Radiant Lit

For Love and Money

Super-parent wishes and CEO dreams?

Have you longed to contribute to household income with your own small business — then wondered how you could do it and keep your family thriving as well?

Bellandra Foster kept God first, her marriage and children foremost — and became the successful entrepreneur she’d always dreamed of being! Her seven “no-nonsense” guidelines will show you, also, how to:

Define your business, guided by God

Identify your passion, personality, purpose

Refine your vision along the way

Maintain perspective as the business grows

Sustain motivation among staff, siblings, and spouses

Accept the subtle cost of being the boss

Make room for “Cuddle Time”

Start the company you’ve always wanted — and keep the home team winning, too!

About the Author: Bellandra Benefield Foster is the Founder and President of BBF Engineering Services, PC, an engineering consulting firm. Married for over 23 years and the mother of two sons, she has created a formula for combining a successful professional life with a peaceful, nurturing, household. Dr. Foster earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University, worked in industry — the founded her own company. She is a popular speaker on sucess and combining marriage, family, career, and entreprenuership. Dr. Foster has been a nationally recognized in Jet, Black Enterprise, and Essence Magazines. To learn more about her visits www.drbbf.com or www.bbfengineeringservices.com.

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I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires

A country, a family, and a house divided against itself.

Pa made me promise that what ever I decided, I’d stay at Laurelea to help Mr. Heath and the Henrys with the farm and the Underground Railroad, that I’d wait to enlist until I turned eighteen. “Then think long and hard,” he said, “before you agree to shoot one of your countrymen — or kin — between the eyes.”

It was a promise I sometimes regretted, but kept true until the spring of 1864, until the day Emily’s letter came…

The bonds linking family and the lines separating enemies become blurred for seventeen-year-old Robert when the cousin he loves begs him to aid her father, a Confederate prisoner of war, then travel south to help her care for his estranged mother.

Unwittingly entangled in a prison escape, left for dead and charged as a spy, Robert must forge his anger and shame into a renewed determination to rescue his family. When confronted by an enemy and a war he no longer understands, Robert finds that the rescue, and its results, may not be up to him.

Honor and duty to God and country aren’t as clear-cut as he’d first believed.

About the Author: Cathy Gohlke’s first novel, William Henry is a Fine Name, won the Christy Award. She has worked as a school librarian, drama director for adults and young people, and as a director of children’s and education ministries. Cathy lives with her husband in Maryland. you can visit her site at www.cathygohlke.com.

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Come Along

Fall in love with Jesus–again, and again, and again.

Through ten illuminating encounters, walk into Jesus’ life, love and delight! Laugh, grow, and rest in Christ’s presence as you share these vivid meetings with the One who loves you more than life itself. With humor and spiritual depth, Jane Rubietta passionately draws you into the hope of a freeing relationship with Christ–freedom from false expectations into the brilliance of being fully loved.

Let Jesus delight in you.

Leave your hurry-worry path.Take Jesus’ hand and Come Along on a journey into intimacy, hope, and passion. Exchange your worn-out, must-do faith for real radiance. Solid biblical teaching, heart-rending stories and sound application in each chapter make Come Along a vital companion for personal, small group, and Bible study use.

About the Author: Jane Rubietta is the award-winning author of eleven books, including the critically acclaimed Come Closer. She speaks internationally to spread the idea that “when a woman, changes the world changes.” Married to Rich, composer, producer, and pastor, Jane co-directs their not-for-profit Abounding Ministries. She and Rich live in the Chicago area and have three children.

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The Moment Between

Abigail Bennett was completely in control of her life.

But then tragedy pushed her to the brink of something she’s never experienced: obsession. Now, she’s given up everything she’s ever worked for to chase down the object of that obsession. His name is Tyler Kamp.

As Abigail follows him across the border into Canada, her journey is awash in memories of family and childhood, especially those of her younger sister Halley. Even as Abigail races into her future, her past continues to pull her back. Only when she is brought to the edge of her obsession she will be able to come to terms with the tragedy that ignited it.

About the Author: Nicol Baart was born and raised in Iowa, where she and her family now live. She taught high-school English for several years in Canada, but is now the full-time mother of two young sons and the wife of a pastor. After the Leaves Fall and it’s sequel, Summer Snow, are Nicole’s first two novels. To learn more about Nicole visit her website at www.NicoleBaart.com.

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What the Bayou Saw

The past can’t stay buried forever.

Since leaving Louisiana, Sally Stevens has held her childhood secrets at bay, smothering them in a sunny disposition and sugar-coated lies. No one, not even her husband, Sam, has heard the truth about what happened to her when she was twelve years old.

Now a teacher in Illinois, Sally has nearly forgotten herself. But when one of her students is violently attacked, Sally’s memories of segregation, a chain-link fence, and a blood oath bubble to the surface like a dead body in a bayou. As Sally’s story comes to light, the lies she’s told began to catch up with her. And as her web of deceit unravels, she resolves to face the truth at last — whatever the consequences.

