For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John 3:16-17
Followers
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Accidental Bride
by
Denise Hunter
ISBN: 9781595548023
Paperback, 298 pages
Thomas Nelson, Publisher
My Thoughts:
I have read the first book in this series and am so glad that The B & B Media Group sent me this advanced copy of this book to read and review.
As Shay Brandenberger is trying to keep her head above water while she was raising her daughter
Olivia, and they were living in Moose Creek, Montana. She had agreed to play the bride in the Founder's day reenactment, but what she didn't know that she would she would really get married to Travis McCoy her old high school sweet heat. A trick had been played on her, and she didn't know what she was going to do. She wanted an annunlment but before she could do that, Travis came up with a way she could save her ranch. She didn't know if she agreed to stay married to him would be a good thing or would it be the worst thing she ever did.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
ISBN: 9781414339368
Paperback, 271 pages
Tyndale Publication
A MEMOIR
by
IRA WAGLER
One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into in a little black duffel bag, and walked away from his home in the Amish settlement of Bloomfield, Iowa. Now, in this heartwarming memoir, Ira paints a vivid portrait of Amish life—from his childhood days on the family farm, his Rumspringa rite of passage at age 16, to his ultimate decision to leave the Amish Church for good at age 26. Growing Up Amish is the true story of one man’s quest to discover who he is and where he belongs. Readers will laugh, cry, and be inspired by this charming yet poignant coming of age story set amidst the backdrop of one of the most enigmatic cultures in America today—the Old Order Amish.
MY THOUGHTS:
I love to read about the Amish even though I am not one, and Ira Wagler wrote this one and it really describes the details of being on the Amish faith. He grew up in the Old Order Amish and even when he was young, he did not like the long church services as they last as long as three or four hours sitting on a backless bench with nothing to cool you in the summer. He always wondered what it would be like to not have all these restrictions on a person and have some of the things the English had all the time.
He grew up in a large family of eleven children and he was one of the youngest. As his siblings grew up they started to leave home and away from the faith of the Amish, some came back in later years.
When he got out of the eighth grade and begun to have to really work as a man, he hated the life style even more. He finally left home himself but came back for a while. This life was just not for him and when he left the next time he stayed away. He did visit his family some but never came back to live. He became a Christian and saw that some of the things the Amish believed in was not really the correct way to worship.
This is really a good book but is you have been reading the Amish books for a while you will read in this book the same things you already know about this "religion".
Thanks to Tyndale House Publishers for providing me a complimentary copy of this book for my honest thoughts..
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Surrendered Sleep
by
Charles W. Page, M.D.
ISBN: 9780983136105
Paperback, 187 pages
Camino Real Publishers
This is a workbook for someone that has trouble sleeping with a Biblical perspective that will help your journey toward solving this problem without medication.
From back of book:
Wondering if the One who created rest in the first place has anything to teach you about it? Surrendered Sleep approaches insomnia from a biblical perspective and exposes several heart attitudes you may experience in your journey for rest, These Attitudes may not only affect the way you sleep but alos the way you relate to God. Dr. Page will challenge you to wrap your mind around the concept of a God who is just as active during your sleep or sleeplessness as during your wakeful hours.
MY REVIEW:
Surrendered Sleep is for anyone who has trouble sleeping to learn a biblical perspective to help you really rest. This workbook has a place to write your thoughts and evaluate why you can't sleep. As you go through the book you will also read the Bible concerning these same issues. In the back of the book there are scripture verses to look up and read about sleep topics. I think anyone suffering from sleep problems, such as my husband, will benefit from this study. Dr. Page did a great job in putting this book together
I received this book from Willis Communications with no cost to me and this review .
Thursday, April 28, 2011
MAXIMAL RESERVE
by
Sam Batterman
ISBN: 9781935265528
Paperback, 296 pages
Deep River Books
Petroleum engineer Phil Channing has only been employed a week when he uncovers the largest oil reserve in history. Using the research of a recently murdered friend, Phil discovers the secret to drilling for it lies in lava tubes under the Dead Sea. But will this knowledge throw off the world's balance of power? 272 pages, softcover from Deep River.
My Review:
There is a secret about America having enough oil to last for a very long time, and Phillip Channing is a newly graduate that wanted to make a difference. As his parents were now gone but they had spend everything they had on his education, so he wanted to do something that would have made them proud of him. He did make his mark by finding a place there was oil but so had others discovered his secret and they were out to get that secret, no matter the cost.
