| Year |
Category |
Title/Author/Publisher |
Synopsis |
|
2004 |
Contemporary |
Songbird
by Lisa Samson
(Warner Faith) |
In a novel rich with heartache,
deeply felt spirituality, and down-to-earth humor, a talented woman
dares to face her demons—as a secret from the past threatens the love
she’s fought so hard to keep. |
|
Fantasy |
The Light of
Eidon
by Karen Hancock
(Bethany House Publishers)
|
Eldrin has devoted the last eight
years of his life toward making himself worthy to tend the Sacred Flames
of Eidon, but on the eve of taking the vows he is betrayed and sold into
slavery by his own family. Can his suffering mold him into something
greater than he ever though possible? |
|
Futuristic |
Soon
by Jerry Jenkins
(Tyndale House Publishers) |
In the aftermath of World War III, all nations have
agreed to remove the most serious threat to world peace. The solution?
Outlaw religion. Supernatural events start happening that alert the
nations that they are experiencing a new beginning—the beginning of the
end. |
|
Historical |
Fire by Night
by Lynn Austin
(Bethany House Publishers) |
This compelling story of love and sacrifice follows
the lives of two very different young women—one seeing the world for the
first time and one who has seen too much already. |
|
Romance |
Hideaway
by Hannah Alexander
(Steeple Hill Books) |
Devastated by the death of her sister on the trauma
bed, ER doctor Cheyenne Allison retreats to an isolated farm in
Hideaway, Missouri. Will it be her sanctuary, or a place to call home?
|
|
Suspense |
Thr3e
by Ted Dekker
(WestBow Press) |
Imagine answering your cell phone one day to a
mysterious voice that gives you three minutes to confess your sin or
else he’ll blow up the car you’re driving. So begins a nightmare that
grows with progressively higher stakes—a powerful novel of good, bad,
and all that lies in between. |
|
First Novel |
Welcome to
Fred
by Brad Whittington
(Broadman & Holman Publishers)
|
In January of 1968 Mark and his family arrive in
Fred, Texas, where his father is serving as a pastor. After four years
of alienation, he places all his hopes for fulfillment on the family
vacation to Los Angeles. In his journey he finds more than himself; he
finds his faith. |
|
2003 |
Allegory |
Arena
by Karen Hancock
(Bethany House Publishers) |
Callie Hayes is living a
life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for
a psychology experiment that promises
to turn her life around. Frightened by
the secrecy and evasion she encounters, she demands to be released from
the program, only to be dropped suddenly into a terrifying alien world
and into a perilous battle between good and evil. With limited resources
and only a few cryptic words to guide her, Callie embarks on a
life-changing journey. |
|
Contemporary |
All the Way Home
by Ann Tatlock
(Bethany House Publishers) |
Augie Schuler is desperate
for love, the kind “normal” families provide. When she meets Sunny
Yamagata and her family, Augie knows she’s found what she’s looking for
in spite of cultural differences. When the dark days of World War II and
the Japanese internment camps tear them apart, they vow never to forget
each other. Reunited years later, the two find themselves offering
healing and hope as they triumph over the pain of their years apart. |
|
Futuristic |
Time Lottery
by Nancy Moser
(Barbour Publishing) |
Three winners of a Time Lottery earn the chance to travel back into
their alternate reality to relive one moment they’ve always wished they
could change. But when one man murders a Time Lottery winner,
then takes his place, another tries to collect life insurance on his
wife who’s now in the past, and the police clamor to shut down the whole
enterprise. Maybe it’s time for God to get involved. Or maybe He’s been
in on this whole thing from the beginning. |
|
International Historical |
His Watchful Eye
by Jack Cavanaugh
(Bethany House Publishers) |
Pastor Schumacher has risked everything to stand against the evils of
Nazism, working closely with a small group of young people in his
congregation to influence them toward righteousness amid very difficult
circumstances. One of those young people is now Second Lieutenant Konrad
Reichmann. On the Russian Front, he has discovered that reality bears no
resemblance to the glory of the Third Reich. When the slaughter of
innocents further disillusions him, Konrad embarks upon a bold and
dangerous plan. |
|
North American Historical |
Candle in the Darkness
by Lynn Austin
(Bethany House Publishers) |
Candle in the Darkness, Book One in the REFINER’S FIRE series, is the
story of a timid southern girl who finds her voice as she begins to tell
the truth about the atrocities around her. A short stay in the North
confirms her abolitionist views, but when she returns to the South she
finds herself torn between her home, a beloved suitor who doesn’t share
her feelings, and the principles she knows are true. |
|
Romance |
True Honor
(Uncommon Heroes Series, Book 3)
by Dee Henderson
(Multnomah Publishers) |
Navy SEAL Sam “Cougar” Houston is in love with a spy. But it may be a
short relationship, for the terrorists have chosen their next targets,
and Darcy’s name is high on the list. |
|
Suspense |
Directed Verdict
by Randy Singer
(WaterBrook Press) |
In Saudi Arabia, two
American missionaries are targeted by the infamous religious police—the
Muttawa. The man is tortured and killed; his wife deported to the U.S.
