Welcome to the FALL 1998 web edition of A CLOSER LOOK!

Featured Title
Margaret Becker weaves a quilt of memories.

Inside This Issue

COVER STORY

  • Loving Solutions by Dr. Gary Chapman offers hope and specific help to those who want to improve their marriages.

    NEW AND NOTABLE

  • Inspired Choices is your guide to new and notable inspirational books.

    REFLECTIONS ON THE WORD

  • Enjoy a new collection of excerpts from Chambers' meditations on the life of Christ. A New Testament Walk with Oswald Chambers

    BIOGRAPHY

  • The First Lady of Gospel shares her experiences growing up in the South. The Lady, the Melody, & the Word by Shirley Caesar

    FAMILY

  • Welch offers heartfelt stories of the father-son relationship. A Father for All Seasons by Bob Welch

    FICTION

  • Go home with a renewed sense of purpose. Where Yesterday Lives by Karen Kingsbury
  • Oke and Bunn deliver a moving story about healing from broken dreams. Tomorrow's Dream by Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn

    KIDS
    Exceptional new books cover the basics: language, ecology and a Christian world view.

  • My Mini ABC's
  • Bible ABC
  • 106 Questions Children Ask about Our World
  • Jonah's Trash . . . God's Treasure

    MUSIC

  • Singer/songwriter Margaret Becker shares a depth of emotion in a book of essays. With New Eyes by Margaret Becker

    PARENTING

  • Become a discriminating consumer of the best the media has to offer. The Media-Wise Family by Ted Baehr
  • Equip your children for the future with help from the award-winning Boundaries series. Boundaries with Kids by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

    SOCIAL ISSUES

  • A piercing call to self-examination: are we reaping what we sow? Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence by Mike Huckabee with George Grant