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Yesterday, I posted a contest for the kids, along with a place to share their Summer Reading Lists with me.  Today, I wanted to post a place for you PARENTS to share your Summer Reading Lists as well.  And, because I love books and promoting reading, I even have some to share with YOU!

Jessie Stone has spent thirty-five years fantasizing about marriage proposals, wedding dresses, and falling in love.  She’s been a bridesmaid eleven times, waved dozens of couples off to sunny honeymoons, and shopped in more department stores for half-price fondue pots than she cares to remember.

But shopping in the love-of-her-life department hasn't been quite as productive.  The man she thought she would marry cheated on her.  The crush she has on her best friend Blake is at very best…well, crushing.  And speed dating has only churned out memorable horror stories.

So when God shows up one day, in the flesh, and becomes a walking, talking part of her life, Jessie is skeptical. What will it take to convince her that God has a better love story than one of the thousands she’s cooked up in her journals?  Will she trust Him with her pen when it appears her dreams of being the bride are forever lost?

A romantic comedy with a spiritual twist, Never the Bride is what it means to lose control—and getting more than any woman could ever imagine.

Cheryl McKay is the co-author (with Frank Peretti) of the Wild and Wacky, Totally True Bible Stories series, which has sold nearly 200,000 copies, and the screenwriter of the award-winning film The Ultimate Gift. Rene Gutteridge has published thirteen novels including Ghost Writer, My Life as a Doormat, the Boo Series, the Occupational Hazards Series, and the Storm Series. Together, McKay and Gutteridge are the authors of The Ultimate Gift, a novelization based on the feature film and popular book by the same title.


It’s 1905 and the Chicago Cubs are banking on superstar Donald “Duke” Dennison’s golden arm to help them win the pennant. Only one thing stands between Duke and an unprecedented ten thousand dollar contract: alcohol.

That’s when sportswriter David Voyant whisks Duke to the one-horse town of Picksville, Missouri, so he can sober up in anonymity. He bides his time flirting with Ellie Jane Voyant, his unofficial chaperone, who would rather hide herself in the railway station ticket booth than face the echoes of childhood taunts.

Ned Clovis, the feed store clerk, has secretly loved Ellie Jane since childhood, but he loves baseball and the Duke almost as much–until he notices Ellie Jane may be succumbing to the star’s charm.

Then there’s Morris, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, whose only dream is to break away from Picksville. When Duke discovers his innate talent for throwing a baseball, Morris might just have found his way out.

Four individuals, each living in haunted isolation, each harboring a secret passion. Providence brings them together. Tragedy threatens to tear them apart. Will love be enough to bring them home?


Allison Pittman spent seventeen years as a high school English teacher, and then shunned the advice of “experts,” quit her day job and set out to write novels that bring glory to God. She relishes inspiring other writers and leading the theater arts group at her church. She and her husband and three sons live in Universal City, Texas.

*both books provided by www.waterbrookmultnomah.com

So, go ahead - post your reading lists on your blog, then come back here and sign Mr. Linky with a direct link to your reading list post.  On June 12th, I'll do a random drawing, and one of you will win these two books for fun summer reading!





Kids aren't the only ones reading this summer! Several parents have sent me their reading lists as well! Check these out:

Judy's list:
I enjoy books by Debbie Macomber and am always looking for books by her.  This summer I hope to read her Twenty Wishes, Summer on Blossom Street, and I recently saw another new one I haven't read yet!

Amy's list:
1.  Little House series
2.  The New Answers Book 1

Susan's list:
Blessed Man Ted Dekker
Take one Karen Kingsbury
Take Two Karen Kingsbury
Crazy Love by Frances Chan
The Secret by Beverly Lewis
Where do I go? Neta Jackson
Who do I talk to? Neta Jackson
Black Ted Dekker
White Ted Dekker
Red Ted Dekker
Rhineland Inheritance T Davis Bunn
Gibraltar T Davis Bunn
Sahara Crosswind T Davis Bunn

Christa's list:
1. Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
2. Beverly Lewis books
3. Fireproof, Eric Wilson, Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick
4. Shaker Series, Ann Gabhart
5. 1984, George Orwell
6. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
7. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
8. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
9. Diary of Anne Frank
10. A Separate Peace – John Knowles
11. Anne of Green Gables series – Lucy Maud Montgomery
12. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott