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May 11, 2018 Paige M. McNinch 2 min read

THE POWER OF THE 72 – A Book Nook Review

If you are terrified by the idea of sharing your faith with your friends and even the strangers around you every day, then this book is not for you. However, if you are a Christian with a heart that desires to see the world embrace the good news of . . . Read More

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April 13, 2018 Abigail Kessler 3 min read

MODERN LIBRARIES MEET MANY NEEDS

Linda Lambert has been a librarian at Taylor University for 14 years—most of her career. She loves her job as a research librarian because she enjoys working with both people and books. . . Read More

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April 13, 2018 Randal Treavors 1 min read

THE MAN WHO COULD TRANSFUSE TIME – A Book Nook Review

What intrigues me most about this novel is that it takes something miraculous and makes it convincing. The story’s main character, Ian Moore, has the incredible ability to take hold of two people’s arms and to transfer years out of one and into . . . Read More

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March 30, 2018 Mrs. Margaret Neal 1 min read

BUILDING THE BODY – A Book Nook Review

BUILDING THE BODY: 12 CHARACTERISTICS OF A FIT CHURCH By Gary L. McIntosh and Phil Stevenson, Baker Books, PB, 224 pages What does it mean to be physically “healthy?” What about “fit?” . . Read More

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March 16, 2018 Allyson M. Hutchison 1 min read

PURGATORY ROAD – A Book Nook Review

PURGATORY ROAD By Samuel Parker Revell PB, 283 pages Jack and Laura are a married couple who ventured to Las Vega in an attempt to rekindle a dying marriage. Colten is a gas station clerk. . . Read More

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March 2, 2018 Kassidy Weemhoff 1 min read

A PAIR OF MIRACLES – A Book Nook Review

A STORY OF AUTISM, FAITH, AND DETERMINED PARENTING By Karla Akins, Kregel Publications, PB, 219 pages Karla Akins and her husband adopted premature twin boys, Isaiah and Isaac, when they were only a few days old. . . Read More

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February 16, 2018 Allyson M. Hutchison 2 min read

LITURGY OF THE ORDINARY – A Book Nook Review

LITURGY OF THE ORDINARY By Tish Harrison Warren InterVarsity Press PB, 153 pages Living as humans takes more maintenance than most folks are willing to admit. That being said, maintenance time is often wasted time. . . Read More

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February 2, 2018 Victoria Lawson 1 min read

SPEAK THE TRUTH – A Book Nook Review

SPEAK THE TRUTH: HOW TO BRING GOD BACK INTO EVERY CONVERSATION By Carmen LaBerge Regnery Faith HB, 222 pages LaBerge addresses the silence and fear that prohibits biblical worldviews from being introduced in controversial conversations. . . Read More

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December 8, 2017 Hope Bolinger 2 min read

SHOP (UP)LIFTING: ENCOURAGING HOLIDAY RETAIL WORKERS

For some, the upcoming holiday season will not be very jolly. December holiday may bring to mind fantasies of creamy mashed potatoes warming one’s stomach or an imagined cart filled with doorbusters, such as a 55-inch television available for purchase . . . Read More

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November 24, 2017 Elijah Oates 1 min read

ALL SHE LEFT BEHIND – A Book Nook Review

ALL SHE LEFT BEHIND: A STORY HELD TOGETHER BY DYNAMIC CHARACTERS by Jane Kirkpatrick Revell PB, 343 pages Romances, especially Christian romances, often grow stale with their stubborn sameness. Jane Kirkpatrick, however, injects new life into the genre . . . Read More

Health & Exercise

November 10, 2017 Chrysa Keenon 2 min read

AROMA THERAPY MARKETING IN INDIANA MAKES SCENTS

“God didn’t just put us on this earth and abandon us. He gave us what we needed to be healthy.” So says Lindsi Richardson, R.N., an essential oils enthusiast and crafter of scent-infused necklaces. . . Read More

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November 10, 2017 Megan Alms 1 min read

ARE WOMEN INFERIOR TO MEN? – A Book Nook Review

Gender Roles and the People of God By Alice Mathews Zondervan, PB, 238 pages Mathews approaches one of the church’s most controversial topics: the role God has given women in the church, the home and the world. . . Read More

The Great Outdoors

November 10, 2017 Kendra Smalley 2 min read

TURKEY VULTURES: AN ASPECT OF INDIANA’S ECOSYSTEM

Autumn in Indiana is beautiful: leaves don brilliant colors before the wind strips them away; apples and pumpkins come into season; cool weather sets in that is perfect for chunky sweaters; and migratory birds fly south in anticipation of looming blizzards. . . . Read More

