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The easy (and free!) way to share Catholic and Orthodox fiction with our local communities.
Did you know that, as a patron and taxpayer, you can suggest books for your public library’s permanent collection? Librarians are always looking for new, interesting reads, and that includes fiction from Catholic and Orthodox Christian voices! Recommending books is a great way to share the fruits of the sacramental imagination with a wider audience.
How to Stock Your Library Shelves:
1) Copy book information from publisher/author’s website (linked below) or bookmark this page on your phone.
2) Bring the information with you on your next library trip.
3) Say to your friendly librarian, “May I request [wonderful book] for your collection, please?”
4) Provide the book information.
5) With prayer and a little luck, the library will take up your suggestion!
Alternatively, check the library’s website for an online request form.
Chrism Press Books
Information for Libraries
Brother Wolf
Title: Brother Wolf
Author: Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Genre: Gothic horror, literary fiction
Audience: Adult
Publisher: Chrism Press, a division of WhiteFire Publishing
Publication Date: September 1, 2021
ISBNs:
978-1-941720-56-1 (print)
978-1-941720-57-8 (digital)
Distribution: Ingram
Editorial Review(s):
Brother Wolf is a book you don’t just read—you live in it. It’s a splendid Gothic mystery and a convincing werewolf story with an endlessly intriguing cast of characters. —Tim Powers, bestselling author
Back Cover Copy:
For Athene Howard, the only child of renowned cultural anthropologist Charles Howard, life is an unexciting, disillusioned academic project. When she encounters a clairvoyant Dominican postulant, a stern nun, and a recusant English nobleman embarked on a quest for a feral Franciscan werewolf, the strange new world of enchantment and horror intoxicates and delights her—even as it brings to light her father’s complex past and his long-dormant relationship with the Church of Rome. Can Athene and her newfound compatriots battle against the ruthless forces of darkness that howl for the overthrow of civilization and the devouring of so many wounded souls? In this sister novel to A Bloody Habit, the incomparable Father Thomas Edmund Gilroy, O.P. returns to face occult demons, gypsy curses, possessed maidens, and tormented werewolves, accompanying a charming neo-pagan heroine in her earnest search for adventure and meaning.
The City Mother
Title: The City Mother
Author: Maya Sinha
Genre: Contemporary literary fiction with elements of family drama, psychological suspense, and humor
Audience: Adult
Publisher: Chrism Press, a division of WhiteFire Publishing
Publication Date: February 1, 2022
ISBNs:
978-1-941720-81-3 (paperback)
978-1-941720-82-0 (digital)
Distribution: Ingram
Editorial Review(s):
“With The City Mother, Maya Sinha adds an electric new entry to the distinguished ledger of Catholic fiction. Hip and stylish, yet pulsing with mystic energy, her tale of a precarious young family illuminates the unseen operations of grace and evil in a secular age. Sinha’s hypnotic storytelling marks a thrilling literary debut.” — Mary Eberstadt, author of Primal Screams and Adam and Eve After the Pill
“I’ve been waiting for this novel a long time—a subtle, compelling mystery that brings to life the surreal world of postpartum motherhood and reveals its link to the numinous. I’m already anticipating Sinha’s next book.” — Abigail Favale, author of Into the Deep
Back Cover Copy:
Fresh out of college, small-town crime reporter Cara Nielsen sees disturbing things that suggest, for the first time in her life, that evil is real. But as the daughter of two secular academics, she pushes that notion aside. When her smart, ambitious boyfriend asks her to marry him and move to a faraway city, it’s a dream come true.
Four years later, confined to a city apartment with a toddler, Cara fears she is losing her mind. Sleeplessness, isolation, and postpartum hormones have altered her view of reality. Something is wrong in the lost, lonely world into which she’s brought a child. Visions hint at mysteries she can’t explain, and evil seems not only real—it’s creeping ever closer.
As her marriage falters and friends disappear, Cara seeks guidance from books, films, therapy, even the saints, when she’s not scrubbing the diaper pail. Meanwhile, someone is crying out for help that only she can give. Cara must confront big questions about reality and illusion, health and illness, good and evil—and just how far she is willing to go to protect those she loves.
