Eighteen years ago, Sarah Maddox and Kevin Nichols gave their baby son up for adoption and went their separate ways. Now Trey Miller is graduating from high school and has agreed to meet the birthparents he never knew. Sarah, eager to see the eighteen-year-old boy she remembers as her tiny newborn, is unprepared when Kevin shows up, too, and their lives become entangled once again. Kevin wants to pursue a new relationship with the girl he’s never forgotten, but how can he convince Sarah to give him a chance?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Nina Dobrev, with Logan Marshall Green and Eric Dane, special appearance by Famke Janssen. Distributed by Universal Pictures with a screenplay by Francine Rivers and D.J. Caruso. California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything. Michael obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation, until despite her resistance, her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening comes overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she no longer can deny: her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael does . . . the One who will never let her go. A powerful retelling of the story of Gomer and Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love. Includes a six-part reading group guide!

Marvin, middle-aged and discouraged, has diligently rehearsed jumping in front of a New York subway car. The moment has almost arrived -- we hear his train coming -- but a woman across the tracks jumps as his train is late. He is upstaged. He flees the event -- he realizes that what he wanted was peace and not annihilation. The book skillfully tracks his quest to find out who this suicide was. He sees her as having saved his life. He steals her diaries from her house, attends her wake and funeral, reacting in both a state of madness and clarity. We follow his meeting Rochelle at the Coroners Office, his romance with Rochelle, and their eventual marriage. He makes peace with his ex-wife, renews his relationship with a difficult daughter, and eventually releases Anns diaries into the sea as his honeymoon cruise begins. Anns suicide has renewed him to lifes meaning and the significance that people have for one another.

On a harsh alien planet, in a faraway galaxy, Sarah, a gentle human woman, is determined to start a new life, far away from the hardship she endured on Earth and the pitying glances of her friends. Once on Zyrgin, Sarah finds that, instead of being the empress and helpmeet at the side of the Zyrgin leader, she is merely his breeder. She is trapped in a gilded cage, not allowed to go out and interact with the other women on the planet, until she's proven her loyalty to the empire by birthing Zaar’s child. After her traumatic experiences in the raider camps, and the resultant PTSD, Sarah doubts she could ever make love to her Zyrgin warrior. Zaar assures her he has a superior plan to cure her of her problem. But is he able to reach through all the barriers Sarah has erected against true intimacy?

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal Biblical Interpretation, a diverse group of innovative scholars come together in this collection of essays to examine and evaluate the present and future of biblical studies as an academic discipline.