Briefly Noted | Chapter 16

Out of Darkness into Light: A Blind Fisherman’s Story

E. Michael Lorance

WestBow Press
162 pages
$30.95

“America’s first blind professional fisherman, Mike Lorance, shares the intimate details of his amazing life, from the national acclaim he garnered for saving a family of four from drowning while he was a child to learning to cope with the personal and professional challenges of going blind. His successes and failures and eventual peace within his life are shared here in his own words.”

— From the Publisher

Out of Darkness into Light: A Blind Fisherman’s Story

The Ravine

James Williamson

Sunstone Press
260 pages
$24.95

“A compelling story inspired by real events, The Ravine evokes a South during the early years of the Civil Rights movement where a complex mixture of love and hate, ignorance and enlightenment, and guilt and innocence coexist. It promises to keep the reader on edge until its dramatic and unexpected conclusion.”

— From the Publisher

Twang

Julie L. Cannon

Abingdon Press
336 pages
$14.99

“Cannon is best known for her Homegrown (Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes) novels that feature engaging characters and storylines. Fans won’t be disappointed with this latest outing that reads like a country song.”

— Library Journal

The Dark Unwinding

Sharon Cameron

Scholastic Press
336 pages
$17.99

“Katharine Tulman discovers a fantastic world where science seems like magic when she arrives at her uncle’s remote estate to have him committed to a lunatic asylum. But instead of a lunatic she is confronted with a genius inventor with his own set of child-like rules, a brooding apprentice and a mysterious young student of science, the dwindling family fortune and the hundreds of families her uncle is using it to support. Having Uncle Tulman sent to the asylum is no longer an easy choice. And that’s when Katharine Tulman begins seeing things that aren’t really there.”

— From sharoncameronbooks.com

Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head To Foot

Annie F. Downs

Zondervan
224 pages
$9.99

“In Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head to Foot, author Annie F. Downs encourages young women to take a look at who they are through the way God created each part of them, and discover the practical ways they can use their lives to glorify God.”

— From the Publisher

The Juice: Vinous Veritas

Jay McInerney

Knopf
304 pages
$26.95

“A master wine writer at the top of his class… ‘Is Jay McInerney the world’s best wine writer?’ The Guardian asked recently. After reading his last collection of wine essays, I would have to argue that he is certainly the most entertaining.”

— Corrie Perkin, The Weekly Review