In Pieces
Title: In Pieces
Series Title: Molly Chase
Author: Rhonda Ortiz
Genre: Historical romance with elements of family drama, society drama, and political suspense
Audience: Adult
Publisher: Chrism Press, a division of WhiteFire Publishing
Publication Date: October 1, 2021
ISBNs:
978-1-941720-43-1 (paperback)
978-1-941720-44-8 (digital)
Distribution: Ingram
Awards:
ACFW Genesis Award, 2020
ACFW-VA Crown Award, 2019
Editorial Review(s):
“This delightful historical romance is so refreshingly alive. It is not deadened by the supercilious contempt for the past that characterizes so much contemporary historical fiction, nor is it killed with the cynicism of pride or with hallmarked schmaltzy sweetness, the two extremes which are the death of true romance. It is as fresh and alive as Miss Austen in its treatment of really believable people in a believably real world. It breathes the life of realism, philosophically understood, into the reality it depicts.” – Joseph Pearce, author of Catholic Literary Giants
“Rarely have I encountered a debut novel as well told as this one. In Pieces took me captive from the first scene and held me fast to the end. This seamless story is woven into a rich historical tapestry, threaded with intrigue, and shaped by characters who grow, change, and take their faith seriously. A winning blend of liveliness and deeper themes, this carefully crafted tale was a joy to read. I can’t wait to see the adventures Molly Chase and Josiah Robb have next.” – Jocelyn Green, Christy Award-winning author of A Refuge Assured and The Windy City Saga
“Readers of historical romance will find congenial company in this novel’s plucky, winsome lead duet who must thread their individual paths through spiritual crises, hostile social pressures, and the lingering effects of past trauma to find peace together. Ortiz particularly shines as an observer of courtship dynamics that, though shaped by the period’s expectations, will find echoes in many contemporary relationships.” – Katy Carl, author of As Earth Without Water and editor in chief of Dappled Things
“Unforgettable! With her sharp, sophisticated brand of writing, author Rhonda Ortiz has canvassed a remarkable breadth of history in this epic debut set during post-Revolutionary America. A time when New England’s shipping ports gave rise to international intrigue and the ever-present threat of an infant country being drawn back into war. Amid the cleverly colorful cast, Molly and Josiah are especially endearing as they explore what it means to become family while navigating their joys, sufferings, and the uncertainties in between. And at its core, love in its truest, purest form—that sacred bond between a man and a woman exemplified on the Cross by a love greater than ourselves—believing that only through sacrifice can we learn to give wholly and unconditionally to its cause. In Pieces is a novel that will remain on the heart long after the last page. Bravo!” – Kate Breslin, bestselling author of Far Side of the Sea
“While engaging the reader in a delightful tale of romance, sewing, seamanship, and early American political intrigue, In Pieces also teaches us the importance of seeing well—of seeing with the heart. The essential questions of life—the nature of true love, finding meaning in suffering, how to make a good marriage, the primacy of faith and conscience, and the gift of family—make this spiritually satisfying historical fiction as rich in depth as it is fun to read.” – Sarah Bartel, moral theologian, founder of Cana Feast, and coeditor of A Catechism for Family Life
Back Cover Copy:
CERTAIN THINGS RUIN A GIRL’S REPUTATION, AND MADNESS IS ONE.
Boston, 1793—Beautiful and artistic, the only daughter of a prominent merchant, Molly Chase cannot help but attract the notice of Federalist Boston—especially its men. But she carries a painful secret: her father committed suicide and she found his body. Now nightmares plague her day and night, addling her mind and rendering her senseless. Molly needs a home, a nurse, and time to grieve and to find new purpose in life. But when she moves in with her friends the Robbs, spiteful society gossips assume the worst. And when an imprudent decision leads to public scandal, Molly is tempted to take the easy way out: a marriage of convenience.
