Excerpt: Doxology by Brian Holers

Please enjoy this excerpt from the literary novel, Doxology. Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including $450 in Amazon gift cards, a Kindle Fire, and 5 autographed copies of the book. Sunday is Vernon’s wash day. And though he has enough money to buy a dozen of the nicest washing machines known to man, Vernon Davidson washes his clothes by hand. For his washing, as for...

Excerpt: Route 66

A Crash Course in Navigating Life with the Bible by Krish Kandiah Welcome to Route 66, a journey to discover how the 66 books of the Bible help us to know God—and know how to live for Him. This book is packed with practical help to live your whole life guided by the whole of the Bible. For many of us, there is a disconnect between the Bible we treasure and the book we struggle to read. We know the Bible is a lamp to our...

Excerpt: True North: Choosing God in the Frustrati...

Title: True North: Choosing God in the Frustrations of Life Authors: Gary Heim and Lisa Heim Publisher: Kregel Publications Release Date: May 2, 2011 Genre: Non-Fiction / Religion / Christian Life Reviewed by: D.S. White About the Book: Every day we face some kind of frustration: flat tires, flooded basements, wounding words, a broken body, a troubled marriage—trouble comes in all shapes and sizes and can happen when we...

Review: Man Camp: A Novel

Title: Man Camp by Adrienne Brodeur Publisher: Random House Genre: Fiction Reviewed by Kisha Green About the Book: A biologist studying patterns of sexual selection, Lucy Stone knows a lot about mating–particularly that in the animal kingdom, males will go to any length to attract females. Why, then, are their human counterparts so hopeless in courtship? This is the question that Lucy and her best friend, Martha...

Connections by Shonell Bacon

Connections is a romantic comedy that’€™s perfect for today’€™s world where love is often found in Cyberspace. Monday through Friday, for one hour a day, newspaper reporter Christianna Dayne’€™s life is wonderful. Despite her hectic life, she always manages to spend her lunch hour at Cyber Town where she can catch up with her best friend Samantha, grab a bite to eat, and most importantly, hook up...

Love Quest’s Cover Quest

Hi Folks, In true do-it-herselfer mode, I stumbled upon ways and means to create my own book covers two days ago and have been madly designing ever since. Love Quest is due for release as of June 21st (right in time to get your summer love jones on). Naturally I think they’re all fab! So I could really use your help. Please read the description below and/or excerpt of Love Quest then tell me which cover matches, why,...

Excerpt: Intimate Musings

I Wanna I wanna lay eyes on you make contact with you have thoughts of you experience dreams of you I wanna lay hands on you feel touches of you inhale scent of you be close to you I wanna lay me with you caress all of you hold tight to you release me to you I wanna lay love on you have belief in you confide truth to you get lost in you. Copyright 2006 Discover Kai Share...

Excerpt: Men, Love & Sex

  What Makes a Man Fall in Love? Why we can’t let love in until you’ve shown us the way — and the simple words that can unleash our deepest affections. Question: Guys, do you believe you’ve met your soul mate? Yes, I’m with her right now……………………………. 53 Percent Yes, but we’re no longer...

Excerpt: How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk

The following is an excerpt from the book How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk by John Van Epp, Ph.D. Published by McGraw-Hill; September 2006;$22.95US/$26.95CAN; 0-07-147265-7 Copyright © 2006 John Van Epp, Ph.D. Idealization: See No Evil Unhealthy emotional needs lead people to develop one of three relationship patterns that attempt to interpersonally resolve what can only be fixed intrapersonally. In other words, when you do...

Excerpt: I’m Telling: A Novel

I squeezed my eyes real tight, but I couldn’t get what I had just seen out of my mind. My stepfather’s face in between my twin sister’s legs. Even with my eyes closed I could still see them. And I could smell them too. A funny smell. Kind of like sweat and something else. And I could hear them whispering and scrambling around like they were trying to grab up their clothes. I kept my eyes shut and squatted...

Excerpt: If God is My Lover … Why Is My Bed ...

by Olivia Stith Prologue Single, Saved, But Surely Not Satisfied If one more married person had explained to me how blessed I was to be single, I was going to scream. What was so blessed about it? No one to play “footsie” with over an evening dinner. No warm hands to playfully pull a remote control from while watching my favorite show. Not even a soul to pull the covers off of me at night. “Where was the...

Excerpt: Age is Just a Number: Adventures in Onlin...

The Secret Life of Divine Monday, August 16, 2004, 7:20 a.m. I SCRIBBLE furiously from the first-row corner seat aboard Lantabus Metro. I’m anxious to capture the thoughts and words as they come, honestly, naturally. As I write, I wonder how I ever made it to this point. A little over three years ago, I quit a well-paying, soul-destroying job in title insurance. Around the same time, I discovered my fiancé’s...