Important Lessons for Teens to Learn about Christ-Honoring Romance Valentine’s Day focuses on love and romance, but do today’s teens truly understand what that means? In a generation where the culture has stolen real romance, and when it comes to sex, anything goes, parents and youth leaders must look for opportunities to talk to teens […]

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Jen Turano is the acclaimed author of The Ladies of Distinction Series, published through Bethany House publishers. Her second novel, A Most Peculiar Circumstance was chosen by Booklist as a Top Ten Romance for 2013. Her fourth book, A Match of Wits, released in July, 2014, and her newest novel, After a Fashion, just hit […]

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She’s Planning Her Wedding and Dodging a Stalker Highly Anticipated Conclusion to the Southern Fried Sushi Series  Uhrichsville, OH – Shiloh is planning her wedding, hiding from her past, and dodging a stalker. With a madman determined to stop her wedding, Shiloh’s on the run in ‘Til Grits Do Us Part, book three in Jennifer […]

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Reviewed by: Jen Roman Genre: Amish, Christian Publisher: Revell Publication Date: January 1, 2013 This novel is the sequel to the second Stoney Ridge Seasons book, The Haven. The Haven focuses on Sadie Lapp and her family, including her younger sister Mary Kate (M.K.). In The Lesson, M.K. has grown up and is the protagonist. […]

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River’s Call by Melody Carlson Reviewed by: Jennifer Roman Genre: chick lit, Christian Publisher: Abingdon Press Publication Date: February 2012 Anna is the mother of college-age Lauren in the Pacific Northwest at the end of the 1950s. When Lauren calls home and tells her mother how sick she is, Anna convinces Lauren to come home […]

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Confessions of Joan the Tall by Joan Cusack Handler Reviewed by: Jennifer Roman Genre: chick lit, YA, Christian Publisher: CavanKerry Press Publication Date: November 13, 2012 Joan Cusack (not THAT Joan Cusack!), a young Catholic girl growing up in 1950s America, worries about pleasing everyone in her life and being accepted by her peers. Being […]

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Christmas in Apple Ridge by Cindy Woodsmall Reviewed by: Jennifer Roman Genre: Christian, Amish, Christmas, chick lit, romance Publisher: WaterBrook Press Publication Date: October 9, 2012 A three-in-one collection of interconnected Amish stories, Christmas in Apple Ridge follows different couples through trials and tribulations of relationships and the Amish way of living. The Sound of […]

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The Haven by Suzanne Woods Fisher Reviewed by: Jennifer Roman Genre: Amish, Christian, chick lit Publisher: Revell Publication Date: August 2012 Returning home after living with her sister, Sadie Lapp is instantly the talk of her small Amish community: she is unmarried yet comes home with a baby. Before she can explain how she found […]

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A Season for Tending by Cindy Woodsmall Reviewed by: Jennifer Roman Genre: Amish, Christian, Chick Lit Publisher: WaterBrook Press Publication Date: September 18, 2012 Rhoda Byler, a member of the Old Order Amish, is a gifted gardener who raises all kinds of fruits and herbs and sells her canned goods at a successful roadside stand […]

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Be Still My Soul by Joanne Bischof Reviewed by: Jennifer Roman Genre: Christian, chick lit, romance, historical fiction Publisher: Multnomah Publication Date: October 2, 2012 After a stolen kiss provokes Lonnie’s alcoholic father to force them to marry, Lonnie and Gideon take off to a new town in order to start their lives together. While […]

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