Merchant sailor Josiah Robb is as familiar to Molly as a brother—as dear and as exasperating. Yet she is no sister to him. He hopes to marry her before anyone else does, but sailing the high seas leaves no time for convincing Molly that he is more than her teasing childhood friend. Josiah wants a new job and a fresh start, and when he agrees to carry a confidential letter to President Washington, his life is forever changed.
In the wake of tragedy, these longtime friends discover a new intimacy. But slander, confusion, absence, and a wealthy, conniving bully stand between them. And with French spies on the loose, they not only have to rescue their reputations—they have to protect their lives.
The Letters of Magdalen Montague
Title: The Letters of Magdalen Montague
Author: Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Genre: Literary fiction
Audience: Adult
Publisher: Chrism Press, a division of WhiteFire Publishing
Publication Date: July 1, 2021
ISBNs: 978-1-941720-50-9 (print); 978-1-941720-51-6 (digital)
Distribution: Ingram
Editorial Review(s):
“Eleanor Nicholson has written an old-fashioned epistolary novel of religious awakening and vocation. Set in the heady intellectual and hedonistic milieu of Edwardian England, it mixes elements of Waugh, Wilde, Bernardos, and even a touch of Francis Thompson to create an intimate account of one skeptic’s decisive encounter with the Hound of Heaven. In this short book, Nicholson recaptures the energy of a great Catholic literary tradition.”
— Dana Gioia, poet and former Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts
“Magdalen Montague exhales the same exuberant and exotic air as Baudelaire, Huysmans and Wilde; a delicious vignette that illumines the path from debauchery to the Divine.”
— Joseph Pearce, author of The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
Back Cover Copy:
When the amoral and cynical “J” takes up his pen to describe Magdalen Montague, he little realizes the dramatic changes that will soon be wrought in his life. His fascination for this mysterious woman catapults him into a harrowing encounter with Catholicism, conversion, and discipleship. Through the letters, intimate portraits of four souls appear: the loquacious letter-writer “J,” his virulently antireligious recipient, “R,” the weird, silent servant Domokos Juhász, and Magdalen Montague herself. Across the turbulence of the first four decades of the twentieth century, including two world wars, the mysterious correspondents in The Letters of Magdalen Montague present a profound portrait of humanity’s quest for God.
Shadowed Loyalty
Title: Shadowed Loyalty
Author: Roseanna M. White
Genre: Historical romance
Audience: Adult
Publisher: Chrism Press, a division of WhiteFire Publishing
Publication Date: May 1, 2022
ISBNs:
978-1-941720-79-0 (paperback)
978-1-941720-80-6 (digital)
Distribution: Ingram
Back Cover Copy:
Sabina Mancari never questioned her life as the daughter of Chicago’s leading mob boss until bullets tear apart her world and the man she thought she loved turns out to be an undercover Prohibition agent. Ambushes, bribes, murder, prostitution—all her life, her father sheltered her from his crimes, but now she can no longer turn away from the truth. Maybe Lorenzo, the fiancé who barely paid her any attention in the last two years, has the right idea by planning to escape their world. But can she truly turn her back on her family?
All his life, Lorenzo’s family assumed he would become a priest, but he has different ideas—marrying Sabina and pursuing a career in the law. Despite his morals, he knows at the core he isn’t so unlike his mafiosi father and brothers. Has he, in trying to protect Sabina, forced her into the arms of the Prohibition agent bent on tearing her family apart? How can they rebuild what has so long been neglected and do it in the shadow of the dark empire of the Mafia?
Shadowed Loyalty, set amid the glitz and scandal of the Roaring Twenties, examines what love really means and how we draw lines between family and our own convictions, especially when following one could mean losing the other.
