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 Cynthia is celebrating her latest release, Tattered and Mended,with a Reclaimed Treasures giveaway. How can the wounds that keep us from living the life we want to live be mended and healed? Cynthia walks readers through a gallery of reclaimed and restored art as well as broken and restored lives of those who have gone before us. Click here for more details!
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{More About Cynthia Ruchti} Cynthia Ruchti tells stories “hemmed in hope.” She’s the award-winning author of sixteen books and a frequent speaker for women’s ministry events. She serves as the Professional Relations Liaison for American Christian Fiction Writers, where she helps retailers, libraries, and book clubs connect with the authors and books they love. She lives with her husband in Central Wisconsin.
Find out more about Cynthia at http://www.cynthiaruchti.com.
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What was the hardest part about writing your novel: Getting started? Keeping it going? Finding the perfect ending? The answer would be . . . writing with a newborn. I was literally plotting this story in the hospital with him and had to turn it in when he was 10 months old . . . and then doing a massive rewrite when he was 14 months old. (I had not planned on having a baby after signing the contract for the series, but you gotta do what you gotta do.) Other than that, it was getting the romantic relationship right, but that’s always one of the hardest parts for me. What trait do you love most about your main character? That he’s determined to be a better person, even if it denies him what he wants. When readers get to the last page, what do you hope they take away from the story? That they should trust in God and His promises and not in themselves. Visit Litfuse to read more about Melissa Jagears and her new book `A Bride at Last` Don’t miss the chance to win a $100 Memory-Making giveaway…

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There's still time to participate in the 2015 Summer Challenge!

Sign up for the challenge at www.whitsend.org/summer for access to weekly verses to memorize, ideas for family fun and suggestions for service projects that allow a family to share their faith.

Additionally, anyone who signs up to participate in the Take the Plunge challenge will receive a free scene from the latest Adventures in Odyssey album, as well as a free story from the book Strange Journey Back.

The Take the Plunge challenge features:

Master Mind Monday - commit God's Word to memory  Ways to Play Wednesday - spend active time with your family  Faith Sharing Friday - share God's love with others
The Take the Plunge challenge helps families memorize at least five verses, engage in five activities together and share their faith with five people before the school doors swing open again.
Those who sign up will receive a plan with suggested verses to memorize, activity ideas (such as visiting a war memorial) and…

         In 2010, Laurie Coombs was called to love and forgive the man who murdered her father, which led to an exchange of letters between she and Anthony, her father’s murderer. During their correspondence, Laurie was healed from her past wounds, was given grace to forgive Anthony, and witnessed a powerful transformation in Anthony as Jesus brought him to repentance. Read the full story in Letters from My Father’s Murderer. And make sure to enter her Kindle Fire giveaway! Click here to learn more and enter.


{More About Laurie Coombs} Laurie A. Coombs is a passionate writer and speaker on the issues of forgiveness, redemption, and the hope that is found in Jesus. Her story was featured in Billy Graham’s new film, “Heaven.” She is a featured writer and blogger for iBelieve and Crosswalk. Laurie and her husband, Travis, make their home in Nevada along with their two daughters.
Find out more about Laurie at http://lauriecoombs.org.
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This week's Top Ten was inspired by The Broke and The Bookish. Question: What are the last (10) books you received? If you didn't receive that many, what were your latest book(s)?
Flash Rachel Anne Ridge
No Fear in Love Andy Braner
Refining Fire Tracie Peterson
A Friend in Me Pamela Havey Lau
A Heart's Betrayal Colleen Coble
Tattered and Mended Cynthia Ruchti
When Grace Sings Kim Vogel Sawyer
A Trip Around the Sun Mark Batterson
Praying Upside Down Kelly O'Dell Stanley
The Proposal at Siesta Key Shelley Shepard Gray