As I started to read this book, in the Prologue that thought that I would really enjoy it, but as an older woman it just was not my style of reading. I will have to say that I didn't read it all, but I think that anyone that is interested in the oil industry and the way America is using this reserve would really enjoy the book.
Thanks to "Bring It On" Communications for sending me this book free for me to review, I just wish I could have done a better job of it.
Lancaster County, with its rolling meadows and secret byways, may seem idyllic, but it is not without its thorns. THE ROSE TRILOGY is the stirring saga of two Amish sisters on the fringes of the church, and the unforeseen discoveries that change their lives. Rose Kauffman, a spirited young woman, has a close friendship with the bishop's foster son. Nick dresses Plain and works hard but stirs up plenty of trouble too. Rose's sister cautions her against becoming too involved, but Rose is being courted by a good, Amish fellow, so dismisses the warnings. Meanwhile, Rose keeps house for an English widower but is startled when he forbids her to ever go upstairs. What is the man hiding? Rose's older sister, Hen, knows more than she should about falling for the wrong man. Unable to abandon her Amish ways, Hen is soon separated from her very modern husband. Mattie, their young daughter, must visit her father regularly, but Hen demands she wear Amish attire--and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, despite her husband's wishes. Will Hen be able to reestablish her place among the People she abandoned? And will she be able to convince Rose to steer clear of rogue neighbor Nick?
Author Bio
Beverly Lewis, raised in Pennsylvania Amish country, is a former schoolteacher, an accomplished musician, and an award-winning author of more than eighty books for adults and children, many of which have appeared on bestseller lists, including USA Today and the New York Times. Six of her blockbuster novels have received the Gold Book Award for sales over 500,000, and The Brethren won a 2007 Christy Award for excellence in Christian fiction. Beverly and her husband, David, live in Colorado, where they enjoy hiking, biking, making music, and spending time with their three grandchildren.
MY REVIEW:
The Thorn is the first in this series, but I had read The Judgement first so I was really glad to get this book so that I could see what happened to Rose's mama and why she was in a wheel chair and I also wanted to see how Christian died. Rose was all the way Amish so much so that she didn't even want to have her running around time as a teen and went ahead and was baptized into the church. She had her boyfriend Silas but she was also very good friends with the Bishops' adopted son Nick. Nick was a down beaten boy that was so alone when the Bishop adopted him and he had been into a lot of trouble and did not want to be an Amish.
Hen, Rose's older sister had left the community during her running around and married an Englischer. She is now missing her old way of life and hates this her husband does and the things he watches on TV while their little daughter Mattie is in the room. Divorce is something that is just not heard of in the Amish community but she is beginning to want to leave her husband and go back home. She had never been baptized into the church so she was not shunned. But when she and little Mattie shows up at her parent's home, they are worried and begin to push Hen and try to make her see that her place is with . They push Hen and make sure that she knows her place is with her husband and that she need to go back to him.
As always Beverly Lewis turns out a great Amish book, and she was the author of the first Amish book I ever read.
Thanks to Baker Publishing Group for sending me this book to review.
Unknown to her tiny town of Deep Haven, Isadora Presley spends her nights as Miss Foolish Heart, the star host of a syndicated talk radio show. Millions tune in to hear her advice on dating and falling in love, unaware that she's never really done either. Issy's ratings soar when it seems she's falling in love on-air with a caller. A caller she doesn't realize lives right next door. Caleb Knight served a tour of duty in Iraq and paid a steep price. The last thing he wants is pity, so he hides his disability and moves to Deep Haven to land his dream job as the high school football coach. When his beautiful neighbor catches his eye, in a moment of desperation he seeks advice from My Foolish Heart, the show that airs before his favorite sports broadcast. Before he knows it, Caleb finds himself drawn to the host-and more confused than ever. Is his perfect love the woman on the radio . . . or the one next door?
Award winning author Susan May Warren takes us back to the town of "Deep Haven" with another one of her moving stories of love and loss. (taken from contact sheet)
A young woman "Isadora Presley" that has lost so much when she lost her family in a car accident and it left her so afraid to even go out of her house. She gets anxiety attacks just thinking about it. Her father survived the car crash and used to be the high school football coach before the accident. He now lives in a nursing home and can not do anything for himself but talk.