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Victoria Everleigh
Victoria Everleigh is an AP award-winning TV news producer-turned-financial coach who decided to pursue her dream of writing novels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Away from her laptop, she likes to dance, figure skate, and cuddle up with a good book. She lives in New England with her husband and daughter. victoriaeverleigh.com
Titles
The Love We Vow
Kaye Park Hinckley
Kaye Park Hinckley is a native of Dothan, Alabama. Writing awards include: the 2018 Independent Press Award Winner in Religion Fiction, the 2019 Independent Press Award Winner in Religion Fiction, the 2019 and 2021 NYC Big Book Award Winner in Religion Fiction, the 2020 Big Book Award, Distinguished Favorite in Religion Fiction; Poets & Writers Magazine Maureen Egen Award, First Runner-Up; Finalist in New Orleans’ William Faulkner/Words of Wisdom Competition, and others.
A Fine Arts graduate of Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, she studied creative writing at the University of Alabama. After twenty years managing her own advertising agency, she began to write fiction full-time. She is married to George Hinckley and is the mother of five children and grandmother of thirteen. Visit her online at kayeparkhinckley.com.
Titles
A Hunger in the Heart
The Wind That Shakes the Corn: Memoirs of a Scots Irish Woman
The Distance Between High and Low
Bridge-Man Burning: The Sins of a Southern Man
Mary’s Mountain
She Who Sees Beyond
The Ghosts of Faithful
Absence
Shooting at Heaven’s Gate
Jane Lebak
Jane Lebak writes books and knits socks. janelebak.com
Titles
The Boys Upstairs
A Different Heroism
Relic of his Heart
Half Missing
Erin Lewis
While raising and schooling her four children, first-time novelist Erin was inspired to write the Chalice book series, which contains themes of forgiveness, conversion, and listening for God’s will for one’s life. Praying for vocations to the priesthood is one of her passions. authorerinlewis.com
Titles
Firetender
Daniel McInerny
Daniel McInerny is a native of South Bend, Indiana; a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA English) and The Catholic University of America (MA and PhD Philosophy), and the son of the late Ralph McInerny, award-winning author of the Father Dowling mystery series. He is an associate professor of philosophy at Christendom College and a fiction author, dramatist, and screenwriter. His first screenplay, I Am Not Prince Hamlet, originally found representation with The Artists Agency, and he has twice been named a finalist for the J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction sponsored by Dappled Things. He and his wife Amy have three adult children and one grandchild and live in Virginia.
Titles
The Good Death of Kate Montclair (forthcoming)
Maya Sinha
Maya Sinha grew up in New Mexico and was a staff writer for the Santa Fe Reporter before moving to California for law school. As a lawyer with school-aged kids, she wrote a regular humor column for the local newspaper. In 2019, she became a columnist for The Saturday Evening Post. Her work has appeared in The Lamp Magazine, Dappled Things, and Book & Film Globe. She lives near Sacramento, California with her family. Visit her online at mayasinhawriter.com.
Titles
The City Mother
Carolyn Astfalk
Carolyn Astfalk is the author of contemporary Catholic romances Stay With Me, Come Back to Me, Ornamental Graces, Rightfully Ours, and All in Good Time. She is president of the Catholic Writers Guild, a member of Catholic Teen Books, and a Catholic Mom contributor. carolynastfalk.com
Titles
All in Good Time
Ornamental Graces
Stay With Me
Come Back to Me
Sarah Anne Carter
Sarah Anne Carter is a lover of books, travel and cats. She has three books published—The Ring, Life After, and Orphan Wish Island. Writing stories since she was little, she is constantly thinking of ideas that could be used as a plot for a novel. sarahannecarter.com
Titles
The Ring
Jane Lebak
Jane Lebak writes books and knits socks. janelebak.com
Titles
An Arrow in Flight
Sacred Cups
Shattered Walls
The Wrong Enemy
Annihilation
Perdition’s Heirs
Karen Ullo
Karen Ullo is the author of two award-winning novels and a founding editor of Chrism Press. She holds a MFA in screenwriting from the University of Southern California and served for more than three years as managing editor of the Catholic literary journal Dappled Things. She lives in Louisiana with her husband and two sons, where she serves as the music director of a Catholic parish. karenullo.com
Titles
Cinder Allia
Kelsey Gietl
Kelsey Gietl is the author of five novels including the War Across Waters and the Larksong Legacy historical fiction series. Combining faith, family, and lessons from our past, her books provide inspirational stories of hope, redemption, and realistic romance. She lives in Missouri with her husband and two children. kelseygietl.com
Titles
Broken Lines
Unsettled Shores
For a Noble Purpose
Stephanie Landsem
Stephanie Landsem writes historical fiction about women, for women. The Living Water series—The Well, The Thief, and The Tomb, a Novel of Martha—are biblically authentic stories of women who are transformed by encounters with Jesus. Her new release, In A Far-Off Land, is a retelling of the parable of the Prodigal set in1930s Hollywood . She lives in Minnesota with her husband and four children. You can find out more about Stephanie and her books at StephanieLandsem.com.
