Dion Leonard Bring home the incredible true story of a friendship so strong that it crosses the globe! You will love the inspiring tale of Gobi, a lost dog who kept pace with an ultramarathon runner, Dion Leonard, across a vast desert. Follow their unlikely friendship through the challenges of an 80-mile race and Dion’s struggle to bring Gobi home for good. Finding Gobi: The True Story of One Little Dog’s Big Journey is the incredible true story of Dion Leonard, an athlete who was befriended by a stray dog while running an ultramarathon through the Gobi Desert. Named for the desert in which he found her, Gobi became Dion’s closest companion for 77 miles of the 155-mile race across China. The scrappy little pup ran mile after mile alongside Dion, through treacherous conditions and across raging rivers. He let her sleep in his tent and share his food, and eventually, his focus shifted from winning to the newfound friendship he and Gobi shared. They crossed the finish line together—not first, but together—and Dion decided to bring Gobi home to Scotland. Just before they were about to leave, however, Gobi disappeared, August 29, 2017 setting off a worldwide search for the stray. In a town of more than 3 million people, the $14.99 search seemed hopeless, but this tale of friendship will surprise and delight you as you find Softcover out what happens! 208 pages 9780718075316 Dion Leonard is a 41 year old Australian who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with his wife JUVENILE NONFICTION / Lucja. Dion has not only completed but competed in some of the world’s toughest ultra ANIMALS / GENERAL marathons across the planet’s most inhospitable landscapes. This includes running across the brutal Moroccan Sahara desert twice in the 250km Marathon Des Sables and also twice across South Africa’s Kalahari Desert, also 250km. Dion’s latest 250km race across the Gobi Desert in China turned out to be a completely different race where he fell in love with a stray dog (later named Gobi) that followed him during the week and who would change both of their lives forever.

GLIMMER & SHINE Faithgirlz - 365 Devotions to Inspire Natalie Grant In Glimmer and Shine: 365 Devotions to Inspire, author and award-winning recording-artist, Natalie Grant, challenges and inspires girls ages 8 and up to be their best selves throughout every daily devotion filled with Bible verses, thought-provoking readings, prayers and interactive weekend pages that include quizzes, coloring pages and more. Girls can be confident and have fun when they decide to follow Jesus. Growing in faith, building up confidence, and trusting God even when we may not know where He is leading can be an adventure when His promises fill each moment. This two-color book of devotions with a ribbon marker and decorated cover provides inspiration for each new day. Glimmer and Shine is designed to speak directly to every type of girl, encouraging each individual reader to take a journey! A journey Faithgirlz readers won’t want to miss. Since her 2005 breakout RIAA Gold certified album Awaken, multi-Grammy nominated October 3, 2017 artist Natalie Grant has remained one of the top-selling Christian and Gospel artists with $15.99 over 3 million in sales. The Gospel Music Association has named her the Female Vocalist Printed Caseside Hardcover of the Year five times, and she has had multiple songs and albums on the Billboard charts. 384 pages More important than accolades, her passion is to help people across the globe discover their 9780310758655 God-given calling and encourage them to live it out to the fullest potential. An outspoken JUVENILE NONFICTION / advocate for victims of human trafficking, Grant cofounded Hope for Justice International a RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / multinational organization that rescues and provides complete restorative care for victims of DEVOTIONAL & PRAYER trafficking. Grant makes her home in Nashville, with her husband producer, and songwriter, Bernie Herms, and their three children: twins Grace and Bella and their youngest, Sadie. Follow Natalie at nataliegrant.com.

52 ADORED 365 Devotions for Young Women In an ever-changing world, we can be certain of one thing: we are beloved by God. Adored: 365 Devotions for Young Women tackles tough topics girls face, from bullying and social media to friendships and dating, all the while showing readers how infinitely precious they are in God’s sight. Each day features an easy-to-read, relevant devotion paired with a scripture verse and journaling space to help readers reflect on the day’s message. With honest, poignant, and sometimes humorous text, every page will speak to the pressures and changes girls face, giving them real-world applications to find God in their hearts and in their lives. Perfect for everyday use, Adored will resonate with girls searching for truth and guidance. Gift givers will love this highly designed book featuring a beautiful, foiled cover, two-color interior pages, and a ribbon marker.

October 3, 2017 $14.99 Printed Caseside Hardcover 384 pages 9780310762799 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / RELIGIOUS / CHRISTIAN / DEVOTIONAL & PRAYER

YOUR OWN BEAUTIFUL Advice and Inspiration from Chelsea Crockett Chelsea Crockett Chelsea Crockett is one of the biggest names in social media today, best known for her popular YouTube channel, BeautyliciousInsider, which she started when she was only thirteen. 2.5 million fans later, and Chelsea’s only just getting started. Chelsea’s debut book, Your Own Beautiful, expands upon the beauty tips and inspirational advice featured on her YouTube channel. A life, faith, and beauty guide for teenage and college-aged girls, Your Own Beautiful offers advice on the big issues all girls face—from self-confidence and friendship to following your dreams. With her signature grace and wit, Chelsea tackles tough questions through uplifting messages influenced by her faith and life experiences. And die-hard fans of BeautyLiciousInsider will be thrilled to find Chelsea’s trademark tips on makeup and style included throughout the book. Part beauty guide, part advice book, Your Own Beautiful will appeal to the readers of Sadie Robertson’s Live Original and Michelle Phan’s Make Up. With a beautiful design featuring full-color photos, how-tos, and more, Your Own Beautiful will become the go-to life guide for young women.

October 24, 2017 Social media sensation Chelsea Crockett made her debut on YouTube as $16.99 BeautyLiciousInsider in 2011, and has since gone on to become a role model for millions Softcover of teens around the globe. Her channel features makeup tutorials, life advice videos, 192 pages and everything in between, including messages about Chelsea’s faith. Chelsea has 9780310762362 appeared in Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and Trend Magazine, among others, and her YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / website, ChelseaCrockett.com, is home to thousands of beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and BODY, MIND & SPIRIT advice posts. Chelsea’s greatest passion is connecting with her fans and subscribers and using her voice to make a positive impact on viewers across the world.

