PW Starred and Noteable Reviews
A Walk with Jane Austen by Lori Smith
“It is the author's passionate connection to "Jane"—the affinity she feels and her imaginings of Austen's inner life—that brings Austen to life in ways no conventional biographer could. … Smith weaves her own thoughts, historical research, and fitting references to Austen's novels into a satisfying whole.”
—Publishers Weekly starred review, August 27, 2007
Aurailia's Colors by Jeffrey
Overstreet
Film critic and author Overstreet (Through a Screen Darkly)
offers a powerful myth for his first foray into fiction. The kingdom
of Abascar is cloaked in gloom, sentenced to an ongoing “wintering”
by a jealous queen, in which colors have been done away with and
are only allowed in the royal court. But young Auralia, found
as a baby by the river and raised by outcasts, has a talent for
finding colors everywhere and bringing them to life in a way no
one has ever seen before. The fate of the kingdom rests on what
Auralia chooses to do and how the king responds. Overstreet creates
a world with not only its own geography but its own vocabulary
— it is haunted by beastmen, home to cloudgrasper trees,
vawns (something like dinosaurs) and twister fish. ... Overstreet’s
writing is precise and beautiful, and the story is masterfully
told. Readers will be hungry for the next installment.
-Publisher's Weekly, July 16, 2007
ECPA Rush to Press
ScreamFree Parenting: Parents CAN Behave—Even When Their Kids Don’t!
Hal Runkel, a licensed marriage and family therapist and a former pastor, is America’s newest parenting expert. With a powerful, biblical, and revolutionary approach to parenting, he has produced remarkable results for the many thousands of children and parents he has counseled in his breakthrough clinical work. He has also influenced thousands of families through countless media appearances and through his seminars and workshops at companies, schools, and churches of all faiths throughout the U.S. His new book, ScreamFree™ Parenting (Waterbrook Press), equips parents with all that they need to handle the 21st century child—without resorting to coercion, force, fear, begging, bribery, or screaming. It is changing lives everywhere.
ScreamFree Parenting was also featured on the Today
Show in Septmeber 2007. The transcripts can be found on the
Today Show's Web site:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20620441/