Titles
The Well
The Thief
The Tomb
In A Far-Off Land
Jane Lebak
Jane Lebak writes books and knits socks. janelebak.com
Titles
With Two Eyes Into Gehenna
Mary Jo Thayer
Michigan girl by birth, award-winning author by grace. Educator, public speaker, mentor, water skier and traveler. Married to her high school sweetheart husband, mother of four, grandmother to seven (so far). Mary Jo writes fictional novels woven with Theology of the Body themes. Close to the Soul is her first novel. maryjothayer.com
Titles
Close to the Soul
Gerri Bauer
Gerri Bauer is author of the Persimmon Hollow historical romance series. Her novels explore community, dignity and the grace of redemption. She’s also a lifelong sewist, but her love of reading and writing often pushes her sewing/quilting projects into UFO (UnFinished Objects) territory. She and her husband live in Florida. gerribauer.com
Titles
At Home in Persimmon Hollow
Stitching A Life in Persimmon Hollow
Growing A Family in Persimmon Hollow
Rhonda Ortiz
Rhonda Ortiz is a Lay Dominican, award-winning novelist, nonfiction writer, and founding editor of Chrism Press A native Oregonian, she attended St. John’s College in historic Annapolis, Maryland and now lives in Michigan with her husband and five children. Find her online at rhondaortiz.com.
Titles
In Pieces
Roseanna M. White
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award-winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary. roseannamwhite.com
Titles
Shadowed Loyalty
A Song Unheard
The Number of Love
A Portrait of Loyalty
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
In addition to scholarly pursuits, Eleanor Bourg Nicholson occasionally strays into fiction, including her epistolary novella, The Letters of Magdalen Montague (Kauffmann Publishing, 2011; Chrism Press, 2021), and her Victorian vampire novel, A Bloody Habit (Ignatius Press, 2018). A former assistant executive editor for Dappled Things, she is assistant editor for the Saint Austin Review (StAR), as well as the editor of several Ignatius Critical Editions of the classics. Her work has appeared in the National Catholic Register, Touchstone, First Things, The Catholic Thing, The Imaginative Conservative, and elsewhere.
By day, Eleanor is the resident Victorian literature instructor at Homeschool Connections and with her husband homeschools their five children. By night, she reads the Victorians, writes Gothic novels, and cares for feral offspring. Visit her at eleanorbourgnicholson.com.
Titles
A Bloody Habit
Brother Wolf
Karen Ullo
Karen Ullo is the author of two award-winning novels and a founding editor of Chrism Press. She holds a MFA in screenwriting from the University of Southern California and served for more than three years as managing editor of the Catholic literary journal Dappled Things. She lives in Louisiana with her husband and two sons, where she serves as the music director of a Catholic parish. karenullo.com
Titles
Jennifer the Damned
John Desjarlais
A former producer with Wisconsin Public Radio, John Desjarlais taught English at Kishwaukee College in Illinois for 25 years. johndesjarlais.com
Titles
Bleeder
Viper
Emily Hanlon
Emily Hanlon was raised in Texas, educated in Boston, and now lives in New York. She worked as a personal injury litigator for many years, first as a plaintiff’s attorney presenting the stories of injured clients, then changing sides and telling the stories of clients accused of causing those injuries. Finally ending up as an arbitrator, she publishes over fifty decisions a year that seek to unravel the truth behind those always contradictory versions. A life of listening to witnesses and sifting through facts has prepared her well for creating the complex entanglements of murder mysteries.