After losing everything she held dear, Abby never wants to love again. But a certain cowboy may just spur her to wonder if love might be worth the risk.
Running from the past that haunts her, Abby Knightly is drawn to the cozy town of Wishing Springs, Texas. Maybe this small town could offer hope and healing and a future for Abby . . . if she’s brave enough to reach out and take it by the reins.
Bo Monahan isn’t interested in the new romantic destination his little town has become—or the women who might be looking at him like he’s their next Mr. Right. Between taking care of his Pops and his growing stirrup business, he isn’t looking for serious romantic commitments. But when the infant son he never knew about shows up at his doorstep, his world is turned upside down.
This confirmed bachelor might not think he needs a wife, but he sure needs help. Even Abby can see that, and despite her best efforts to keep her distance, she can’t help but be drawn to this new father-son duo. As Abby …

`Refining Fire` is a Historical Fiction book from Seattle Washington Territory, 1889. It is the second novel of the `Brides of Seattle` series.
                 Author Tracie Peterson starts this novel in true Tracie Petterson style, with a bit of suspense and lots of faith in God. I haven't read the first of the series but found this novel is complete in and of itself.
                 I could relate to the character Josephine. Who is tall, with a homely face and mortified at the thought of public speaking. There were unfamiliar words, as well as a few grammatical errors. But, neither one ruined the novel. As for the unfamiliar words, it's good to keep a dictionary close by...maybe even a thesaurus.
                 Tracie does deal with abuse in this novel. However, she uses scripture to help guide the innocent. I found this comforting, because there wasn't much said about abuse and when there was it brought healing to my own soul. The author speaks of why the reader sho…

Author of Tattered and Mended


For anyone who has been battered and bruised by the storms of life, award-winning author Cynthia Ruchti has penned her new book, Tattered and Mended: the Art of Healing the Wounded Soul (Abingdon Press/July 7, 2015/ISBN: 978-1426787690 / $15.99). We all have moments when we feel shattered, wounded and needing to piece together the broken pieces of our hearts and lives.
Q: For whom did you write your new book, Tattered and Mended?
 Tattered and Mended was written for all who have been broken and shattered, either by life’s circumstances or at the hand of others, and have lost hope that they could ever claw their way back to wholeness. It’s for those who believe the best they can hope for is simply to be patched together. Yet the truth is God takes the tattered and shattered and makes art of those shards, those frayed threads. 
Q: You say when you sat down to write Tattered and Mended one premise filled your heart. Can you share with us what it was? 
People a…

For anyone who has been battered and bruised by the storms of life, award-winning author Cynthia Ruchti has penned her new book, Tattered and Mended: the Art of Healing the Wounded Soul (Abingdon Press/July 7, 2015/ISBN: 978-1426787690 / $15.99). We all have moments when we feel shattered, wounded and needing to piece together the broken pieces of our hearts and lives.
Q: For whom did you write your new book, Tattered and Mended?
Tattered and Mended was written for all who have been broken and shattered, either by life’s circumstances or at the hand of others, and have lost hope that they could ever claw their way back to wholeness. It’s for those who believe the best they can hope for is simply to be patched together. Yet the truth is God takes the tattered and shattered and makes art of those shards, those frayed threads.
Q: You say when you sat down to write Tattered and Mended one premise filled your heart. Can you share with us what it was?
People are tattered. The world says, “…

God doesn’t just create something beautiful from broken pieces. He makes art. Author Cynthia Ruchti pens a new book that is “hemmed in hope” for hurting readers.
Seattle: For anyone who has been battered and bruised by the storms of life, award-winning author Cynthia Ruchti has penned her new book, Tattered and Mended: the Art of Healing the Wounded Soul (Abingdon Press/July 7, 2015/ISBN: 978-1426787690 / $15.99). 
We all have moments when we feel shattered, wounded and needing to piece together the broken pieces of our hearts and lives. The idea for the book came to Ruchti one day as she sat at her desk with her fingers resting on the worn keys of her computer keyboard. She typed a three-line premise that she says seemed to come not from her mind, but the deep end of her soul: People are tattered. Some say, “Then let’s make tattered fashionable.” But God invites us to mend. Ruchti says the concept lingered with her as she thought about the people in today’s culture who have given up o…