53 LOSING BRAVE Bailee Madison and Stefne Miller From award-winning actress Bailee Madison and Reader’s Choice Award Finalist Stefne Miller, comes Losing Brave. More than a year has passed since seventeen-year-old Payton Brave’s twin sister went missing; and Payton, in her desperate attempt to hold on to what’s left of Dylan’s memory, is starting to crack. Lost in the mystery and turmoil of her sister’s disappearance, Payton must overcome the aftermath of being the one left behind. She’s unable to remember even the smallest piece of what happened the day Dylan vanished. When sudden and reckless outbursts throw her from the graces of popularity to the outskirts of high school society, her new status attracts a crowd of friends she never anticipated—including a troubling romance with her sister’s boyfriend, Cole. New clues unearth about the circumstances of her disappearance when another missing girl’s body is recovered from a nearby lake, the victim’s features eerily similar to Dylan’s. The more Payton pries open the clenches of her blocked memories, yielding to her need to know what happened, the further down the path of danger she goes. The darkness around her sister’s disappearance grows and the truth becomes more and more January 30, 2018 unbearable. And what she finds might just cost her her life. $17.99 Jacketed Hardcover American teen actress Bailee Madison first found success as May Belle Aarons in 352 pages Disney’s film adaptation of the much loved children’s book, Bridge to Terabithia. Two 9780310760542 years later, she was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for her powerful work in YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Brothers, and in 2011, Bailee earned rave reviews for her work in Just Go With It. At THRILLERS & SUSPENSE only seventeen years of age, Bailee has established an impressive resume with roles in more than eighteen films and twenty-two television series, and currently stars in the Hallmark Original Series, Good Witch. Bailee has currently moved behind the camera as a Producer, including the newly released Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket. As a National Spokesperson for Alex’s Lemonade Stand, Bailee is committed to using her public platform to raise awareness for those in need and inspire others to embrace their unique gifts and use them to help change the world for the better.

BLINK Stefne Miller started writing in 2009, and within five years she wrote eight novels, and of those self-published three. She was a Top 15 Finalist in the Goodreads.com Reader’s Choice Awards in the category of Debut Author of 2010. Stefne has completed both the filming ofAnnabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket and the novelization of the film. She also has two feature films in development, and film projects in development based on her novels Salvaged, Rise, and Collision. She currently lives in Edmond, OK, with her husband of twenty-one years and their three teenaged sons.

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55 A SIMPLIFIED LIFE Tactical Tools for Intentional Living Emily Ley Do you long for a way to simplify the demands on your time, energy, and resources? Do the needs of others and the tasks before you leave you without time to breathe, much less pursue your passions? Bring sanity to your chaos with A Simplified Life by Emily Ley, bestselling author and creator of the wildly popular Simplified Planner. It is all too easy to get caught up in the pursuit of that Pinterest-perfect life—but at what cost? As a wife, mother, and busy entrepreneur, Emily Ley knows this narrative all too well, and the need to break out of the spin cycle led her to closely examine her daily life to find places where she could simplify. With insights into all areas of life, A Simplified Life is the result of that personal reflection. Find tips, tricks, and best practices for simplifying your home, your style, your finances, your menu plans, and more in A Simplified Life,the beautiful new four-color book from Emily Ley. You will learn to truly make the most of your days with Emily’s signature simplicity, November 21, 2017 organization, and realistic suggestions. $19.99 Printed Caseside Hardcover A Simplified Life offers expanded tools, tips, resources, and inspiration for nearly every area 224 pages of a woman’s life. This book will go deeper with tools and topics that include: Simplified 9780718098308 Space, Simplified Style, Simplified Eating, Simplified Schedule, Simplified Finances, SELF-HELP / MOTIVATIONAL & Simplified Hospitality, Simplified Tech, Simplified Mind, Simplified Self, and Simplified Faith. INSPIRATIONAL With beautiful photography and luxurious paper, as well as lots of space to jot down notes and ideas, A Simplified Life will be more than just a book you read, but rather an experience you live. Learn step by step how to prioritize and make space for what matters most.

Emily Ley is Founder and Creative Director of Emily Ley Paper & Gifts. She is also the creator of the bestselling Simplified Planner—a daily agenda for what matters most. Emily graduated from the University of West Florida with degrees in English, creative writing, and public administration. She worked in nonprofit management and public relations before launching her brand in 2008. Following the success found at its online home, EmilyLey.com, the Emily Ley brand quickly grew to be carried in over 500 retail outlets across the United States and around the world. Now as a businesswoman, wife, and mama to three, Emily enjoys Friday pizza parties on the living room floor, strong cappuccinos with her college-crush-turned-husband, and making memories to savor for a lifetime with her twins and preschooler.

TRADE YOUR CARES FOR CALM Max Lucado In a swirling, chaotic world, even believers sometimes lose sight of the peace God plans for His children. Trade Your Cares for Calm by bestselling author Max Lucado invites you to live in God’s perfect peace, offering practical ways to set aside anxiety and focus on God, on Scripture, and on the calm only He can bring to your soul. Max’s comforting, biblical wisdom will help you realize God’s peace and provision in your life and equip you to overcome worry and anxiety. Trade Your Cares for Calm will gently guide you to face your fears, reflect on God’s goodness, end “if-only” thinking, live with gratitude, and embrace the peace God offers you. Each chapter includes a short opening story and helpful teachings from Max, Scriptures to meditate on, practical help for practicing peace, and guided journaling to help you put a plan in place to change the way you think and live while drawing closer to God. January 9, 2018 $15.99 An excellent gift for a friend going through a trial of any kind, for people who tend to be Jacketed Hardcover chronic worriers, or for those who are overwhelmed with the busyness of life and want to 208 pages focus their attention to meditating on Scripture and becoming closer to God, Trade Your 9780718074890 Cares for Calm will soothe your soul with the peace God promises. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / INSPIRATIONAL With more than 125 million products in print, Max Lucado is America’s bestselling inspirational author. He serves the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Denalyn, and their mischievous mutt, Andy.

56 THE CHRISTMAS CODE BOOKLET O. S. Hawkins Grow close to the Lord this Advent season with 25 insightful and meaningful devotions from The Christmas Code by bestselling author O. S. Hawkins. Trace the birth of Jesus from its roots in the Old Testament to the ultimate gift of God: salvation. With a short reading each day leading up to Christmas, this devotional will be the perfect way to keep daily focus on the true meaning of Christmas. At only $2.99, this booklet is an excellent value and a gift of appreciation and affection for the people in your life. It is a great gift for friends and family, teachers, pastoral staff, Bible study groups, church congregations, and service providers. Each day includes a passage of Scripture, a devotional thought, a Code Word, and a prayer of reflection. Royalties from the book are donated to Mission:Dignity, a ministry that helps men and women who have faithfully served God’s people for modest pay retire with well-deserved September 5, 2017 dignity, independence, and often the ability to continue serving. $2.99 Softcover For more than 20 years, O. S. Hawkins served pastorates at the First Baptist Church in 64 pages Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and in Dallas, Texas. He is president of GuideStone Financial 9781400309245 Resources, which serves 250,000 pastors, church staff, missionaries, doctors, and other RELIGION / HOLIDAYS / workers of various Christian organizations with their retirement needs. He is the author of CHRISTMAS & ADVENT more than 30 books and preaches regularly at Bible conferences, evangelism conferences, and churches across the nation.

