Imagine never taking risks…
Julie Pastel never dates and views the romantic world through books and movies. she never take risks. That changes when she arrives at college. Enter her roommate outspoken, outgoing, and outrageous Burkie Vivid, who knows how to meet boys. Burkie has a plan to introduce Julie to the world of dating. The reluctant Julie agrees. The dating plan is short lived when they become pawns in a power struggle to remove the College President, and they are suspended for ten days. After returning home, Burkie uncovers a sixty year old mystery about her aunt and her friend fighting over a guy they met on a road trip that followed Route 66. The mystery is who got the guy? The roommates find themselves driving Route 66 too. Emotions heat up between Burkie and Julie as they also clash over a guy. Julie and Burkie are loveable and sympathetic and learn that acceptance of each other will help them through life, but faith is equally important…in this coming of age journey.
Silver Springtime by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer
The agony of unrequited love, dates, dresses and exams all make life confusing during the teen years… Are there answers to be found in the social conventions of the previous generation, the developments of modern psychology taught in class, the theology touted at worship or in the depths of soul searching and personal experience? This story belongs to the genre known as “Bildungsroman” or novel of development.
Targeted Age Group:: 16 to Adult
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born,and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to gain, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."
In this story, it is the main character's time to grown and develop, an essential and sometimes challenging process for us all.
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Faith and Love by Cecelia Hopkins
A sincere Christian girl seeking love in the 1980s.
After breaking up with her long term boyfriend, Kathy just wants to have fun! She declares to her friends that she would never go out with a ministerial candidate – so what is she to do about Andrew who appears to be waiting patiently for her to notice him?
Faith and Love continues to tell the story of the loves and losses of the students you met in the first Silver Springs University story: Silver Springtime. If you thought you knew where everyone was heading – expect some surprises and changes!
Targeted Age Group:: 16 to Adult
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
While this book is fiction, and all the characters are created out of my imagination, it was also inspired by my own youth. The story brings to life reminiscences of good times had during the 1980s; and also includes a loving tribute to a lost friend – but to say more would be a spoiler.
Featured Book: A Question of Faith by Lynn Landes
Abbilene loses her husband and her dreams in the fire that destroys the flour mill. The town is crying out for answers, and the Mayor promises justice. During the reading of her husband’s will, Abbilene’s faith is tested when she discovers the true depths of his betrayal. She will inherit the mill and the money to rebuild as long as she adopts his son, left in an orphanage in San Francisco. The son no one knew existed. How can she love a child her husband fathered with another woman?
Tucker Manning, childhood friend and Sheriff, is ordered by the Mayor to uncover the truth of the explosion that took eight lives. He doesn’t believe the rumors around town about Abbilene and Sterling, her husband’s cousin. Could the woman he grew up with have planned and plotted to get rid of her husband and inherit the mill? The past has shown him that some women aren’t to be trusted, but Abbie is different. Isn’t she?
There are those who do not want the mill rebuilt and seek to stop Abbie at all costs. Even if that means harming a child. With Tucker at her side, they must retrieve the child and return home to finalize his adoption.
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The Message for the Last Days by K.J. Soze
The Message for the Last Days by K.J. Soze
“The Message for the Last Days” explains the history and progression of end time prophecies found within and outside of the Bible. It reveals the original message compared to changes in culture over time leading to our vastly different modern interpretations. This new book explains how to get back to God’s intentional gospel for the end of our age.
This new book by K.J. Soze is a refresher course in biblical and historical studies but with some additional revelations that are not widely known. It is a revealer of inconspicuous details about the Bible along with showing how it applies to us today.
“The Message for the Last Days” explains how we often use pre-conceived beliefs to interpret the Bible conversely from the Bible itself determining our beliefs. This conflict is based upon evolving beliefs derived from cultural changes over time that have led us to numerous denominations, sects, and belief systems.
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Featured Book: Your Journey To Becoming Unskippable (in your business, life & career) by Jim Kukral
About Your Journey To Becoming Unskippable (in your business, life & career) by Jim Kukral
Struggling to reach the people who matter? Discover a new mentality to help you stand out from the crowd.
Having trouble making an impact in today’s distracted world? Are your online efforts falling on deaf ears? Have tried-and-true marketing tactics led to nothing but disappointment? Keynote speaker and thought leader Jim F. Kukral is a recognized business branding expert whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. With his finger on the pulse of the modern marketplace, he’ll show you how to use today’s connection-driven mindset to make the most of your life and work.
Your Journey to Becoming Unskippable demystifies a world where customers think and act differently. Using case studies and anecdotes, Kukral shares how to stop consumers from scrolling past your content and get them to start paying attention. Written in a conversational style, this book helps instill followers with true belief in your business, giving you a powerful edge over your competition now and well into the future.
In Your Journey to Becoming Unskippable, you’ll discover:
Intuitive stories that show you the practical application of groundbreaking concepts
How to let go of old ideas to avoid mistakes and plan for the changing times
New ways of thinking that rise above old-fashioned marketing and earn lifetime customers
Tactics to showcase common-held beliefs to help you attract the right attention
Methods to employ the “unskippable” concept right away for immediate results, and much, much more!
