Love Finds You In Humble Texas

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Love Finds You In Humble Texas
(Summerside Press February 2009)
by
Anita Higman


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Anita Higman is the author of 24 books including fiction, nonfiction, childrens books and plays. Among her published romance titles are Larkspur Dreams, The Love Song and Castles in the Air, all coauthored with Janice A. Thompson. Her mysteries include Another Stab at Life and Another Hour to Kill. Anita is a member of ACFW and the Christian Humor Writers Group and she has been recognized for her involvement in literacy programs. A Texan for the past 24 years, Anita has coauthored an awardwinning book about her home state, A Tribute to Early Texas. She lives with her family near Houston.


Other books by Anita are Another Hour To Kill and Another Stab At Life

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Abernathy sisters. One is bright, one is beautiful, but both are in love with the same man. One sister will let go of love, and like a kite string untethering in the wind, the choice will undo each of their lives. What will it take to heal their hearts, for love to find them in a place called Humble, Texas?

Trudie Abernathy is a little inelegant, and she's never had much luck in love. To make matters worse, her thirtieth birthday is fast approaching and her sister, Lane, has decided to treat her to a makeover and a few blind dates. Trudie is about to protest, but then she meets the kind and handsome Mason Williamson. In spite of her humble manner, Mason finds her attractive, funny and smart. But Lane inexplicably pushes Trudie away from Mason and toward the other willing suitors. The makeover has transformed Trudie from ordinary into stunning, but she isnt sure how she feels about all the attention from men. Can Trudie stay true to her humble self and find her hearts desire in the process?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Love Finds You In Humble Texas, go HERE

Watch the trailer for this book:

::MPL-Game of the week::

The most,hot and spicy game this week.We better name it as the clash of the titans.A very first time for all BMCS students to enjoy their weekend by handling a football friendly match.

Special appearance by Samuel Eto'o and Thiery Henry,exclusively brought to you by ESPN Super Sport.

Be prepared to rawk the field!!

Footnote:Beterabur tak English aku ni?huhu..macama mahu kerja ni..

::Award 2009::

Teruja,bangga dan rasa terharu..Hampir menetek menitis air mata dalam kantung kelopak mata ini pabila mendapat anugerah blog Sempoi daripada Afif,bekas rakan sekolah lu yang kini sedang berusaha tahap gaban untuk menghabiskan Master Level beliau di UTP.Beliau masih single ketika kali terakhir aku berjumpa bertentang mata,berbalas tumbukan padu maut dengan beliau hampir setahun yang lepas.Ya,setahun lepas tak jumpa,,tapi siapa tahu kan,dunia sekarang,teknologi di hujung rambut,picit2 sahaja kamu akan dapat berhubung dengan makwe family kalian bukan??

Terima kasih sekali lagi..

kalau anda rajin,sila lah usha blog member aku ni.Contest sedang diadakan untuk menarik trafik ke blg dia ni..haha..RM10 tu jep..Siapa tak nak??


Ps: Teringin gak nak sambung master,,,,tapi..... Cik H,macamana?ok tak kalau sambung Master tahun depan??heheh

Daisy Chain

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Daisy Chain
Zondervan (March 1, 2009)
by
Mary DeMuth


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mary E. DeMuth is an expert in Pioneer Parenting. She enables Christian parents to navigate our changing culture when their families left no good faith examples to follow.

Her parenting books include Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture (Harvest House, 2007), Building the Christian Family You Never Had (WaterBrook, 2006), and Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God (Harvest House, 2005).

Mary also inspires people to face their trials through her real-to-life novels, Watching The Tree Limbs
(nominated for a Christy Award) and Wishing On Dandelions (NavPress, 2006).

Mary has spoken at Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, the ACFW Conference, the Colorado Christian Writers Conference, and at various churches and church planting ministries. Mary and her husband, Patrick, reside in Texas with their three children. They recently returned from breaking new spiritual ground in Southern France, and planting a church.


ABOUT THE BOOK

The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1973 spins three lives out of control—Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter’s demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is plagued by headaches while pierced by the shattered pieces of a family in crisis.

In this first book in the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, fourteen-year-old Jed Pepper has a sickening secret: He’s convinced it’s his fault his best friend Daisy went missing. Jed’s pain sends him on a quest for answers to mysteries woven through the fabric of his own life and the lives of the families of Defiance, Texas. When he finally confronts the terrible truths he’s been denying all his life, Jed must choose between rebellion and love, anger and freedom.

Daisy Chain is an achingly beautiful southern coming-of-age story crafted by a bright new literary talent. It offers a haunting yet hopeful backdrop for human depravity and beauty, for terrible secrets and God’s surprising redemption.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Daisy Chain, go HERE

::Selamat Ulang Tahun Ke-23 kepada aku!::

Entry ini agak berbaur bangga,bongkak dan penuh dengan sifat kebanggaan melampau tetapi dijamin tidak akan mempengaruhi kreadibiliti aku sebagai penulis blog yang tegar..tengok pada gambar ini sudah tentu bukan??..hehehe..Cik H,sila jangan jeheles ye..

