Coming in mid 2011 from Waterbrook Multnomah

Check out these books, coming from Waterbrook Multnomah in mid 2011! Click on the links for more.

I'm so looking forward to reading Tamara, Kristen and Gayle's books and Meg Moseley's When Sparrows Fall has me intrigued.

How about you? Any hitting your wishlists?




Departures by Robin Jones Gunn

These two stand-alone stories packaged as one book describe the summer vacations of Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen the summer before they met in England, as described in the final Christy Miller Series book. Fans of the series will love this extra glimpse into a summer skipped over in the other books, and new readers will get an introduction into the lives of both girls.

May, 2011

Indelible by Kristen Heitzmann

A suspenseful duel between light and darkness exploring how monsters are not born and what happens when they are created. When Trevor MacDaniel rescues a boy from a mountain lion, he forms a bond with Natalie Reeve, the boy’s aunt and a sculptor whose unique gift is also a disability. Drawn by the heroic story of the boy's rescue on the news, a twisted mind recognizes its adversary in the first responder, and begins to reenact the nightmare that created him, hoping and praying each time for a different outcome.

May, 2011

Too Rich for a Bride by Mona Hodgson

In this charming historical romance, Ida Sinclair comes to the western mining town of Cripple Creek to establish her career. As the business-savvy Sinclair sister, Ida has never wanted to settle down. Instead of love, she craves success. But while searching for one, she just might find the other.

May, 2011

When Sparrows Fall by Meg Moseley

When an accident forces widow Miranda Hanford to rely on a brother-in-law she’s only met once as a temporary guardian for her six children, he brings tension and unexpected emotions into their ultra-conservative lifestyle in the remote Georgia woods. They’ve been long-enmeshed with a church community that now feels more oppressive than nurturing, and now the church’s charismatic but controlling leader is determined Miranda's family will move with the church to another state. He knows what she is hiding--a secret that could cause her children to be taken from her. Reaching for a new life, new love, could cost her everything, but does Miranda have any other choice?

May, 2011

The Canary List by Sigmund Brouwer

Twelve-year-old Jaimie Piper is running from the evil man. Crockett Grey is celebrating the anniversary of his daughter’s death by getting completely drunk. Their lives collide on a dark night when a deadly fire and false accusations send them in search of the truth. Crockett’s one hope of getting his life back is by uncovering the mysterious secrets of Jaimie’s past and her strange gift. But it isn’t long before the secrets he uncovers lead him to a darker conspiracy, secrets guarded by the highest seat of power inthe world—the Vatican.

June, 2011

Breath of Angel by Karyn Henley

Breath of Angel immerses readers in a fantasy land of angels and humans, shape shifters and sylvans, where warring brothers have destroyed the only portal to heaven and stranded tortured souls on earth, and only one young woman--a chantress--half angel and half human, can restore it.

June, 2011

The Dragons of Chiril by Donita K Paul (previously released as The Vanishing Sculptor)

Return to the world of the dragon keepers, whe

re the fate of three missing statues will determine the fate of the world. Tipper, a young emerlindian woman, has been responsible for her family since her sculptor father disappeared. To make ends meet, she’s had to sell off the artwork he left behind. When at last her father returns, Tipper discovers that separating three special statues has unbalanced the foundation of her world, and she must act quickly to set things right—and save her father’s life.

June, 2011




The Inconvenient Marriage of Charlotte Beck by Kathleen Y’Barbo

Charlotte Beck wants to go to college, but her father would rather she get married. Alex Hambly's aristocratic family is in financial trouble, and he has two options: either sell off the family's Colorado silver mine or marry a rich heiress. Charlotte's father makes them a deal: he'll allow Charlotte to

go to college and be the instrument of Alex's financial salvation on one condition--that they agree to get married. They agree that they'll have the marriage annulled as soon as possible and go back to their own lives. Except soon Alex isn't sure he wants the annulment. He sets out to woo his wife for real, and Charlotte suddenly finds that her marriage has become very inconvenient indeed.

