Kathryn Mackel
The Surrogate: A Novel
By Kathryn Mackel (Thomas Nelson)
Release date: July 5, 2004
The perfect candidate to carry their child. with the perfect opportunity to destroy their lives. When Kyle Dolan convinces his wife, Bethany, to hire a surrogate for their last surviving embryo, they allow themselves to hope once again.
Vanished (Christian Chiller Series #1)
By Kathryn Mackel (Realms)
Release date: March 18, 2009
A terrorist bombing. A rogue experiment. A community vanished. Who will save them now? In a series that blends the urgent action of the Left Behind books with the alluring weirdness of the television show Lost, this first book opens with a terrorist bombing that combines with a rogue underground experiment to rip a clovershaped section of the working-class city of Barcester loose from the world. Cut off from any hope of help, police sergeant Jason Logan fights to keep order and track the terrorist mastermind.
Joyce Magnin
Blame It On The Mistletoe: A Novel of Bright’s Pond
By Joyce Magnin (Abingdon Press)
Release date: September 1, 2011
Is There Really a Fountain of Youth in Paradise? Welcome back to Bright’s Pond, where strange happenings are afoot at the Greenbrier Nursing Home. The folks have suddenly grown younger, happier, and even a bit friskier thanks to Leon Fontaine, the newest Paradise Trailer Park resident. But Mildred Blessing is suspicious and sets out to investigate while the wedding to end all weddings is being planned. Only, in Bright’s Pond, nothing ever really goes as planned.
Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise: A Novel of Bright’s Pond
By Joyce Magnin (Abingdon Press)
Release date: September 1, 2010
Charlotte Figg makes me want to move to Paradise and bake pies and embrace the freedom to be who God made me to be. Once you’ve laughed and cried and eaten with the Paradise Angels, you’ll want to do the same. Kudos to Joyce Magnin, the Queen of Quirk. —Nancy Rue, bestselling fiction author Welcome to the Paradise Trailer Park where softball is queen, the pie is tasty, and the secrets must be told. Filled with a sudden burst of wanderlust after the death of her husband, Charlotte Figg moves to the Paradise Trailer Park with her dog, Lucky.
Griselda Takes Flight: A Novel of Bright’s Pond
By Joyce Magnin (Abingdon Press)
Release date: April 1, 2011
It’s Griselda’s Turn to Fly! Now that her morbidly obese sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably dieting at the Greenbrier Nursing Home, Griselda learns to fly—literally—after a pilot makes an emergency landing and creates quite a ruckus in the otherwise sleepy town of Bright’s Pond. But Griselda’s newfound freedom—and her flight time with handsome pilot, Cliff—is hampered by other happenings in town. Like the gold digger who prances around town and is supposedly engaged to Stella Kincaid’s brother—the lottery winner who is in a coma. And there’s Ivy Slocum’s dog, Al Capone, whose adventures continue long after they should. When Chief of Police Mildred Blessing starts investigating the gold digger, however, things really heat up—for Griselda and all the residents of the unique Pennsylvania hamlet called Bright’s Pond.
The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow: A Novel of Bright’s Pond
By Joyce Magnin (Abingdon Press)
Release date: August 1, 2009
Welcome to Bright’s Pond. Home of Agnes Sparrow!.
Paul L. Maier
A Skeleton in God’s Closet
By Paul L. Maier (Thomas Nelson Inc)
Release date: September 4, 2007
When an ancient skeleton is discovered in Israel, will it shed new light on the life of Jesus or plunge the world into chaos?Dr. Jonathan Weber, Harvard professor and biblical scholar, is looking forward to his sabbatical year on an archaeological dig in Israel. But a spectacular find that seems to be an archaeologist’s dream-come-true becomes a nightmare that many fear will be the death rattle of Christianity. Carefully researched and compellingly written, A Skeleton in God’s Closet explores the tension between faith and doubt when science and religion collide. In the end, it’s a thought provoking page turner driven by one man’s determination to find the truth-no matter what the cost.
The Constantine Codex (Skeleton Series)
By Paul L. Maier (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.)
Release date: June 1, 2011
Harvard Professor Jonathan Weber is finally enjoying a season of peace when a shocking discovery thrusts him into the national spotlight once again. While touring monasteries in Greece, Jon and his wife Shannon?a seasoned archaeologist?uncover an ancient biblical manuscript containing the lost ending of Mark and an additional book of the Bible. If proven authentic, the codex could forever change the way the world views the holy Word of God. As Jon and Shannon work to validate their find, it soon becomes clear that there are powerful forces who don’t want the codex to go public. When it’s stolen en route to America, Jon and Shannon are swept into a deadly race to find the manuscript and confirm its authenticity before it’s lost forever.
More than a Skeleton
By Paul L. Maier (Thomas Nelson)
Release date: April 30, 2012
A man claiming to be Jesus is in Rome. Is it the beginning of the end?Joshua Ben-Yosef attracts a huge following. He was born in Nazareth to parents name Mary and Joseph and speaks more than a dozen languages?fluently and without accent. His words ripple with wisdom and authority. And the crowds that follow him are enthralled as he heals the sick, gives sight to the blind, casts out demons, and even raises the dead.
Andrew Maloney
The Master Song (Blue Time)
By Andrew Maloney (Whitaker House)
Release date: September 1, 2014
On a cold, stormy evening in Ireland, five teenagers suddenly find themselves lost, separated, and unprepared for a dangerous quest “beyond the Veil” into Morsden Forest, a secret world hidden from ours. There they must learn to grow, learn to trust, learn to fight, learn to sacrifice, and learn to love in order to rediscover the first of seven lost jewels that contain the ancient verses of The Master Song. Together with a myriad of the Awakened, humanlike animals and plants. They will battle wild beasts, wraithlike doppelgangers, and an evil power nearly as ancient as creation itself. Will they stand strong and discover the virtues they have within themselves? Or will they, too, fall to the Corrupted?