Hari ini,tanggal seluar dan baju 22Febuari 2009,genap umur aku 23tahun di muka bumi ini.Mengikut kepada rekod yang teracatit dalam surat peranakan aku,jam 5.04 minit pagi tadi,dengan berbekalkan berat 2.87 kg, aku sudah selamat dilahirkan.Jiran aku ketika itu aku sama sekali aku tidak kenali.Yang aku tahu ketika itu hanyalah,aku hanya ingi menangis apabila doktor itu menampar punggung ku ini agar aku menangis.


Bukan aku tidak mahu menangis,tetapi aku cuba untuk menjadi disiplin.Mengganggu keheningan pagi di Hospital Kuala Pilah adalah tidak harmoni bukan??hehehe..


Terima kasih kepada semua rakan yang telah dengan rasa sucinya telah menghabis kan kredit topup mereka untuk mengucapkan Happy Birthday kepada aku.Aku hargai.Ingin sahaja aku print kan segala msg2 wish birthday kalian untuk di frame kan di dinding rumah sewa ku ini..


Kepada Hajar,anda berhutang wish birthday aku tahun ni..Tahun depan anda wajib wish double ok??Saida pula,adalah menyedihkan apabila anda hanya ingat birthday teman baik mu,saudara Torek punya birthday tetapi tarikh keramat aku ni anda tak ingat..mau gadow kah??hahaha..


Hari ini sangat best.Menyambut birthday secara alakadar..KFC snack plate sudeh..makanan juga bukan??Terima kasih kepada Cik H kerana ingat tarikh keramat aku ini..Aku ingin berjumpa Cik H lagi..huhu..


Terima kasih kepada family ku di Seremban.Lauk2 yang sangat banyak semalam telah membuatkan perut ku ini memberontak untuk seboleh-bolehnya menerima tiap2 intipati hidangan itu..huhu..


Sesiapa yang inginkan aku untuk wish birthday kalian,drop in tarikh keramat anda di bahagian akhir entry ini.Aku janji..yakin..komentar akan dilayan..hahah..




nota kaki: umur 23 bermaksud aku semakin menghampiri tarikh akhir untuk aku menjadi jurutera..mahu kahwin~~

Tender Grace

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Tender Grace
Bethany House (February 1, 2009)
by
Jackina Stark


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

I have also spoken nationally and internationally at many retreats and seminars and enjoy running into many readers and former students. I have written frequently for both Christian Standard and Lookout, periodicals of Standard Publishing. Years ago I wrote two non-fiction books, published by College Press, but currently out of print. These days, I’m exploring fiction. My first novel, Tender Grace, will be released by Bethany House January 30, 2009, and a second, Things Worth Remembering, will be released in October, 2009. I’m working on new projects, including a third novel, as time permits. Whether speaking or writing, I love the opportunity to tell about Him whom Jesus called “Holy Father” and “the only true God.”

She lives in Joplin, Missouri with her husband, and she spends most of her free time doing is reading and writing. That is what she usually do when she's not teaching, enjoying the children and grandchildren, or sitting on the back porch drinking a Diet Coke and watching her husband till the garden!


ABOUT THE BOOK

Audrey Eaton awakes at three in the morning and gets up to retrieve her husband, Tom, from the recliner where he has fallen asleep watching a ball game. But when she enters the living room and looks at his gentle face in the soft lamp light, she knows their time together is over. Grief attacks her until all she can think about is how much she wants her old life back. Determined to find healing, she embarks on a journey to the one place Tom and she always intended to visit but never did. Along the way, she discovers, through shared experiences with friends old and new, the meaning of the "tender graces" God provides each and every day.

I've quit reading--even bestsellers, even the newspaper, even my Bible. I've also quit listening to music. This lack of appreciation for things I once loved is beginning to define me. More mornings than I can count, I say to myself before I open my eyes, "I don't want to do this." In the days shortly following Tom's death, that made sense, but what does it mean now? That I'm in trouble? One of the best qualities of the former me was thankfulness. As I was trying to sleep last night, needing Tom to be curled up behind me, his left arm slung across me, I realized to my horror that I couldn't remember the last time I was truly thankful. I think of a line from an old hymn: "Awake, my soul, and sing." I miss Tom. I also miss me. Determined to find healing, Audrey Eaton embarks on a trip to the one place she and her husband always intended to visit but never did. When things don't go as planned, will she embrace the unexpected graces that guide her journey?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Tender Grace, go HERE

Gingham Mountain

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Gingham Mountain
Barbour Books (February 1, 2009)
by
Mary Connealy


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mary's writing journey is similar to a lot of others. Boil it down to persistence, oh, go ahead and call it stubbornness. She just kept typing away. She think the reason she did it was because she was more or less a dunce around people—prone to sit silently when she really ought to speak up(or far worse, speak up when she ought to sit silently).