June, 2011

Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory

When Nick finds an invitation to dinner “with Jesus of Nazareth” amidst clutter on his desk, he can’t wait to see what prank his colleagues are pulling this time. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into a conversation with a baffling man who comfortably discusses everything from world religions to the existence of heaven and hell. And this man who calls himself Jesus also seems to know a disturbing amount about Nick’s personal life. As the evening progresses, their conversation touches on life, God, meaning, pain, faith, and doubt—and it seems that having Dinner with a Perfect Stranger may change Nick’s life forever.

July, 2011

A Day with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory

Exasperated by her husband’s sudden new obsession with Jesus after a strange dinner invitation, Mattie Cominsky views an out-of-town business trip as a welcome opportunity to reflect on their marriage—and decide if it’s time to end it. Aboard the plane, Mattie is relieved to find herself seated next to a passenger who shares her scorn for religion. After she confides her husband’s unexpected turn, their conversation soon leads to a fascinating exploration of spirituality, God, and the quest for connection. Mattie’s skepticism warms to the perceptive insights of this stranger, and she finds herself confronting the unspoken longings of her soul. As his comments touch on personal issues he couldn’t possibly know about, she begins to wonder if she’s misjudged not only Nick but also the God he now claims to believe in.

July, 2011

Restless in Carolina by Tamara Leigh

A sassy southern novel about a plucky widowed crusader bucking convention to go green and finding love is truly eco-friendly. Opossum-toting environmentalist Bridget Pickwick-Buchanan refuses to stand by while her family's estate is sold to the highest bidder. She things J.C. Dirk, an eco-friendly developer, can help her—but he has his own motives for getting involved. What neither Bridget nor J.C. count on is falling for each other--or the obstacles that keep them apart.

July, 2011

Shadows on the Sand by Gayle Roper

Once again murder, mystery, danger, and romance stalk the quiet New Jersey shore town of Seaside, and this time former cop Greg Barnes finds himself in the middle of the chaos whether he wants to be or not. When a young waitress at Carrie Carter's small cafe disappears, leaving clues in her Sudoku book, Carrie and Greg attempt to not only find her but uncover whatever is frightening her. As if dodging dangerous people and digging up carefully hidden secrets aren't enough, Carrie's mother shows up after an absence of more than fifteen years.

There may be a time for every purpose under heaven, but Carrie and Greg wonder: When will it be their time?

July, 2011

Coming soon from Waterbrook Multnomah

Here's a preview of Waterbrook Multnomah's August to October releases this year.

Which ones grab your attention? Click on the links for more....


The Bridge of Peace by Cindy Woodsmall

Love alone isn’t enough to overcome the obstacles between a man and a woman.

From New York Times best-selling author Cindy Woodsmall, comes an invitation into Amish country Lena Kauffman is a young Old Order Amish schoolteacher who has dealt all her life with attention raised by a noticeable birthmark on her cheek. Having learned to move past the stares and whispers, Lena channels her zest for living into her love of teaching. But tensions mount as she is challenged to work with a rebellious young man and deal with several crises at the schoolhouse that threaten her other students. Her lack of submission and the use of ideas that don’t line up with the Old Ways strengthen the school board’s case as they begin to believe that Lena is behind all the trouble.

One member of the school board, Grey Graber, feels trapped by his own stifling circumstances. His wife Elsie has shut him out of her life, and he doesn’t know how long he can continue to live as if nothing is wrong. As the two finally come to a place of working toward a better marriage, tragedy befalls their family.

Lena and Grey have been life-long friends but their relationship begins to crumble amidst unsettling deceptions, propelling each of them to finally face their own secrets. Can they both find a way past their losses and discover the strength to build a new bridge?

August, 2010



The Miracle of Mercy Land by River Jordan

What if you had the power to amend choices you made in the past? Would you do it even if it changed everything?

Mercy Land has made some unexpected choices for a young woman in the 1930s. The sheltered daughter of a traveling preacher, she chooses to leave her rural community to move to nearby Bay City on the warm, gulf-waters of southern Alabama. There she finds a job at the local paper and spends seven years making herself indispensable to old Doc Philips, the publisher and editor. Then she gets a frantic call at dawn—it’s the biggest news story of her life, and she can’t print a word of it.

