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outcome. The tale ends much too quickly, and the cliffhanger leaves much unanswered… Book 2 immediately!

—Kelsey Shade

Though Waters
Roar
Lynn Austin / Bethany House
Subject: Fiction
p $13.99 ISBN: 9780764204968
Though Waters Roar is a
riveting story, taking read-
ers through the Civil War,
Prohibition and the Wom-
en’s Suffrage Movement.
Each segment of this tale
is connected and woven
together seamlessly,
showing the history from
Harriet’s family members.
Young Harriet sits in a
cold, bare jail cell wonder-
ing how she got there.
With nothing better to do,
she reminisces about her
great-grandma, Hannah,
who lived through the
slave era, helping slaves
on the Underground
Railroad, and about Han-
nah’s daughter, Beatrice
(Bebe), who married a
fraud and had to run her
husband’s business. Bebe
also crusaded against
saloons and liquor, fight-
ing for prohibition. Then
Beatrice’s daughter, Lucy,
was spoiled, brought up
in high society by her
paternal grandmother.
But later, after her old-
est daughter’s married,
Lucy (Harriet’s mother)

finds a new cause to fight for—women’s suffrage. All the while Harriet sits in jail, she remembers these stories her grandmother Bebe and later, her mother, shared with her. Harriet longs to do something courageous and important with her life. She thought she was helping a family who was trying to make more money by delivering liquor to a speakeasy. What was she thinking? While remembering her family’s history, will Harriet find what God wants for her life? Lynn Austin, author of several best-selling historical stories has spun another fantastic tale for her fans.

—Michelle Connell

The Swiss Courier
Tricia Goyer & Mike Yorkey / Revell
Subject: Fiction
p $13.99 ISBN: 9780800733360
As an attractive 24-year-
old daughter of an Amer-
ican father and a Swiss
mother, Gabi Mueller is
an ideal candidate for
recruitment by the Office
of Strategic Services, the
American spy service
and forerunner of the CIA
during World War II. Gabi
works in the translation
pool in the OSS office in
Basel, Switzerland, but
her courage and special
skills, such as a knack for
cracking safes, lands her

much more dangerous assignments.

Her story eventually becomes intertwined with that of Joseph Engel, a brilliant young German physicist working under Nobel Prize-winning scientist Werner Heisenberg at the University of Heidelberg. Heisenberg and his team are racing to create an atomic bomb, the “wonder weapon” they hope will give Nazi Germany one last chance to reverse the course of a war it’s losing rapidly.

Unfortunately for Engel, a local Gestapo official discovers the young man was born to Jewish parents and was adopted as a baby. This ambitious Nazi officer is determined to raise his own standing with his superiors by rooting out this Jewish scientist. The Allies would also like to get their hands on Engel, but can they get him before the Nazis do?

This historical thriller cleverly combines real historical figures, such as Heisenberg and OSS chief Allen Dulles, with fictional characters who seem just as real. Several intriguing subplots are woven into the novel, and the book is also solid in its treatment of the details of military aircraft and other aspects of the war era. The Swiss Courier is a satisfying and memorable spy story.

—Joseph Bentz

The Fence My
Father Built
Linda Clare / Abingdon Press
Subject: Fiction
p $13.99 ISBN: 9781426700736
Muri Pond aches for a
real home—something

she never found with her mother and stepfather, or her husband who left her for another woman. Now her Native American father, who lost custody when she was 3, has died. Muri missed her chance to know him. She brings her children to her father’s ranch, but their quick trip to tidy up Joseph Pond’s affairs turns into a tumultuous extended stay. The dumpy home and quirky fence made of oven doors seems to symbolize her father’s struggle with alcohol and the liver disease that killed him. But she discovers Joseph had a plan and strong faith in God that guided him most of the time. Muri inherited more than a scraggly ranch and a battle over water rights.

As she resolves the issues threatening her family and uncovers the real reason her neighbor wants their property, Muri must find strength to face the past and present. She grows to love her father’s land and his principles. She becomes the daughter of Joseph Pond.

Readers trying to find their way home will relate to Muri’s longing for a father. They’ll rejoice with her when she finds faith and the Father.

—Kim Peterson

White Picket Fences

Susan Meissner / WaterBrook Press Subject: Fiction p $13.99 ISBN: 9781400074570

Female protagonist Amanda Janvier is feeling lost, uncertain, and left wanting. Amanda’s quiet but capable husband, Neil, doesn’t share her burden (at least not outwardly) that their teenage son, Chase, is beginning to remember a long-forgotten tragedy. While Amanda expends large amounts of emotional energy trying to figure out how to best help her son, she’s called on to be mom to her black-sheep brother’s teenaged daughter, Tally. Family dynamics simmer and then explode once Tally comes to live temporarily with the Janviers. Secrets from years past just won’t be suppressed, and as these truths come to light, everyone must summon up the courage to face past, present, and an unknown future. Fiction author Susan Meissner quite successfully delivers the goods in this introspective novel of escalating emotional tides that will leave her readers pondering the wisdom of ever believing one’s past can be pushed aside and forgotten.

—Michele Howe

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