100 DAYS TO BRAVE Devotions for Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self Annie F. Downs No matter where you are in life, no matter what you’re up against or dreaming of or praying for—God has a plan for you. That doesn’t mean it’s always easy or simple. But God promises to be faithful. And He gives you the power to be brave! Find out how to grow your faith and chase your dreams with 100 Days to Brave by Annie F. Downs. Annie F. Downs knows what it’s like to feel that the circumstances you’re walking through are too big, too scary, too different. In her book Let’s All Be Brave, she talked about how God made a path for her to grow in ways she never imagined possible, and how He has those big plans for your life too! Now, in this 100-day guide to being brave, Annie invites you deeper into your own journey. This book will walk you through making major decisions, dealing with a difficult transition, or facing your fears. Through the journey you’ll find a deeper faith with a solid biblical October 24, 2017 basis. One hundred devotions will explore being brave enough to believe God is who He $16.99 says He is and you are who He says you are, being brave enough to dream big, being Printed Caseside Hardcover brave enough to work hard, being brave enough to love and serve others well, and being 224 pages brave enough to persevere, among other topics. 9780310089629 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / The perfect gift for anyone going through a major life transition or maybe just feeling stuck INSPIRATIONAL in a rut—100 Days to Brave will jump-start goals, dreams, and adventures, no matter where you may be in life.

Annie Downs is an author and speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee. Flawed but funny, she uses her writing to highlight the everyday goodness of a real and present God. By weaving together personal stories, humor, and Scripture, she invites the young women reading to experience fulfilled lives with a God who made them on purpose and loves them deeply. When she’s not writing books or traveling for speaking events, Annie spends her days writing all over the internet—blogging at AnnieBlogs.com and incourage.me. Annie is a huge fan of singer/songwriters, burritos, the Internet, her community of friends, and sports of all kinds.

57 THE BELIEVER’S CODE 365 Devotions to Unlock the Blessings of God’s Word O. S. Hawkins God’s Word is filled with blessings and insights that encourage, comfort, and bring joy. Delve into the riches of Scripture through The Believer’s Code, and find each day’s devotional, including Scripture, a daily reading, and a Code Word. The unique Code Words offer a challenge and practical suggestion to put your faith in action. All author royalties from the book are donated to Mission:Dignity to help pastors, their wives and widows in financial need in their declining years.

For more than 20 years, O. S. Hawkins served pastorates at the First Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and in Dallas, Texas. He is president of GuideStone Financial Resources, which serves 250,000 pastors, church staff, missionaries, doctors, and other workers of various Christian organizations with their retirement needs. He is the author of more than 30 books and preaches regularly at Bible conferences, evangelism conferences, and churches across the nation. October 24, 2017 $19.99 Padded Hardcover 400 pages 9780718099534 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / DEVOTIONAL

GRACE, HOPE, AND LOVE MyDaily Devotional Johnny Hunt Grace, Hope, and Love is an inspirational weekly devotional that will encourage and instruct your heart in the ways of the Lord. Fifty-one Southern Baptist pastors and ministry leaders wrote these wise and insightful daily devotions on the timeless topics of the grace, hope, and love God offers His children. Reflect on each daily entry with Scripture passages, a devotion, and a prayer. The eighth annual MyDaily® devotional, compiled by Johnny Hunt, will be an excellent addition to your daily quiet time as you seek to draw near to the Lord. The unique viewpoints of 51 respected church leaders, including Dr. James Merritt, Dr. Ronnie Floyd, Dr. Grant Ethridge, Dr. Don Wilton, Dr. Ted Traylor, and Dr. Michael Cloer, offer you deep wisdom and insight into the heart of God toward His children. Designed with an attractive, luxury package, Grace, Hope, and Love will be a beautiful gift as well as a top choice for those looking for a biblically solid and practical yearlong devotional.

October 24, 2017 ® $19.99 Johnny Hunt is the general editor of Grace, Hope, and Love, part of the MyDaily Premium Leather-Look Devotional series that has sold more than 700,000 copies. Hunt is the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pastor Johnny’s educational credits include a BA in 336 pages religion from Gardner-Webb College. He continued on to Southeastern Baptist Theological 9781400309252 Seminary where he earned a Master of Divinity in 1981. Southeastern honored Pastor RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Johnny in 1997 by naming The Chair of Biblical Preaching in his honor in 1997. He has DEVOTIONAL also received several honorary doctorates over the years for his work in ministry. Hunt and his wife, Janet, enjoy their two daughters, Deanna Carswell and Hollie Hixson, and 4 grandchildren.

58 UNSHAKEABLE 365 Devotions for Finding Unwavering Strength in God’s Word Christine Caine God is bigger than your current story. He is bigger than fear or shame or that small voice in your head that whispers that you are not enough, too broken, or too flawed. Join Him in a closer, daily relationship—one rooted in truth and therefore Unshakeable. In this daily devotional Christine Caine encourages you to find confidence to live as the person God created you to be and to show His power in your life. Bestselling author and international activist Christine Caine knows about shame and fear, and she has experienced firsthand the healing and restorative power found in Christ. Unshakeable, a 365 daily devotional, takes you on an empowering and encouraging journey through the nature of God and how He has plans to fulfill His promises in your life. With her iconic voice declaring boldness and courage, you will find your footing in the Lord and learn what it truly means to be unashamed, undaunted, and unstoppable. To be UNSHAKEABLE. October 24, 2017 $19.99 This beautiful devotinal is a powerful gift for friends and family alike, or the perfect way Printed Caseside Hardcover to jump-start your own faith into action. If you are looking for a way to truly know the Lord, to believe His plans for your life, and to be firm in your identity, Unshakeable is 400 pages the devotional you’ve been waiting for. 9780310090670 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Christine Caine is a recognized teacher, preacher, author, and activist. As a founder DEVOTIONAL of The A21 Campaign, Christine leads one of the largest non-profit organizations in the world dedicated to rescuing victims of human trafficking in twelve countries. Additionally, through her personal ministry, Christine shares messages of hope, encouragement, and freedom in churches across the globe and frequently addresses leaders of some of the world’s largest organizations. Christine and her husband, Nick, spend their time in both Sydney, Australia, and the United States, and they adore their daughters Catie and Sophie.