Doc has come into possession of a curious book that maps the lives of everyone in Bay City—decisions they’ve made in the past, and how those choices affect the future. Mercy and Doc are consumed by the mystery locked between the pages—Doc because he hopes to right a very old wrong, and Mercy because she wants to fulfill the book’s strange purpose. But when a mysterious stranger shows up, Mercy begins to understand she may have to choose between love and loneliness . . . or good and evil . . . for the rest of her life.

September, 2010



Lady in Waiting by Susan Meissner

Love is a choice you make every day.

Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay never expected to watch her husband Brad pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him and the course of events that follow Brad’s departure. Jane finds an old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a Latin inscription in the band along with just one other word: Jane. Feeling instant connection to the mysterious ring bearing her namesake, Jane begins a journey to learn more about the ring—and perhaps about herself.
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In the sixteenth-century, Lucy Day becomes the dressmaker to Lady Jane Grey, an innocent young woman whose fate seems to be controlled by a dangerous political and religious climate, one threatening to deny her true love and pursuit of her own interests. As the stories of both Janes dovetail through the journey of one ring, it becomes clear that each woman has far more influence over their lives than they once imagined. It all comes down to the choices each makes despite the realities they face.

September, 2010



Judgement Day by Wanda L Dyson

Sensational journalism has never been so deadly.

The weekly cable news show Judgment Day with Suzanne Kidwell promises to expose businessmen, religious leaders, and politicians for the lies they tell. Suzanne positions herself as a champion of ethics and morality with a backbone of steel—until a revelation of her shoddy investigation tactics and creative fact embellishing put her in hot water with her employers, putting her credibility in question and threatening her professional ambitions..

Bitter and angry, Suzanne returns home one day to find an entrepreneur she is investigating, John Edward Sterling, unconscious on her living room floor. Before the night is over, Sterling is dead, she has his blood on her hands, and the police are arresting her for murder. She needs help to prove her innocence, but her only hope, private investigator Marcus Crisp, is also her ex-fiancé–the man she betrayed in college.

Marcus and his partner Alexandria Fisher-Hawthorne reluctantly agree to take the case, but they won’t cut Suzanne any slack. Exposing her lack of ethics and the lives she’s destroyed in her fight for ratings does little to make them think Suzanne is innocent. But as Marcus digs into the mire of secrets surrounding her enemies, he unveils an alliance well-worth killing for. Now all he has to do is keep Suzanne and Alex alive long enough to prove it.

September, 2010



Dragons of the Valley by Donita K Paul

War threatens the peaceful land of Chiril… can one painter-turned-reluctant-swordsman really help?

With an invasion of her country imminent, Tipper Schope is drawn into a mission to keep three important statues from falling into the enemy’s clutches. Her friend, the artist Bealomondore, helps her execute the plan, and along the way he learns to brandish a sword rather than a paintbrush.

As odd disappearances and a rash of volatile behavior sweep Chiril, no one is safe. A terrible danger has made his vicious presence known: The Grawl, a hunter unlike any creature encountered before.

To restore their country, Tipper, Bealomondore, and their party must hide the statues in the Valley of the Dragons and find a way to defeat the invading army. When it falls to the artistic Bealomondore to wield his sword as powerfully and naturally as a paintbrush, will he answer Wulder’s call for a champion?

September, 2010



Divine Appointments by Charlene Baumbich

With the big 5-0 fast approaching, Josie Brooks begins to question her structured, picture-perfect (mid)life.

Josie Brooks, at the age of 47, thought she was leading an enviable single life. A successful consultant, she calls her own shots, goes where the money is, and never needs to compromise. But her precisely managed world begins to falter during a Chicago contract when an economic downturn, a bleeding heart boss, and the loyalty and kindness between endangered employees ding her coat of armor.