Compelled by the injustice of her plight, attorney Brad Carson files a
civil rights suit against Saudi Arabia and the ruthless head of the
Muttawa, gambling everything on the ability of his team to bring justice
to one family, challenge the religious intolerance of a nation, and
alter the course of international law. |
|
Western |
Toward a New Beginning
by R. William Rogers
(Longwood Communications) |
Sam and Judith knew that crossing the Great Basin in a prairie schooner
would be risky, but would that decision cost them their son? With the
promise of a new beginning beckoning from beyond the western horizon the
trek develops into one of hardships and survival that is further
complicated by savage weather, dangerous river crossings, water
shortages, unique personalities among members of the wagon train and
constant harassment by marauding Comanches. |
| |
First Novel |
A Place Called Wiregrass
by Michael Morris
(RiverOak Publishing, an imprint of Cook Communications Ministries) |
Erma Lee is on the run from an abusive husband, a mother who doesn’t
care, and a soul-numbing factory job. She and her granddaughter, Cher,
flee to the town of Wiregrass, Alabama, where Erma Lee forms an unlikely
friendship with Miss Claudia, a wealthy, Southern matriarch who is
hiding a few details about her own past. Life in Wiregrass is different,
merciful, and promising—until the day Cher’s convict father arrives in
town and all three women must come to terms with buried secrets. |
|
2002 |
Contemporary
|
A
Garden to Keep
by Jamie Langston Turner
(Bethany House Publishers) |
Just hours after
trusting her soul to God, Elizabeth Landis receives a phone call that threatens everything
dear to her. Caught between a faith that has barely taken root and bitterness at a
terrible betrayal, Elizabeth feels her world coming apart. Never does God allow her to
give up, though, in this powerful exploration of a marriage in crisis. |
| Futuristic
|
Oxygen
by Randall Ingermanson
and John Olson
(Bethany House Publishers) |
It’s the year
2012 and NASA is ready to explore Mars. One manned mission goes suspiciously wrong,
though, leaving four astronauts on the brink of disaster. There’s only enough oxygen
for one to remain awake, but whom can they trust—especially when one of them could be
the saboteur. A gut-wrenching page-turner with grand spiritual pay-off. |
| International
Historical |
While
Mortals Sleep
by Jack Cavanaugh
(Bethany House Publishers) |
Josef Schumacher
thinks himself a very ordinary German. But this young pastor will find his self-confidence
and his faith challenged when forced to decide between following God’s word or being
swept along by the rising tide of the Nazis. Opening a door into a world rarely seen, this
is a story of courage and cowardice, hope and despair, hate and the love that can conquer
all. |
| North
American Historical |
Hidden
Places
by Lynn Austin
(Bethany House Publishers) |
Widowed and with three
children to support during the Depression, Eliza Wyatt prays for a miracle that will help
her keep the family orchard running. God’s answer, though, is to send her a deathly
ill vagabond and an elderly aunt with a few screws loose. They all try to pull together,
but the secrets they hold could cost them everything in this gently profound story about
the joys of family and home. |
| Romance
|
The
Guardian
by Dee Henderson
(Multnomah Publishers) |
Book Two in the
popular O’MALLEY series brings back Marcus O’Malley in a tense investigative
thriller. Marcus has a case to solve, an assassin to stop, and a lady to convince
he’s right for her future. To do that he’s going to have to walk back into his
own past and wrestle with the complex matter of prayer—he’s going to have to
learn to trust again a sovereign God. |
| Suspense
|
Drummer
in the Dark
by T. Davis Bunn
(WaterBrook Press) |
Wynn Bryant receives a
frightening initiation into the bare-knuckle world of global power. The
multimillionaire-turned-congressman discovers he’s an unwitting pawn in a legislative
struggle that could bring the U.S. economy to its knees. Confronted with the Christian
faith he once rejected, will he escape the complex web of intrigue, international finance,
and diabolical politics? |
| Western
|
The
Long Trail Home
by Stephen Bly
(Broadman & Holman Publishers) |
For the Fortune
family, the changes of war were drastic. The family drifted north to the Black
Hills—all except Samuel, who headed for the Indian Territory that would one day be
Oklahoma and settled in to a life of reprisal against any and all whom he felt had wronged
him or his family. But the Holy Spirit never gives up on one of His own . . .nor does
Brazos Fortune, Samuel’s father. |
| First
Novel |
Ezekiel’s
Shadow
by David Long
(Bethany House Publishers) |
Best-selling horror
novelist Ian Merchant thought he’d buried his past when he accepted Christ. But now
his dark literary legacy has come back to haunt him in a more frightening way than
anything he created in his novels. Who is the ghostly figure that stalks him? Will
Ian’s newfound faith be strong enough to prevail against the evil, betrayal, and
greed that threaten to destroy him? |