BE THE GIFT Ann Voskamp Be the Gift, by New York Times-bestselling author Ann Voskamp, will challenge and encourage you to listen to God and look for opportunities to be His gift to others. The idea that even in the depths of our own brokenness God can use each of us to be a gift to someone else is powerful—that He makes each of us enough to give to someone else. Just as powerful is the realization that in becoming God’s gifts to others, our lives become more abundant: “Maybe the only abundant way forward is always to give forward.” Ideas this powerful need to be put into action. Live out the messages in Ann’s bestselling books, The Broken Way and One Thousand Gifts, with Be the Gift, a practical guide that takes you through each day of the year with October 31, 2017 ways to bless those around you. $16.99 Featuring selections from The Broken Way and Ann’s blog, beautifully designed quotations, Printed Caseside Hardcover inspirational verses, and Ann’s signature photography, this gorgeous book will be an 192 pages incredible gift to any loved one. It also includes pages of perforated gift tags in the back to 9780310089384 include with a meal dropped off for an ailing friend or a pie baked for a friendly neighbor or RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / even passed to a friend with a much-loved book. SPIRITUAL GROWTH One Thousand Gifts encouraged readers to live a life of thanksgiving and to chronicle the gifts from God in their everyday lives. The Broken Way reminded that freedom is not found beyond fear and pain, but within it. Now Be the Gift will unpack and chronicle the next step to really live in communion—opening ourselves up to givenness in spite of our brokenness.

Ann Voskamp is the wife of one fine, down-to-earth farmer; a book-reading mama to a posse of seven; and the author of the New York Times bestsellers One Thousand Gifts, which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into more than twenty-one languages, and The Broken Way. Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, Ann knows unspoken brokenness and big country skies and an intimacy with God that touches wounded places. Millions do life with her at her daily photographic online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian sites: annvoskamp.com

59 DEVOTIONS FROM THE MOUNTAINS I lift my eyes up to the mountains—where does my help come from? Reflect on this scripture and other favorites as you enjoy the stunning photography and read through the inspirational readings in Devotions from the Mountains. Inspirational devotions will fill you with peace and wonder at the majesty of the Lord as you enjoy the stunning imagery of God’s creation featured throughout Devotions from the Mountains. Each devotion includes a thought-provoking writing, scriptures, and prayers for you to reflect upon. A thoughtful gift for a friend or a beautiful addition to your own coffee table, Devotions from the Mountains will delight and inspire you as you look to God’s beauty and power in creation.

October 31, 2017 $16.99 Hardcover 224 pages 9780718086855 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / DEVOTIONAL

STAYING STYLISH Cultivating a Confident Look, Style, and Attitude Candace Cameron Bure Candace Cameron Bure, best known as D.J. Tanner from Full House and a New York Times bestselling author, whose faith and wit have delighted audiences for decades, lets you in on her best-kept secrets for Staying Stylish. This gorgeous manual for beauty, style, health, and spiritual wellness will bring all you need to live your most stylish life. As an actress, producer, New York Times bestselling author, and inspirational speaker, Candace Cameron Bure has spent her entire life in the spotlight, and she is well aware of the pressures women face. Throughout her career, Candace has balanced her faith, family, and passion for work and found her spot as a role model to women of all ages— and as a style icon. In her brand-new book Staying Stylish, Candace invites you behind the scenes of her day-to-day life and shares more than 100 tips and tricks for looking and feeling your November 7, 2017 best—both inside and out. Nurture your body, style, and soul as you read through this $22.99 beautiful book full of photos, insider secrets, and exciting ideas to revamp your own life Printed Caseside Hardcover into its best possible version. She offers her insight into balance, spiritual growth, and 256 pages looking great while doing it all. 9780310088059 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / Staying Stylish topics will include personal style, fresh hair and makeup for any age, a INSPIRATIONAL well-balanced diet and fitness regime, and a well-nourished spirit.

Candace Cameron Bure, actress, producer, New York Times bestselling author, inspirational speaker, and Dancing with the Stars season 18 finalist, is both outspoken and passionate about her family and faith. Known to millions worldwide from her role as “D.J. Tanner” on the iconic family sitcom, Full House and more recently Fuller House, Candace continues to flourish in the entertainment industry as a role model to women of all ages. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband and three children.

60 GOD’S PROMISES® COLORING BOOK Jack Countryman Relax and reflect on God’s goodness and provision with the God’s Promises® Coloring Book. If you are looking for a way to incorporate more Scripture into your day-to-day life and to enjoy a deeper understanding of God’s love and promises for you, this coloring book is especially for you. Perforated pages and lay-flat binding give the coloring book a high-end feel, and the 6 x 8 trim size is perfect to slip into any purse or bag. Reflect on the life-changing promises of God as you spend quiet time coloring. Inspired by the bestselling books by Jack Countryman, with more than 10 million copies sold. Let the images of nature and inspirational words wash over you as you spend time coloring and considering how God has been faithful in your life.

Jack Countryman is the founder of JCountryman® Gift Books, a division of Thomas Nelson Publishers, and the recipient of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award. Over the past 30 years he has developed bestselling gift books such as God’s Promises® for Your Every Need, God’s Promises® for Men, God’s November 7, 2017 Promises® for Women, and God Listens. $9.99 Countryman’s books have sold more Softcover than 20 million units. 112 pages 9780718098681 GAMES & ACTIVITIES / COLORING BOOK

SACRED REST Finding the Sabbath in the Everyday Cheryl Wunderlich Discover the soul-soothing peace of rest as God designed it to be. Sacred Rest: Finding the Sabbath in the Everyday offers insight, prayers, and exercises to help you practice proven steps to a life that is rich and at ease, even on the most chaotic of days. One hundred devotions interspersed with prayers, Scripture verses, and inspirational callouts will be welcome relief in our stressed and overwhelmed culture.

Life never slows down on its own. There is always one more deadline to make, one more commitment to honor, one more late night at the office, one more emergency to handle. With the concept of rest so attractive and yet seemingly unattainable, many people have grown disillusioned with what true rest for the soul could even resemble in their own lives. God’s command on the topic is as simple in theory as it is difficult to practice: Rest. Be still. Yet the daily grind beckons, and so many believers continue life at a pace that leaves no time for godly, biblical rest. Author Cheryl Wunderlich knows this story well. As a busy wife, mother, women’s ministry leader, and professional, she didn’t have time to slow down and consider rest until she was November 21, 2017 knocked flat on her back with a cancer diagnosis—not once, but three times. In the midst of $14.99 her battle with cancer, she finally heard the still, small voice inviting her to find her hope and Printed Caseside Hardcover her rest in the Lord. 224 pages 9780718097332 Sacred Rest comes from these trenches and invites you into God’s truest definition of rest. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / By engaging with 100 devotions, interspersed with prayers, Scripture verses, and biblical DEVOTIONAL examples of rest, come and learn God’s original plans for rest, work, and a more balanced— more enjoyable—life.

