 | Hancock (Single-Disc Rated Edition)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $1.01 Charming story. Lots of fun. One of my top guilty, just-for-fun '08 movie favorites.
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 | Iron Man (Single-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.65 Gotta love a sarcastic anti-hero. One of my top '08 movie picks.
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 | Fireproof
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $6.00 A touch of cheesy, but overall impressive. There are way worse movies to invest your time in. This one could really make you stop and think. A favorite 2008 brain-twist movie.
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 | Lars and the Real Girl
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $1.86 This may be the sweetest movie I've ever seen. Bizarre and touching. Loved it. Top movie of '08 pick.
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 | Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $1.13 Want your undies in a bunch? Look no further. Possibly the most controversial movie I've ever seen. One of my favorite Mind-Twister films of 2008.
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 | Sicko (Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.58 Not a new release, but it was a fascinating watch none-the-less. One of my favorite Mind-Twister films of 2008.
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 | The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals by Missy Chase Lapine
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.43 Great ideas when you want to make some positive changes. One of my best Non-Fiction that Enriched My Life picks.
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 | Only Nuns Change Habits Overnight: Fifty-Two Amazing Ways to Master the Art of Personal Change by Karen Linamen
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $1.62 Funny advice that covers all sorts of life changes you might want to make. One of my best Non-Fiction that Enriched My Life picks.
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 | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis, 2nd Edition by Sheila Lowe
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.50 Not a new release, but fascinating. One of my best Non-Fiction that Enriched My Life picks.
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 | Eat This, Not That! Thousands of Simple Food Swaps that Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds--or More! by David Zinczenko
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.19 This will mess with you. Really eye-opening. One of my best Non-Fiction that Enriched My Life picks.
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 | Try Darkness (Ty Buchanan Series, Book 2) by James Scott Bell
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $7.49 Bell just keeps getting better. Loved this. Better than book one. Fun, sweet, twisty.
Solidly in Tried and Still True Authors category.
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 | Wind River by Tom Morrisey
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $0.03 Nobody writes an outdoor adventure like Tom Morrisey. Tight and beautiful with tension that makes a story twang.
Tried and Still True Author of '08. Looking forward to any '09 release.
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 | Par for the Course: A Novel (Faith Words) by Ray Blackston
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.14 Ray cracks me up. Quirky. I don't even like golf. But I loved Par. He's a Tried and Still True Author and Par lands in the Downright Fun category as well.
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 | Havah: The Story of Eve/A Novel by Tosca Lee
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $7.95 Tried and True Author. It takes tremendous talent to write tales told by a demon and the mother of all humanity. Powerful books by a very gifted author. Havah also landed in the Books That Made Me Think long after I put it down and Not Your Mama's Christian Fiction categories.
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 | The Shape of Mercy: A Novel by Susan Meissner
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $4.46 Susan Meissner writes tales that transport. I recommend everything she's written. A Tried and Still True Author.
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 | Symphony of Secrets: A Novel by Sharon Hinck
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.01 Sharon Hinck has a very distinctive and pleasant voice. She is solidly Tried and Still True.
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 | Gallimore by Michelle Griep
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $10.57 A solid, engaging and fabulous debut novel. Minnesota has given us some great writers, Griep is not an exception. I can't wait to see where she goes from here. A New Author I Recommend.
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 | Fallen: A Novel by Matthew Raley
Buy new: $9.59 / Used from: $2.01 Not only is Raley a New Author I Recommend, he's written a Book That Made Me Think...long after I finished. A very twisted story about church politics and humanity within the sacred realm.
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 | Road to Nowhere by Paul Robertson
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $1.29 I can't believe I love a book about a road. But I do. The story still hovers months after I finished it. A Twelve Angry Men kind of story that is haunted with prejudice, selfishness and greed.
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 | My Visit to Hell by Paul Thigpen
Buy new: $11.04 / Used from: $3.38 Not amazing writing but the story is spooky and haunting. A Book That Made Me Think -- and still does.
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 | My Name Is Russell Fink by Michael Snyder
Buy new: $11.10 / Used from: $0.01 A book that charmed me from page one. And one that not only is Downright Fun...it also Made Me Think.
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 | He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: A Memoir of Finding Faith, Hope, and Happily Ever After by Trish Ryan
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $0.01 A Memoir that entertained and challenged me. A Book That Made Me Think and was Downright Fun in the process.
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 | Wounded: A Love Story by Claudia Mair Burney
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $5.50 Claudia Mair Burney is an author who is Tried and Still True, writes books That Make Me Think and writes Not Your Mama's Christian Fiction.
If you haven't read Christian Fiction in awhile and you always thought it was pablum. Pick up a Ms. Burney title. Dare ya.
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 | Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White by Claudia Mair Burney
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $3.45 Another Claudia Mair Burney turn you upside-down and shake-you novel. Everything I said about Wounded...ditto.
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 | Embrace Me by Lisa Samson
Buy new: $11.24 / Used from: $0.01 Lisa Samson has proven once again to be Tried and True. She's authored a Book That Made Me Think, and she writes Not Your Mama's Christian Fiction. Powerful book. Not pretty, but beautiful.
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 | House of Wolves (An August Adams Adventure) by Matt Bronleewe
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $0.01 Crazy story. So much fun. Downright Fun.
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 | Less than Dead (Bug Man Series #4) by Tim Downs
Buy new: $17.24 / Used from: $2.79 I am going to Stalk Tim Downs. Not in a creepy way, but as in "How have I missed this guy?" I loved the Bug Man. Downright Fun in a creepy, fascinating forensic snark-fest. Sarcasm, humor, yuck. My kind of book.
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 | It's Not About Me (Second Glances Series #1) by Michelle Sutton
Buy new: $11.04 / Used from: $1.80 Michelle Sutton has written a gritty, real, "oh my" book that is full of hope and honesty.
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 | The Death and Life of Gabriel Phillips: A Novel (Faithwords) by Stephen Baldwin
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $0.01 Not Your Mama's Christian Fiction for sure.
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 | The Rook (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 2) by Steven James
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.43 Another New to Me Author I'm Going to Stalk. Great suspense, great story, great characters. Glad I stumbled across him.
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 | Crazy Fool Kills Five: A Fifi Cutter Mystery by Gwen Freeman
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.80 New Author (to Me) I'm Going to Stalk. Or at least watch for new reads by Gwen Freeman. Chick-lit with a baseball bat upside the head.
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