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Miss Brenda and the Loveladies: A Heartwarming True Story of Grace, God, and Gumption by Brenda Spahn

For Brenda Spahn, entrepreneur and businesswoman, wealth was a lifestyle --- until a brush with the law threatened to send her to prison. In those dark moments, Brenda made a promise to God. Spared incarceration, a renewed Brenda glimpsed into the lives of women serving time in one of the worst places in America --- the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. What she saw prompted a God-inspired vision.

Week of February 16, 2015

Releases for the week of February 16th include BONES NEVER LIE, the 17th installment in Kathy Reichs' series starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan; THE SERPENT OF VENICE by Christopher Moore, a satiric Venetian gothic that brings back the Pocket of Dog Snogging, the eponymous hero of FOOL, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff; and GLITTER AND GLUE, a memoir by Kelly Corrigan that examines the bond --- sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine --- between mothers and daughters.