With passion and strength, Mary DeMuth brings balance and insight to the often murky realm of spiritual warfare. As you embrace the abundant life to which God calls his daughters, she’ll tell you why your voice matters for eternity. And on the darkest days, you’ll know that spiritual warfare is about bowing before the Creator, not cowering before the devil. It’s about finding freedom and beauty in the midst of devastation. It’s about the power of God to heal our hearts, to move mountains, to intercede when we’re weary.
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Two exciting tales of adventure ring in the festive season. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is the long-awaited follow-up to the first Sherlock Holmes movie, released in 2009. This time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary spy and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, investigate the case of a murdered Austrian prince, and are drawn into Europe’s vast criminal underworld.
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Our final featured title is COMFORT & JOY by India Knight. Enter by Thursday, December 15th at noon ET for your chance to win a copy.
It's December 23, and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a chicken with its head cut off trying to pick up "a few last-minute bits and bobs." Despite the frenzy, the twice-divorced mother of three loves Christmas and always wants to make it perfect. A challenge even in the best of times, but particularly when "family" means an extended network of in-laws, out-laws, ex-stepfathers and hangers-on, totaling 16. Is the madness of Christmas really worth it?
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December 14, 2011
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Maria Dueñas holds a PhD in English Philology and is currently a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities, is the author of several academic articles, and has participated in various educational, cultural, and editorial projects. She is currently writing her second novel. Here she talks about the Spanish Christmas tradition that replaces Santa: The Three Kings.
December’s roundup of Cool & New Books includes James Patterson and Jill Dembowski’s THE FIRE, the third installment in the Witch and Wizard series that follows Whit and Wisty Allgood as they lead the resistance against the totalitarian regime that governs their world; WHY WE BROKE UP, the first-ever YA book written by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), which centers on two teenagers who break up and a box full of all the reasons why; and Laurie Faria Stolarz’s new Touch novel, DEADLY LITTLE VOICES, in which Camelia’s powers of psychometry have segued into disturbing voices in her head.
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December 14, 2011
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At the end of the 1960s, writer Michel Choquette was tasked with creating a special insert for Rolling Stone: a collection of comic strips by the era’s great minds and talents that would define the decade that had just ended. It took 40 years for the massive collection (which features works by such luminaries as C. C. Beck, René Goscinny, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Art Spiegelman, Gahan Wilson, and many others) to come to fruition, but it’s time is now, and here’s what Choquette has to say about it.
The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of December 12th and December 19th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers.
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December 13, 2011
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Carla Neggers is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 60 novels, with translations in 24 languages. Born and raised on the western edge of the beautiful Quabbin Reservoir in rural Massachusetts, Carla grew up with tales of her father’s life as a Dutch sailor and her mother’s childhood in northwest Florida. At a young age, Carla began penning her own stories on a branch high up in her favorite sugar maple. Now she enjoys spending time at the family homestead (now a tree farm) with her six brothers and sisters and their families. When she’s not writing, Carla loves to travel, hike, kayak, garden, and, of course, dive into a good book. She lives with her family in Vermont, near Quechee Gorge. Here, she talks about journeying through some of the cookbooks she plans on gifting this Holiday season.
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John Hogan
In 1988, Jim Henson started a new television series called “The Storyteller.” It featured an old man, his talking dog, and a wealth of European-based folk tales all retold for an all-ages audience.
Now, Archaia has released a new volume based on that same premise, featuring a pretty impressive lineup of talent. Ron Marz, Roger Langbridge, Chris Eliopoulos, Paul Tobin and Roman Cliquet are just a few of the names who grace these pages with their talents. Read More
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An old man tells his attentive (and hungry) dog some amazing stories, including some inspired by fairy tales and fables from around the world.
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An old man tells his attentive (and hungry) dog some amazing stories, including some inspired by fairy tales and fables from around the world.
Dec 13, 2011
It’s been decades since robot soldiers were created to win a human war. In the years that have passed, peace has seemingly settled in on this seemingly very earthlike planet…but now a robot with a childlike appearance has come to a small family farm, being chased by a wildly violent, much larger android. That’s the beginning of Royden Lepp’s creative and inventive new book, Rust, the first in a series. Here’s Lepp’s take on the story that is about to unfold for readers.