So, Mary had all these things, she want to say, in her head; the perfect zinger to the rude cashier, which you think of an hour after you’ve left the store, the perfect bit of wisdom when someone needs help, which doesn’t occur to you until they solve their problems themselves, the perfect guilt trip for the kids, which you don’t say because you’re not an idiot. She keep all this wit to herself, much to the relief of all who know her, and then wrote all her great ideas into books. It’s therapeutic if nothing else, and more affordable than a psychiatrist.

So then a very nice, oh so nice publishing company like Barbour Heartsong comes along and says, “Hey, we’ll pay you money for this 45,000 word therapy session.” That’s as sweet as it gets.

Mary's journey to publication is the same as everyone’s except for a few geniuses out there who make it hard for all of us. And even they probably have an Ode to Roast Beef or two in their past.

There are two other books in this Lassoed In Texas Series: Petticoat Ranch and Calico Canyon


ABOUT THE BOOK


All aboard for a delightful, suspense-filled romance, where a Texan is torn between his attraction to a meddlesome schoolmarm and the charms of a designing dressmaker. When Hannah Cartwright meets Grant, she's determined to keep him from committing her orphans to hard labor on his ranch. How far will she go to ensure their welfare?

Grant Cooper is determined to provide a home for the two kids brought in by the orphan train as runs head-on into the new school marm, who believes he's made slave labor out of eight orphaned children. He crowds too many orphans into his rickety house, just like Hannah Cartwright's cruel father. Grant's family of orphans have been mistreated too many times by judgmental school teachers. Now the new schoolmarm is the same except she's so pretty and she isn't really bad to his children, it's Grant she can't stand.

But he is inexplicably drawn to Hannah. Can he keep his ragtag family together while steering clear of love and marriage? Will he win her love or be caught in the clutches of a scheming seamstress?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Gingham Mountain, go HERE

::Kasih Sayang::

Nota kaki:Aku merepek merapu,sekian,,aku mahu mandi dahulu.

::Air Panas Gadek dan Kelucahan Melampau::

Tajuk entri sudah agak lucah bukan?Tapi,teruskan membaca kerana entri ini agak sesuai untuk semua golongan.Termasuk untuk mereka yang masih bersekolah rendah mahu pon mereka yang menolak kekerasan dan kekejaman terhadap wanita..

Sebenarnya,aktiviti malam minggu perlu diisi dengan begitu bermakna oleh mereka yang bergelar mahasiswa tahun akhir.4tahun menuntut di Melaka ini,tidak sah kalau tidak mengeksplorasi semua tempat khazanah di Melaka.Takkan pernah cukup aku rasa.Kalau dibukukan sejarah aktiviti 4 tahun belajar di Melaka,boleh ngetop dan laris di pasaran mungkin.

Terus ke tujuan asal entri ini ditulis.Tatkala perut kekenyangan dan menghembus asap rokok seharum kasturi, shit program perlu diatur bagi mengelakkan kebosanan.Maka terkeluar lah dari mulut seorang rakan,berasal dari Kelantan menguatarakan cadangan untuk memanaskan badan di kala dinihari.Memasak diri dalam kolam air panas semulajadi dari tanah,terbaik dari ladang aku cakap..Perancangan perlu dilaksanakan,keputusan dibuat.Aktiviti menyundal murni ini disertai geng konvoi 3 buah kereta,minyak payung,tiada kutipan tol mahu pon kutipan wang ihsan pemandu.huh..Air Panas Gadek,tunggu....hausssss(ala2 cerita 300).

Sedikit trivia mengenai Air Panas Gadek ini:

• Kos nak masuk ke dalam adalah rm 2 untuk kanak-kanak,Jika anda mengaku umur anda 20tahun,tetapi memohon untuk yuran kanak2,sila berhati-hati.Berkemungkinan boleh dapat rate macam tu,tapi kena tanggung risiko dijirus dengan air panas menggelegak di bahagian salur peranakan lah nanti..sakit wo0..
• Untuk dewasa,Rm4 sudah memadai.
• Kolam air panas ini adalah secara semulajadi. panasnya.Tiada sebarang unsur boiler digunakan bagi menghasilkan air panas yang bersuhu hampir kepada ? celcius ini.
• Pastikan anda mencuba kesemua kolam yang terdapat disini.Adalah malang sekali jika anda membayar Rm4 tetapi sekadar mencecahkan kaki separas bawah sikit dari paras buku lali.Bagaimana cagu di kaki itu mahu hilang nanti?
• Berehatlah sambil membayangkan anda sedang menghadiri kursus terapi sambil diurut oleh gadis2 litar..hahah..superb beb!!
• Tidak digalakkan untuk berendam secara berterusan selama 4 jam tanpa henti di dalam kolam itu.Memadai beremdam selama 20 minit untuk satu2 sessi.Selang selikan dengan senaman ringan seperti memutarkan kepala sebanyak 40 darjah ke,goyang pinggul ke ataupon berlari2 anak setempat.Kemudian,sambung balik berendam.
  
