Books You Will

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Sleeping Beauty

• Written by: Gaby Goldsack• Ages: K-2• A First Readers book• Easy-to read text based on

this classic fairytale• Simple, colorful illustrations• Sure to be a favorite

bedtime story for young girls

Secrets of anIrresistible Woman

• Written by: Michelle M. Hammond• Women will discover the rules

and scriptural principles about love that ensure solid, godly relationships.

• Offers practical advice, inspiring prayers, and study questions to help women understand and recognize real love.

• Ages: Adult women

What I Like About You

• By: Colleen Ludington• Ages: Pre-K to 2nd grade• In Dr. Seuss style, this

book celebrates how special children are as God's creations.

• Shows all the wonderful ways the parent of a little kangaroo appreciates her child, while reminding the child of God's boundless love.

I Love My Daddy Because…

• By: Laurel Porter-Gaylord• Ages: PreK – 1st grade.• In both words and pictures,

this book shows how animal fathers care for their babies with the same tender love as human fathers do.

Faithful Friends

• By: Stan and Jan Berenstain • Ages: Pre-K & up• When Sister Bear starts to

play with a new friend, Lizzy feels jealous.

• Moral of the story: new friends are fun to have,

but old friends are priceless.

God’s Heart, God’s Hands:

Reaching Out to Hurting Women• By: Denise George• Ages: Adult women• Each chapter includes questions

for reflection or discussion, prayer helps, and space for journaling.

• Can be used for individual reading or group study.

• Deals with major issues women experience in real life.

• Each chapter offers a Bible story and a contemporary story.

A House Full of Friends:

How to Like the Ones You Love• By: Susan A. Yates

• Ages: Adults• Practical guide for developing

rewarding relationships with parents, siblings, grandparents, in-laws,

• Shows how, through commitment and creativity, a family can learn not only to love each other . . . they can actually like each other and be friends!

Couples Devotional Bible

• NIV version• Ages: Adult men & women• Devotions for each weekday• Marriage-building Scripture

passages• Book introductions • Self-evaluations and quizzes

Clifford, We Love You

• By: Norman Bridwell

• Ages: Pre-k & up• When Clifford, the big red

dog, is feeling sad, Emily Elizabeth and her friends do everything they can think of to cheer him up.

My Friend Rabbit

• By: Eric Rohmann• Ages: Pre-K & up• Mouse lets his mischievous

best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, and trouble isn't far behind.

• Mouse loves his friend Rabbit no matter what, even though poor Rabbit always finds trouble no matter what he does.

A Woman’s Heart:God’s Dwelling Place

• By: Beth Moore• Ages: Adult Women• 11-week Bible Study• Discusses the 2 million Israelites

who exited Egypt, then built the tabernacle according to God's design and pattern.

• Discover the parallels of the Tabernacle's building and your life as a chosen vessel of God through scriptural references and modern life stories.

Love’s Abiding Joy• By: Janette Oke• Ages: Adult Women• Love Comes Softly Series, Book 4

• The coming of the railroad has bridged the frontier miles, making possible the long-awaited reunion between daughter Missie and her parents. Then the joyful time is shattered and faith is tested by a terrible tragedy.

• Made-for-TV movie on the Hallmark channel

Crazy Love:Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

• By: Francis Chan• Ages: Adults• Guide to living crazy for God. • Real-life accounts of believers who

have given all—time, money, health, even their lives—in obedience to Christ's call

• The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts — it's falling in love with God.

• See Chan’s video @ http://www.crazylovebook.com/

A Bride Most Begrudging

• By: Deeanne Gist• When Lady Constance Morrow finds

herself held against her will aboard a ship bound for the American colonies—

a ship filled with "tobacco brides" and felons—she is quite sure that as soon as she arrives she will find a reasonable man who will believe her father is an earl and send her back on the next ship to England.

• Instead she meets Drew O’Connor, a determined Colonial farmer who is nearly as headstrong as she is. Drew wins Constance as his bride but soon realizes he has taken on much more than he bargained for.

A Thousand Tomorrows

• By: Karen Kingsbury• Ages: Adult Women• Cody Gunner Series, Book 1• Story of two young rodeo stars

and their experiences with Down syndrome and cystic fibrosis.

• When these two fall in love, they provide each other with some measure of healing.

365 Devos for Girls(& Boys) Who Love

Sports• By: various authors• Ages: Pre-teen & Teen• Day by Day Devotions. • Bible scriptures and

quotes from various contributors.

True Love Waits Bible

• NIV version• Ages: Teen• Contributions by: Josh

McDowell, Max Lucado, James Dobson and Susie Shellenberger

• Bible for teens based on the acclaimed True Love Waits program.

• Encourages sexual purity until marriage. The foundation of every true and lasting love relationship between man and woman is God's Word.

Unlocked• By: Karen Kingsbury• Ages: teen to adult• Holden Harris, an 18-year-old high

school student with autism and target for high school bullies.

• Popular Ella Reynolds, star of the high school's musical, sticks up for Holden against her friends who are his tormentors.

• Deals with the complex topics of autism, bullying, and teen-age suicide.

• Watch the book trailer @ http://youtu.be/-n4Vt3H5NXo

Flywheel • Produced by: Sherwood Pictures, creators of Facing the Giants• Jay Austin, a dishonest car

salesman in lots of debt, comes to a turning point in his life where he becomes a born-again Christian, turns from his dishonest way of business and begins trusting in God to take care of him. Even when things get hard he trusts God, and God provides him with a way to pay off his debt honestly.

• Not rated.

Fireproof (dvd)

• Rated: PG• In an attempt to save his marriage, a

firefighter seeks advice from his father, who’s newly birthed faith in Christ leads him to offer his son a 40-day experiment known as "The Love Dare".

• As he works through The Love Dare devotionals, Christ begins to change him and his marriage from the inside out, giving hope that perhaps his marriage can be "reborn" as well.

• Watch movie trailer @ http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/

All of the books listed in this review are available in our church library.

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