Book Releases: December 2017

Releasing this month:

• Arden, Katherine -  The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy #2). (12/5)
• Baites, Mina - The Silver Music Box (The Silver Music Box, #1). (12/1)
• Brown, Sandra - Two Alone. (12/5)
• Cane, Rachel - Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake #2). (12/12)
• Crane, Robert J - Nemesis (Out of the Box, #17). (12/1)
• Crais, Robert - The Wanted (Elvis Cole, #17; Joe Pike, #6). (12/26)
• Griffin, WEB - Death at Nuremberg (Clandestine Operations, #4). (12/26)
• Hoag, Tami - The Boy (Broussard and Fourcade #2). (12/
• Marrs, John - The Good Samaritan. (12/1)
• Parks, Brad - Say Nothing. (12/5)
• Rollins, James - The Demon Crown (Sigma Force #13). (12/5)
• Schaffhausen, Joanna - The Vanishing Season. (12/5)
• Thomas, Janis - What Remains True. (12/1)

Book Releases: November 2017

Releasing this month:

• Baldacci, David - End Game (Will Robie, #5). (11/14)
• Cameron, Marc - Tom Clancy Power and Empire (Jack Ryan Universe, #24). (11/28)
• Child, Lee - The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22). (11/7)
• Evanovich, Janet - Hardcore Twenty-Four (Stephanie Plum, #24). (11/14)
• Koontz, Dean - The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk #2). (11/21)
• Patterson, James - The People vs. Alex Cross (Alex Cross #25). (11/20)

He Will Hold Me Fast

Keith & Kristyn Getty - He Will Hold Me Fast:

Book Releases: August 2017

Releasing this month:

• Brown Sandra - Seeing Red. (8/15)
• Gerritsen, Tess - I Know a Secret (Rizzoli & Isles, #12). (8/15)
• Grafton, Sue - Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone, #25). (8/22)
• Gregory, Philippa - The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14). (8/8)
• Kellerman, Jonathan - Crime Scene (Clay Edison, #1). (8/1)
• Lapena, Shari - A Stranger in the House. (8/15)
• Patterson, James - The Store. (8/14)
• Penny, Louise - Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13). (8/29)
• Robinson, Peter - Sleeping in the Ground (Inspector Banks, #24). (8/15)
• Schmidt, Sarah - See What I Have Done. (8/1)
• Scottoline, Lisa - Exposed (Rosato & DiNunzio, #5). (8/5)
• Slaughter, Karin - The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1). (8/8)
• Tracy, PJ - Nothing Stays Buried (Monkeewrench, #8). (8/1)
• Woods, Stuart - Barely Legal (Herbie Fisher, #1). (8/8)

Book Releases: July 2017

Releasing this month:

• Brown, Janelle - Watch Me Disappear. (7/11)
• Casey, Jane - Let the Dead Speak (Maeve Kerrigan #7). (7/25)
• Castillo, Linda - Down a Dark Road (Kate Burkholder, #9). (7/11) 
• Connelly, Michael - The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1). (7/18)
• Connolly, John - Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15). (7/4)
• Fairstein, Linda - Deadfall (Alexandra Cooper, #19). (7/25)
• Johansen, Iris - Look Behind You (Kendra Michaels, #5). (7/18)
• Reichs, Kathy - Two Nights. (7/11) 
• Silva, Daniel - House of Spies (Gabriel Allon, #17). (7/11)
• Smith, Alexander McCall - A Distant View of Everything (Isabel Dalhousie, #11). (7/18)
• Ware, Ruth - The Lying Game. (7/25)

Still

Hillary Scott & the Scott Family - Still:

Book Releases: June 2017

Releasing this month:

• Barton, Fiona - The Child. (6/27)
• Clancy, Tom & Mike Maden - Point of Contact (Jack Ryan Universe, #23). (6/13)
• Evanovich, Janet - Dangerous Minds (Knight & Moon, #2). (6/20)
• Finder, Joseph - The Switch. (6/13)
• Grisham, John - Camino Island. (6/6)
• Horowitz, Anthony - Magpie Murders. (6/6)
• Koontz, Dean - The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1). (6/20)
• Kubica, Mary - Every Last Lie. (6/27)
• Patterson, James - Murder Games. (6/26)
• Perry, Sarah - The Essex Serpent. (6/6)
• Reid, Taylor Jenkins - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. (6/13)
• Roy, Arundhati - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. (6/6)
• Sullivan, Matthew - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore. (6/13).
• Thor, Brad - Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16). (6/27)
• Van Lustbader, Eric - Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Initiative (Jason Bourne, #14). (6/13)
• Woods, Stuart - Indecent Exposure (Stone Barrington, #42). (6/6)