• Cukup.Mahu lebih,alami sendiri.

Jam 4pagi,kelihatan hero-hero remaja berposing seperti untuk majalah Mangga bukan?Klik pada gambar untuk imej yang lebih jelas.Mak aku dah pesan,jangan tangkap gambar awal2 pagi.Terdapat sosok2 putih mengkaburi sebilangan besar foto di atas.haha..Itu hanya gurauan.Sosok putih yang baekkk punya dinikmati bersama..kih2..hermmm..Lucah kah foto ini ya?Anda menilai.

Aku dengan rasa takzimnya,mencalonkan member aku sorang ni,yang mempunyai jiwa kental,semngat juang yang tinggi,hampir menyamai semngat juang Ong Bak 2,layak menerima Anugerah Lelaki Maskulin 2009.Bukan Anugerah Lelaki berkulit tebal ye.Anda layak bertanding untuk Hero Remaja atas tiket bernai menyembamkan muka dalam air panas tanpa ada rasa segan silu.Nak bergambar punya pasal,suhu air yang hampir boleh menyebabkan telur ayam menjadi separuh masak pon anda redah..Hang memnag stylo Wan!!sila beri tepukan ye sambil anda meneruskan bacaan entri ini.

Suka untuk diingtakan,bahawa ini bukan Party Gay ye.Semua nya lelaki sejati yang boleh diberi kepercayaan untuk menjadi ketua keluarga kelak.kih3..Layanzz..Badan diselimuti dengan haba yang extravaganza,suhu air telah berjaya membuatkan lenguh kaki,sendi di tulang pelvis,rasa ngilu di bahagian trakea dan kaki rasa bebrat sebelum ini hilang hampir 80% rasanya.sangat mujarab untuk menbhilangkan rasa sengal2 sendi dan otot.Untuk penghidap selsema ,selsema anda tidak akan hilang ,tapi boleh kurang rasanya.

Lihat,asap mengganas.Kamera cikai kepunyaan aku tidak mampu untuk mengatasi tahap ketebalan asap tersebut.Tapi,ayukah insan yang betuah di atas??hahaha..atas permintaan ramai tu.

Sekian,harap2 dengan entri ini bakal melayakkan aku untuk menerima Anugerah Blog Terjah 2010 dari En Ajib..hahaha.


p/s:Tekanan tul N9 kalah ngan Perlis malam ni..

::Bola Sepak Malaysia::

Salam kepada semua pembaca tegar blog iovantgarde's terroritory ini.Hari ini,bukan lah tidak ada kerja untuk dilakukan,bahkan test subjek engineering Ethic Ir Talib perlu dihadap malam ini.Malas sungguh untuk mengulangkaji pelajaran memandangkan format soalan adalah A,B dan C.Tidak pasti sama ada wujud pilhan untuk jawapan D atau pon tidak.Apa dikisah,yang penting,teknik menembak ala2 menggunakan sniper model Tippmann 98 dikala jawapan tidak menjelma di kotak fikiran akan dipraktikkan..hehe..doakan aku berjaya.

Terus ke matlamat sebenar entry ini di posting.Aku rasa terpanggil untuk bercakap mengenai bola sepak Malaysia sekarang ini.Jujur aku cakap,aku bukan lah pemain bola yang hebat beraksi di ranjang padang,untuk mendapat kepercayaan rakan2 sepelajaran ketika bermain bola di padang pada waktu petang pon jarang sekali.Lebih baik menjadi penghias padang dengan cara berlari keliling padang,mengelirukan pertahanan pihak lawan dengan gerakan2 berbisa aku.

Hari ini,ketika membaca surat khabar atas talian tajaan Streamyx ini,aku terbaca satu laporan berita yang dikarang oleh wartawan Harian Metro.Izinkan aku untuk copy paste segala perincian laporan tersebut.

KETIKA kebanyakan negara Asean lain mengalami proses kenaikan ranking dunia sejak kebelakangan ini, nasib Malaysia berada sebaliknya.

Berdasarkan kedudukan terkini yang dikeluarkan dalam laman web rasmi Fifa semalam, ranking Malaysia terus menjunam dari 158 kepada 161.

Berbanding dengan negara jiran, Thailand melonjak tujuh anak tangga kepada 117 manakala Singapura meningkat empat anak tangga kepada 131.

Turut mengalami situasi sama ialah Vietnam yang naik tiga anak tangga kepada 135, Indonesia pula naik tujuh anak tangga kepada 137 dan Myanmar pula jatuh dua tangga kepada 158.

