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On the afternoon of the twins’ seventeenth birthday, the party turns into a concert. Emma sits at the piano in a blue dress, her brother CheChe sings, and the guests dance around them until the applause comes. It is the kind of scene most novels would rush past on the way to the plot. When […]

A tender exploration of childhood grief, faith, family, and the journey from sorrow toward hope Joy Overcame Sorrow follows ten-year-old Joy Marie Carter as she navigates the devastating loss of her father, Steve, who dies suddenly in a multiple-vehicle accident. What begins as an ordinary bike ride with her best friend, Bella, quickly becomes the […]

A daring rescue mission turns into a fight for survival, truth, and justice in this adventurous thriller. A rescue mission is supposed to end when the person being rescued is finally safe. For Marshall Morris, however, finding a missing teenager in the Rocky Mountains was only the beginning of the trouble. What started as an […]

The candle on the kitchen counter is shaped like a mitten and smells of pine. Clyde, a lanky business student with red hair and suspenders who has moved in upstairs that morning, has lit it and closed his eyes, and when sixteen-year-old Caspen touches his shoulder to say goodbye, the floor drops away. A breath […]

The magic carpet at the sledding hill moves slowly, which is the point. Each time it hauls the sled back up the slope, Nolan Hart uses the ride to tell Taran Taylor something he knows about her. Her birthday and her star sign. The way she hates lateness because time cannot be refunded. The fact […]

At the graveside, a single cloud drifts over Canterbury and slowly takes the shape of a crocodile. Emily Beauchamp almost turns to point it out to her brother Billy, who always saw dragons and giants where she saw dogs and horses, and then remembers that he is in the smallest of the three coffins being […]

After the death of his twin brother, 7th grader Colton struggles with grief in this raw, sensitive look at a family’s loss. A simple bike ride along main roads suddenly becomes the scene of a deadly hit-and-run when young Cade is struck by a car. His twin brother Colton sees it happen, seemingly in slow […]