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Join college freshman Eric Van der Haas on a cross-country journey of discovery, tears, and healing. Since his mother's death four years ago, Eric Van der Haas has spent two weeks with his brother Aaron. Suddenly, as a favor to his aunt, he and Aaron are thrown together for weeks to deliver an RV and make some memories along the way. Joining them are Eric's younger, angry cousin Brenda and Eric's best friend Samantha, the only person who has stuck...
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The stories that saved him might swallow him… On a quiet summer morning in a tiny rural town, eight-year-old Riven Smith disappeared from his yard. Nobody heard a thing. His ten-year-old next-door neighbor Lily had always considered Riven a pest, following her around all summer asking questions and telling stories about fairies and gnomes. Worse, he was a weird pest whose mom didn't believe in phones or eating meat or snack cakes. However, once...
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Needing to escape from a painful family situation, college junior Matt Tucker jumps at a chance to lead horse rides at a Mexican Christian summer camp with his uncle. He isn't sure how he feels about God at the moment, but anything is better than watching his parents come apart. What he doesn't bargain for is teammates. As he shares his summer with an uncle who knows too many of his secrets, a guy who's grieving, a seminary student, and a girl who...
4) Measuring Up
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School's back in session, and it may be a year to remember… When college junior Tom Van der Haas asks his cousin Eric and friend Matt to be his roommates, he has no idea what he's in for. Along with their friends Samantha and Dana, the guys will tackle a youth lock-in, family dramas, a nearby service trip, and even a kidnapping. Through it all, Tom and God deal with some big issues, like what it means to be a servant, what God wants from Tom, and...
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Seth has always fixed everyone else. Now it's his turn to be broken. Returning home from a mission trip to Mexico, seminary student Seth Roberts is tired, grieving, and wondering what God is doing in his life. To make matters worse, he has promised to help friend and college student Tom Van der Haas host a party of teenage girls at Tom's uncle's beach house for spring break. He hopes to tell his troubles to his best friend Shawn Carpenter, who is...
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Drift down the river and enjoy a trio of novels from a simpler place and time, now combined into one volume. Follow three brothers-triplets-as they grow up in an isolated community on the river, facing the dangers of the swamp and learning about life, responsibility, and love along the way.
Montague-Sheila grew up with triplet brothers, causing trouble and enjoying childhood to the fullest. Now that she's grown up, she realizes she has feelings for...
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Drift down the river and enjoy a trio of novels from a simpler place and time, now combined into one volume. Follow three sets of youngsters as they grow up in the isolated communities on the river, facing the dangers of the swamp and learning about life, responsibility, and love along the way.
In Swamp Rats, Cree and Princess lose their mothers and grow up nearly alone in the swamps, enduring infrequent visits from abusive and absentee dads. Raising...
8) Cody Bear
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Rescuing Tacy comes at a price… Her history is a secret. She doesn't know phones, videogames, even snack cakes. She's underweight, afraid of everything, and now his next-door neighbor's foster daughter. As a computer geek who never talks to girls, sophomore Cody Highland didn't expect to be asked to play guardian to a teenage girl on her first day of school, but the neighbors ask anyway, putting their most precious possession in his hands. He says...
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Adventure, danger, romance… Welcome to the Boys of Summer, a contemporary Christian series for teens and anyone who appreciates the challenge of stepping into adulthood. This collection includes the first four books of the series in one convenient ebook volume. Courting the Clearwaters-College student Shawn Carpenter is new to Christianity, and when he finds himself surrounded by new people, new purposes, and especially a new girl, he has to decide...
10) If the Sun
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When Marley Owen's stepdad attacks him, his mother puts him on a bus and sends him halfway across the country to stay with his sister and her kids. As a recent high school graduate, Marley is lost and alone in a new city, no idea how to deal with his difficult, free spirit sister or her collection of children. But his sister lives in Stephen Valentino and Jake Branigan's building, and God has a plan for him. Pretty soon he's working for Stephen,...
11) Knowing Jake
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Jake Branigan is the pastor's kid, and everyone thinks they know him. What they don't know is how tired he is of his boring, normal, predictable, respectable life. Even living in an apartment with friends Stephen and Matt doesn't help with the feeling that he's missing something. However, Jake's dad is about to misstep, and the pastor's kid has to figure out what to do once his dad is no longer a pastor. Follow Jake on a journey of discovery as...
12) Second Son
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You are cordially invited to the wedding of Matt Tucker and Dana Schneider, as seen through the eyes of Tony Carpenter. Last seen in Courting the Clearwaters, Shawn Carpenter's little brother Tony is now in high school, and he's tired of living in his perfect big brother's shadow. He wants to be his own person, but honestly, right now he's not doing that well as his own person. His family loves him, but they also tend to forget he exists, and the...
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Stephen Valentino finds it's hard to go from homelessness to a life with eerily friendly guys who keep saying they want to help him. Staying with new acquaintances Matt Tucker and Tom Van der Haas for the summer, Stephen is in a new world, with a job, friends, and maybe even a girlfriend. But he isn't sure he can keep it, because Stephen has a secret, one that might cause his friends to walk away if he can't hide it, and he's pretty sure he can't...
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Adventure, danger, romance… Welcome to the Boys of Summer, a contemporary Christian series for teens and anyone who appreciates the challenge of stepping into adulthood. This collection includes the second four books of the eleven-book series. All I Want for Christmas-Unable to get home to the mountains for Christmas, Matt Tucker goes home with Tom Van der Haas for the holidays. Nothing goes as planned, and before the holiday season is over, Matt...
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For college junior Shawn Carpenter, life was work, family, and paying penance for sins of the past. Then a friend introduces him to God and invites him to join a college youth group, and his world turns upside down. Suddenly he's surrounded by new friends, has a new job, and finds himself attracted to the unobtainable boss's daughter, Jenny Clearwater. He thinks his life is looking up, but soon he sends his best friend away in anger, faces charges...
16) Waylaid
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Cherokee Jones isn't a big fan of college student and horseman extraordinaire Matt Tucker, but since they work on the same ranch this summer, he's stuck with him. But maybe it's not Matt Kee doesn't like; maybe it's that Matt reminds him of the reason he's living in a cabin at the corner of a horse ranch all alone, and he doesn't need any more reminders of his mistakes and secrets. When he's hurt at work, he finds himself kidnapped into Matt's life,...
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Every time he thought it couldn't get worse, it did.
After losing my big brother in a car crash, my family moved to a small town to start over. As if grieving wasn't enough, now I had to find new friends, and in true small town fashion, everyone knew about us and nobody wanted to get close. Loneliest summer ever.
The only good thing about the move was Justin, my first friend. Instead of treating me like a fragile flower, he trounced me at ping pong,...
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