Having converted late in life after watching the joy that faith brought to her husband and three sons, she, like her sleuths in the Martha and Marya mysteries, now goes to daily Mass, is a eucharistic minister, and is active in the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Through her books, Emily shares her love of the church and of a good “whodunit.”
Titles
Who Am I to Judge? (Martha and Marya series, forthcoming)
Theresa Linden
Theresa Linden writes contemporary, fantasy, dystopian, and suspense stories for adults, teens, and children. Her books have won awards from the Catholic Press Association and have the Catholic Writers’ Guild Seal of Approval. Many of her titles are featured on CatholicTeenBooks.com, FORMED, and Virtue Works Media. theresalinden.com
Titles
Tortured Soul
Michelle Buckman
Michelle Buckman is the award-winning author of seven novels. She is also an international conference speaker renowned for her dynamic discussions on writing and faith. She has been a featured author at numerous conferences and events, including the Catholic Marketing Network trade show, International Christian Retail Show, Southeastern Independent Booksellers Association, and the South Carolina Book Festival. MichelleBuckman.com
Titles
Death Panels
Mary Jessica Woods
Mary Jessica Woods was raised and homeschooled in the Chicago suburbs, where she read as many adventure stories as she could get her hands on. At the age of ten, she realized she was doomed to be a writer and has been following the muse ever since. Still seeking adventure, she headed out west to Wyoming Catholic College, where she climbed mountains, rappelled off cliffs, and studied the Great Books.
After graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in the Liberal Arts, she returned to the Midwest to work as an editor. Mary also volunteers as an editorial assistant for the literary magazine Dappled Things, and her nonfiction has appeared in America Magazine, Catholic World Report, and First Things. In her mind, she spends most of her time on distant planets or alien spaceships, but she actually lives in rural Michigan. Follow her work at maryjessicawoods.com.
Titles
Markmaker (forthcoming)
Gerri Bauer
Gerri Bauer is author of the Persimmon Hollow historical romance series. Her novels explore community, dignity and the grace of redemption. She’s also a lifelong sewist, but her love of reading and writing often pushes her sewing/quilting projects into UFO (UnFinished Objects) territory. She and her husband live in Florida. gerribauer.com
Titles
Trust in Love—A Persimmon Hollow Novella
T.M. Gaouette
T.M. Gaouette is a member of The Catholic Writers Guild and CatholicTeenBooks.com. A former contributor for Project Inspired, she was also featured in The Parable Magazine and Today’s Catholic Teacher. Her pro-life novel, For Eden’s Sake, received a 1st place CPA book award and was endorsed by Evangelist Alveda King. tmgaouette.com
Titles
Shadow Stalker
Kaye Park Hinckley
Kaye Park Hinckley is a native of Dothan, Alabama. Writing awards include: the 2018 Independent Press Award Winner in Religion Fiction, the 2019 Independent Press Award Winner in Religion Fiction, the 2019 and 2021 NYC Big Book Award Winner in Religion Fiction, the 2020 Big Book Award, Distinguished Favorite in Religion Fiction; Poets & Writers Magazine Maureen Egen Award, First Runner-Up; Finalist in New Orleans’ William Faulkner/Words of Wisdom Competition, and others.
A Fine Arts graduate of Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, she studied creative writing at the University of Alabama. After twenty years managing her own advertising agency, she began to write fiction full-time. She is married to George Hinckley and is the mother of five children and grandmother of thirteen. Visit her online at kayeparkhinckley.com.
Titles
Birds of a Feather
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
In addition to scholarly pursuits, Eleanor Bourg Nicholson occasionally strays into fiction, including her epistolary novella, The Letters of Magdalen Montague (Kauffmann Publishing, 2011; Chrism Press, 2021), and her Victorian vampire novel, A Bloody Habit (Ignatius Press, 2018). A former assistant executive editor for Dappled Things, she is assistant editor for the Saint Austin Review (StAR), as well as the editor of several Ignatius Critical Editions of the classics. Her work has appeared in the National Catholic Register, Touchstone, First Things, The Catholic Thing, The Imaginative Conservative, and elsewhere.
