Mary DeMuth
In her latest release, The Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible: What Their Stories Teach Us About Thriving, popular author, speaker, podcaster, and literary agent DeMuth draws readers in at the very beginning to transparently share her own connection to being misunderstood. Combining her gift for storytelling, and her scholarly skills, DeMuth looks at the lives of misunderstood biblical women we may have skipped over—women like Eve, Bathsheba, Tamar, The Proverbs 31 Woman, and Mary of Magdala among others, women, not so different from ourselves. What if we could step into the lives of these women and learn something from their stories? What if readers began to gather hope and learn a better way to work through being misunderstood? "One of the most difficult encounters of my life happened when a person I loved completely misunderstood me, something I’m still working through today. That feeling of helplessness and confusion over a seemingly unsolvable misunderstanding became the impetus for writing this book. Because I love the Bible and its rich tapestry of stories, I asked myself the question, ‘Which biblical women walked through the pain of misunderstanding, and how can their stories help me navigate my own?’ In The Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible, DeMuth ends each chapter with TRUTHS ABOUT FULLY UNDERSTOOD YOU, and QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION. Mary also provides more hope in her conclusion, MISUNDERSTOOD NO MORE. DeMuth does what she does best. She takes a difficult topic, making it clear and relevant, while honestly pointing readers back to the truth. http://marydemuth.com

Ann Voskamp
In a disorienting world, with obstacle after obstacle, and the landscape of our lives shifting in ways we never expected, we can trust that as we look to our Maker, the WayMaker, our road will lead us to arrive exactly where we always hoped it would, though maybe not at all in the way we imagined. And those dreams for our lives? They can still happen—in ways only He perfectly dreamed of. It is true: heartache, grief, suffering, obstacles, they all come in waves. There is no controlling life’s storms; there is only learning the way to walk through the waves. In WayMaker, bestselling author Ann Voskamp hands us a map that makes meaning of life, that shows the way through to the places we’ve only dreamed of reaching, by a way we never expected. Voskamp reveals how God is present in the totality of our lives, making a way • for the marriage that seems impossible, • for the woman who longs for a child of her own, • for the parents who ache for the return of their prodigal, • for the sojourner caught between a rock and a hard place, and • for the wayfarer who feels as though there is no way through to her dreams. We can encounter the WayMaker in surprising ways and begin to see Him not only making poetry out of pain but working in every miraculous detail of our lives. Even now, the Way is making the way to walk through waves and into a life more deeply fulfilling than our wildest dreams. http://annvoskamp.com