Author Interview ~ Deborah Raney

DEBORAH RANEY is at work on her 20th novel. Her books have won the RITA Award, HOLT Medallion, National Readers' Choice Award, Silver Angel, and have twice been Christy Award finalists. Her first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title. Almost Forever, first in her new Hanover Falls Novels series, will release in May from Howard/Simon...

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Author Spotlight ~ Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D

Do You Know What You Need?Finding Freedom from Wanting Everything Right Here, Right NowHow do you define the difference between wants and needs? How do you determine when life’s excesses have replaced life’s necessities? Too many people spend so much time trying to get what they want that they have no energy left to get what they need. Dr. Gregg Jantz, founder of The Center—A...

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Debut Author ~ Shannon Vannatter

Shannon Taylor Vannatter is a stay-at-home mom/pastor’s wife/writer. When not writing, she runs circles in the care and feeding of her husband Grant, their eight-year-old son, and their church congregation. Home is a central Arkansas zoo with two charcoal gray cats, a chocolate lab, a dragonfish, and three dachshunds in weenie dog heaven. If given the chance to clean house...

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Sunday Devotional

Max can be counted on for one sure thing, he will always be happy to see me. Our family went home for Christmas this year. Since we decided to fly, I arranged for Max to stay with a sitter. Yes, people will actually babysit your pet.Anyway, we were gone for ten days. The lady who volunteered to keep Max was wonderful. She bought him toys, made him scrambled eggs for breakfast,...

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Winners!!

It's always so much fun to give away great books!! Congratulations to this week's lucky winners:MollyBuuklvr81 – A Woman Called Sage by DiAnn Mills.hspruitt – The Mailbox by Marybeth Whalen.Winners of this week's books, please use the button in the upper right side of this page to email me with your mailing address so I can forward your information to the authors. Then, sit back and wait for your book to arrive.Thank you all so much for stopping...

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Weekly Drawing

Entering our weekly drawing is easy:1. Leave a comment on Fridays or...2. Sign up to follow The Borrowed Book. Followers will automatically be entered for a chance to win that week's drawing!This week, The Borrowed Book is giving away two great books: A Woman Called Sage by DiAnn Mills ~ They took away everything she loved ... now, she's out for revenge. .Sage Morrow had...

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Reader Excerpt ~ A Woman Called Sage by DiAnn Mills

OneSoutheastern ColoradoSummer, 1875Life didn’t get any better than having the love of a good man and his baby kicking against her ribs. Add a summer breeze to cool the heat of a southern Colorado sun and a bed of soft green grass tickling her feet, and Sage felt a slice of heaven had come to earth.“Remember the first time I asked if I could come courtin’?”Charles propped...

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Author Interview ~ DiAnn Mills

Award-winning author DiAnn Mills launched her career in 1998 with the publication of her first book. Currently she has fifty books in print and has sold over 1.5 million copies.DiAnn believes her readers should “Expect an Adventure.” She is a fiction writer who combines an adventuresome spirit with unforgettable characters to create action-packed novels.Six of her titles...

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Author Spotlight ~ Pat Brown

Top criminal profiler takes readers into the real world of criminal profilingWashington, DC, June 15, 2010 – While criminal profilers in the movies look like models, spend days in the lab and hunt down their killer as a finale, real life is anything but that glamorous! The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths (Hyperion Voice Publishing), a memoir by Pat...

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Debut Author ~ Marybeth Whalen

Marybeth Whalen is the wife of Curt and mom of six children. The family lives outside Charlotte, NC. Marybeth is a member of the Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker team and a regular contributor to their daily devotions which reach over 350,000 people each day. She served as general editor of For The Write Reason and The Reason We Speak. .She and her husband Curt co-authored...

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Sunday Devotional

Max is territorial. Living objects, with the exception of me, my husband, my kids, and occasionally the cat, are not allowed on his turf, and he is serious about his responsibilities. Which is why the appearance of a stray kitten in our yard one day, was seen as a personal challenge.I walked into the kitchen and found Max staring with rapt attention out the window. When I...

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Winners!!

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Weekly Drawing

Entering our weekly drawing is easy:1. Leave a comment on Fridays or...2. Sign up to follow The Borrowed Book. Followers will automatically be entered for a chance to win that week's drawing!This week, The Borrowed Book is giving away: Anna Finch and the Hired Gun by Kathleen Y'Barbo ~ When an aspiring reporter and a Pinkerton detective get tangled in Doc Holliday’s story—...

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Reader Excerpt ~ Anna Finch and the Hired Gun by Kathleen Y'Barbo

Chapter OneWe had a little misunderstanding, but it didn’tamount to much. —Doc HollidayApril 30, 1885, Denver, ColoradoDaybreak found Anna Finch astride her horse, Maisie, heading for the foothills west of Denver. Her father had given her the mare before he decided riding horses across the high plains was not for well-bred women of marriageable age.As the youngest of five...

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Author Interview ~ Kathleen Y'Barbo

Kathleen is a best-selling author of more than thirty books. In all, over 850,000 copies of her books are currently in print in the US and abroad. She has been named as a finalist in the American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year contest every year since its inception in 2003, often for more than one book.In addition to her prolific writing career, Kathleen is also...

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Sunday Devotional

Dachshunds are bred hunters. Their shape and temperament makes them ideal for searching out small animals and rodents. In fact, when Max sets his mind to something, it’s nearly impossible to distract him.Take for example, our walks. Once Max has the leash on, he turns neither to the right nor to the left. He knows exactly which route we will take, and he does not deter one...

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Winners!!

It's always so much fun to give away great books!! Congratulations to this week's lucky winners:L. E. Neighbour ~ Never Let You Go by Erin Healy . Cheryl Barker ~ Chasing Lilacs by Carla Stewart. Winners of this week's books, please use the button in the upper right side of this page to email me with your mailing address so I can forward your information to the authors. Then, sit back and wait for your book to arrive.Thank you all so much for stopping...

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Weekly Drawing

Entering our weekly drawing is easy:1. Leave a comment on Fridays or...2. Sign up to follow The Borrowed Book. Followers will automatically be entered for a chance to win that week's drawing!This week, The Borrowed Book is giving away three great books: Never Let You Go by Erin Healy ~ Losing everything has Lexi clinging to her daughter. Hell is determined to loosen her grip.It's...

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