By day, Eleanor is the resident Victorian literature instructor at Homeschool Connections and with her husband homeschools their five children. By night, she reads the Victorians, writes Gothic novels, and cares for feral offspring. Visit her at eleanorbourgnicholson.com.
Titles
The Letters of Magdalen Montague
Corinna Turner
Corinna Turner has been writing since she was fourteen and likes strong protagonists with plenty of integrity. Although she spends as much time as possible writing, she cannot keep up with the flow of ideas, for which she offers thanks—and occasional grumbles!—to the Holy Spirit. She is the author of over twenty-five books, including the Carnegie Medal Nominated I Am Margaret series, and her work has been translated into four languages. She is a Lay Dominican with an MA in English from Oxford University and lives in the UK. She is a member of a number of organisations, including the Society of Authors, Catholic Teen Books, Catholic Reads, the Angelic Warfare Confraternity, and the Sodality of the Blessed Sacrament. She used to have a Giant African Land Snail, Peter, with a 6½” long shell, but now makes do with a cactus and a campervan. To learn more, visit www.IAmMargaret.com.
Titles
Three Last Things or The Hounding of Carl Jarrold
Soulless Assassin
A Changing of the Guard
Catholic Teen Books
Catholic Teen Books is a group of authors writing quality novels that are both entertaining and edifying for Catholic teens. It is a trustworthy resource for teens, parents, homeschoolers, Catholic schools, teachers, libraries, and youth ministers. catholicteenbooks.com
Titles
Secrets: Visible & Invisible
Gifts: Visible & Invisible
Treasures: Visible & Invisible
Carolyn Astfalk
Carolyn Astfalk is the author of contemporary Catholic romances Stay With Me, Come Back to Me, Ornamental Graces, Rightfully Ours, and All in Good Time. She is president of the Catholic Writers Guild, a member of Catholic Teen Books, and a Catholic Mom contributor. carolynastfalk.com
Titles
Rightfully Ours
Michelle Buckman
Michelle Buckman is the award-winning author of seven novels. She is also an international conference speaker renowned for her dynamic discussions on writing and faith. She has been a featured author at numerous conferences and events, including the Catholic Marketing Network trade show, International Christian Retail Show, Southeastern Independent Booksellers Association, and the South Carolina Book Festival. MichelleBuckman.com
Titles
Turning in Circles
Sarah Anne Carter
Sarah Anne Carter is a lover of books, travel and cats. She has three books published—The Ring, Life After, and Orphan Wish Island. Writing stories since she was little, she is constantly thinking of ideas that could be used as a plot for a novel. sarahannecarter.com
Titles
Life After
Orphan Wish Island
A.J. Cattapan
Amy J. Cattapan, DM, Ed.D., is an award-winning author, speaker, and teacher. Her YA novel Angelhood and her middle grade book Seven Riddles to Nowhere have won multiple awards. She is also the author of Sweet Jesus, Is It June Yet?, a book on combatting teacher burnout (Ave Maria Press). ajcattapan.com
Titles
Angelhood
T.M. Gaouette
T.M. Gaouette is a member of The Catholic Writers Guild and CatholicTeenBooks.com. A former contributor for Project Inspired, she was also featured in The Parable Magazine and Today’s Catholic Teacher. Her pro-life novel, For Eden’s Sake, received a 1st place CPA book award and was endorsed by Evangelist Alveda King. tmgaouette.com
Titles
For Eden’s Sake
Faith & Kung Fu series:
Freeing Tanner Rose
Saving Faith
Guarding Aaron
Loving Gabriel
Amanda Lauer
An avid reader and history buff since childhood, award-winning author, journalist and screenwriter Amanda Lauer is the author of the Heaven Intended Civil War series, time-travel novels Anything But Groovy and soon-to-be-published Royal & Ancient, and contributed to the books Treasures: Visible & Invisible and Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle. amandalauer.com