Cheryl Wulderlich has a heart for ministering to women and has served as a Bible teacher, speaker and one-on-one mentor for the past 20 years. As a three-time cancer survivor, she has learned how to draw near to God and cling to His Word in the trials of life. Building upon these life lessons, she has authored several Bible studies. A stay-at- home mom, Cheryl resides in Portage, Michigan, with her husband, daughter and Bernese mountain dog, Oakley. She always keeps the door open for her two college-age sons who re-appear occasionally with loads of laundry looking for a home-cooked meal.

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63 FOUR VIEWS ON THE CHURCH’S MISSION Counterpoints: Bible and Theology Ruth A. Tucker Jonathan Leeman, Christopher J. H. Wright, John Franke, Peter Leithart, Contributors; Jason S. Sexton, General Editor This book articulates various evangelical views regarding the church’s mission and provides a healthy, vigorous, and gracious debate on this controversial topic. In a helpful Counterpoints format, this volume demonstrates the unique theological frameworks, doctrinal convictions, and missiological conclusions that inform and distinguish the views: • Soteriological Mission: Jonathan Leeman • Participatory Mission: Christopher Wright • Contextual Mission: John Franke • Ecumenical-Political Mission: Peter Leithart Each of the four contributors is to answer the same key questions based on their biblical interpretations and theological convictions. What is your biblical-theological framework for mission? How does your definition of mission inform your understanding of the church’s mission? How does the Mission of God and Kingdom of God relate to the mission of the church? What is the gospel? How does your view on the gospel inform the mission of the October 24, 2017 church? How do verbal proclamation of the gospel, discipleship, corporate worship, caring $16.99 for the poor, social justice, restoring shalom, developing culture, and international missions Softcover fit into the church’s mission? 224 pages 9780310522737 The interaction between the contributors will help readers get a clearer picture of where the RELIGION / CHRISTIAN differences lie and why different conclusions are drawn and provide a fresh starting point for THEOLOGY / GENERAL discussion and debate of the church’s mission.

FOUR VIEWS ON CREATION, EVOLUTION, AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN Counterpoints: Bible and Theology Ken Ham, Hugh Ross, Deborah B. Haarsma, Stephen C. Meyer, Contributors; J. B. Stump, General Editor Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design presents the current “state of the conversation” about origins among evangelicals representing four key positions: • Young Earth Creationism - Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis) • Old Earth (Progressive) Creationism - Hugh Ross (Reasons to Believe) • Evolutionary Creation - Deborah B. Haarsma (BioLogos) • Intelligent Design - Stephen C. Meyer (The Discovery Institute) The contributors offer their best defense of their position addressing questions such as: What is your position on origins - understood broadly to include the physical universe, life, and human beings in particular? What do you take to be the most persuasive arguments in defense of your position? How do you demarcate and correlate evidence about origins from current science and from divine revelation? What hinges on answering these questions correctly? November 21, 2017 $19.99 J. B. Stump (PhD, Boston University) is Senior Editor at BioLogos where he oversees Softcover the development of new content and curates existing content for the website and print 240 pages materials. He has authored Science and Christianity: An Introduction to the Issues 9780310080978 (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming) and co-authored (with Chad Meister) Christian Thought: RELIGION / RELIGION & A Historical Introduction (Routledge, 2010). He has co-edited (with Alan Padgett) The SCIENCE Blackell Companion to Science and Christianity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) and (with Kathryn Applegate) How I Changed My Mind About Evolution (Intervarsity, forthcoming).

64 CELEBRATE RECOVERY JOURNAL UPDATED EDITION John Baker Specifically tied to the eight recovery principles of the Celebrate Recovery program, the Celebrate Recovery Journal is specially designed to help you go through the recovery process step-by-step. Includes tips on how to benefit from journaling, Scriptures pulled from the Celebrate Recovery program, and a 90-day review.

John Baker is the founder of Celebrate Recovery®, a ministry started at Saddleback Church. It is estimated that over the last 25 years more than 3.5 million people have gone through this Christ-centered recovery program. There are currently over 27,000 churches that have weekly Celebrate Recovery meetings. John has been on staff since Celebrate Recovery started. He has served as the Pastor of Membership, the Pastor of Ministries, and is currently the Pastor of Saddleback Church’s Signature Ministries. He is also serving as one of the nine Elder Pastors at Saddleback. John is a nationally known speaker and trainer in helping churches start Celebrate Recovery ministries. John’s writing accomplishments include Celebrate Recovery’s The Journey Begins Curriculum, Life’s Healing Choices, the Celebrate Recovery Study Bible (general June 27, 2017 editor), and The Landing and Celebration Place (coauthor). John’s newest books are Your $12.99 First Step to Celebrate Recovery and The Celebrate Recovery Devotional (coauthor). Printed Caseside Hardcover 256 pages 9780310090342 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / DEVOTIONAL

* Also available: CHURCH OF THE SMALL THINGS Church of the Small STUDY GUIDE Things Video Study Making a Difference Right Where You Are (9780310081364) Melanie Shankle In this six-session study video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), bestselling author and popular blogger Melanie Shankle speaks directly to the heart of women of all ages who are longing to find significance and meaning in the normal, everyday world of attending class on their college campus, driving carpool to soccer practice, cooking a meal for their family, or taking care of a sick loved one. There’s a quote that says “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” And the pressure of that can be staggering, as we spend our days looking for that big thing that promises to take our breath away. Meanwhile, we lose sight of the small significance of fully living with every breath we take. October 3, 2017 It doesn’t matter how old we are or what kind of work we do, we’ve all wondered at times, $12.99 “Does my life really matter? Do the everyday events and messy moments make any kind of Softcover difference? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and 144 pages cooking chicken for dinner?” 9780310081340 RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / In each session Melanie uses humorous stories told in her signature light-hearted style to offer SPIRITUAL GROWTH women the grace to embrace what it means to live a small, yet incredibly meaningful life and how to find all the beauty and laughter that lies right beneath the surface of every moment. The study guide is designed for use with the Church of the Small Things Video Study (sold separately).

Melanie Shankle writes regularly at The Big Mama Blog and is the New York Times bestselling author of three books, including Nobody’s Cuter Than You. She is a graduate of Texas A&M and loves writing, shopping at Target, checking to see what’s on sale at Anthropologie, and trying to find the lighter side in every situation. Most of all, she loves being the mother of Caroline, the wife of her husband, Perry, and the official herder of two wild dogs named Piper and Mabel. The five of them live in San Antonio.

