January 2010

Spring Arbor HITS
HITS (High Interest Title Selections) is a hand-selected list of titles that we predict will be of great interest to your customers.

Nonfiction

The new year brings new opportunities to build a strong foundation for a healthy life--and a healthy faith.

Too many people fight against their own brains and body chemistry when trying to lose weight. Dr. Don Colbert helps readers take advantage of the latest medical breakthroughs to work with their bodies rather than against them to lose weight easily and keep it off for life in Dr. Colbert's I Can Do This Diet: New Medical Breakthroughs That Use the Power of Your Brain and Body Chemistry to Help You Lose Weight and Keep It Off for Life.

From the prophecies concerning the presidents to the astonishing patterns of the tabernacle and emblems of the tribes found in America and in Washington, D.C., Perry F. Stone reveals America’s prophetic past, present, and future in Nightmare Along Pennsylvania Avenue: Prophetic Insight Into America's Role in the Coming End Times.

Drawing from How to Hear from God, Knowing God Intimately, and The Power of Simple Prayer, Joyce Meyer’s Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions guides readers through a daily reminder of how God speaks through their own thoughts and feelings, their dreams, and the words of other people.

Stormie Omartian, the bestselling author of the Power of a Praying series, leads readers to bring their brokenness, concerns, and trials to God’s presence, where they will experience wholeness through the inspiration and hope of the 365 personal prayers found in Prayers for Emotional Wholeness. A second work, The Power of Praying® Through the Bible Prayer Companion warmly invites readers a little deeper into gently focused moments with God. Specifically chosen Bible verses and prayers show readers how to pray the Scriptures over their lives and the lives of those they love.

The two decades spanning 1988 to 2008 have proved to be some of the most pivotal in America’s history. Based on a lifetime of experience in government and education, William J. Bennett defines the events that shaped American history during the final years of the century in A Century Turns: New Fears, New Hopes--America 1988 to 2008.

Bestselling author and artist Joni Eareckson Tada invites readers to join her on a deeply personal journey as she explores the presence of a holy God in hidden places. Finding God in Hidden Places is the perfect size for bedtime reading or taking along for daytime moments of rest and reflection.

Clichéd opinions about gender and social roles for men and women damage relationships and keep people from truly and deeply connecting with one another. In Men Are Slobs, Women Are Neat And Other Gender Lies That Damage Relationships Kimberly Alyn and Bob Phillips show the truth behind real gender differences and explore how to work toward relationship success.

After AIDS/HIV leaves her orphaned, Princess Kasune Zulu raises her six siblings alone and eventually tests HIV positive herself. Despite these challenges, Zulu decides early on with God’s help to be a victor and not a victim. Warrior Princess: Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope is her powerful and healing story.

In The Challenge of Easter, adapted from his bestselling Challenge of Jesus, historian, biblical scholar and author N.T. Wright takes a step back from the hoopla surrounding Easter to examine its earliest beginnings and radical claims.

Marriages may be made in heaven, but they must be nurtured here on Earth. Dr. Gary Chapman explains how people communicate love in different ways, and shares the wonderful things that happen when men and women learn to speak each other’s language in The Five Love Languages.

In The Good and Beautiful Life, the follow-up to his first book, The Good and Beautiful God, James Bryan Smith uses the Sermon on the Mount to look behind sins that cause ruin to replace false beliefs with Jesus’ narratives about life in the kingdom of God.

With startling transparency, Joshua Harris shares how to rediscover the relevance and power of Christian truth in Dug Down Deep. He describes a young man who rose quickly to success in the Christian evangelical world before he realized his spirituality lacked a foundation--it rested more on tradition and morality than on an informed knowledge of God.

Noted Bible teacher Elizabeth George offers gems of wisdom she has discovered during her years of following God in A Woman After God's Own Heart®, a beautiful, four-color gift book illustrated with Donny Finley’s inspirational paintings.

Popular author and speaker Pam Farrel encourages women to discover the joy of finding their place in God’s plan as they stop trying to please people and start pleasing God in The 10 Best Decisions a Woman Can Make.

The husband-and-wife team of Bob and Cheryl Moeller walks couples through the liberating experience of softening their hearts toward one another and setting them free to embrace all that God intended their relationship to be in The Marriage Miracle.

In The Core of Christianity: Rediscovering Authentic Unity and Personal Wholeness in Christ, Neil T. Anderson offers wisdom and direction to bring certainty and focus to a believer’s life. Readers will learn to avoid the pitfalls of worldly teachings as they study key verses, find balance between extremes, follow God’s will, and embrace examples of Christ-centered living.

66 Love Letters: Discover the Larger Story of the Bible, One Book at a Time by Dr. Larry Crabb distills the larger story of God and humanity in a powerful, personal way.

L. O. V. E.: Putting Your Love Styles to Work for You by Les and Leslie Parrott--and its accompanying online assessment--zeroes in on each individual’s personal qualities and reveals how the unique combination of two personalities creates a "Love Style" that is unlike any other.

Drawing on his vast experience as a communicator of God’s Word, Charles R. Swindoll presents the first volume in a brand-new, landmark series. Insights on Romans provides a wealth of colorful, detailed, and easy-to-understand insights into Paul’s letter to the Romans.


Fiction

This month’s fiction recommendations range from eerie suspense to plain romance.

Burn,Ted Dekker and Erin Healy’s follow-up to the bestselling Kiss, explores the good and evil that wars within each person.

In Lori Copeland’s A Kiss for Cade, famous bounty hunter Cade Kolby is forced off the trail to decide the fate of his late sister’s orphaned children. He’s not just returning to his hometown and nieces and nephews, but also to the fiery redhead he loved and left 17 years ago--and she hasn't forgotten him.

Growing up as the lightkeeper’s daughter on a remote island at the turn of the century, Addie Sullivan has lived a hardscrabble life. When a long-lost and wealthy relative enlists her to work as a governess at a lavish estate, she hopes to discover the truth of her heritage in Colleen Cobble’s The Lightkeeper's Daughter, a Mercy Falls novel.

Hillary Manton Lodge brings a new twist to the popular Amish novel in Plain Jayne. Jayne Tate loves her life--she lives in a big city, works as a reporter, and dates a guy who knows nothing about her past. When her father passes away, she’s forced to take another look at what she wants out of life.

Children & Teens

Finding one’s identity can be a challenge for teenaged girls. In The Lost Art of True Beauty popular author and speaker Leslie Ludy shares a vision for feminine loveliness as God intended it to be--the breathtaking radiance of a young woman who has been transformed by Christ from the inside out.