Forgiven

Crowder - Forgiven:

Book Releases: May 2017

Releasing this month:

• Castle, Richard - Heat Storm (Nikki Heat, #9). (5/2)
• Chevalier, Tracy - New Boy (Hogarth Shakespeare). (5/11)
• Child, Lincoln - Full Wolf Moon (Jeremy Logan, #5). (5/16)
• Crichton, Michael - Dragon Teeth. (5/23)
• Deaver, Jeffrey - The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13). (5/4)
• French, Gillian - Grit. (5/16)
• Hawkins, Paula - Into the Water. (5/2)
• Jackson, Lisa - You Will Pay. (5/30)
• Lehane, Dennis - Since We Fell. (5/9)
• Leigh, Melinda - Say You're Sorry (Morgan Dane, #1). (5/16)
• King Stephen - Gwendy's Button Box. (5/30)
• Patterson, James - 16th Seduction (Women's Murder Club, #16). (5/1)
• Patterson, James - Crazy House. (5/22)
• Patterson, James - Detective Cross (Alex Cross, #24.5). (5/2)
• Shreve, Anita - The Stars are Fire. (5/2)
• Sullivan, Mark - Beneath a Scarlet Sky. (5/1)

Mercy Tree

Lacey Sturm - Mercy Tree:

Book Releases: April 2017

Releasing this month:

• Armstrong, Kelley - Missing. (4/18)
• Baldacci, David - The Fix (Amos Decker, #3). (4/18)
• Berry, Steve - The Lost Order (Cotton Malone, #12). (4/4)
• Carr, Robyn - Any Day Now (Sullivan's Crossing, #2). (4/18)
• Clark, Mary Higgins - All By Myself, Alone. (4/4)
• Deaver, Jeffery - The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13). (4/11)
• Donlea, Charlie - The Girl Who Was Taken. (4/25)
• Johansen, Iris - No Easy Target. (4/25)
• Kostova, Elizabeth - The Shadow Land. (4/11)
• Sandford, John - Golden Prey (Lucas Davenport, #27). (4/25)
• Scottoline, Lisa - One Perfect Lie. (4/11)
• Shreve, Anita - The Stars are Fire. (4/18)
• Unger, Lisa - The Red Hunter. (4/25)
• Woods, Stuart - Fast and Loose (Stone Barrington, #41). (4/18)

King of My Heart

Kutless - King of My Heart:


John Mark & Sarah McMillan version:

Book Releases: March 2017

Releasing this month:

• Chapman, Steven Curtis - Between Heaven & the Real World: My Story (Autobiography). (3/7)
• Coulter, Catherine & JT Ellison - The Devil's Triangle (A Brit in the FBI, #4). (3/14)
• Cussler, Clive - The Cutthroat (Isaac Bell #10). (3/14)
• Dunant, Sarah - In the Name of the Family. (3/7)
• Hopper, Kay - Wait for Dark (Special Crimes Unit, #17). (3/7)
• Iles, Greg - Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage #6). (3/21)
• Jance, JA - Man Overboard (Ali Reynolds, #12) . (3/21)
• Paige, Danielle - The End of Oz (Dorothy Must Die, #4). (3/14)
• Paige, Danielle - The Queen of Oz (Dorothy Must Die Prequel, #9). (3/14)
• Patterson, James - 16th Seduction (Women's Murder Club, #16). (3/9)
• Patterson, James - The Black Book. (3/27)
• Perry, Anne - Murder on the Serpentine (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #32). (3/21)
• Rosenberg, Joel C - Without Warning (JB Collins, #3). (3/14)
• See, Lisa - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. (3/21)
• Stevens, Chevy - Never Let You Go. (3/14)
• White, Randy Wayne - Mangrove Lightning (Doc Ford, #24). (3/21)

Red Sea Road

Ellie Holcomb - Red Sea Road:

Book Releases: February 2017

Releasing this month:

