Gail Borden Public Library District: eBooks Monthly Highlights: January 2026

eBook Highlights

January 2026

New Year with Jesus: A 31-Day Devotional Reflecting on New Beginnings and Fresh Starts
by Peter DeHaan

Start Your Year with Purpose, Hope, and a Fresh Spiritual Start.The calendar flips to January 1, and with it comes the promise of a new beginning. We make resolutions, set goals, and dream of a better year. But what happens when our initial excitement fades and our willpower wanes? How do we ensure this year is truly different?New Year with Jesus is a 31-day devotional designed to anchor your fresh start not in fleeting self-determination, but in the unchanging promises of God. Author Peter DeHaan guides you through a powerful month of reflection, helping you trade worn-out resolutions for a genuine spiritual renewal. Each day offers a short, insightful reading, a focus Scripture verse, practical questions for reflection, and a heartfelt prayer to center your day.This devotional is your daily companion to help you: Leave the past behind and embrace the truth that through Christ, you are a new creation.Trade anxiety for peace by learning to trust God with your future and cast your worries on him.Find unwavering strength for life's challenges, discovering that when you are weak in yourself, you are strong in him.Align your personal goals with God's purpose, turning your ambitions into acts of worship.Cultivate a heart of joy and gratitude, no matter what circumstances the year may bring.And this journey isn't just for January. Whether you're starting a new job, getting married, moving to a new city, or simply seeking a spiritual reset, these timeless truths will guide you through any new season of life.Don't let this be another year of broken promises. Get New Year with Jesus to make a fresh start with the one who makes all things new!

New Year, New Love
by Sherry Lewis

What Sharon Lawrence's two daughters are determined to do is find a man for their mother. They even share their plans with Gabe Malone--part owner of the company Sharon has hired to renovate her house. Before long, Sharon is accidentally meeting one inappropriate man after another. At first, Gabe is amused by the girls' schemes. But now that he's getting to know Sharon, he hates the idea of all these dates. He's beginning to think he may be the only single man in the neighborhood who's not part of the man plan. And he's beginning to wish his name were on the list.

Ring in the Year with Murder: An Otter Lake Mystery
by Auralee Wallace

Erica Bloom and her friends race to solve a murder before the New Year in Ring In the Year with Murder, the next Otter Lake mystery from Auralee Wallace.It's been a tough year for Erica Bloom. And with hours left on the clock and a killer crashing the party, it's not over yet... This New Year's Eve, Erica's resolution is to have a great night--even if it kills her. She is, after all, at the party to end all parties: a Great Gatsby--themed gala sure to be the talk of Otter Lake, New Hampshire. With her perfectly finger-waved hair, borrowed pearls, and scarlet flapper dress, Erica is determined to be unflappable, despite the presence of her ex, Sheriff Grady Forrester, and his hot date, a bubbly blonde who has a hard time holding her drink. Literally. . . In a plot twist as bizarre as a game of Clue, Grady's girlfriend almost drops dead after her drink is poisoned. Who put the killer ingredient in her appletini? Suddenly the tables have turned and the sheriff has become the prime suspect. Now Erica has until midnight to clear the man she still loves--and in so doing just maybe win him back. That's if the killer doesn't pop the cork again... and turn a New Year's smooch into a kiss of death... Wonderfully entertaining! --RT Book Reviews A frolicking good time...with a heroine who challenges Stephanie Plum for the title of funniest sleuth.--New York Times bestselling author Denise Swanson

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This Time Next Year: A GMA Book Club Pick
by Sophie Cousens

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn't be more different. After thirty years of missed connections, they're about to meet again... Minnie Cooper knows two things with certainty: that her New Year's birthday is unlucky, and that it's all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she's never met. Their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year's Day, but Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990--and the name Minnie was meant to have, as well. With luck like that, it's no wonder each of her birthdays has been more of a disaster than the one before. When Minnie unexpectedly runs into Quinn at a New Year's party on their mutual thirtieth birthday, she sees only more evidence that fortune has continued to favor him. The gorgeous, charming business owner truly seems to have it all--while Minnie's on the brink of losing her pie-making company and her home. But if Quinn and Minnie are from different worlds, why do they keep bumping into each other? And why is it that each fraught encounter leaves them both wanting more? A moving, joyful love story, This Time Next Year explores the way fate leads us to the people we least expect--no matter what the odds.

Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal & Rebirth
by Lara Vesta

A guided journey of empowerment and healing through life's difficult passages, with practical tools, including embodied rituals, writing prompts, seasonal self-care practices, and community creation. The journey of the Dark Goddess is a natural part of any difficult rite of passage. These transitions are often thought of as negative--death of a loved one, job loss, home loss, chronic illness, divorce--but even so-called happy transitions, such as marriage, the birth of a child, or retirement, can come with unexpected instability, grief, and a need for integration. In our culture, we may often feel like we should move on or get back to normal. In studying myth, however, we come to understand that the purpose of challenging life transformations is not positive or negative. Year of the Dark Goddess provides an anchor and a roadmap for navigating the disorientation of life transformations and offers resources for embracing changes as initiations that strengthen us and make clear our purpose and power. The book is modeled on ancient rite-of-passage ceremonies and journeys to the underworld and is structured as a four-phase rite-of-passage process: Preparation, Separation from the Known, Transition-Initiation, and Return-Integration. The book provides readers with practical tools--embodied rituals, writing practice, seasonal self-care and community creation--to ground and empower positive transformations in times of challenging change. Readers may use the book as both a linear guide through the initiation year, or a nonlinear tool for structuring their own unique rite-of-passage journey. Readers are invited to create personal challenges, reframe their rite-of-passage through myth work and sacred art, and create a potent and effective rite of passage ceremony to integrate their change. The self-initiation process in Year of the Dark Goddess follows a ceremonial year, each quarter section is structured with the following: An interactive brief of themes and objectives for the quarter, such as making an altar, writing with the ancestors, creating herbal infusions, and storytelling.A seasonal ceremony template appropriate to the rite-of-passage phase.A unique retelling of an ancient myth or fairy tale and instructions for deep myth work. These tales contain the formula for how to successfully navigate rites of passage, consciously and unconsciously.Journaling prompts for reflection and projection, making visible the initiation journey.

A New Earth
by Eckhart Tolle

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“As we welcome a new year, I wanted to revisit the book that had more effect on me than any other book by a living author has had on my perception of how I understand my connection to the world.” —Oprah Winfrey (Oprah’s Book Club January 2025)

With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived “in the now.” In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life—and for building a better world.

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