Sementara itu, juara Eropah, Sepanyol kekal di ranking pertama dunia meskipun kurang beraksi di peringkat antarabangsa.Kedudukan 10 pasukan teratas dunia bermula dengan Sepanyol, diikuti Jerman, Belanda, Itali, Brazil, Argentina, Croatia, England, Russia dan Turki.

Gambar di bawah menunjukkan tahap prestasi pasukan Malaysia sepanjang 16 tahun di pentas dunia.Di mana Malysia pada tahun 2009 sekarang??

Dapat diperhatikan pada tahun 1993 Malaysia pernah menghuni tangga ke 79 dalam dunia.Tahun 1993 aku baru berumur 7tahun.Darjah 1 di Sek Keb Felda pasir Besar.Tahun tersebut antara pemain yang aku kenal Zainal Abidin Hassan,Dollah Salleh (Pahang),Azman Adnan,Othman Katmon(Negri Sembilan),Azizul Kamaludin(Pahang)sekarang pon beliau masih bermain bola tahu.Adik beradik dari N9, Khairil Zainal dan Faizal Zainal(sekarang bertukar karier dengan bermain golf dah usahawan),Jamsari Sabian,dan Affendy Julaihi,Tony Cottee,Abas Saad,Fandi Ahmad,Christopher Kiwomnya,Seidu Issifu,Bekamenga,Allan bumi Adigun(Kedah)(antara pemain import yang pernah menghiasi persada bola Malysia).

Bukan aku tidak mengenali langsung pemain tempatan sekarang,tapi kurang dikenali dengan sumbangan mereka.Oops,aku terlupa lagenda Supermokh.

Pemain sekarang dibayar gaji hampir RM16,000 sebulan,ada yang Rm18,000 sebulan,tapi kualiti hampir kepada zero..huhu..tidak berbaloi dengan jumlah wang yang dilaburkan untuk tiket masuk stadium.Mereka lebih popular dengan gosip yang dicipta sendiri.Aku tak maksudkan aidl Zafwan tidak bagus,hehe..tapi sumpah aku cakap,kalau lah Badrol Bakhtiar dari Kedah dengan Bunyamin Omar tak dihantar berlatih kat Chelsea 2 tahun lepas,sampai sekarang aku tak kenal mereka.

Bukan semua pemain Malaysia tidak bagus,tidak berkualiti.Bakat sudah ada,perlu dipertajamkan lagi.Stamina untuk bermain selama 90minit di atas padang rumput perlu dilatih.Skill hantaran bola perlu diperkemaskan lagi.Jangan jadi seperti berbaik2 dengan pihak lawan diatas padang dahaja.Bola di passing tanpa mengira kedudukan rakan sepasukan.Hangin ar penonton tengok.Jangan salahkan penonton kalau mereka memilih untuk menonton perlawanan bola sepak di layar Maple pasa malam minggu berbanding menonton perlawanan Liga Malysia di stadium.

Bola Malaysia tidak boleh dipolitikkan.Campur tangan kuasa politik untuk mendapat nama dan sokongan dari rakyat jelata adalah idea lapuk untuk menjadi terkenal.pengurusan bola sepak negeri septutunya diuruskan oleh mereka yang mempunyai basic Bola sepak.Pernah bermain bola di peringkat kebangsaan mahu pon antarabangsa.Bukan ditadbir oleh mereka yang pernah belajar di Oxford sahaja yang hanya mampu memikirkan taktikal secara teori.

Itu adalah serba sedikit pandangan aku tentang bola sepak Malaysia.Aku begitu tertarik dengan nukilan dan pandangan sesorang dari blogger ini,Lucius Maximus.Pandangan dan buah fikiran yang dicadangkan untuk menyelamatkan maruah bola sepak Malaysia adalah sangat bernas.Bleh dipraktikkan,Adalah tidak mustahil untuk menyksikan Malaysia beraksi di pentas Piala Dunia pada edisi yang akn datang.Aku pernah bermain footbal Manger 2008 dan berjaya membawa Pasukan malaysia ke Piala Dunia 2018 dan 2022.Keyplayer paukan Malysia dalam team itu adalah Halim Zainal dan bermain untuk kelab Aston Villa.Wujudkah beliau ini?Tidak mustahil bukan?Liga malaysia boleh menjadi tumpuan untuk pemain luar beraksi,sama seperti J-League dan K-League.

Aku sayang kan bola sepak Malaysia.

trivia:
Kenapa bola sepak dimainkan selama 90minit?Mengapa tidak digenapkan sahaja ke 100minit?itu menarik bukan?

p/s:Aku sangat suka jika kalian meninggalkan entry ini sengan menyatakan nama2 pemain Malaysia zaman dulu yang pernah korang ingati.Import ataupon pemain tempatan.Siapa ek mereka??

