Karen Kingsbury. Howard, $19.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4701-3
Popular inspirational novelist Kingsbury goes mainstream in her newest, which mixes a love story with a seasonal one that borrows from the Christmas favorite It's A Wonderful Life. Molly Allen and Ryan Kelly were college friends heading toward...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author Center Street $14.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59995-677-0
In characteristically heart-wringing, tear-jerking style, bestselling inspirational novelist Kingsbury finishes the story of Cody Gunner she began in A Thousand Tomorrows. Elle Dalton is director of an Independent Learning Center for Down Syndrome...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Warner $12.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-446-52959-4
Bestselling CBA novelist Kingsbury combines her talents in fiction and journalism to recount these true stories of Christmas miracles, which she has reworked and fictionalized slightly. The stories all reflect, to some degree, God's...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author Dell Publishing Company $4.99 (417p) ISBN 978-0-440-21198-3
This generally smoothly written but ultimately unsatisfying book by Los Angeles Times reporter Kingsbury (Missy's Murder) relates the 1988 murder of Carol Montecalvo, a divorcee who married an ex-convict and was shot on the eve of a trip aimed to...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author Faithwords $12.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-446-52962-4
Guardian angels do exist and God still performs miracles, according to Christian novelist Kingsbury (One Tuesday Morning; A Time to Dance; etc.). In this simple yet engaging compilation, she retells some of the incredible stories she's heard from...
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Karen Kingsbury, Zondervan, $21.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-310-26699-0
Characters from Kingsbury's Baxter family epic recur in the first of a new series about young actress Bailey Flanigan. Bailey, who has appeared in a film of Unlocked (a real novel by Kingsbury) and is awaiting a callback about her Broadway audition,
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Karen Kingsbury, illus. by Jennifer A. Bell. Zonderkidz, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-310-71213-8
Two brightly colored winged creatures, Beulah Lee Bird and Franny McFly, make consecutive visits to wrinkly, brown, spectacle-wearing caterpillar Cody in the town of Better-than-Brown, a gray, leafy tree. Each bears witness to the wonderful place...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-20771-9
The bare facts surrounding the 1985 murder of 17-year-old Michele (Missy) Yvette Avila and the bizarre behavior of Karen Severson (one of her two killers) are chilling. Karen and Laura Doyle led Missy, their best friend, to a remote hiking area, cut
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Karen Kingsbury. S&S/Howard, $22.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4703-7
Kingsbury knows how to get down to business; readers start worrying from the opening sentence about 15-year-old Ellie Tucker and her family: "Her mom didn't come home for dinner, the third time that week." Family troubles prompt Ellie's abrupt move...
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Karen Kingsbury. S&S/Howard, $22.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4705-1
Inspirational fiction superstar Kingsbury considers the cost of fame in her new novel, which puts under the microscope the singing competitions that fill television airwaves. Zack Dylan wants to save his family’s Kentucky horse farm and sing for...
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Karen Kingsbury. Howard, $22.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8759-0
Kingsbury adds to her 20-plus novels involving the Baxter family with the telling of two love stories. The first centers on Baxter family friends Cody Coleman and Andi Ellison. After two broken engagements, Cody realizes he must try to convince Andi
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Zondervan $14.99 (311p) ISBN 978-0-310-26615-0
Prolific evangelical Christian fiction author Kingsbury (Between Sundays
) revisits characters from her previously well-received 9/11 series in this stand-alone focusing on sheriff's deputy Alex Brady, who lost his fireman father in the twin...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Multnomah $11.99 (344p) ISBN 978-1-57673-899-3
Kingsbury brings back characters from her inspirational novels Waiting for Morning
and A Moment of Weakness
in this rushed sob story rife with clichés. It opens as Hannah Bronzan sits beside the gravestones of her former husband, Tom, and...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Warner $12.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-446-52960-0
This book is indeed for women, if by women
one means white, American, middle-class, conservative Christian mothers. But there's little reason to quibble; such women are exactly Kingsbury's target audience, and few of them will be...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . W Publishing $13.99 (316p) ISBN 978-0-8499-4347-8
In this sequel to A Time to Dance, beloved evangelical Christian novelist Kingsbury brings readers up to date on the trials and tribulations of Abby and John Reynolds, who, after 20-plus years of marriage, are enjoying something of a second...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Warner $13.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-446-53124-5
Kingsbury, a beloved novelist in the CBA market, is known for weepy tales replete with hospital bedside scenes, emotional reunions and miracles. This eager if predictable novella will please her established fans, and may win a few new ones as well,...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Warner $13.95 (167p) ISBN 978-0-446-53230-3
Kingsbury, whose novella Gideon's Gift struck a fervent chord with readers last year, offers this second story in the "Red Gloves Series": as one character declares to another, "Red is the color of giving." The plot is eerily...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Warner Faith $12.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-446-53334-8
Devotees of Kingsbury's inspirational novels will enjoy this emotional collection of "true stories" about the miracle of friendship. (Kingsbury says that although each story is inspired by a true, miraculous event, the details are...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Warner/Center Street $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-446-52967-9
Kingsbury, a CBA bestselling author, delivers her signature mix of melodrama, formula and genuine emotional punch in this novel about two young rodeo stars and their experiences with Down syndrome and cystic fibrosis. The young leads inhabit...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Tyndale $13.99 (354p) ISBN 978-0-8423-8743-9
In a predictable yet entertaining read, bestselling CBA author Kingsbury introduces heartthrob Dayne Matthews and the charming Midwesterner Katy Hart. Dayne, Hollywood's number one hunk, wants to work opposite someone who exudes innocence in his
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Zondervan $21.99 (298p) ISBN 978-0-3102-5772-1
Bestselling author Kingsbury (Forever
; Sunrise
) sets her first hardcover novel in the world of professional football. Derrick Anderson, a retiring quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, promised his dying son that he would win a Super Bowl for...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author Tyndale House Publishers $13.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8423-8747-7
Welcome back to Bloomington, Ind., where some of Kingsbury's most popular Christian novels are set. Kingsbury's latest feel-good offering launches a new four-book series to follow the Baxter Family Dramas, which have nearly two million copies in...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Center Street $14.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59995-678-7
Christian fiction author Kingsbury is well loved by her fans, and this newest story, based loosely upon her own brother’s death, will further endear her to her faithful readers. Kingsbury tells the story of a strained relationship between...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author . Zondervan $21.99 (333p) ISBN 978-0-310-26622-8
The author of more than 40 bestselling fiction titles whose combined sales hover near 15 million, Kingsbury takes her loyal faith-based fans on an exploration of the emotional and spiritual effects of abortion. Interestingly, the author frames the...
