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"... We're not lost - we just can't see the path. But God can." (192) Title:   Wild Montana Skies Series:   Montana Rescue, Book 1 Author:  Susan May Warren Publisher:   Revell Release Date:   October 18, 2016 Genre: Inspirational Contemporary Fiction The last thing Search and Rescue helicopter pilot Kacey Fairing needs upon returning home to Mercy Falls, Montana, is to run into her mistakes. After a devastating crash during her recent military tour in Afghanistan, she is emotionally broken but ready to start putting her life back together. She just wants to reconnect with her teenage daughter and spend the summer working as the new lead pilot of PEAK Rescue in Glacier National Park. But her mistakes aren't so easily forgotten. Because Ben King is also back in town. Country music star Ben King abandoned his past when he moved to Nashville thirteen years ago to start his career. He hoped to heal his broken heart, caused by losin...

Title:   The Dude Diet: Clean(ish) Food for People Who Like to Eat Dirty Author: Serena Wolf Publisher:   HarperCollins Release Date:   October 25, 2016 Genre: Cookbook / Food / Diet Format:  Hardcover From chef and creator of the popular food blog Domesticate-Me.com, 125 outrageously delicious yet deceptively healthy recipes for dudes (and the people who love them), accompanied by beautiful full-color photography. Dudes. So well intentioned when it comes to healthy eating, even as they fail epically in execution—inhaling a "salad" topped with fried chicken fingers or ordering their Italian hero on a whole wheat wrap (that makes it healthy, right?). There are several issues with men going on diets. First, they seem to be misinformed about basic nutrition. They are also, generally, not excited about eating "health food." You can lead a dude to the salad bar, but you can’t make him choose lettuce. Enter Serena Wolf—chef, food blogger,...

"But if you're too focused on falling, it isn't a leap of faith at all, is it?" (66) Title:   Castle in the Clouds Series: Flowers of Eden, Book 2 Author:  Myra Johnson Publisher:   Franciscan Media Release Date: August 26 , 2016 Genre: Inspirational Historical Fiction The first book in the Flowers of Eden series introduced readers to Bryony Linwood, an orphan trying desperately to provide for her sisters in the shadow of the Great Depression. In Castles in the Clouds, we meet one of those sisters—Larkspur Linwood, a young woman who has a passion for teaching but yearns for something more than life as a small-town Arkansas schoolmarm. Young and impressionable, Lark mistakes a college professor’s interest for romantic love. When he offers her the chance to join his efforts to start a school in Kenya, she pictures herself bringing the light of knowledge to hundreds of African children eager to learn. But the menial tasks she’s assigned...

Title: Christian's Hope Series:  Return to Northkill, Book 3 Author:   Ervin R. Stutzman Publisher:   MennoMedia / Herald Press Release Date:   October 11, 2016 Genre:  Inspirational Historical Fiction/ Amish When Christian Hochstetler returns to the Amish after seven years in captivity, he finds that many things have shifted. Captured as a child during the French and Indian War, Christian has spent much of his life among Native Americans, who cared for him and taught him their ways. Now that Christian is home, his father wants him to settle back into their predictable Amish life of farming, and Christian's budding friendship with Orpha Rupp beckons him to stay as well. Yet Christian feels restless, and he misses his adoptive Native American family---who raised him as their own son. When faced with a life-altering decision, will Christian choose the Amish identity that his father desires for him? Or will he depart f...

Title:   Frost Author: M.P. Kozlowsky Publisher:  Scholastic Press Release Date: October 11, 2016   Genre: Young Adult Fantasy / Sci-Fi 16-year-old Frost understands why she's spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters.  She understands why she's never met a human besides her father. She even understands why he forbids her to look for medicine for her dying pet. But the thing is, it's not her real father giving the orders . . .  It's his memories. Before he died, Frost's father uploaded his consciousness into their robot servant. But the technology malfunctioned, and now her father fades in and out. So when Frost learns that there might be medicine on the other side of the ravaged city, she embarks on a dangerous journey to save the only living creature she loves. With only a robot as a companion, Frost must face terrors of all sorts, from outrun...