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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

Bestselling recording artist TobyMac has a passion for inspiring people to step out and take action for their faith. Through compelling stories and Scripture, City on Our Knees illustrates how Christians past and present have set aside differences, come together in unity, and stepped forward in action and prayer.

Mary Beth Chapman, the wife of Grammy- and Dove Award-winning artist Steven Curtis Chapman, explores where God is when the worst happens. In Choosing to See she shares about the loss of her daughter, the struggle to heal, and the unexpected path God has placed her on.

William J. Bennett and John T.E. Cribb, Jr., distill the American drama into 365 entries--one for each day of the year. Fascinating in its detail and singular in its grasp of the big themes, The American Patriot's Almanac will make anyone a fan of history, and even better, it will make of everyone a patriot.

Based on the key principles for healthy eating in Dr. Don Colbert’s New York Times-bestseller, The Seven Pillars of Health, the practical guidebook for parents Eat This and Live for Kids includes his approved foods and restaurant menu choices, along with helpful tips, charts, and nutrition information that will make it easier to raise healthy kids.

Perry Stone brings his unique blend of Bible knowledge, prophecy, and spiritual insight to this comprehensive look at the afterlife, Secrets from Beyond the Grave. He shows what hell will be like for those who depart this life without a salvation experience and discusses the location and purpose of Paradise, the temporary home for Christians who have died.

In her latest book, Power Thoughts, bestselling author and pastor Joyce Meyer brings the reader to a new level of ability to use the mind as a tool to achievement. She outlines a flexible program to turn thoughts into habits, and habits into success.

As the world grew to know Sarah Palin throughout the 2008 presidential campaign and in her subsequent public appearances and book, people began to see the force behind her: a deep, lifelong Christian faith. The Faith and Values of Sarah Palin by Stephen Mansfield and David A. Holland reveals the lens through which she views the world, the bedrock of her politics, and even a primary influence upon her personality.

James and Betty Robison, co-hosts of the LIFE Today television program, have shared many good times and tough times in their almost 50 years as a couple. In Living in Love. the Robisons reveal how a committed, growing, lifelong relationship is built and sustained.

Scotty Smiley and Doug Crandall tell the inspiring story of triumph over tragedy in the faith and courage of an officer blinded in Iraq, who now serves at West Point in Hope Unseen.

Award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth) makes a case for biblical Christianity in defense of art, life, and liberty in this growing age of cultural secularism. Saving Leonardo includes more than 100 art reproductions.

With his signature wit and common-sense psychology, Dr. Kevin Leman walks readers through their own personal five-day action plan in Have a New You by Friday, based on content from his bestselling The Real You.

A compelling new voice among young evangelicals, Steven Furtick lays out a manifesto for audacious faith--challenging readers to seize a vision for their life that they can only accomplish with God’s help, then showing them in practical terms how to live it out on a daily basis in Sun Stand Still.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Kelly and his wife, Jill, reveal their family’s private struggle and how eight years with their severely disabled, terminally ill son, Hunter, unfolded in a redemptive and transforming manner in Without a Word.

Pastor Andy Stanley traces grace through the Old and New Testament, observing God’s grace at work in the lives of some of the best, and worst, characters. He also shares deeply personal insights from his own life and reveals how grace is not a natural response but is the most essential one in The Grace of God.


Fiction

Beverly Lewis launches the first book in a stirring new saga of two Amish sisters on the fringe of the church --and the unforeseen discoveries that change their lives with The Thorn.

In Her Daughter’s Dream, the conclusion in the Marta’s Legacy series by Francine Rivers, the Cold War has begun, and Carolyn is struggling to navigate her shifting family landscape and the changing times. College offers the chance to find herself, but a family tragedy shatters her independence. When she reemerges two years later, more lost than ever, only her family can help rebuild a life for her and her daughter.

Ted Dekker returns with Immanuel’s Veins, a dangerous tale of times past where the heart embraces what it should flee. With a kiss, evil will ravage body, soul, and mind. Yet there remains hope, because the heart knows no bounds.

New York Times-bestselling author Cindy Woodsmall invites readers to Amish country, where love alone isn't enough to overcome the obstacles between a man and a woman in the latest Ada’s House novel, The Bridge of Peace.

As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends’ differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well, in Kim Sawyer’s In Every Heartbeat.

Can a young woman who harbors a secret passion for writing in the Amana Colonies in 1885 find belonging in a society that bans artistic expression? Find out in Judith Miller’s More Than Words, part of the Daughters of Amana series.

In the first book of Julie Lessman’s new series, Winds of Change, Katie O'Connor is forced to spend the summer of 1929 with Luke McGee, the bane of her childhood existence, and she must make a choice. Will she follow her well-laid plans to marry her fiancé Jake? Or will she fall for the man she swore to despise forever in A Hope Undaunted.

Lisa Bevere inspires women of all ages to wake up to what God is stirring in their hearts, revealing that women, like the female lion, can rise up in prowess and impact their world in Lioness Arising.


Children & Teens

Max Lucado and his daughter, Jenna Lucado Bishop, adapt Outlive Your Life for teens, offering practical tips youths can take out into their community to make a difference, plus real-life stories about those who have done just that. In You Were Made to Make a Difference teens learn that God can use them to make a difference right now. He wants to use them today, without waiting for them to be older, stronger, richer, or even more "together."

Available in pink for girls and blue for boys, the Precious Moments Holy Bible is a full-color leatherflex Bible with Precious Moments illustrations and the full-text International Children’s Bible translation.

While participating in the yearly Christmas play at church, Brother and Sister Bear learn that it is better to give than it is to receive in The Berenstain Bears® and the Joy of Giving by Jan and Mike Berenstain.