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October 27, 2017 Sonya Downing 1 min read

WHICH OF THE 7 DEADLY SINS DO YOU REPRESENT? – A Book Nook Review

Vain Empires By Brandilyn Collins Challow Press PB, 315 pages Vain Empires begins when six contestants arrive on the set of a reality show that offers the fulfillment of all their dreams as the prize. . . Read More

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September 29, 2017 Gabby Carlson 1 min read

BETWEEN HEAVEN & THE REAL WORLD – A Book Nook Review

Steven Curtis Chapman with Ken Abraham Revell Hardback, 428 pages This book is about a boy from Paducah, Kentucky who became one of the most successful and influential Christian singers of all time. . . Read More

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September 15, 2017 Megan Alms 1 min read

GENDER ROLES & THE PEOPLE OF GOD – A Book Nook Review

GENDER ROLES AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD by Alice Mathews Zondervan PB, 238 pages Mathews approaches one of the church’s most controversial topics: the role God has given women in the church, the home and the world. . . Read More

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September 1, 2017 Elizabeth Hartmann 2 min read

BREAD OF ANGELS – A Book Nook Review

BREAD OF ANGELS by Tessa Afshar Tyndale House Publishers PB, 384 pages Anyone who enjoys a strong, independent heroine and a dash of biblical romance will enjoy this book. Bread of Angels reveals the story told in Acts about Paul’s first convert in . . . Read More

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June 9, 2017 Theresa M. Hughes 1 min read

THE RETURN – A Book Nook Review

The Return: Northkill Amish (Book Two) By J. M. Hochstetler and Bob Hostetler Sheaf House Publishers PB, 230 pages Beginning where the first book left off, this historical novel follows the lives of Jakob Hochstetler and his two sons, Joseph and Christian. . . . Read More

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May 26, 2017 Rachel M. Pfeiffer 1 min read

‘HERE GOES NOTHING’ – The Book Nook Review

Here Goes Nothing: An Introvert’s Reckless Attempt to Love Her Neighbor By Kendra Broekhuis Thomas Nelson HB, 273 pages Kendra Broekhuis is an introvert, so when she feels challenged to show love to her neighbors after she and her husband move to . . . Read More

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May 12, 2017 Tucker White 1 min read

MOVE FROM ACTIVITY TO INTIMACY – The Book Nook Review

More: How To Move From Activity for God to Intimacy With God by Greg L. Hawkins Multnomah Books PB, 206 pages More is a dangerous book. It is a book that asks of its reader to shed any shallowness in his or her relationship with God and to dive deeper. . . . Read More

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April 28, 2017 Aubree DeVisser 1 min read

EVOLUTION: SCRIPTURE & NATURE SAY YES! – The Book Nook Review

Evolution: Scripture and Nature Say Yes! By Denis O. Lamoureux Zondervan PB, 184 pages Denis O. Lamoureux shares his experience of living in an “either/or” dichotomy of creation and evolution as a Christian and –at one time—an atheist. . . Read More

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April 14, 2017 Rachel M. Pfeiffer 1 min read

‘FOREVER FRIDAY’ – The Book Nook Review

Forever Friday by Timothy Lewis Waterbrook Press Paperback 282 pages Adam Colby is a divorced estate-sale businessman. After watching twelve years of marriage go down the drain, he’s not sure he believes in love or God anymore. . . Read More

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March 31, 2017 Aubree DeVisser 1 min read

‘HER DEADLY INHERITANCE’ – The Book Nook Review

Her Deadly Inheritance by Beth Ann Ziarnik Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, 2016 PB, 255 pages This novel is a mystery full of twists and turns in the midst of a family feud. . . Read More

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March 17, 2017 Hanna Smith 1 min read

BUILDING A STRONGER FOUNDATION – The Book Nook

NO GOD BUT ONE by Nabeel Qureshi Zondervan PB, 320 pages In No God but One, Nabeel Qureshi takes the reader on a journey through the histories of Islam and Christianity with impressive clarity and focus. . . Read More

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March 3, 2017 Carson D. Jacobs 1 min read

ZONDERVAN ESSENTIAL ATLAS OF THE BIBLE – The Book Nook

ZONDERVAN ESSENTIAL ATLAS OF THE BIBLE By Carl G. Rasmussen Zondervan Publishers PB, 160 pages Packed with information on each page, Zondervan’s Essential Atlas of the Bible is an historian’s dream. . . Read More

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