She has a radio talk show in the upstairs of her house with people calling in to ask her about love. Well she has never been on a date but she handle this very well. The show is called "My Foolish Heart" and when she help the governer's daughter of Ca. and is invited to the wedding she tries everything she can possible do to get out of it, she just can not leave her house and FLY IN AN AIRPLANE! out of the question.
She has a new neighbor "Caleb Knight" moved into the house next door and it takes awhile to even realize this, but when she meets him, he is scared up but still a very good looking young man, but he was parking on her flowers.
Then this big dog came to her house and just ran right through the glass door, and he was dirty with mud all over him. He also went to the neighbors home and ran in and messed up his floor. Caleb had always wanted to be a football coach and after he served in Iraq and paid a high price for doing so, he didn't know if he could ever get this job. But that was what brought him back to Deep Haven, he wanted to be the coach of this high school.
Susan made this such an interesting story that I hated for it to end, I have not read any of the other books in this series, but enjoyed this one anyway.
This book was sent to me free by Tyndale Publications for my review.
ISBN: 9781601423467
paperbook, 194 pages
two stories in one book Pre-order here
releases May 3, 2011
This book is for younger readers as a teen but I enjoyed it anyway. Robin Jones Gunn has written about two girls Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen as in each girl's story then interact with each other.
The first story is "Now Boarding at Gate 10" when Christy Miller after her high school graduating and her family has just landing at Minneapolis-St Paul airport as she and her thirteen year old brother went to get something to drink she saw a man she thought was her ex boyfriend so she went up to him and made a fool of herself as it was not and the guy looks at her as if she was crazy.
When they got to Wisconsin to visit relatives she felt at home as this was where they had moved from when her dad's work had gotten bad. She met an old friend Matthew and he drove her around town. She thought that she was still seeing her ex everywhere she went and thought about him a lot. Will this summer vacation with her family change her ways of thinking?
The second story is "In The Event of a Water Landing" where fifteen year old Sierra Jensen was getting to go on a plane trip with her friend Jana, Jana's brother and another friend. This is the first time she had ever gotten to go on a trip without her parents, they were going to meet Jana's parents in Montana. The tickets were mixed up and they had to exchange them for others and then this plane was not going where they needed to meet up with the parents.
I have read some of Robin's Christin fiction books and always enjoyed them. She is a talented written and I think anyone would enjoy this book, if they are thirteen or sixty-eight.
This book was sent to me free from Blogging for Book to review.
Friday, April 22, 2011
I hand crochet hats, and scarfs, I know that it is not time for these hats but I can't make a lot when it starts to get cold so now is a good time to get one in your choice of color, style and name. I do the names with my embroidery machine and hand stitch them on. If you buy one of these you are getting something made in America by an American and a SC woman. If you are interested leave me a comment with your email address and I will get back to you, all are $15.00 except the pink one with the ears and it is $20.00 all includes the shipping.
Scarfs are $25.00 10"x60" including fringe or can be made without fringe. Stripes are solid, different patterns. Comment for styles.
MORNINGSONG
by
Shelly Beach
ISBN: 9780825424517
paperback, 286 pages
Kregel Publications
After Mona VanderMolen comes out of her coma from an accident in Lake Michigan where the water pulled her under and kept bashing her against the rocks. Most times she can't remember things and then she has these terrible headaches. She has an antique store that she tries to run with the help of a seventy five year old man Harold and a lady named Elsie who are always trying to help her.
Then there is her sister Ellen who is always drunk trying to raise a teen age daughter Hallie or is Hallie the one taking care of her mother.
Mona had a friend Adam that loves her but will she realize his love for her just the way she is. Mona has got where she tries to walk every morning but hate her neighbor's broken down cat that had been in the dryer when it was turned on. The cat has never done anything to her except sit in the window every morning as she is walking. Can she ever get to where she can ignore her physical problem in order to help her sister and niece.
As Hallie tries to get her life together and her mother is in the hospital unconscious Hallie decides that she is not going to take care of her drunk mom any longer. While Ellen is released and she and her daughter move in with Harold as they have no where in town to go too, they begin to reconcile their lives.
This book was interesting as this mixed up family and their friends make the best of a bad situation. Really interesting and this is the first time I have read anything by this author.
This book was sent to me free from Kregel Publications in order for me to review.