Your Journey to Becoming Unskippable is your essential guide to changing the way you achieve true success. If you like practical ideas, no-nonsense approaches, and honest advice from a renowned expert, then you’ll love Jim F. Kukral’s fresh take on today’s transformed business world.
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Featured Book: Christ 3ye Alch3my: The Rising Stars of the Apocalypse The Origin of Spiritual Transfiguration by Babatunde Soremekun
About Christ 3ye Alch3my: The Rising Stars of the Apocalypse The Origin of Spiritual Transfiguration by Babatunde Soremekun
It is in daylight savings time that the shining 1 in the 7th day has come out from the darkness of midnight into the 10th age of light. The enlightened stars and hands of time shall move forward with and in the hour/1 to be saved, as the last day of the weakened is a new day to become strengthened through your 5 combined elemental senses. The knowledge which comes shining in from enlightening wisdom is passed down through the hand of time. It is Atomic lighting enlightenment, which alters the al-chemical imbalance in the mind-3ye, transfiguring you into a shining enlightened moral, immortal figure of spirit-mental gold. Alchemy is within all living transfiguring things, as this is the natural growth of which brings fourth TRU metaphysical change. Those living Christ/crowned-anointed souls-minds who spiritually know the Lord-word, have seen the alchemic metamorphosis in this new day & age of spirit-mentally transitioning into the shining enlightened 1’s.
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Shadow of Hope by J.B. Hawker
Hope, an ex-Marine fitness instructor, is recently married to a small town minister. Usually self-reliant and self assured, she finds adjusting to the role of first Lady of her husband’s church more daunting than expected. A disastrous camping trip with the church youth leads to even more challenges when a couple of dangerous drug dealers mistakenly think Hope has stolen from them.. adding to her troubles, a wayward teen turns to Hope for rescue from her sad life in the foster care system. Will Hope be able to lean on God and her church family or will she continue to rely on her own strength?
Targeted Age Group:: adult
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The character of Hope first appeared in my book, "Mrs. Thistlethwaite and the Magpie" in a minor role. When she later married the pastor of a church in small town Bannoch, Oregon, where my my First Ladies Club series is set, it seemed natural to focus the next book in the series around Hope.
The Roman Pilgrimage by George Ngondo
Without doubt, the book of Romans is one of the hardest books in the bible to study and understand and I took one of Derek Princes advice’s that ‘you cannot get the full richness of this book if you read it casually.’ The book of Romans, if read purposefully and carefully, reveals deep spiritual truths about the Gospel of Christ and how we can apply it to our lives to live a victorious life.
This book is a compilation of all the teachings I took from studying the epistle of Romans using Derek Prince’s teachings on this subject matter. I view the epistle of Romans, as it is in the bible, as a compression of the full Gospel of Christ. In this book, I have expounded the epistle of Romans using Derek Prince’s teachings to make it easy for every Christian to read and understand. The book takes a sermon-like-form and is laden with examples from Derek Prince’s teachings and references from many parts of the bible including the new and the Old Testament.
This book can be richly used for personal study, for meditation, for exhortation, for sermon preparation and for bible study lesson preparation. It provides an easy read for every Christian who yearns to live a victorious life in Christ.
Targeted Age Group:: >16
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
My personal testimony is that as I walked through life in salvation, there were still many areas of my life in which I struggled. Deep inside me, I knew that there must be something more to salvation that could afford me to live a victorious life. As I took to this study, I received deep revelation about the truth of the cross and as I learnt how to apply these truths, God delivered me from many of my weaknesses, challenges, and bad habits.
God can do the same for you too. If you are experiencing any great challenge in any area of your life and prayer doesn’t seem to get you anywhere, maybe it is time for you to delve into this truth, for it is written: “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32)
Featured Book: The Carpenter: A Retelling of the Story of Joseph of Nazareth by S.A. Wilson
About The Carpenter: A Retelling of the Story of Joseph of Nazareth by S.A. Wilson
Joseph, a master craftsman and carpenter, stokes the ire of his family when he weds his pregnant (and seemingly unfaithful) betrothed, Mary. Pious, devout, and guided by the dictates of Heaven, Joseph has no issue with taking Mary – who still claims to be a virgin – as his wife and committing himself to the protection of her child, whom he senses is extraordinary.
However, there are others who are also aware of how special the child is, and not all have its best interests at heart. Among these is the despot Herod, whose oppressive rule and wanton cruelty are legendary. Deeply troubled by a prophecy concerning a King to Come, the tyrant is committed to finding – and eliminating – this threat to his reign. (And, having already murdered members of his own family in order to maintain power, Herod has no qualms about killing a baby.) In addition, there are forces beyond the ken of men that also recognize the singular nature of Mary’s child, and which are determined to keep the salvation that the babe represents out of mankind’s reach.
All of these factions and more converge on Mary and Joseph as they trek from Nazareth to Bethlehem in hopes of starting a new life. On a journey fraught with peril, Joseph fights to protect Mary and her unborn child from danger on all sides, including the elements, bandits, and Herod’s legions – as well as an utterly evil and otherworldly demonic force determined to stamp out mankind’s only hope of redemption.
Armed with little more than his wits, his faith, and his carpenter’s hammer, Joseph must face impossible odds to safeguard not only his family, but mankind’s future…
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