• Armstrong, Kelley - A Darkness Absolute (Casey Duncan #2). (2/7)
• Charles, Todd - Racing the Devil (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery, #19). (2/14)
• Crombie, Deborah - Garden of Lamentations (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James #17). (2/7)
• Freeman, Brian - The Night Bird (Frost Easton, #1). (2/1)
• Kellerman, Faye - Bone Box (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, #24). (2/28)
• Kellerman, Jonathan - Heartbreak Hotel.  (2/14)
• Kinsella, Sophie - My Not So Perfect Life. (2/7)
• Knott, Robert - Robert B. Parker’s Revelation (Cole & Hitch, #5). (2/7)
• Oates, Joyce Carol - A Book of American Martyrs. (2/7)
• Patterson, James - Malicious (Mitchum, #2). (2/7)
• Robb, JD - Echoes in Death (In Death, #44). (2/7)
• Rose, Karen - Every Dark Corner (Cincinnati, #3). (2/7)
• Saunders, George - Lincoln in the Bardo. (2/14)
• Sigler, Scott - Alone (The Generations Trilogy #3). (2/21)
• Slater, KL - Blink. (2/16)

Grace's Bookshelf for Age 8

In honor of Grace's eighth birthday today, I want to share with you some of her favorite books. Honestly, the favorites have not changed a whole lot this year, so the list has several repeats. We do spend a lot of time in chapter books.

1. The Jesus Calling Bible Storybook by Sarah Young

2. The Whatever After Series by Sarah Mlynowski
Abby & her brother find themselves in the middle of fairy tales and have to find their way out without completely ruining the story.

3. National Geographic Kids' Just Joking
This is the first in a series of kid-friendly joke books. We have 1 & 2.

4.The Princess in Black Series by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale

5.Better Homes & Gardens' New Junior Cookbook
An ideal fit for young cooks and bakers.

6. Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty

7. The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade by Justin Roberts

8. Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

9. The Junie B Jones Series by Barbara Park

10. The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels by Ann M. Martin.
A childhood favorite of mine revisited with a fresh graphic novel approach.

Looking for more?

• Grace's Bookshelf for 7 Year Olds
• Grace's Bookshelf for 6 Year Olds
• The Book with No Pictures
• Grace's Bookshelf for 4-5 Year Olds
• Grace's Bookshelf for 3-4 Year Olds
• Iggy Peck
• Grace's Bookshelf for 2-3 Year Olds 
• Grace's Bookshelf for 1-2 Year Olds

Hope

My word for the new year is Hope. Hope is defined as a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.. However, much like love, I have learned in my life that hope is more than a feeling. Instead, it is a decision. It is faith. It is believing in a greater plan and a greater purpose. Jesus came to the world to offer hope. Without it, the world is a dark place indeed.

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"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint."
-- Isaiah 40:31

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
-- Romans 5:13

" Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is."
-- Jeremiah 17:7

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
-- Desmond Tutu

"Pain is real. But so is hope"
-- Unknown

"Hope is a waking dream."
-- Aristotle

Book Releases: January 2017

Releasing this month:

• Bohjalian, Chris - The Sleepwalker. (1/10)
• Corry, Jane - My Husband's Wife. (1/31)
• Eriksson, Caroline - The Missing. (1/1)
• Gardner, Lisa - Right Behind You (Quincy & Rainie, #7). (1/31)
• Gardner, Lisa - The 4th Man (Quincy & Rainie, #6.5). (1/3)
• Harper, Jane - The Dry. (1/10)
• Hopkins, Ellen - The You I've Never Known. (1/24)
• Hurwitz, Gregg - The Nowhere Man (Evan Smoak, #2). (1/17)
• Jackson, Tiffany D - Allegedly. (1/24)
• Lescroart, John - Fatal. (1/24)
• McVeigh, Jennifer - Leopard at the Door. (1/3)
• Paige, Danielle - Dark Side of the Rainbow (Dorothy Must Die, #0.8). (1/31)
• Patterson, James - Hidden (Mitchum, #1). (1/3)
• Patterson, James - Private Delhi (Private, #13). (1/12)
• Perry, Thomas - The Old Man. (1/3)
• Preston, Douglas - The Lost City of the Monkey God. (1/3)
• Swanson, Peter - Her Every Fear. (1/10)
• Taylor, Brad - Ring of Fire (Pike Logan, #11). (1/10)
• Woods, Stuart - Below the Belt (Stone Barrington, #40). (1/3)

2017