Research has revealed that when we show concern for others—empathizing with a friend who has lost a loved one, mowing the lawn for an elderly neighbor, or volunteering to mentor a school-aged child—we improve our own health and well-being and embrace and give voice to our deeper identity and dignity as human beings.
In this moving book, Stephen G. Post helps us discover how we can make “helping” a lifetime activity. The Hidden Gifts of Helping explores the very personal story of Post and his family’s difficult move and their experience with the healing power of helping others, as well as his passion about how this simple activity—expressed in an infinite number of small or large ways—can help you survive and thrive despite the expected and unexpected challenges life presents.
Post’s story is intertwined with supporting scientific research and spiritual understanding. This book can become your companion and guide to the power of giving, forgiving, and compassion in hard times. The Hidden Gifts of Helping will leave you with the unshakable feeling that the world can be a good place if we act to make it so.
“We can be anywhere, so long as we are helping others and caring for them. This is probably the one source of stability in our lives that we can truly depend on, and so in the end we are never really out of place.”
—Stephen G. Post
I love to help others and can do that better than except help myself. It make me feel so good to do something for someone. This book is just about that, giving of ourselves to help others. It shows that by doing so we are doing what Jesus commented us to do as the Bible verse says "All this you do for others you do until me" now this may not be exactly what it says but I know I have read this in the Bible. Jesus commands we Christians to help others and to feed the hungry and to help clothe the naked. I don't believe in just handing out anything just because they are too lazy to work and get it for themselves as we see so many in America doing. But if they really have a need, not something they want but need then we should help them.
Stephen's book talks about moving from one place and one job to another, he writes that this is a Spiritual understanding as we look inside ourselves and gain more strength of our faith. This book can be picked up anytime that we need help ourselves and read a little of it to help make us understand more of what life is all about.
This book was sent to me by The B and B Media Group for my review.
Ella Yoder has moved into her dream house. In the stillness of the great house, Ella ponders her options. How is she to survive on her own? How will she ever forget Aden? What is to become of her?
Two would-be suitors soon make their intentions known, but Ella is unsure of her own feelings. As she agrees to take care of Preacher Stutzman’s three motherless girls, Ella’s heart is touched by their love for her. Could their affection be the answer to Ella’s quest? Can God speak through the love of a child?
Readers of Amish fiction will fall in love themselves with Ella Yoder and hope with her that she finds the love and happiness she seeks.
MY REVIEW
Another great Amish book and as always Jerry has wrote a great one. I read the first one in this series and so glad to get this one. Jerry has a way about his writing that always leaves you hanging at the end of the book wishing for another page or two.
As Ella Yoder moves into her new home alone, and decides to rent out part of it and to a quilt shop in the basement. She has to make a living as she is single and has left her dad's house. She then starts to take care of Preacher Stutzman's three little daughters as his wife had died.
Ella has lost her betrothed Aden and now has too many of the young men wanting to take her out. She does not feel as if she is ready for another boyfriend or if she ever will be. She loves the little girls and they are so easy to take care of, she can quilt while they are there. She uses her wedding quilt as an example and one the first day she opened her quilt shop she got an order for her first quilt. She was quite happy, as she will have the income from that and she rents out the first floor of her house to a young married couple and get paid to care for the little girls.
But will she ever pick another young man to fall in love with and can she ever forget Aden. Come on Jerry get those words down on paper I need to know.
Thanks to Harvest House Publisher and the author for sending me this book to review.
Monday, April 18, 2011
CROSSFIRE
by
Jeanette Windle
ISBN: 978-0825441165
Suspence, 617 pages
Kregel Publications
Product Description
A missing helicopter and tons of hijacked cocaine are just part of the maelstrom awaiting Sara in her new life. Following a whirlwind romance and impromptu wedding, she is whisked off to her husband's palatial family estate in Bolivia. Cultural differences and family adjustments are no match for her fierce love for Nicolas. But Sara soon opens a Pandora's box of questions surrounding the Cortez family's billion- dollar business, becoming ensnared in a deadly clash between her new family, a drug cartel, and the DEA. Driven by heart-pounding drama and supported by compelling realism and precise detail, CrossFire catapults you into an all-too-real world of intrigue and danger . . . captivating and mesmerizing you from first page to last. Experience first-hand the inexorable forces and critical choices that draw Sara relentlessly into the CrossFire.
