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Coming Up This Week

Monday

Tessa Stockton: Farmer's Market

Tuesday

Marcia Laycock

Wednesday

Alice Valdal: Perspective

Thursday

Jenn Kelly

Friday Devotion

Shirley Corder: A Thorny Issue

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Contest Giveaway

Check out Kara Isaac's July 25 post Giveaway - Your Choice! One lucky reader will win an award winning book of their choice from one of our blog members. The giveaway books include Red Ink by Kathi Macias, Veiled Freedom by Jeanette Windle, Blood Ransom by Lisa Harris, Picking up the Pieces by Paula Vince and The Six Liter Club by Harry Kraus. The giveaway closes midnight Tuesday 2 August EST. To enter, please leave a comment on Kara's July 25 post. Good luck!

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Contest News

Kathi Macias' book, Red Ink, won first prize in the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association's 2011 Golden Scroll Book of the Year Award in the fiction category - congratulations Kathi!

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News

LeAnne Hardy has a blog tour with Kregel for her book Glastonbury Tor. The links for 24 Book Reviews in the blog tour can be found on the Kregel Glastonbury Tor Blog Tour page.

Jeanette Windle's book, Veiled Freedom (Tyndale), a 2010 Christian Book Award and Christy Award finalist, set in contemporary Afghanistan, is now a FREE e-book download for the next few weeks on Amazon, B&N Nook, Christianbook.com as part of the current book launch of sequel Freedom's Stand, an AWSA Golden Scroll Novel of the Year finalist.

Publishers Weekly says of Veiled Freedom, "Readers will be enthralled with this penetrating look at Afghanistan." ChristianBook.com calls Freedom's Stand "Influential! Powerful!" Dr. Carl Moeller, serving the persecuted church as President of Open Doors calls this story "a message of hope that will touch your heart like nothing else."

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Upcoming Book Releases

Nick Daniels' thriller set in the Middle East, The Jihad's Messiah, Book One in the Jihad series, will be a September 2011 release from Risen Books.

Rita Galieh's book, Signed, Sealed and Delivered, will be a September 2011 release from Ark House Press.

Jenn Kelly's children's book for middle grade readers, Jackson Jones: the Tale of a Boy, a Troll and a Rather Large Chicken, will be a September 2011 release from Zonderkidz.

Kathi Macias' book set in San Diego, CA and the Golden Triangle area of Thailand, Deliver Me from Evil, Book One in her Freedom series involving human trafficking, will be a September 2011 release from New Hope Publishers.

Kathi Macias' Christmas themed book, A Christmas Journey Home, set in Arizona and Ensenada, Mexico, will be a September 2011 release from New Hope Publishers.

Kathi Macias' book set in San Diego, CA and the Golden Triangle area of Thailand, Special Delivery, Book Two in her Freedom series involving human trafficking, will be a January 2012 release from New Hope Publishers.

Valerie Comer's debut novella, Topaz Treasure, which is part of the Rainbow's End collection, will be a March 2012 release from Barbour.

Kathi Macias' book set in San Diego and Mexico, The Deliverer, Book Three in her Freedom series involving human trafficking, will be a April 2012 release from New Hope Publishers.

To find more International Christian Fiction books, please visit our Recent Releases page, Backlist Titles page and our International Christian Fiction wiki.