About the Author: Patti Lacy graduated from Baylor University with a B.S. in education. She taught at Heartland Community College in Normal, IL., until 2006, when she began to pursue writing full-time. She has two adult children and lives in Illinois with her husband, Alan, and a dog named Laura.

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The Distant Shore

Mysteriously banished to live with demanding Aunt Augusta on Florida’s remote, untamed Merritt Island of 1904, young Emma-Lee Palmer discovers a dark family secret. Befriended by a kindly sea captain Emma-Lee and Aunt Augusta discover courage, renewed hope, and the importance of family in this transcendent story of healing and redemption through God’s unconditional love.

Inspired by a true story, The Distant Shore is a powerful blend of action, adventure, romance, and the quest within each of us to find our hearts home. Love, after all is never too lost or too late.

About the Author: Debora Coty is a seasoned raconteur (storyteller), raqueteer (tennis player), and racketician (loud laugher). Plus, she makes up cool words! She’s an internationally published freelance writer, humorist, and columnist.

A lifelong resident of Florida, Debora has encountered firsthand many of the natural disasters, frightening critters, and crazy calmities you’ll meet alongside Emma-Lee and her friends. Learn more about her at www.DeborCoty.com.

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Every Secret Thing

When Elizabeth Gunnar excepts a job as an English teacher at the school she attended as a girl she finds herself returning to more than a place. Seaton Preparatory holds so many memories — of a beloved teacher who left under mysterious circumstances, of a young woman searching for her place in the world, of a former lover.

Once there, Elizabeth finds unexpected challenges — and challenging people. She meets Satchel Queen, a troubled students whose writing assignments draw her attention. And Ray Schmidt is a childhood friend her heart has never forgotten.

As new friendships form and the past is brought to light, Elizabeth finds renewal from a most unexpected source.

About the Author: Ann Tatlock, author of the award-winning I’ll Watch the Moon, lives with her husband and daughter in North Carolina. Every Secret Thing is her sixth novel.

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Rhapsody in Red

Moody Publishers – The Name You Can Trust, releases Rhapsody in Red ( a Preston Barclay Mystery).

“That Wednesday, two weeks before Thanksgiving, was a bad day to find a corpse on campus.”

Preston Barclay is a self-made recluse (and he likes it that way). Teaching college history allows him time to grieve the loss of his pianist wife and find relief from the musical hallucinations that have been playing in his head since her death. But when he and a headstrong colleague, Mara Thorn, discover the body of another instructor on campus, Press’s monotonous solitude is destroyed. when the preliminary evidence singles out Press and Mara, they must take some chances (including trusting each other) to build their own defense — by bending the rules just a little bit.

They choose to form an unlikely alliance to stay ahead of the police, the college’s wary and incompetent administration, and whoever is trying to get away with murder. Otherwise, they both might end up unemployed, behind bars, or worse…

About the Author: Donn Taylor served in Korea and Vietnam and worked with air reconnaissance in Europe and Asia. He taught English and literature and two liberal arts colleges, and he is the author of a suspense novel, and a collection of poems. He and his wife live near Houston.

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Uncensored Grace

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What happens in Las Vegas could change your life.

Behind the glitz and glam of Sin City, and amazing story is unfolding. It’s a story of people who have run out of dreams, given up on hope. It’s a story of what can happen when Christians open their arms wide — really wide — in the name of Christ.

In Uncensored Grace, Jud Wilhite and Bill Taaffe introduce you to card players, exotic dancers, a flying Elvis, an American Idol contestant, and a beat cop turned hero, among others. Each has one thing in common – at their moment of extreme need they encounter an extraordinary God. In the place they find Him is in an unusual church community that is gambling everything on a hope-filled message they call “uncensored grace.”

Writes Jud, “As a pastor, I completely misjudged what grace could look like in my world. Sure, I believed in a God who passionately pursues every human being, no matter how beat up or broken. I believed, but not enough. Not nearly.”

About the Authors: Jud Wilhite is senior pastor of Central Christian Church, Las Vegas. More than ten-thousand people attend Central each weekend. Jud is also the author of Faith that Goes the Distance and That Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and a creative partner with www.Pursuit.org. He lives in the Las Vegas area with his wife Lori, and their two children.

Bill Taaffe’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated, where he was a columnist and senior editor for ten years. He and his wife Donna, live in Las Vegas with their son.

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Enduring Justice

A PAINFUL PAST
Hanna Kessler’s childhood secret has remained buried for over two decades. But when the dark shadows of her past threaten to destroy those she loves, Hanna must face the summer that changed her life and the man who still haunts her memories.

A RACIALLY-MOTIVATED KILLER
As a Crimes Against Children FBI Agent, Michael Parker knows what it means to get knocked down. Difficult cases and broken relationships have plagued his entire year. But when the system fails and a white supremacist is set free, Michael’s drive for retribution eclipses all else.

A LIFE-ALTERING CHOICE
A racist’s well-planned assault forces Hanna and Michael to decide between executing vengeance and pursuing justice. The dividing line between the two is the choice to heal. But when the attack turns personal, is justice enough?

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