Titles
A World Such as Heaven Intended
A Life Such as Heaven Intended
A Love Such as Heaven Intended
A Freedom Such as Heaven Intended
Anything But Groovy
Treasures: Visible & Invisible
Theresa Linden
Theresa Linden writes contemporary, fantasy, dystopian, and suspense stories for adults, teens, and children. Her books have won awards from the Catholic Press Association and have the Catholic Writers’ Guild Seal of Approval. Many of her titles are featured on CatholicTeenBooks.com, FORMED, and Virtue Works Media. theresalinden.com
Titles
Chasing Liberty series
West Brothers series
Corinna Turner
Corinna Turner has been writing since she was fourteen and likes strong protagonists with plenty of integrity. Although she spends as much time as possible writing, she cannot keep up with the flow of ideas, for which she offers thanks—and occasional grumbles!—to the Holy Spirit. She is the author of over twenty-five books, including the Carnegie Medal Nominated I Am Margaret series, and her work has been translated into four languages. She is a Lay Dominican with an MA in English from Oxford University and lives in the UK. She is a member of a number of organisations, including the Society of Authors, Catholic Teen Books, Catholic Reads, the Angelic Warfare Confraternity, and the Sodality of the Blessed Sacrament. She used to have a Giant African Land Snail, Peter, with a 6½” long shell, but now makes do with a cactus and a campervan. To learn more, visit www.IAmMargaret.com.
Titles
Brothers
I Am Margaret
The Three Most Wanted
Liberation
Bane’s Eyes
Margo’s Diary
The Siege of Reginald Hill
A Saint in the Family
DRIVE!
A Truly Raptor-ous Welcome
PANIC!
Farmgirls Die in Cages
Wild Life
BREACH!
A Very Jurassic Christmas
Someday
Mandy Lamb and the Full Moon
Elfling
The Boy Who Knew (Carlo Acutis)
Old Men Don’t Walk to Egypt (Saint Joseph)
Child, Unwanted (Margaret of Castello)
Do Carpenters Dream of Wooden Sheep?
Christina Weigland
Christina Weigand’s a writer, wife, mother of four, Nana to five granddaughters. When not writing she’s active in her local Church as a lector and helping children develop a love for reading and writing. Jesus fills her home with love as she shares Him through her writing. weigandchris.com
Titles
Palace of the Twelve Pillars: Book One
Palace of the Three Crosses: Book Two
Sanctuary of Nine Dragons: Book Three
A.J. Cattapan
Amy J. Cattapan, DM, Ed.D., is an award-winning author, speaker, and teacher. Her YA novel Angelhood and her middle grade book Seven Riddles to Nowhere have won multiple awards. She is also the author of Sweet Jesus, Is It June Yet?, a book on combatting teacher burnout (Ave Maria Press). ajcattapan.com
Titles
Seven Riddles to Nowhere
T.M. Gaouette
T.M. Gaouette is a member of The Catholic Writers Guild and CatholicTeenBooks.com. A former contributor for Project Inspired, she was also featured in The Parable Magazine and Today’s Catholic Teacher. Her pro-life novel, For Eden’s Sake, received a 1st place CPA book award and was endorsed by Evangelist Alveda King. tmgaouette.com
Titles
The Destiny of Sunshine Ranch
Amanda Lauer
An avid reader and history buff since childhood, award-winning author, journalist and screenwriter Amanda Lauer is the author of the Heaven Intended Civil War series, time-travel novels Anything But Groovy and soon-to-be-published Royal & Ancient, and contributed to the books Treasures: Visible & Invisible and Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle. amandalauer.com
Titles
Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle
Theresa Linden
Theresa Linden writes contemporary, fantasy, dystopian, and suspense stories for adults, teens, and children. Her books have won awards from the Catholic Press Association and have the Catholic Writers’ Guild Seal of Approval. Many of her titles are featured on CatholicTeenBooks.com, FORMED, and Virtue Works Media. theresalinden.com
Titles
Armor of God series
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