65 PROVERBS The Story of God Bible Commentary Ryan P. O’Dowd; Tremper Longman III, Scot McKnight, General Editors A new commentary for today’s world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike. Three easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God’s story: • LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible’s grand story • EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting • LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students

Ryan O’Dowd (PhD, University of Liverpool) is senior visiting lecturer at Cornell University October 10, 2017 and the pastor of Bread of Life Anglican Church Ithaca, New York. $36.99 Printed Caseside Hardcover 640 pages 9780310491132 RELIGION / BIBLICAL COMMENTARY / OLD TESTAMENT

* Also available: THE DANIEL DILEMMA STUDY GUIDE The Daniel Dilemma How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture Video Study of Compromise (9780310088592) Chris Hodges As Christians, how do we not only stay engaged with the ever-shifting, ungodly culture around us but also influence it for good? How do we stand strong without becoming brittle and dogmatic? How do we love people vastly different in their attitudes and lifestyles without compromising our biblical beliefs? These questions are being asked by Christians today from breakfast tables to water coolers to Bible study groups. The book of Daniel provides us with clear answers. At the young age of sixteen, the Babylo- nians enslaved Daniel and took him from his homeland. Yet for the next seventy years of his captivity, Daniel remained firmly dedicated to God and his faith without yielding to the pagan influences of the culture around him. In so doing, he demonstrates to us today how we can remain standing strong when everyone around us is bowing down to cultural idols. And Daniel did it without becoming rude, insulting, or angry! He understood the goal wasn’t to be right but to have influence. Christians are likewise called to take a stand today to October 17, 2017 reveal God’s truth and light, not their own. Daniel showed grace and truth to the people $10.99 around him—just like Jesus did, and just like we’re called to do to a world in desperate Softcover need of the gospel. 112 pages 9780310088578 Designed for use with the Daniel Dilemma Video Study (sold separately). RELIGION / BIBLICAL STUDIES / BIBLE STUDY GUIDES Chris Hodges is the founding and senior pastor of Church of the Highlands. Under his leadership, Church of the Highlands offers fifty-four worship services each weekend at fifteen campuses with over 43,000 people attending weekly. He also co-founded the Association of Related Churches, launched a coaching network called GROW, and serves as Chancellor of The Highlands College, an accredited two-year ministry training college. Chris and his wife, Tammy, have five children and live in Birmingham, Alabama.

66 DANCE, STAND, RUN STUDY GUIDE * Also available: The God-Inspired Moves of a Woman on Dance, Stand, Run Video Study Holy Ground (9780310090236) Jess Connolly In this six-session video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), author Jess Connolly reminds us that grace is always good news. But have we forgotten about holiness? If you want to change the world and not be changed by it, you need the transformation of both. Connolly has lived in the tension between grace and holiness, just like you. In this video study, Jess leads you through her discovery that holiness was never meant to be a shaming reminder of what we “should” be doing, but rather a profound privilege of being shaped into Christ-likeness so that we can join God’s mission of changing the world. Dance, Stand, Run is an invitation to the modern Christian woman to step into the movements of abundant life: dancing in grace, standing firm in holiness, and running on mission. And October 24, 2017 the best news of all? You already have everything you need. As a daughter of God, He has $12.99 already named you holy, He has set you apart for His holy purposes, and He has more than Softcover equipped you for the job. Through story and study, Jess casts a fresh vision for what it looks 112 pages like to live set apart as women of God in today’s culture, and how you can be a catalyst for 9780310090212 good right where you are. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE / SPIRITUAL GROWTH For anyone longing to make their mark with holy influence, Dance, Stand, Run will rally your strength, refresh your purpose, and energize your faith in a God who calls us to be like Him. Designed for use with the Dance, Stand, Run Video Study (sold separately).

Jess Connolly is a gal who wants to leave her world more in awe of God than she found it. She’s the founder of Amen Paper Company, the cofounder of The Influence Network, and she is passionate about using her words to point women to Jesus through writing and speaking. She coauthored the bestselling book Wild and Free and writes at jessconnolly.com. She and her husband planted Gospel Community, a church in Charleston, SC where they live with their four wild kids and their sweet dog.

SANCTIFICATION New Studies in Dogmatics Michael Allen; Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain, General Editors New Studies in Dogmatics seeks to retrieve the riches of Christian doctrine for the sake of contemporary theological renewal. Following in the tradition of G. C. Berkouwer’s Studies in Dogmatics, this series will provide thoughtful, concise, and readable treatments of major theological topics, expressing the biblical, creedal, and confessional shape of Christian doctrine for a contemporary evangelical audience. The editors and contributors share a common conviction that the way forward in constructive systematic theology lies in building upon the foundations laid in the church’s historic understanding of the Word of God as professed in its creeds, councils, and confessions, and by its most trusted teachers.

Michael Allen (PhD, Wheaton College) is Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL. Michael is a Presbyterian teaching elder and is the author of several books, including Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation (with Scott Swain) and Justification and the Gospel: Understanding the Contexts and Controversies, as well as many articles on Christian doctrine and historical theology. His articles have been published October 24, 2017 in the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Journal of Theological Interpretation, $34.99 Scottish Journal of Theology, Horizons in Biblical Theology, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Softcover Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, and Themelios. He serves as general editor 352 pages (with Scott Swain) for T&T Clark’s International Theological Commentary and Zondervan’s 9780310491460 New Studies in Dogmatics series and as book review editor for the International Journal of RELIGION / CHRISTIAN Systematic Theology. THEOLOGY / SOTERIOLOGY

67 * Also available: IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MESS In The Middle of the STUDY GUIDE Mess Video Study Strength for This Beautiful, Broken Life (9780310089452) Shiela Walsh In this six-session video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), bestselling author Sheila Walsh shares a practical method she has learned for connecting with God and leaning on his strength in the midst of trials. The first step in this process is being vulnerable and welcoming God into the innermost hurt. From that place of honesty, we can begin to form a daily relationship with Christ through confession, prayer, and meditation on Scripture. As we tap into God’s strength and build up a godly community to support us, we are equipped with new spiritual defenses to help us withstand the enemy. We are able to persevere in the midst of challenges and see how God is working through those struggles. Thriving—not merely surviving— becomes our goal, and we find freedom as a child of God who is fully known, fully loved, and fully accepted. November 7, 2017 Throughout the study, Sheila bares her heart by sharing the hardened defenses that kept her from $12.99 being fully known by God—including those that bubbled up after the recent loss of her mother. She Softcover reveals how entering into this safe place with God and practicing a daily connection with him has 144 pages since saved her from the devil’s prowling attacks. Participants in the study will learn how to: • Acknowledge their brokenness and their journey through it 9780310089438 • Form a daily, practical relationship with Jesus that is honest and healing by intentionally using RELIGION / CHRISTIAN LIFE the spiritual practices of confession, prayer, and meditation • Understand the importance of fostering a small group of friends with whom they can build a safe community and reveal intimate struggles • Put down the lies they tell themselves and pick up the truth that only God provides • Speak powerful prayers out loud that kill shame and allow hope to flourish from within As Sheila says, though we will never be completely “fixed” on earth, we can celebrate the truth that we are being saved continually through Christ. Designed for use with the In the Middle of the Mess Video Study (sold separately).