Cry In The Night

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
A Cry In The Night
Thomas Nelson (February 3, 2009)
by
Colleen Coble


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Author Colleen Coble's thirty novels and novellas have won or finaled in awards ranging from the Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA award, the Holt Medallion, the ACFW Book of the Year, the Daphne du Maurier, National Readers' Choice, and the Booksellers Best awards. She writes romantic mysteries because she loves to see justice prevail and love begin with a happy ending.


AWARDS:
2004 More Than Magic winner for Best Inspirational Romance
Without a Trace, Thomas Nelson
2004 American Christian Fiction Writers Mentor of the Year



ABOUT THE BOOK

The highly anticipated novel that delivers what romantic suspense fans have long awaited-the return to Rock Harbor.
Bree Nichols gets the shock of her life when her husband-presumed dead-reappears.

Bree Nichols and her search and rescue dog Samson discover a crying infant in the densely forested woods outside of Rock Harbor, Michigan. Against objections from her husband, Kade, who knows she'll become attached, Bree takes the baby in. Quickly she begins a search for the mother-presumably the woman reported missing just days earlier.
While teams scour the forests, Bree ferrets out clues about the missing woman. But she soon discovers something more shocking: Bree's former husband-long presumed dead in a plane crash-resurfaces. Is he really who he says he is? And should she trust him again after all these years?
An engaging, romantic suspense novel from critically-acclaimed author Colleen Coble.

If you would like to read the first chapter of , go HERE

Against All Odds

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Against All Odds
Revell (February 1, 2009)
by
Irene Hannon


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Irene Hannon is an award-winning author who took the publishing world by storm at the tender age of 10 with a sparkling piece of fiction that received national attention.

Okay…maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. But she was one of the honorees in a complete-the-story contest conducted by a national children’s magazine. And she likes to think of that as her “official” fiction-writing debut.

Since then, she has written more than 25 romance and romantic suspense novels that have sold more than 1.5 million copies. Her books have been honored with the coveted RITA award from Romance Writers of America (the “Oscar” of romantic fiction), the HOLT Medallion and a Reviewer’s Choice award from Romantic Times BOOKreviews magazine.

Irene, who holds a B.A. in psychology and an M.A. in journalism, juggled two careers for many years until she gave up her executive corporate communications position with a Fortune 500 company to write full. She is happy to say she has no regrets! As she points out, leaving behind the rush-hour commute, corporate politics and a relentless BlackBerry that never slept was no sacrifice.

In her spare time, Irene enjoys hamming it up in community musical theater productions. A trained vocalist, she has sung the leading role in numerous musicals, including “South Pacific,” “Brigadoon,” “Oklahoma” “The King and I” and “Anything Goes.” She also regularly performs with a six-person musical review troupe and is a cantor at her church (where she does NOT ham it up!).

When not otherwise occupied, Irene loves to cook and garden. She and her husband also enjoy traveling, Saturday mornings at their favorite coffee shop and spending time with family. They make their home in Missouri.


ABOUT THE BOOK

For FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Evan Cooper and his partner, dignitary protection duty should have been a piece of cake. Unfortunately, Monica Callahan isn’t making it easy. Estranged from her diplomat father, who is involved in a sensitive hostage situation in the Middle East, she refuses to be intimidated by a related terrorist threat back in the States…until a chilling warning convinces her that the danger is very real—and escalating. As Coop and his partner do their best to keep her safe, David Callahan continues his work—triggering an abduction that puts his daughter’s life at risk. And with every second that ticks by, Coop knows that the odds of saving the only woman who has ever managed to breach the walls around his heart are dropping. Because terrorists aren’t known for their patience—or their mercy.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Against All Odds, go HERE


WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

4 ½-star, “Top Pick” rating from Romantic Times BOOKreviews!

"Brava! Award winner Hannon debuts the heroes of Quantico series with a wonderful
array of believable characters, action and suspense that will keep readers glued to each page. Hannon’s extraordinary writing, vivid scenes and surprise ending come together for a not-to-be-missed reading experience.”
~Romantic Times BOOKreviews~

“I found someone who writes romantic suspense better than I do. I highly recommend Against All Odds as one of the best books I've had the privilege of reading this year. This is a captivating, fast-paced, well written romantic suspense destined for my keeper shelf. I loved this book, and highly recommend this author."
~Dee Henderson~ Author of the O’Malley Family Series

::Install Yahoo! Messenger Vista versi Windows Xp::

Selamat bertemu lagi dalam dunia maya tanpa sempadan ini..Haha..lama sudah aku tidak menghupdate sebarang info berguna untuk kalian semua.Aktiviti kursus usahawan di Port Dickson minggu lalu masih lagi tidak di update.Insyallah selepas entry ini,aku akan menstory kepada kalian tentang kursus itu.

Cuma kali ini,aku cuma ingi berkongsi sedikit ilmu yang diperolehi ketika berjalan-jalan di blog justkhai ini.Aku tertarik dengan tutorial beliau yang mengajar cara2 untuk menggunakan Yahoo! Messenger versi Vista tapi boleh diaplikasi dengan menggunakan operasi Windows Xp.Apa salah nya ilmu jika kita kongsikan bukan??