MY REVIEW:
Sara Conner, a young woman in college and alone having lost her parents, is longing for someone to love her and wanting a family of her own. She meets another student Nicolas Cortez from Boliva that had come to America to study. A romance begin, they are married and move to Boliva so he can work at his Dad's business. She had no idea that she would be moving in with her in-laws in a mansion.
While all around the town people lived in huts with noting to eat, and some were homeless. There were so many homeless children, she felt her teacher instinct coming out in her and wanting to help. But she was a Cortez and all she was supposed to do is lay around or go to society meeting, which she did not like.
As the story goes on, she started to wonder why Coca was legal to grow and everyone just saw it as another thing in the country. But all she could think about was that it was made into cocaine and sent to America and Europe for sale. This troubles her, her new husband alone with his father were gone a lot of the time and it was supposed to be just a thing but she did not like it, so she begin noticing things and listening as she became more surprised at what she heard.
If you love suspense books then you are going to love this one, it really goes into detail on how the people that sell the drug lives and the ways they get it out to America. It is a long book and will take a while to read but I believe you will really enjoy it as much as I did.
Thanks to Kregel Publications for sending me this book to review.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
LISA WINGATE, author
Bethany House Publisher
ISBN: 9780764208218
Paperback, 360 pages
After a cheating husband and a divorce Andrea Henderson has lost everything she had, so she and her fourteen year old son Dustin had moved to her parents house on Moses Lake, Texas. Her parents had always tried to control her life so she really hated to beholden to them, but had no other choice. Andrea had gotten a job with Taz that has an office where they go out among the people and try to council children and parents that are having trouble with their family lives. She had to go up into the hills on the (Other) side of the lake where there are mud roads and people live so far back that you really don't know they are there.
Then there is Dustin that is really mad because he had to move and leave his school and friends and his dad had really stopped getting him as he was just too busy with his new wife and her children. He was just mad at everything as young teens seem to do.
Then there is the store/cafe on the lake where everyone goes, and Sheila tried to make all of them eat tofu instead of good ole hamburgers. The old men gather there and take about fishing and sometime they really go fishing when they want to be nosy. The game warden Mart McClendon is always trying to control the lake and help people and then sometimes he has to ever give out a citation.
All of these people together makes for a great story. There is everything you may want to read about in this book, romance, gossip, mystery, so be sure to pick up a copy.
Thanks to Bethany House Publishing for sending me this book for review.
Debbie Macomber has written a little book about a list she had of thirty people that she really admired though out her life. As she got to meet most of them and realized how they impacted her life and the choices she made. The book is made up of small chapters and at the end there is a section that allows the reader to look their own lives and she had a suggestion page where the reader can apply the lessons to the people they come in contact with. There is some really nice poems in the back of the book
There are Bible verses all through the book and I really like this and at the end of the book there is a "RSVP" section that helps you think about the way you can be a help to anyone.
This books is a little pricey for such a small book, I really didn't find anything in it to help me as I had rather look things up in the Bible.
The advanced readers edition of this book was sent to me by Christian Review of Books for my review.
This just the type of book that I love, historical, romance, mystery what else could you ask for. Colleen Coble always writes a good read and I have enjoyed her books before.
In a New York brownstone just a half block from the Astor mansion lived Olivia and her mother, the father had died in a mine accident in Africa. The other daughter Eleanor had went west to marry and Olivia and her mother just received the word that Eleanor was dead and had died from drowning. She was afraid of the water and Olivia could not believe that she had went into the water and that something else had happened to kill her. The father and his friend Mr. Bennett owned the diamond mine together, but since his death Olivia and her mother were having a hard time making it on their own.
Olivia got on a ship to go to Mercy Falls, California and try to find out what happened to her only sister. From here on out everything get interesting as Olivia is shoved off the ship right before they landed and almost drowned. The man that saved her was Harrison Bennett but he didn't know who she was as she was going by the name of Lady Devonworth.
The closer she got to where her sister had died the more things begin to happen to Olivia. She found out things that ever the mother didn't know about her father and his partner Mr. Bennett.
This is really a book that you don't want to have to put down, the next page will tell you more and I really hated to see it end.
This books was sent to be by BookSneeze for my review.