Sheila Walsh is a powerful communicator, Bible teacher, and bestselling author with more than five million books sold. She is the author of the award-winningGigi, God’s Little Princess series, Peace for Today, Loved Back to Life, The Storm Inside, Five Minutes with Jesus and The Longing in Me. She is cohost of Life Today with James and Betty Robison.

MATTHEW The Story of God Bible Commentary Series Rodney Reeves; Tremper Longman III, Scot McKnight, General Editors A new commentary for today’s world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike.

Three easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God’s story: • LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible’s grand story • EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting • LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes November 7, 2017 contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students $36.99 Printed Caseside Hardcover Rodney Reeves (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is dean of The 640 pages Courts Redford College of Theology and Ministry and professor of biblical studies at 9780310327141 Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri. RELIGION / BIBLICAL COMMENTARY / NEW TESTAMENT

68 * Also available: MAKE YOUR MOVE STUDY GUIDE Make Your Move Finding Unshakable Confidence Despite Your Video Study Fears and Failures (9780310084471) Lynn Cowell In this six-session Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), author and Proverbs 31 Minis- tries speaker Lynn Cowell explores how confidence-in-question keeps us from boldly experienc- ing what God intends for our lives. Dive into six stories in the Bible of not-so-well-known women who found themselves needing confidence to make their move, and how they uncovered the faith to get it. Lynn encourages women to leave behind all the unnecessary insecurity this world induces and find confidence in God alone. Learn from the Daughters of Zelophehad, the Women of Exodus, the Sisters of Bethany, Rahab, Debora, Abigail and Michal how to: • Intentionally build your confidence on the one thing that cannot be taken from you. • Recover from defeating decisions to move forward toward a strong self-worth. • Position yourself to not lose your poise—even in the worst circumstances. • Identify and address the fears that keep you stuck, with practical steps to walk in your calling with confidence. November 14, 2017 This study is for any woman who’s ready to dig into God’s Word to find confidence and boldness $14.99 to do great things. This book includes personal Bible study as well as group discussion ques- Softcover tions. The study can be completed by individuals as well as in groups. 208 pages 9780310084457 Designed for use with the companion Make Your Move Video Study (sold separately). RELIGION / BIBLICAL STUDIES / Lynn Cowell is a part of the Proverbs 31 Ministries speaking team, speaking to pre-teens, BIBLE STUDY GUIDES teens, multi-generational and women’s conferences and retreats on a regular basis. Girls often come up to her saying, “How did you know that’s what I was going through?” Hearing direction and guidance on critical issues they face, Lynn encourages them to reach their fullest potential by finding the relationship in Christ they were created them for. As a regular contrib- utor for the Proverbs 31 Ministries’ daily devotions, Encouragement for Today, her devotions reach an audience of over 800,000 subscribers.

BASICS OF HEBREW DISCOURSE A Guide to Working with Hebrew Narrative and Poetry Matthew H. Patton, Frederic Clarke Putnam, Miles V. Van Pelt Basics of Hebrew Discourse: A Guide to Working with Hebrew Narrative and Poetry by Matthew H. Patton, Frederick Clarke Putnam, and Miles V. Van Pelt is a syntax resource for intermediate Hebrew students. This Basics book introduces students to the principles and exegetical benefits of discourse analysis (text linguistics) when applied to biblical Hebrew narrative and poetry. Where standard Hebrew reference grammars have traditionally worked to describe the relationship between words and phrases within discrete clauses (micro syntax), discourse analysis works to describe those relationships that exist between clauses and texts (macro syntax).

Matthew Patton is Pastor of Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Vandalia, Ohio. He has his PhD in Biblical Theology-Old Testament from Wheaton College, and has taught at Wheaton College, Mid-America Reformed Seminary, and several seminaries overseas. His passion is equipping pastors to preach Christ from all the Scriptures. He and his wife November 21, 2017 have seven children and reside on an 1847 farm with a panoply of God’s creatures, great $29.99 and small. Softcover 192 pages Frederic Clarke Putnam (PhD, Annenberg Research Institute) is associate professor of Bi- 9780310535768 ble & Liberal Studies, The Templeton Honors College at Eastern University. He has taught RELIGION / BIBLICAL Hebrew grammar, discourse, and exegesis since 1984, and has published three previous REFERENCE / LANGUAGE books on Biblical Hebrew. He and his family live in southeast Pennsylvania. STUDY Miles Van Pelt (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Alan Belcher Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, where he also serves as Academic Dean. Miles lives in Madison, Mississippi, with his wife, Laurie, and their four children.

69 RETRIEVING ETERNAL GENERATION Fred Sanders and Scott R. Swain, Editors Although the doctrine of eternal generation has been affirmed by theologians of nearly every ecclesiastical tradition since the fourth century, it has fallen on hard times among evangelical theologians since the nineteenth century. The doctrine has been a structural element in two larger doctrinal complexes: Christology and the Trinity. The neglect of the doctrine of eternal generation represents a great loss for constructive evangelical Trinitarian theology. Retrieving the doctrine of eternal generation for contemporary evangelical theology calls for a multifaceted approach. Retrieving Eternal Generation addresses (1) the hermeneutical logic and biblical bases of the doctrine of eternal generation; (2) key historical figures and moments in the development of the doctrine of eternal generation; and (3) the broad dogmatic significance of the doctrine of eternal generation for theology. The book addresses both the common modern objections to the doctrine of eternal generation and presents the productive import of the doctrine for twenty-first century evangelical theology. Contributors include Michael Allen, Lewis Ayres, D. A. Carson, Oliver Crisp, and more. November 21, 2017 $34.99 Fred Sanders (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology in the Torrey Softcover Honors Institute at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is author of numerous 304 pages books including The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything and Dr. Doctrines’ Christian Comix. He is coeditor of Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory 9780310537878 Christology. RELIGION / CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY / GENERAL Scott Swain is Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is author of several books, including The God of the Gospel: The Trinitarian Theology of Robert Jenson, and Trinity, Revelation, and Reading: A Theological Introduction to the Bible and its Interpretation. He serves as general editor (with Michael Allen) for T&T Clark’s International Theological Commentary and Zondervan’s New Studies in Dogmatics series. He is a regular blogger at Reformation21.

