Títulos em Contemporâneo

Marie Michaels had a perfect life - a happy marriage to her college sweetheart, mother to two beautiful teenage children, and the owner of a successful business. Her life was everything she had imagined, until the day she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. After undergoing several medical treatments, she loses her ability to hear, making communication with her family and friends challenging.

We never have to live in bondage or darkness. Each and every one of us has the ability to lift ourselves out of the darkness of circumstance and into the light. But how do we do that when our marriages are falling apart or our finances are a mess - or, when poverty, crime, illness, and death surround us daily? How do we find the light?

In the second Tides of Truth novel, Tami Taylor's faith becomes the key to her law firm's latest case, but with so much competing for her attention--and her heart--finding the truth won't be as easy as she thinks. John Grisham meets Charles Martin in this powerful legal drama. Competition is...

Where great loss turns to ordained love. When Gina Andros loses her husband Alex and almost two-year old daughter Teresa in a car accident, her world falls apart. Her mother-in-law Helena, a woman she views as a second mother, blames her for the accident and cuts her out of her life. Doing so, she turns her family, including Gina's best friends, Anna and Christian, away from her. Gina falls deep into the pit of grief, but slowly the family starts to heal - due in part to a major event in her life. But not before Helena goes to great lengths to derail Gina’s recovery.

Darcy Malone’s dreams of mission work are dashed on the eve of fulfilling them: The Guatemalan school she was going to teach at has closed, and she’s already quit her job and given up her apartment. Stuck in her worst-case scenario, Darcy accepts an unexpected offer to move in with Bryson Katsaros’ little sister, despite the years of distrust between her and Bryson, the lead singer in her best friend Cameron’s band. But as she meets those close to Bryson, Darcy quickly discovers there is more to him than just his bad-boy persona.

When the Navy wrote off her MIA husband as dead, Eden came to terms with being a widow. But now, her Navy SEAL husband is staring her in the face. Eden knows she should be over-the-moon, but she isn’t. Diagnosed with PTSD and amnesia, Navy SEAL Jonah Mills has no recollection of their fractured marriage, no memory of Eden nor her 14-year-old daughter. But as the memories lurking in his wife's haunted eyes and behind his daughter's uncertain smile begin to return to him, Jonah makes another discovery. There is treachery in the highest ranks of his Team.

Springville Community Christian Church is nestled in the mountains of North Carolina and is a quiet, Mayberry-esque type of town - that is until a ruthless businessman sets his sights on the town and opens the first bar in the middle of the quiet community. Pastor Daniel Whitefield seeks only to do the will of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two women at midlife who rediscover themselves—and perhaps each other. Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion—her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state...

When eccentric millionaire Gideon Quidley receives a divine revelation to hide his earthly treasure somewhere in the hills, he sets out to find a fitting hiding spot, choosing only a few Bible verses as clues leading to untold riches of gold, silver, cash...and one very unexpected - and very costly - item. Treasure hunters descend upon the hills of West Virginia, including those surrounding the small town of Emmaus, where TD Lovett and Waite Evers provide the latest updates and the beating heart of the community on radio station Country 16.

Carlos and Bianca are your average everyday couple who are experiencing marital difficulties. Bianca's prayers over the last few years have seemed to go unanswered, and it makes her wonder, "God, where are you?" Carlos is a man who has lost his faith in God and believes that religion is created for adverse reasons, and he feels he could no longer live a lie.

For as long as she can remember, June Bug and her father have traveled the back roads of the country in their beat-up RV, spending many nights parked at Walmart. One morning, as she walks past the greeter at the front of the store, her eyes are drawn to the pictures of missing children, where she is shocked to see herself. This discovery begins a quest for the truth about her father, the mother he rarely speaks about, and ultimately herself.

Pastor turned long-haul trucker Mack struggles with grief and perceived failures as a minister while he is confronted with a mysterious hitchhiker, smugglers, and a determined killer. After an unbearable tragedy strikes his life, he sells everything he owns and buys a new Peterbilt truck, returning to the trade he learned decades earlier.

Celebrated athlete Jim Bonz marries radiant, regal, and affluent Jewell Pepper, about whom he fantasized through adolescence. Four years later, she is dead, and Jim’s life begins. After the funeral, Jewell’s father, appreciating Jim for his role in his daughter’s life, gives him a cash gift that frees him from any concern with making a living.

Calvary Way Ministries (CWM) is working toward achieving ministerial goals. From teaching Christian principles to humanitarian efforts that reach the masses, CWM is growing and moving in the right direction. With an exceptional team of leaders focused on advancing the mission of the ministry, strategic efforts are regularly deployed to ensure membership growth, biblical maturation, and financial stewardship.

When student Tim Journeyman first wrote to family friend Dr. Paul Woodson, he didn't know it would start a fifteen-year mentorship that would shape his life and Christian faith. Within their candid letters are words of real-world wisdom—from a "senior saint" to a "junior saint"—covering various areas of living, from the theological to the everyday. Written as fictional correspondence between two men at different stages of life and faith, the novel Letters Along the Way provides important biblical perspectives.

Melissa had clung to the thin thread of hope given by the adoption agency that someday her newborn son might want to connect with her. When his eighteenth birthday arrived, she called the agency to simply update her contact information, not expecting a response.

Four years after getting the biggest break of his life, Cameron Lee’s music career has taken a nose dive, leaving him two options: become a sellout or give up on his lifelong dream. He reluctantly returns home for his sister’s wedding, hoping to avoid his past and find his love for music again. Single mom Lexie Walters has suffered her fair share of tragedies and setbacks, but she has finally scraped together the money to achieve her dream of going into business with her cousin as an interior designer. When Lexie’s life is at an all-time high, she runs into her teenage crush.

How do children live across our southern border? Cristal and Fina struggle to find enough to eat as they raise themselves on the streets of a poverty-level neighborhood. Daniel worries about his little brother Memo, who has serious respiratory attacks from the pollution and desert climate of Juarez, Mexico. Pastors Pati and Miguel want to lead a different kind of church, one responsive to the needs of their community. Life is hard in this newly-formed neighborhood on the border. Can the church help the families learn to work together as Christ's family to ease each other's burdens?

"Fastän jag hade ett bra jobb och stöttande vänner i en av världens vackraste städer, bar jag en orm om strupen." Du väljer inte var du föds eller vilken familj du föds in i. Föds man i bibelbältet i en gudsfruktande familj så kommer det, antingen på positiva eller negativa sätt, forma din framtida person. I denna bok vittnar författaren Lena Ringqvist om hur den kristna uppväxten aldrig undkommer henne. Med både lätthet och humor skildras här en mörk historia som många läsare har funnit tröst i.

Freedom. That’s all I wanted. Freedom from baseball. Freedom from my dad. Freedom to do what I wanted. Freedom to be me. Instead, I found pain. Regret. Loss. Unfulfilled dreams. No one tells you that the highway of freedom is paved with pain. Or that on your way to rock bottom, you consider choices you know will destroy you, perhaps because you’ve already destroyed yourself. Maybe what I really wanted was freedom from pain. And maybe true freedom only comes through pain. For years I blamed God. I thought he was the problem.