In the steamy city of New Orleans in 1974, Amalise Catoir meets Phillip Sharp, a charming, magnetic artist, unlike any man she has known. A young lawyer herself, raised in a small town and on the brink of a career with a large firm, she is strong and successful, yet sometimes too trusting and whimsical. Ama’s rash decision to marry Phillip proves to be a mistake as he becomes overly possessive, drawing his wife away from family, friends, and her faith.
His insidious, dangerous behavior becomes her dark, inescapable secret. In this lawyer’s unraveling world, can grace survive Ama’s fatal choice? What would you do when prayers seem to go unanswered, faith has slipped away, evil stalks, and you feel yourself forever dancing on shattered glass?
Amalise lived in New Orleans and is a lawyer and it was a raining as she started to walk home, she ducked into a little store to get out of it for a little while. She looked around and it was a gallery with painting in it for sale. As she was looking she saw these that were really just not right and all of them were of women, but very unrealistic. As she moved she bumped into someone behind her and he started asking her how she likes the paintings. She found out that he was the artist Phillip Sharp.
As time progressed they she found him to be charming, magnetic artist, unlike any man she had ever known. As they became involved and he wanted her to pose for him, and he could not be talked out of it, but then he wanted her to pose in the nude and this she would not do. They later married and then Amalise found out what he really was but she was already married to him. He later was found dead, and then the mystery began to find out how he died.
From the back of the book I though summed it all up " What would you do when prayers seem to so unanswered, faith has slipped away evil stalks, an you find yourself forever dancing on shattered glass.
If you really like a good mystery and romance book all in one then this will be the book for you. Pre-order yours now here .
The Advanced copy of this book was sent to me by Wynn, Wynn Media for my review.
Friday, March 25, 2011
FALLEN ANGEL
by Major Jeff Struecker and Alton Gansky
Major Jeff Struecker (a real life Black Hawk Down veteran) and his award-winning coauthor tell a space-based intelligence story of intense extremes in their new novel, Fallen Angel, named for the "Angel-12" American satellite that is ambushed by China and falls 22,000 miles to land in remote Siberia. U.S. Sgt. Major Eric Moyer and his Special Ops unit are deployed to find Angel-12 and keep its advanced nuclear fuel from enemy hands-and there are many. A Russian shadow government bent on restoring the former USSR pursues the satellite as does the Chinese special forces group that knocked it from the sky. A rash of military and domestic hostage concerns ensues as the stark truth looms: three nations are racing to the satellite, but only one will get there first.
Chaplain (Captain) Jeff Struecker is a decorated member of the United States Army's most elite fighting corps whose personal experiences in Mogadishu, Somalia, were written about in the New York Times bestseller and major motion picture Black Hawk Down. In thirteen years of active duty, he also fought in Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Iris Gold in Kuwait. As a chaplain Jeff has done multiple tours in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He uses his personal story of survival on the battlefield to tell others how they, too, can be prepared for any circumstances life may bring. Struecker and his wife, Dawn, have five children, and live in Columbus, Georgia.
MY REVIEW:
The novel is names from "Angel-12" an American satellite that is ambushed by China and falls to land in a remote Siberia. As America is afraid that it will land in the hands of someone that will use its nuclear fuel and there are many that would try to find it, so Sgt. Major Eric Moyer and his special unit is sent to try and find the satellite before any one else does.
They find themselves in a lot of trouble as they start looking for the satellite, as the China special forces that knocked it from the sky starts in earnest to find it first.
This is quite a thriller but I am sorry to say that it is just not my taste in books. If you love the military and like to get into a book that will take you to the action then this is the book for you. It is very well written and I believe the authors knew what they were writing about. My review tracks its self to a lot of what I read in the publisher's web page as I did not get the book finished. I just could not get into it.
Thanks to B and H Publisher for sending me this advanced copy of the book to review.
As I started to read this book I found out a lot of thing about the Lyme disease, as I live in the south I have heard of this for a very long time. I just did not know how bad it can be. I thought it was just something that you could go to the hospital and they would treat you and then it was over, but, as Brandilyn Collins described in this book there can be a long time pain and suffering.
As the book begins Janessa McNeil was asleep in her bedroom with her daughter just down the hall, her doctor husband was not home and it was 2:30 AM. Someone knew what he wanted to do and he wanted to get back at the doctor husband by hurting his family. He knew how to get into a house without any noise, as he slipped upstairs to inject Janessa with some doctored up deer ticks. He wanted her to suffer with the Lyme disease, so that her doctor husband "who was studying how to cure this disease" to see what it really was like. He felt that these doctors was just using the money and playing off on the disease that it was not as bad as he had seen.