THE TASK OF DOGMATICS Explorations in Theological Method Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders, Editors Theologians often discuss method in a remote and preliminary way that suggests they are not yet speaking theologically when speaking methodologically. But it is also possible to reflect on the work of Christian dogmatics in a way that is self-consciously nourished by biblical reasoning, resourced by tradition, joined up with ecclesial practice, and alert to spiritual dynamics. Bringing together theologians who are actively engaged in the writing and editing of extended dogmatics projects, The Task of Dogmatics represents the proceedings of the 2017 Los Angeles Theology Conference and seeks to provide constructive accounts of the nature of the dogmatic task.

Oliver D. Crisp (PhD University of London, DLitt University of Aberdeen) is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and a professorial fellow of the Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, University of St Andrews. November 21, 2017 $29.99 Fred Sanders (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology in the Torrey Softcover Honors Institute at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is author of numerous 240 pages books including The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything and Dr. 9780310535492 Doctrines’ Christian Comix. He is coeditor of Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory RELIGION / CHRISTIAN Christology. THEOLOGY / SYSTEMATIC

70 RESOURCING THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY A Constructive Account of Humanity in the Light of Christ Marc Cortez Theologians working in theological anthropology often claim that Jesus reveals what it means to be “truly human,” but this often has little impact in their actual account of anthropology. ReSourcing Theological Anthropology addresses that lack by offering an account of why theological anthropology must begin with Christology. Building off his earlier study on how key theologians in church history have understood the relationship between Christology and theological anthropology, Cortez now develops a new proposal for theological anthropology and applies it to the theological situation today. ReSourcing Theological Anthropology is divided into four sections. The first section explores the relevant Christological/anthropological biblical passages and unpacks how they inform our understanding of theological anthropology. The second section discusses the theological issues raised in the course of surveying the biblical texts. The third section lays out a methodological framework for how to construct a uniquely Christological anthropology. The final section builds on the first three sections and demonstrates January 9, 2018 the significance of Christology for understanding theological anthropology by applying $36.99 the methodological framework to several pressing anthropological issues: gender and Printed Caseside Hardcover sexuality, race and ethnicity, and death and suffering. 304 pages 9780310516439 Marc Cortez (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is Associate Professor of Theology at RELIGION / CHRISTIAN Wheaton College Graduate School. He is author of Theological Anthropology and THEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies and has published articles in academic journals such as International Journal of Systematic Theology, Scottish Journal of Theology, and Westminster Theological Journal. Marc blogs at Everyday Theology (marccortez.com), writes a monthly article for Christianity.com, and had articles featured on The Gospel Coalition and Christian Post.

PREACHING GOD’S WORD, SECOND EDITION A Hands-On Approach to Preparing, Developing, and Delivering the Sermon Terry G. Carter, J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays People in churches today are hungry for a word from God. Preachers need to prepare and deliver sound biblical sermons that connect with their audience in a meaningful way. Whether you are a student who is new to preaching or a veteran looking to brush up your preaching skills, you will benefit from Preaching God’s Word. Good preaching begins with good exegesis. The second edition of Preaching God’s Word is a user- friendly, practical, and proven textbook that walks you through the five steps of the “Interpretive Journey” from the biblical text to contemporary application: • Grasp the text in their town (what it meant to the original audience). • Measure the width of the river that separates the biblical context from today. • Cross the principle bridge by identifying the timeless theological principles. • Consult the biblical map. • Grasp the text in our town. January 30, 2018 $37.99 While the science of solid biblical interpretation is essential to effective preaching, it must be Printed Caseside Hardcover married to the art of contemporary communication in order to bring the message home. Preaching God’s Word also shows you how to understand your audience, develop powerful applications, use 320 pages illustrations well, and deliver the sermon effectively. The concluding chapters discuss the unique 9780310536246 preaching challenges presented by the various biblical genres, providing interpretive keys, things to RELIGION / CHRISTIAN avoid, and numerous examples. MINISTRY / PREACHING Terry G. Carter (PhD, Southwesterrn Baptist Theological Seminary) is chair of the department of Christian ministries and holder of the W.O. Vaught Chair in the Pruet School of Christian Studies at Ouachita Baptist University. He teaches homiletics, pastoral ministry, Christian history, evangelism and church growth, missions, and survey of the Bible. He is author of The Journal and Selected Letters of William Carey.

J. Scott Duvall (PhD. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of New Testament at Ouachita Baptist University. He is the coauthor with George H. Guthrie of Biblical Greek Exegesis and Advanced Greek and with Terry G. Carter and J. Daniel Hays of the textbook Preaching God’s Word.

J. Daniel Hays (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is dean of the Pruet School of Christian Studies and professor of Old Testament at Ouachita Baptist University. He is the author of From Every People and Nation, and he has coauthored Grasping God’s Word; Preaching God’s Word; Journey into God’s Word; The Story of Israel: A Biblical Theology; Iraq: Babylon of the End Times?; Apocalypse; and The Dictionary of Biblical Prophecy. He teaches adult Sunday school at his local church in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and preaches frequently throughout the nation.

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74 NIRV ADVENTURE BIBLE FOR EARLY READERS Lawrence O. Richards Ready for Adventure? Dive into the #1 Bible for Kids! The NIrV Adventure Bible® for Early Readers takes you on a fun, exciting journey through God’s Word. Along the way you’ll meet all types of people, see all sorts of places, and learn all kinds of things about the Bible. Most importantly, you’ll grow closer in your relationship with God. Here’s a quick tour through the features: • Life in Bible Times - Articles and illustrations describe what life was like in ancient days • People in Bible Times - Articles offer close-up looks at amazing people of the Bible • Let’s Live It! - Hands-on activities help you apply biblical truths to your life • Did You Know? - Interesting facts help you understand God’s Word • Words to Treasure - Great verses to memorize • Twenty special pages - Games and other Bible fun, all with a jungle safari theme • Book introductions, a dictionary, and color maps Includes the complete New International Reader’s Version (NIrV), perfect for children January 2, 2018 learning to read and explore the Bible for the first time on their own. $31.99 Printed Caseside Hardcover 1584 pages 9780310761396 BIBLES / NEW INTERNATIONAL READER’S VERSION / CHILDREN

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