Throw in hot flashes, a dose of loneliness, a peculiar longing for intimacy, an unquenchable thirst—not to mention a mysterious snowglobe with a serene landscape, complete with a flowing river and lush greenery that seems to be beckoning her in—and Josie’s buttoned-up sense of status quo is on the verge of coming completely undone. Maybe her solitary existence hasn’t been as fulfilling as she has convinced herself to believe.

It will take a few new friends, a mystical encounter, and an unexpected journey to set Josie on her own path to “right-sizing” and making the life changes that really matter. Filled with laugh-out loud moments and a gentle dash of inspiration, Divine Appointments is another heartwarming charmer from a master storyteller.

September, 2010



Two Tickets to the Christmas Ball by Donita K Paul

Can mysterious matchmaking booksellers bring two lonely hearts together in time for Christmas?

In a sleepy, snow-covered city, Cora Crowder is busy preparing for the holiday season. Searching for a perfect gift, a fortuitous trip to Warner, Werner, and Wizbotterdad’s (a most unusual bookshop) leads to an unexpected encounter with co-worker Simon Derrick. And the surprise discovery of a ticket for a truly one-of-a-kind Christmas Ball.

Every year, the matchmaking booksellers of the Sage Street bookshop host an enchanting, old-fashioned Christmas Ball for the romantic matches they’ve decided to bring together.

This year, will Simon and Cora discover a perfect chemistry in their opposite personalities and shared faith? Or will the matchmakers’ best laid plans end up ruining everything this holiday?

October, 2010



Tandem by Tracey Batemen

As obsession and loss become dark partners, how far must the people of Abbey Hills go to survive?

Six months ago, brutal murders shook the small Ozark town—murders that stopped after a house fire reportedly claimed the killer’s life. Lauryn McBride's family auction house has taken responsibility for the estate sale of one of the victims—the enigmatic Markus Chisom. Submerging herself in Chisom’s beautiful but strange world, Lauryn welcomes the reprieve from watching Alzheimer’s steal her father from her, piece by piece. She soon realizes that centuries-old secrets tie Abbey Hills to the Chisom estate and a mysterious evil will do anything to make sure those secrets stay hidden. Even the man who grew up loving her may not be able to protect Lauryn from the danger.

When Amede Dastillon receives an unexpected package from Abbey Hills, she hopes it might be the key in tracking down her beloved sister, long estranged from her family. Visiting Abbey Hills seems the logical next step in her search, but Amede is unusually affected by the town, and when mutilated carcasses begin turning up again in the small community, the local law enforcement isn’t sure if they are confronting a familiar evil or a new terror.

Two women brought together by questions that seem to have no answers. Can they overcome the loss and darkness threatening to devour them—or will their own demons condemn them to an emotional wasteland?

October, 2010

Sneak Peek at The Vanishing Sculptor by Donita K Paul

My 10 year old daughter loved Donita K Paul's DragonKeeper Chronicles. I read the first one, Dragonspell to her and then she devoured the rest. She will be thrilled Donita is back with The Vanishing Sculptor!


Donita K. Paul’s 250,000-plus-selling DragonKeeper Chronicles series has attracted a wide spectrum of dedicated fans–and they’re sure to fall in love with the new characters and adventures in her latest superbly crafted fiction novel for all ages. It’s a mind-boggling fantasy that inhabits the same world as the DragonKeeper Chronicles, but in a different country and an earlier time, where the people know little of Wulder and nothing of Paladin.

In The Vanishing Sculptor, readers will meet Tipper, a young emerlindian who’s responsible for the upkeep of her family’s estate during her sculptor father’s absence. Tipper soon discovers that her actions have unbalanced the whole foundation of her world, and she must act quickly to undo the calamitous threat. But how can she save her father and her world on her own? The task is too huge for one person, so she gathers the help of some unlikely companions–including the nearly five-foot tall parrot Beccaroon–and eventually witnesses the loving care and miraculous resources of Wulder. Through Tipper’s breathtaking story, readers will discover the beauty of knowing and serving God.

Releasing June, 2009 from Waterbrook Multnomah