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Healing Stones Review and Giveaway
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As promised, here is my review and giveaway of Healing Stones by Nancy Rue and Stephen Arterburn. The Christian Fiction Blog Alliance featured this book earlier this week, so if you’d like to read about the authors and a plot synopsis, please visit my earlier post.
My Opinion:
I have to admit I was skeptical about this book at first. I don’t generally get into books that begin with a woman having an affair. However, I am a fan of Nancy Rue’s Lily Series for tween girls, and I’ve heard great things about Stephen Arterburn, so I thought I’d give this book a shot. Boy, am I glad I did!
Healing Stones is by far the best Christian fiction book I’ve read in a long time, and I read a lot of good stuff. By the second chapter I had been sucked into the plot, and I couldn’t put the book down. I finished in a few days, and considering how busy I’ve been lately, that’s a small miracle!
I loved this book, because it hit on so many important topics. Forgiveness, lack of forgiveness, legalism, grace, being able to forgive yourself, why Christians do bad things, truth, lies….it’s all there wrapped up in a compelling plot.
I walked away from this book really thinking about my attitude toward certain sins, toward some of the things I’ve done in life. I found myself wrestling with dilemma between the need to obey God and the need to extend grace to those who disobey. Where is the fine line of grace between legalism and looking the other way and ignoring sin? Healing Stones is definitely a book that will make you think! I highly, highly recommend this one!
Now on to the giveaway. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post. I will close comments next Friday, February 22, 2008 at noon PST. I will draw a winner using a random number generator, and the winner will recieve my once read copy of Healing Stones.
For those of you who don’t win, I recommend that you buy yourself a copy or check it out from the library! Seriously.
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My Name is Russell Fink by Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder has spent the bulk of his professional career in sales, has fallen in love, and continues to struggle with the balance between art and vocation. He’s never investigated a murder, much less that of an allegedly clairvoyant dog.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Russell Fink is twenty-six years old and determined to salvage a job he hates so he can finally move out of his parents house for good. He’s convinced he gave his twin sister cancer when they were nine years old. And his crazy fiancée refuses to accept the fact that their engagement really is over.
Then Sonny, his allegedly clairvoyant basset hound, is found murdered.
The ensuing amateur investigation forces Russell to confront several things at once-the enormity of his family’s dysfunction, the guy stalking his family, and his long-buried feelings for a most peculiar love interest.
At its heart, My Name is Russell Fink is a comedy, with sharp dialogue, characters steeped in authenticity, romance, suspense, and fresh humor. With a postmodern style similar to Nick Hornby and Douglas Coupland, the author explores reconciliation, forgiveness, and faith in the midst of tragedy. No amount of neurosis or dysfunction can derail God’s redemptive purposes.
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Healing Stones by Nancy Rue and Stephen Arterburn
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About the Authors:
Stephen Arterburn is the founder and chairman of New Life Ministries—the nation’s largest faith-based broadcast, counseling and treatment ministry—and is the host of the nationally syndicated “New Life Live!” daily radio…
By 1996 Nancy was a full-time writer. The Christian Heritage Series made that possible. She was writing those books from the early 1990’s until 2000.
And then a new opportunity came along–the Lily series. If she ever doubted that she was going to make it as a writer, man, that little red-head put those fears to rest! And, of course, Sophie followed Lily, with some teen and grown-up books in between — plus the non-fiction books designed just for you.
Nancy and her husband live in Tennessee now, overlooking a beautiful lake, lots of sycamore trees, and the rocky Tennessee hills. They have a bright yellow power boat named BANANA SPLIT which you can find us on no matter what the weather. Marijean and her husband live nearby with my three grand-dogs and three grand-cats (and two grand-snakes . . .)
About the Book:
With one flash of a camera, Demi’s private life becomes public news. She doesn’t know it yet, but her healing has just begun.
Christian college professor Demitria Costanas had vowed to end her affair with a colleague. But she gives into temptation one last time…and a lurking photographer captures her weakness for all to see. Quite literally, she’s the woman caught in adultery. And almost everyone–herself included–has a stone to throw.
Enter Sullivan Crisp, a decidedly unorthodox psychologist with his own baggage. He’s well-known for his quirky sense of humor and incorporation of “game show” theology into his counseling sessions. And yet there’s something more he offers…hope for a fresh start.
Reluctantly the two of them begin an uplifting, uneven journey filled with healing and grace. By turns funny and touching, this story explores the ways humans hurt each other and deceive themselves. And it shows the endlessly creative means God uses to turn stones of accusation and shame into works of beauty that lead us onto the path of healing.
An auspicious debut for a candid yet tender series about pain, healing, and God’s invitation for second chances.
My Opinion:
I really, really liked this book! In fact, I liked it so much, that I will be writing my own review and giving away a copy on Friday, so be sure to check back then!
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Sisters, Ink by Rebeca Seitz
About the Author:
Rebeca Seitz is Founder and President of Glass Road Public Relations. An author for several years, PRINTS CHARMING was her first novel.
Rebeca cut her publicity teeth as the first dedicated publicist for the fiction division of Thomas Nelson Publishers. In 2005, Rebeca resigned from WestBow and opened the doors of GRPR, the only publicity firm of its kind in the country dedicated solely to representing novelists writing from a Christian worldview.
Rebeca makes her home in Kentucky with her husband, Charles, and their son, Anderson.
About the Book
Sisters, Ink marks the first in a series of novels written by, for, and about scrapbookers. At the center of the creativity and humor are four unlikely young adult sisters, each separately adopted during early childhood into the loving home of Marilyn and Jack Sinclair.
Ten years after their mother Marilyn has died, the multi-racial Sinclair sisters (Meg, Kendra, Tandy, and Joy) still return to her converted attic scrapping studio in the small town of Stars Hill, Tennessee, to encourage each other through life’s highs and lows.
Book one spotlights headstrong Tandy, a successful yet haunted attorney now living back in Orlando where she spent the first eight years of her life on the streets as a junkie’s kid. When a suddenly enforced leave of absence at work leads her to an extended visit with her sisters in Stars Hill, a business opportunity, rekindled romance, and fresh understanding of God’s will soon follow.
Endorsements:
“What more can any woman want? Sisters, Ink weaves the love of sisters, the fun of scrapbooking, and a romance as sugary and tingling as Sweet Home Alabama. A must read for those who love southern fiction.”–DiAnn Mills, author of Leather and Lace and When the Nile Runs Red
“Fun . . . funny . . . fantastic! Rebeca Seitz has brought together scrapbooking and sisterhood in a lively romp, with a love for going home again.”–Eva Marie Everson, coauthor of The Potluck Club series.
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The Winner of Awaken My Heart Is…
Comment #46, which is Carrie, who said
I love Christian books and this one looks like a great read. Please enter me!
I will be emailing Carrie shortly to get her mailing address. Thanks to all who entered! And congratulations Carrie! Your copy of Awaken My Heart will be on it’s way soon!
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