Welcome to a September’s new releases.
Today we have 6 September releases this month. Congratulations. Check at the end to see if you were the winner of the August gift card. Nicole Zoch is also offering one commenter a copy of her new book.
Muskoka Shores by Carolyn Miller
Self Published. (Releasing September 15, 2022.)
Can he show her that it’s what is inside that truly counts?
Serena Williamson loves working at Muskoka Shores, the fancy resort on Lake Muskoka, and making couples dreams come true. But after returning from a celebrity wedding to find her own hopes crumbling to dust, she sets out for self-improvement, and to prove her ex was wrong. But when a misunderstanding concerning the new assistant church minister leads to more self-doubt, can she ever really trust a man again?
Joel Wakefield is looking forward to a fresh start for himself and his sister in this beautiful small town beside Lake Muskoka. He hadn’t counted on meeting a curvy cutie with a gift for hospitality and a gracious heart. Can he show her that it’s what is inside that truly counts?
Grace Collection by Christine Dillon
Publisher: Links in the Chain Press (Released July 2022)Come on a journey with Esther and her family and friends …
Award-winning, Australian, contemporary Christian fiction. Ordinary people learning what it means to follow Jesus in tough times.
Review of book 1: “A read-in-a-single-sitting book. Strongly Christian. Deeply engaging. It will have you smiling and tearing up in equal measure, yet avoids schmaltz or cliched sentimentality …”
Book 1 – Grace in Strange Disguise
Esther – Where is God when she needs him most? Book 2 – Grace in the Shadows
Two women. One collision course with truth. Book 3 – Grace in Deep Waters
William and Blanche – When is a marriage over? When do you stand and fight?
Pete and Rachel – Must yesterday’s pain strangle tomorrow’s hope?
Paul – Professional success. Personal failure.
Gina – How can you belong when you don’t know who you are?
In The Cool Of The Day by Nicole Zoch
In The Cool Of The Day is for those longing for God’s presence, yearning for the more, and wanting to immerse themselves in a daily moment with their Creator. It is for those desiring to saturate themselves in the wondrous love of Jesus, and to wade deep into His life-changing Word.
In The Cool Of The Day is food for the hungry, water for the thirsty, and a beautiful, gentle invitation to take up the daily walk with God-to pray, commune and discover more of His majesty, love and grace.
Nicole takes you on an intimate exploration of the spiritual postures of the three Marys, inspiring each of us to abide at the feet of Jesus (Mary of Bethany), patiently wait for His instruction (Mary Magdalene), and receive God’s calling on our life (Mary the mother of Jesus).
Join her as she unpacks the spiritual truths gleaned from the testimonies of these three Marys, along with her own collection of God-conversations and miraculous encounters in the cool of the day.
Book Giveaway
Nicole Zoch is giving away a to a reader who comments on this post and/or Wednesday 14 Septembers post (maximum of 2 entries in the drawing by commenting on both posts). The drawing will close on Monday, September 19, 2022 and the winner will be announced in a comment on this post and the October Recent Releases post.
Ah-Fur, Super Sleuth – The Case of The Missing Moggies by Debra Clewer
Publisher: Morris Publishing Australia (Release date: 25 July 2022)
When expert Persian cat detective, Ah-Fur, answers an urgent call on his special orders phone in his Australian office, he knows trouble is afoot.
The Australian Prime Minister, Martin Bigcheese, is on the line. The English Prime Minister, Ivor Bighouse has lost two cats. His ginger cat Winston, and his tabby Ponzie, have disappeared in London. One from his office at 10 Downing Street and one from his country residence.
Put on a special flight to England, Ah-Fur and his cousin, Show-Fur, plan the investigation and go through their list of subjects. Ah-Fur thinks he knows who did this dastardly deed. But is he right?
Join their adventures as they track the kidnappers in a country strange to them.
Bring Her Home by Hannah Currie
Since the morning he woke to find his precious daughter gone with only the remains of their latest argument left behind, King Lior has been praying she’d come home. For four years now, he’s prayed and searched, sending his best knights to find Evangeline, only to hear nothing. Until the day their missive arrives with three words: we’ve found her. He sends one right back with orders to bring her home.
But that order isn’t easily achieved. Evangeline, now a lowly servant, has no plans to return. Though the knights claim her father still loves her, she knows the truth: he’d cast her aside as quickly as everyone else if he knew how far she’d truly fallen. She can’t go home. Not with her scars. Or her failures. Or her son.
Only, the knights won’t leave without her. And just as she starts to wonder if maybe they might be right, the choice is taken from her altogether.
Sir Darrek thought the hardest part of his quest would be finding Evangeline. He had no idea how difficult it would be to get her home.
Licence to Die by Mazzy Adams
Publisher: Zest N Zenith Creative & Academic Group (CIPA/CAN member) (Release Date: 14th September 2022 )
Three shattered people. Two cutting-edge technologies. One licence to die. This time, the spy game is real.
‘A total stranger knows my thoughts? Oh, my God! I’m gonna die. For real.’
When fledgling ASIO agent and tech guru, Benjamin Alejandro, takes over a top-secret ‘mind-reading’ software project, he inadvertently exposes Mac, an unwitting participant who’s embroiled in a dodgy witness protection scheme.
The mysterious Mac unravels Ben’s altruistic comfort zone quicker than a cat attack. With a criminal consortium poised to pounce, is Ben the only one who gives a bandicoot’s patootie whether the audacious teenager lives or dies? Stuck for options, Ben enlists hotshot game developer, Christopher Darnell, but Chris’s own demons surface to drag them all under.
Integrity and emotions collide as Mac’s thoughts—brilliant, spirited, and irresistible—dance across Ben’s computer screen. With a killer closing in, time running out, and Chris out for revenge, must Ben pay the ultimate price to save the intriguing stranger whose thoughts have captured his heart?
Bleeding hope and humour through cracks at the edge of reality, Licence to Die is quirky, raw, and redemptive; a unique blend of intrigue and inspiration with an upmarket Down Under vibe.
Mazzy Adams’ entertaining, genre-bending fiction offers a thought-provoking word feast for New (and not-so-new) Adults alike, with deeper Christian allegorical and metaphysical mysteries to intrigue upmarket readers and book club connoisseurs.
Winner
The winner of the July gift card is Susan H. Congratulations, please contact us via the contact form to claim your voucher.
Don’t forget… The authors at Australasian Christian Writers give away a USD $10 gift card (or AUD $15 gift card) every month to one commenter drawn at random.
Hi Narelle
Thanks for these book recommendations, and thank you for the August gift voucher!
Hi Susan, You’re welcome, and happy reading! 😊
Thanks for curating this collection, Narelle. So many different styles and audiences and potential lives to be touched with the heart of God. Congratulations to all.
Hi Mazzy, It’s wonderful to see a range of books that will appeal to different groups of readers. 😊