Audra Jennings

Thank you to everyone who took part in today's tour! It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Chris Fabry and the book: Not in the Heart Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (February 1, 2012) ***Special thanks to Audra Jennings – The B&B Media Group – for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: As a child, Chris Fabry wrote stories, songs and poems. The creative process invigorated him. He may not have been a fast reader, but the w...

Award-winning author and popular radio host Chris Fabry  explores ethical dilemmas in his latest release, Not in the Heart If your child needed a life-saving heart transplant, how far would you go to make it happen? How would you feel if a man convicted of murder offered his heart to your child? What if you discovered the man was innocent, but the only way your child could live was to hide the truth? “I’ve found the only thing I can control is how well I tell the story and follow the truth. . . . The truth will always lead you to a good place,” reflects Truman Wiley, the main character in Chris Fabry’s newest novel, Not in the Heart . Fabry passionately delves into hot topics such as capital punishment, gambling addiction and organ donation, leaving readers to examine their own lives and views.  Chris Fabry has had an impressive career. He has written more than seventy books for children and adults. Last year, his novel Almost Heaven won the ECPA Fiction Book ...

I've been a bad, bad, blogger again. Actually, if you count the B&B blog that I post on, I've been a better blogger than I give myself credit for, but... I should have blogged about something funny Peyton and Paige did last weekend while they were over here, like Peyton getting giddy in Brookshire's because I told her that we would get a roll of cookie dough instead of break apart cookies so we could eat it raw. That might have been the highlight of her week because she was psyched! I had to go buy them books at the book fair this during public school week. And bring them food. They had someone different come every day. And I do believe everyone bought the books. Who can blame them? Lately, I have not had much time to read. But I'll share just a little bit about a couple of the books I finished recently. I haven't reviewed them here yet because that sort of seemed like a chore since I would not say that I enjoyed them. BUT, I'm going to go ahead and post on ...

"Dad told me once that you can only be as happy as you've been sad, and I didn't understand it until that moment." I'm not exactly sure what it was about that line as I finished reading Chris Fabry's June Bug that really hit me, but it did. It was spoken by a 9 year old girl, wise beyond her years, in a book I highly recommended. Here's a little bit about the story from the back of the book: For as long as she can remember, June Bug and her father have traveled the back roads of the country in their beat-up RV, spending many nights parked at Walmart. One day, as she walks past the greeter at the front of the store, her eyes are drawn to the pictures of missing children, where she is shocked to see herself. This discovery begins a quest for truth about her father, the mother he rearely speaks of, and ultimately herself. But when her father's past catches up with them, foreces beyond his control draw them back to Dogwood, West Virginia, down a winding pa...