Sebelum itu,screenshot di atas adalah menggambarkan desktop PC aku yang menggunakan theme vista.Menarik bagi aku.So far,PC ni tidak lah menjadi lembap sangat pon.hehe..Berminat nak menggunakan faking Vista ni??dapatkan di sini.

Antara kelebihan menggunakan Yahoo! Messenger vista ini:

• Emoticon yang terpilih untuk dipaparkan tidah pernah mengecewakan dalam menjalankan tugas mereka.Aku terhibur dengan aksi emoticons ini.
• Pelbagai emoticaon boleh dipilih.Semua mereka akan mendatangkan mood yang baik kepada pengguna seperti aku.Kata omputih,user friendly..
• Adalah tidak menjadi masalah kepada mereka yang suka dan gemar ber YM bersama rakan taulan dengan jumlah yang ramai secara serentak.Desktop anda tidak akan serabut lagi dengan lambakan Ym kerana YM! Vista ini menyediakan khidmat array in single window.Betulkah istilah IT yang aku gunakan ini??haha..
• Grafik yang lebih elegant.Bakal menaikkan nafsu untuk para YM Addictor ni untuk bersengkang mata 24 jam dengan ym dek kerna kecantikan dan kecomelan Ym ini..hehe..
  

Jadi,apa yang anda perlu lakukan untuk menggunakan aplikasi perisian ini?

1. Download file yang diperlukan di sini.
Yahoo! Messenger vista for windows Xp by iovantgarde

2. Sila Extract file berkenaan ke dalam c:\Program File\ dan seterusnya kalian akan mendapat hasilnya file tersebut berada dalam c:\Program File\Messenger for Vista.

3. Sekarang, run “dotnetfx3setup.exe” yang terdapat dalam folder tersebut. Proses download dan install akan mengambil masa lebih kurang tiga minit mengikut kelajuan connection internet korang.

4. Copy “Yahoo.Messenger.YmApp.exe” dan paste shortcut di desktop bagi memudahkan anda membuka Yahoo!Messenger Vista ini nanti.

Selamat mencuba.Alamilah keriangan tahap maksimus Prime apabila menggunakan Yahoo! Messenger Vista ini.Kredit to Justkhai.com


nota kaki: YM vista ini tidak dilengkapi dengan voice chat dan Webcam.Jangan risau,kerana anda tidak perlu uninstall YM lama anda untuk running YM ini.

Word Gets Around

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Word Gets Around
Bethany House (February 1, 2009)
by
Lisa Wingate


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


Lisa Wingate lives in central Texas where she is a popular inspirational speaker, magazine columnist, and national bestselling author of several books. Her novel, Tending Roses, received dozens of five-star reviews, sold out ten printings for New York publisher, Penguin Putnam, and went on to become a national bestselling book. Tending Roses was a selection of the Readers Club of America, and is currently in its tenth printing.

The Tending Roses series continued with Good Hope Road, The Language of Sycamores, Drenched In Light, and A Thousand Voices. In 2003, Lisa’s Texas Hill Country series began with Texas Cooking, and continued with Lone Star Café, which was awarded a gold medal by RT BOOKCLUB magazine and was hailed by Publisher’s Weekly as “A charmingly nostalgic treat.” The series concluded with Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner.

Lisa is now working on a new set of small-town Texas novels for Bethany House Publishers. The series debuted with Talk of The Town and continued with Word Gets Around. A new series is also underway for Penguin Group NAL, beginning with A Month of Summer (July 2008), and continuing with The Summer Kitchen in July, 2009. Lisa’s works have been featured by the National Reader’s Club of America, AOL Book Picks, Doubleday Book Club, The Literary Guild, American Profiles, and have been chosen for the LORIES best Published Fiction Award.




ABOUT THE BOOK

When Romance Is In the Air, Word Gets Around Lauren Eldridge thought she'd wiped the dust of Daily, Texas, off her boots forever. Screenwriter Nate Heath thought he was out of second chances. Life's never that predictable, though. Cajoled by her father, Lauren is back in town helping train a skittish race horse set to star in a Hollywood film. But the handsome screenwriter gives her more trouble than the horse. And Nate is realizing there's a spark of magic in the project--and in the eyes of the girl who is so good with horses. Daily, Texas, has a way of offering hope, healing, and a little romance just when folks need it most.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Word Gets Around, go HERE

What people are saying:

"Lisa Wingate writes engaging stories that strike the heart. God has gifted her with a marvelous talent and I, for one, am most grateful."
—Debbie Macomber, New York Times #1 bestselling author

Desires of Her Heart

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Desires Of Her Heart
Avon Inspire (February 10, 2009)
by
Lyn Cote


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lyn Cote married her real-life hero and was blessed with a son and daughter. She loves game shows, knitting, cooking, and eating! She and her husband live on a beautiful lake in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Now that the children have moved out, she indulges three cats: V-8 (for the engine, not the juice), Sadie, and Tricksey. In the summer, she writes using her laptop on her porch overlooking the lake. And in the winter, she sits by the fireplace her husband installed with the help of a good neighbor during their first winter at the lake.

