John Leatherman
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Sound of the Spirit
When 12-year-old Messianic Jew Rivka Margolis unexpectedly loses her father, she is sent to live with her Jewish orthodox uncle, who is offended by her belief in Christ. Still grieving, Rivka struggles to adjust to her new synagogue and she has trouble making new friends. To make matters worse, the entire congregation turns on her …
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The Ambition
Lee Strobel | Zondervan
A name well-known in Christian publishing, Lee Strobel crafts a gripping legal thriller in his debut novel, The Ambition. In it, the former Chicago Tribune legal reporter demonstrates his intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the justice system.
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An Eye for Glory
Karl Bacon | Zondervan
In a historical novel timed for the sesquicentenary of the start of the Civil War, first-time author Karl Bacon gives a first-person account of the frontlines of battle in An Eye for Glory: The Civil War Chronicles of a Citizen Soldier.
Told through narration and letters, An Eye for Glory follows Connecticut shopkeeper and family man Michael Palmer, who, feeling a moral duty, enlists in the Union army despite his wife's objections. He fights at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, where his lifelong buddy dies. Outraged, he kills a Confederate soldier at Gettysburg with excessive malice and feels he has lost his soul. After the war, at his wife's urging, he returns the soldier’s Bible to his widow and experiences the true depth of God's grace.
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The Vampire Defanged
Susanna Clements | Brazos Press
Author Susanna Clements studies how Christianity figures into vampire fiction in The Vampire Defanged: How the Embodiment of Evil Became a Romantic Hero. In chronological order, she explores Bram Stoker's Dracula, Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries (aka True Blood) and Stephenie Meyer's The Twilight Saga.
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The Brotherhood
Jerry B. Jenkins | Tyndale House Publishers
Author Jerry B. Jenkins gives a look inside the life of a policeman struggling with his faith in the police thriller The Brotherhood, the first in the Precinct 11 series. Set in the near future, the book takes a frank look at the question of why God allows suffering.
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Book of Days
James L. Rubart | B&H Books
Author James L. Rubart combines Scripture with legend to create an engaging tale of self-discovery in Book of Days. The title refers to a book, mentioned in Psalm 139:16, in which God recorded every life before time began.
When Seattle video producer Cameron Vaux begins to lose his memory, he fears he will die young like his father. He intermittently recalls conversations with both his late wife, Jessie, and his dad about a legendary book in Three Peaks, Ore., which tells the future. Once dismissed as fantasy, the book now promises hope. -
The Twelfth Imam
Joel C. Rosenberg | Tyndale House Publishers
Author Joel Rosenberg combines fears of a nuclear-armed Iran with speculation, in the espionage thriller The Twelfth Imam, the first of a new series. The title alludes to an event in Muslim eschatology tantamount to Christ's Second Coming.
Iranian by blood, but born American after his parents fled Khomeni's 1979 revolution, David Shirazi excels as an undercover CIA operative in the Middle East. Under the guise of a German-based telecom consultant seeking to modernize Iran's cellular networks, he hopes to gain intelligence on the country's nuclear weapons program while Israel vies for a pre-emptive strike.
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Hope Unseen
Capt. Scotty Smiley with Doug Crandall | Howard Books
Capt. Scotty Smiley, a U.S. Army captain tells of his recovery from a life-altering injury in Hope Unseen: The Story of the U.S. Army's First Blind Active-Duty Officer. Blinded by an Iraqi insurgent car bomb in 2005, Smiley forges a new way to serve his country, teaching leadership skills at the United States Military Academy.
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Danger Close
William G. Boykin and Tom Morrisey | Fidelis Books
Author William G. Boykin and retired Lt. Gen. Tom Morrisey explore the radical Islamist threat in the terrorist thriller Danger Close, which imagines an al-Qaida intent on trumping itself with a more deadly attack on America.After a successful tour in Afghanistan, Lt. Blake Crenshaw accepts a secret assignment from the CIA's counterterrorism chief. He will switch places with an Anglo recruited into al-Qaida by Muslim clerics in prison.
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