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Darkness Calls the Tiger

Darkness Calls the Tiger book cover“My adopted people have a story, a legend, that speaks of a time so dark, the sun will turn his back on the mountains and swallow the moon. It is then that the sharaw—the tiger-man—will come prowling, exacting revenge on the darkness. But there is no great darkness in me or my world. It isn’t always comfortable, but it has always been predictable . . . until the soldiers came.”

A handful of months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, missionaries Kailyn Moran and Ryan James, face a brutal Japanese attack on their village high in the mountains of Burma.

After the Land of the Rising Sun devours almost everything they love, Ryan fights to protect Kai from the deadly path of revenge and help her see herself through his eyes, but only she can choose to turn away from the call of the darkness.

Wrapped in real stories and legends, Darkness Calls the Tiger will appeal to fans of Susan Meissner and William Kent Kreuger.

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Shadows in the Mind’s Eye

Charlotte Anne Mattas wants to go back to the way things were before her husband, Sam, left their farm for the war in the Pacific. Sam used to be her protector, but when he arrives home in Spring of 1946, his battle fatigue has everyone questioning his sanity and her safety…especially after he nearly kills his brother, then claims to see men on the mountain where no else has seen them. Is he actually seeing things or is his twisted mind conjuring things that aren’t there? In the tradition of Hitchcock with a hint of psychological thriller, Shadows In the Mind’s Eye explores the illness of what we now call PTSD and persistent love in world determined to destroy it.

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O Little Town

“In this heartwarming compilation, three talented authors bring us the perfect blend of small-town nostalgia and holiday warmth . . . [as] timeless as the notes of a favorite carol and as softly luminous as lights twinkling on an evergreen tree.”
–Amanda Barratt, Christy Award-winning author of The White Rose Resists

In this charming collection of novellas, join three generations of Mapleview, Michigan, residents longing for love–and finding it–on the most wonderful night of the year.

“While Mortals Sleep” by Janyre Tromp

While World War II rages overseas, news reporter Eleanor Sweers returns home to Mapleview to face the repercussions of the death of her sister and her nightmare of Christmases past. But the homefront isn’t as far from the war as she thought: a bomb has landed in the middle of the U.S. Now Eleanor and family friend Gideon Braum may have to choose between the scoop of a lifetime and the love of a lifetime.

Uses the historical fact that the Japanese bombed the continental U.S. hundreds of times during WWII.

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Lovely Life

White Christmas meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this 1970s rock and roll romance.

“I savored every page and can’t wait to unwrap this gift of a book year after year!” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of Christmas in Peachtree Bluff

“From the magical cover to the book’s ties to some of my favorite holiday films, It’s a Wonderful Christmas will be on my annual holiday reading list!” —T. I. Lowe, bestselling author of Under the Magnolias

Beatriz Harris may be the conqueror of the 1970s Billboard charts, but she’s a hometown girl at heart . . . and willing to sacrifice anything to help her best friend, Robby Willingham.

While Robby’s restaurant is beyond amazing, the rest of Waverly Castle is in trouble. Who wants to travel to Northern Michigan when there isn’t any snow? Worse, it seems someone has it out for the castle. Bea has a plan, but Robby’s time in Vietnam has left him more dragon than Arthur Pendragon to Bea’s Guinevere.

Will the two be able to rediscover their dynamic vibe before it’s too late?

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Wide Open

On her way home from visiting her grieving parents, Lily VanderMeulen is caught in the 1967 blizzard. Fortunately she remembers that Oscar Visser’s farm is nearby. When she arrives at the farm of her brother’s best friend, her attraction to the complicated man is rekindled.

But Oscar is more quiet and more tangled than he had ever been before. He seems to know more about her brother’s death in Vietnam than he lets on. How far is Oscar willing to go to protect his secrets?

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It’s a Wonderful Christmas

Curl up with this collection of stories inspired by classic Christmas movies written by Julie Cantrell, Susie Finkbeiner, Lynne Gentry, Allison Pittman, Kelli Stuart, and Janyre Tromp. With tributes to A Christmas Story, White Christmas, The Nutcracker, and more.

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Reflections on Surrender

The story of this book is an odd one. I illustrated it. Now I’m not a trained artist, but had started practicing an art form called Zentangle with my girl. A friend of mine, Shannon Popkin, wrote an amazing book, Control Girl, and we were talking about ways that folks could internalize the message of giving up control and the idea for the coloring book was born.

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All About God’s Animals:

The board books in the All About God’s Animals series will delight toddlers and first-time readers alike. As kids play with and read each of these books, they will encounter many animals from God’s beautiful and varied creation.

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