Lyn's inspirational novels feature American women who step up to the challenges of their times and succeed in remaining true to the values of liberty and justice for all. The story of America is one of many nationalities and races coming together to forge our one nation under God, and Lyn's novels reflect this with accurate historical detail, always providing the ring of authenticity. Strong Women, Brave Stories.


ABOUT THE BOOK

A New Orleans lady and a half-breed frontiersman become unlikely allies as they travel the wilds of texas.

In 1821, when circumstances make it impossible for her to remain in New Orleans, Dorritt and her family head west to join Stephen Austin's settlement and recoup their fortune in Texas.

Quinn is a man of the frontier who has made a name for himself as a peerless scout. But as he and Dorritt's party begin a grueling trek across untamed Texas, the success of their journey is in grave doubt. Mexico has broken with the Spanish Crown, and armies from both countries—plus marauding Comanches—roam the pine forests and prairies. And one of the party is plotting destruction.

Now, with their lives joined in a virgin land fraught with peril, can Dorritt and Quinn put all their trust in God and receive the desires of their hearts?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Desires Of Her Heart, go HERE

::Holiday??or kursus Usahawan @ PD::

Aku sedah pulang dari berkursus selama 6 hari 5 mlm di Port Dickson.Nice to see,nice to attend.Kalau ade kelapangan,aku akan mengupload segala bibit2 story aku selama di sana.Tapi yang penting,yang rahsia,tetap akan menjadi rahsia selama-lamanya..haha..see next time..

Seperti yang aku janjikan,setelah hampir seminggu event ini berlalu,aku akan berkongsi sedikit pengalaman sepanjang berkursus di sana.Perkampungan usahawan mahasiswa generasi alaf Baru ini berlaku di Hotel Seri Malaysia Port Dickson.Semua perbelanjaan adalah ditanggung sepenuh jiwa raga oleh KPT aku rasa.UTeM hanya perlu mengeluarkan wang untuk bayar pemandu bas aku rasa..haha..So,kalau dah duduk hotel selama 6 hari 5 malam,sah-sah lah mereka2 ini mengambil kesempatan bukan?Makanan??superb lah dari maple di Melaka..Pancuran air yang dilengkapi dengan sistem pemanasan air global memungkinkan aku untuk mandi selewat jam 11malam.Siapa kisah bukan??Pekerja hotel tersebut tidak akan mengetuk pintu bilik aku..hehe

Matlamat kursus adalah totally untuk menyediakan platform bagi para bakal graduanUTeM ini untuk mengusahakan sebarang bentuk bisnes untuk terus hidup di muka bumi.Pastikan pekerjaan itu halal.Jual orang pon halal juga kan??Jual orang untuk dijadikan orang gaji..hehe..Semoga kalian semua layak untuk mendapat pinjaman RM250,00.00 itu nanti ye..kalau ada sesiapa yang memerlukan rakan kongsi roger2 lah aku ye..

Aktiviti bermain laut adalah menjadi agenda utama peserta kursus kali ini.Pelbagai aksi yang langsung tidak memaparkan aksi lincah pelajar kos kejuruteraan dipamerkan oleh mereka.Aksi akrobatik juga menjadi pilihan untuk ditangkap muat dalam blog aku ini.

Rasid tidak suka bermain bersama air laut,Barangkali beliau ada kisah di sebalik cerita yang tidak mungkin dapat diungkaikan dengan kata-kata.

Sebuah filem bakal diterbitkan dan ditayangkan seawal tahun 2019 nanti.Dan satu boyband yang baru telah tercipta sepanjang perjalanan kursus ini.

Makana yang disediakan oleh pihak hotel secara keseluruhannya adalah menarik bagi aku.Atpi menurut pengalaman Raja Makan BMCS,Pok Jak,makanan nya agak kureng dari segi kualiti.Aku tidak tahu.Asal kenyang sudah memadai.Agak2 kalau da balun sepinggan kueh (5 biji jenis A,5 biji jenis B) kenyang tak??hehe

opss..permintaan rakan2 untuk menyiarkan gambar terhangat tidak dapat ditunaikan.Aksi beliau telah menggetar kan kepala lutut aku ni..haha..

Terima kasih kepada KPT dan semua rakan.Untuk blogger Podeh,ini adalah gambar aku bersama Hatta.Hatta batch Pedas 1999-2002 dulu.Kalian ingatkah??

Sekian..aku mahu pergi bersukan..Sukan itu penting kan..hehe