30 Days of Summer Reads: Informed Consent

Taut with emotional suspense, author Sandra Glahn catapults readers smack dab in the middle of the world of medical ethics, exploring the desperate lengths folks will go to find a cure. Expertly drawn characters, a Grisham-paced plot, and intelligent writing, Informed...

30 Days of Summer Reads: A Bigger Life

A Bigger Life by Annette Smith is a touching, realistic look at authentic characters grappling with complicated choices and painful circumstances on the backdrop of a quirky Texas town. Smith’s characters exude gritty humanity, still revealing snatches of grace and...

30 Days of Summer Reads: In All Deep Places

Lyrically written, sensitively wrought, Susan Meissner’s In All Deep Places captivated me from page one. Meissner’s strength is displaying the inner emotional landscape of her characters, this time putting the reader in the head of a male protagonist. Woven in such a...

30 Days of Summer Reads: Talking to the Dead

Talking to the Dead is a deeply moving narrative about grief, sanity, love, betrayal, and hard-won redemption. Bonnie Grove entices, tortures, then salves her readers through gritty characters and pitch-perfect writing. I thought about this book long after I put it...

30 Days of Summer Reads: Bad Ground

Bad Ground by W. Dale Cramer, Bethany House. I didn’t think a book about blasting holes in the earth would appeal to me, but Cramer’s eloquent and haunting prose drew me in. As I read, I remembered the feeling I got when I first read Christy by Katherine Marshall,...