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Karen Kingsbury, Zondervan, $16.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 9780310266952
An average of 1 in 110 children has autism spectrum disorder, an astonishing number that also bespeaks sadness and frustration on the part of lots of parents of autistic children. Popular and prolific novelist Kingsbury (Ever After) takes on autism...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author Zondervan $19.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-310-32201-6
In the third of the Above the Line quartet from Christian fiction queen Kingsbury, independent filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison find red carpet success at the premiere of their film. With the film wrapped, family drama can now take center...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author Zondervan Publishing Company $14.99 (356p) ISBN 978-0-310-24753-1
The latest offering from Christian publishing phenom Kingsbury spills over with her trademark sentimentality and easy prose, but is marred by melodramatic implausibilities. In the prologue, Emily Anderson, a beautiful, brilliant, athletic college...
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Karen Kingsbury, illus. by Gabrielle Grimard, Zonderkids, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-310-71645-7
A quote from Psalm 25, "Show me your ways, O Lord," introduces the story of four knights from four villages vying for the honor of being "the bravest knight," in this companion to The Princess and the Three Knights. After tests of the knights'...
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Karen Kingsbury and Alex Smith, illus. by Greg Banning. Harper, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-168625-2
Christian novelist Kingsbury teams up with NFL quarterback Smith for a flat-footed biographical story extolling the value of perseverance. Smith leaves practice with his San Francisco 49ers and boards a plane bound for his hometown to visit his...
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Karen Kingsbury. Howard, $19.99 (247p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8756-9
Kingsbury, author of over fifty novels, including more than twenty about the Baxters, a sprawling family of several generations led by the upstanding Christian patriarch John, delivers another uplifting tale in time for Christmas. For those...
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Karen Kingsbury, Author, Gary Smalley, Author, Gary Smalley, Joint Author . Tyndale $12.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8423-5622-0
The recent penchant for pairing prolific Christian novelists with well-known CBA nonfiction authors is cause for skepticism, and justifiably so in this first collaboration between Smalley, an author and speaker on family relationships, and novelist...
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Pat Williams, Author, Karen Kingsbury, Author Faith Communications $14.95 (167p) ISBN 978-0-7573-0253-4
This collection of quick nuggets of Christian inspiration for young people come just in time for graduation season. Williams, a manager of professional sports teams and a motivational speaker, and Kingsbury, a bestselling CBA novelist, have more...
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Karen Kingsbury. Atria, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-98210-431-3
Kingsbury (Two Weeks) explores what it means to be family in this charming inspirational. After Dawson Gage’s girlfriend, London, dies in an accident, London’s grief-stricken mother tells Dawson she had donated a number of embryos years before, one...
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Karen Kingsbury. Atria, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-982-10444-3
The underbaked latest from Kingsbury (Someone Like You) centers on a headstrong American spy and the love triangle she negotiates amid the rising panic of WWII. When both are 12, Hank Myers promises to marry his neighbor Irvel Holland someday. Ten...
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Karen Kingsbury. Atria, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-9821-0438-2
Kingsbury’s solid latest Baxter Family outing (following Someone Like You) focuses on the power of faith when hope is hard to find. Tommy Baxter and Annalee Miller are in their senior year of high school when their lives are forever altered. After...
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Karen Kingsbury. Howard, $23.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8762-0
Fans of Kingsbury’s Baxter Family collection will no doubt dive into this syrupy novel focusing on Luke Baxter, a lawyer specializing in religious freedom cases. A year after high school principal Wendell Quinn started a voluntary Bible study...
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Karen Kingsbury. Howard, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0743-3
Kingsbury (When We Were Young) follows the senior year of Cole Baxter Blake, the 18 year-old son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, in this winsome inspirational drama. During his final semester, Cole falls head over heels for Elise Walker, a new...
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Karen Kingsbury. Howard, $23.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7001-0
Kingsbury (Redemption) investigates the dangers of striving for an Instagram-perfect life in this enjoyable novel centered on newlyweds Noah and Emily Carter. At 18, Emily chooses to become the sole caregiver for her sister, Clara, who has cerebral...
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Karen Kingsbury. Howard, $23.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8765-1
Kingsbury continues the Baxter Family series (following In This Moment) with a pleasing tale of heartache. Thomas “Brady” Bradshaw and Jenna Dawson share the devastating experience of losing their parents in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. When they
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Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5344-1215-6
With her son, bestselling Christian author Kingsbury adapts her bestselling Baxter Family series for adults to suit a younger audience, bringing readers stories of the five Baxter siblings in childhood. Narrated by middle sisters Ashley, 10, and...
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