From the pages that was sent to me it states "Over The Edge, Collins creates a villain who is every doctor's nightmare: An embittered man who is so angry at the doctor's misdiagnosis of Lyme Disease that he strikes back at those closest to the doctor-his wife and child." To me this is very scary as we never know who might be out there to harm other people to just get even with someone else.
Brandilyn Collins has written 25 Christian fiction novels and this thriller will be sure to please.
This book was sent to me by B and H Publishers of this review.
Summary of Blessed Reviews for Blessed An Excerpt from Blessed
Sometimes we just need to stop for a moment and absorb the quiet moments in the world around us--to take a deep breath and appreciate the things in life that make us thankful and bring us joy. Summer in a Jar is a call to do just that. In this heartfelt collection of her online columns from Diane, the flagship magazine of the Curves women's fitness center organization, author Ellen Michaud reminds us of the everyday blessings that surround us, but we all tend to overlook.
Entries include:
Summer in a Jar: On a 200-acre farm known for its Jersey cows and prizewinning cheese, two women harvest a cornucopia of produce that looks like it came from the Garden of Eden. Although the visit was intended to pick up ingredients for "one of the finest salsas in the near world," the end result is a view of a fertile valley, the rich smell of vegetables freshly tugged from the earth that speaks to the soul, and the natural rhythm of friendly conversation.
The Teapot: During a snowy winter storm, the author pulls her great- grandmother's worn silver teapot down from a shelf. As she polishes the teapot's tarnished surface, she contemplates its long journey over an ocean and through the generations. As she discovers engraved hallmarks that lead to a deeper understanding of its 200-year history, her appreciation for the women who traveled with it grows.
Welcome Home: As an Airbus 321 begins its descent toward the coastal lights of Los Angeles International Airport, the pilot makes an overhead announcement that stills the restless and rustling passengers. What follows are moments of contemplation about the sacrifices of soldiers and, how regardless of one's politics, there is still a shared sense of love and respect for those who fight for our freedom.
The Courage to Change: After a lifetime of self-built barriers, the author's 88-year-old aunt overcomes discouraging memories and years of grief to prove that it's never too late to open yourself to new experiences, take risks, and start over.
My Review:
This book is really great to have beside your chair or bed to pick up when you need a little something to boost your thoughts. It is broken down into chapters that are really a little mini story of its own. This could be a book you may want to share or give as a gift, as it has a presentation page in the front. It has a nice "Spring" look to the book with its greens and blues. Each page is framed by a green floral border.
This is the first book I have read by Ellen Michaud and I really enjoyed it. She has a way with her writing that you can sit and read it over and over.
Thanks to the people at FSB Associates for sending me this copy to read and review.
I am a passionate advocate for the Law of Attraction. I began my journey 20 years ago, with the works of Deepak Chopra, and the Celestine Prophecy. I graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor's Degree in Science, I studied with Anthony Robbins, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and Bob Proctor.
I was born in Greece and raised in Stuttgart, Germany by traditional Greek parents, I was exposed at an early age to the ancient art of coffee grind reading. My Mother was considered an expert in coffee grind reading and she believed she was able to forecast events and upcoming information though the translation and understanding of symbols.
As I began my study of the Law of Attraction, I discovered it is one's belief in the future-reading that manifests the outcome, not the reader's "forecast". If you believe in the forecast than you create it in your life; you manifest it through the Law of Attraction. My passion is to inspire and help others to understand how to use the Law of Attraction for a more joyful, fulfilled, and prosperous life.
My Review:
This book was sent to me by the author Maria T. Holmes for my review. This is her first book and the photo are beautiful. The book itself is a really pretty book but small. The book related on "The law of attraction which I don't understand and have never hear of so I looked it up on the net to see the meaning of this. this is what I found on wikipedia "The Law of Attraction is a metaphysical New Thought belief that "like attracts like”, that positive and negative thinking bring about positive and negative physical results, respectively."
As I've said the book is beautifully put together, BUT I don't agree with that the book is about as I am a Christian, it seems to be leaning away from God and want to get people to believe in a different way. I am sorry to put a negative review but I just don't agree with the words of this book.
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