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Cultivating a Pure Heart
by MaCarly Zoellick
A 30-day devotional journey through Scripture designed to help readers slow down, think biblically, and grow in genuine spiritual maturity.

In Good Faith
by Kelli Christina
When a high-powered medical recruiter exposes a culture of harassment, fraud and corruption at one of the nation's top staffing firms, she is forced into a brutal spiral involving lawsuits, betrayal, homelessness and health collapse before rising again with unshakable resolve.

Cultivating Leaders
by Dr. Nicole Munhoo
Cultivating Leaders is written for pastors and ministry leaders navigating the tension between growing attendance and shrinking depth of faith.

Burnt Sugar
by Avni Doshi
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, a searing literary debut novel set in India about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal.

A Reluctant Spy
by David Goodman
RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME. WRONG MAN.
When the Apricots Bloom
by Gina Wilkinson
At night, in Huda’s fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat—the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies.

The Last Place You Look
by Nikki Smith
The next escapist sunlounger thriller from the author of The Beach Party, The Guests and They Had It Coming.

Soft Launch
by Sarah Vacchiano
In her captivating debut, Sarah Vacchiano tells an exciting coming-of-adulthood story about a young woman who takes a bold new path in her early thirties, leaving her old life—and starter marriage—behind.

The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Now a Hulu Original Series and an instant New York Times bestseller, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
A Good Name
by Yejide Kilanko
Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to rewrite his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mold to his taste. Eighteen-year-old Zina has big dreams. An arranged marriage to a much older man isn’t one of them.
Leave and Come Back
by Lavanya Lakshmi
Family drama meets love story in this charming, tender, and hilarious novel about opening up to love, what makes a family, and honoring the past while embracing the present.
