Hi! We're DAVE AND NETA JACKSON ... husband-and-wife, best friends, and writing team. You may already be familiar with our award-winning series of 40 TRAILBLAZER BOOKS, historical fiction novels for young readers about great Christian heroes that have sold over 1.7 million copies. Our four volumes of HERO TALES provide short nonfiction stories introducing the whole family to 60 Christian heroes. These are featured on our web site for younger readers: www.trailblazerbooks.com.

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From the beginning, fans of the The Yada Yada Prayer Group^® books have clamored for the quick and delicious recipes Jodi Baxter and her Yada Yada sisters make. And how about the celebrations they're always having? Finally, all seven novels have been enhanced with sixteen pages each of celebration suggestions and tasty recipes.

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Book #1, The Yada Yada Prayer Group^®. If you haven't had a chance to catch the wave, you'll want to start with Neta’s first novel in this series about a group of Chicago-area women from totally diverse backgrounds who are thrown together at a women’s conference and decide to form a “prayer group.”

Book #2, The Yada Yada Prayer Group^® Gets Down. The fledging prayer group endures a terrifying experience that causes the members to wonder whether they will ever get back to “normal.” Then a well-meaning gesture incites a backlash of anger in the group, forcing them to confront generations of racial division, pain, and mistrust—and stretches their friendship to the limit as they discover new depths of true forgiveness.

Book #3, The Yada Yada Prayer Group^® Gets Real, finds Jodi Baxter's oasis turned upside down when her upstairs neighbors move out and her nemesis, Leslie (Stu) Stuart, moves in! Avis' middle-aged cocoon is turned inside out, too, by a beau from her past, and Chanda's future has never looked brighter. But Stu's proximity to the Baxter household will draw her secret to the surface-and no one is ready for the crisis that will follow.

Book #4, The Yada Yada Prayer Group^® Gets Tough. When a white supremacy group targeting a local university attacks Nony's husband, the Yada Yada Prayer Group^® realizes they have just entered the spiritual war zone, and it is time to get tough! Once again, Neta does not shy away from difficult issues like differences in prayer, cross-cultural relationships, and worship, thus taking fiction to a whole new level of reality.

Book #5, The Yada Yada Prayer Group^® Gets Caught. The Yada Yada sisters can't seem to shake free from mushrooming circumstances of life. Ruth and Ben are caught in an unplanned pregnancy—in their fifties! Chanda is deluded by her lottery winnings. Florida wants to move her family out of trouble. And Avis, who seems to glide above the troubles of the world must contend with an abused adult daughter who keeps running home to Mama. Jodi Baxter is in a whirl because the prayer list is getting out of control.

Book #6, The Yada Yada Prayer Group^® Gets Rolling. A devastating fire wakes up the Yada Yada sisters to a new reality: God is in the move, and it's time for them to press on, pray on, and get rolling! In spite of MaDear's failing health. In spite of the breakup of a teenage love. In spite of the curse of HIV. In spite of prison time hanging over the head of a beloved child. In spite of a startling diamond ring. Out of the ashes, God is doing a new thing! As the prayer group heads into a new year fraught with change, Jodi Baxter and her Yada sisters are realizing it is either hunker down with the safe and stagnant, or get rolling with God—even if it means letting go of the old and embracing the new.

Book #7, The Yada Yada Prayer Group^® Gets Decked Out. From Thanksgiving and Christmas to rolling in the New Year, the Yada Yadas are “decked out” to celebrate the holidays!

But God's idea of “decked out” might just change the nature of their party plans. A perplexing encounter with a former student, a crime that literally knocks Jodi off her feet, a hurry-up wedding, and a child who would forever change her family … it's times like these that she really needs her prayer sisters as they learn that no one can out-celebrate God. So let's help them get this party started!

But yes, eager readers, this novella—which picks up a year and a half after the end of book #6—concludes the series with some twists and turns that will amaze and encourage you. Plus, it sets the stage for Neta’s new series with new characters and new situations but also occasional roles for the beloved Yada Yada sisters in familiar Chicago neighborhoods with all their cultural richness.

The Yada Yada Prayer Journal is the result of requests from thousands of women who have come to love the characters and the experiences of The Yada Yada Prayer Group^®. This smartly designed, hardcover, companion book includes thought-provoking quotes from the three novels, with related scriptures and nuggets for life-application—along with blank lines for your own thoughts and prayers.

Neta Jackson’s award-winning Yada Yada books have sold over 420,000 copies and are spawning prayer groups all across the country. Sometimes dubbed “chick-lit” for the bright covers and catchy titles, this series will surprise the reader with its depth of characters and true-to-life events. Inspired by a group of real women, each book will have you laughing, crying, and perhaps praying anew. As one fan wrote, “You challenge every area of prejudice” but without bringing the reader down.

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Dave’s Novel
FORTY TO LIFE

“He came to pay a debt he didn’t owe because I owed a debt I couldn’t pay.”

MURDERER. It’s a word few people ever expect to apply to them. But for fourteen-year-old Ray, it’s suddenly a reality. Provoked by a gang leader into a random shooting of an innocent athlete, Ray now faces a forty-year sentence in Chicago’s infamous prison system. As far as Ray is concerned, it might as well be for life.

In prison, Ray finds his gangbanger ties difficult to escape and even necessary for survival. Just when he’s resigned himself to his new existence, though, Ray receives an unexpected gift—forgiveness. Even as he learns that the source of his forgiveness is God, Ray struggles with accepting it. And then the ultimate test comes: When faced with the man who ruined his life, can Ray extend the same forgiveness that has been handed to him?

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