Giveaways
Year: 2020
Fiction
The Damascus Countdown – Joel Rosenberg
I ended my review of The Tehran Initiative by saying that I hoped Rosenberg redeemed what I felt like was a very weak second installment in the third and final book. And then…I never read […]
Non-Fiction
Do Miracles Happen Today? – Tim Chester
Such a small book for such a big question. Do Miracles Happen Today? In a palm-sized book of about ninety pages, Tim Chester—pastor of Grace Church in Boroughbridge, UK—provides a brief apologetic for the presence […]
Children's Books
Little Bible Heroes: The Little Giver/Zacchaeus
Two stories in one book! The Little Bible Heroes flip-over book series is an easy to read and fun to look at retelling of biblical stories in a way that even the youngest of children […]
Fiction
The Happy Camper – Melody Carlson
Ah, wouldn’t it be great to just pick up and leave a drab, disappointing life and drive off to a new beginning complete with loving family and a potentially hot romance? That’s what protagonist Dillon […]
Fiction
The End of the Magi – Patrick Carr
The Magi have been shrouded in legend since their singular, enigmatic appearance in the Gospels. By AD 500, the early church fathers had reworked them as kings. Later reformers, such as John Calvin, pushed back […]
Children's Books
Hunger Winter – Rob Currie
It’s the middle of World War II. The Nazis are closing in on the leader of the Dutch Resistance. And his children must go on the run to save themselves from the Gestapo. Hunger Winter […]
Fiction
Indivisible – Travis Thrasher
Novelizations are never easy. As an author, you’re expected to take a screenplay—and perhaps, but not always, watch the film—and do some imaginary acting and flesh out the characters, their internal monologues, and do the […]
Fiction
God’s Not Dead 2 – Travis Thrasher
Not even the writing talents of Travis Thrasher can redeem this fiery dumpster heap of a film/plot. Following the success of God’s Not Dead—a mediocre Christian-feel-good story about a college student whose faith is challenged […]
Fiction
Star of Persia: Esther’s Story | Jill Eileen Smith
Writing Biblical fiction is no easy task, particularly when the chosen protagonist is also the protagonist of an entire book of the Bible. With ten novels of lesser-known biblical women in the rearview mirror, Jill […]