Softly and Tenderly by Sara Evans with Rachel Hauck, a review
Jade lives in Tennesse in a small town dominated by her in-laws, under pressure to get pregnant from her lawyer husband. But she keeps having miscarriages. Then she finds out her in-laws' marriage is a...
View ArticleLucky Baby by Meredith Efken, a review
Meg Lindsay is a Christian woman who is still affected by her controlling, mean mother. Finally she gets around her wounded heart enough to want to be a mother herself--specifically, to adopt a child...
View ArticleUnearthly by Cynthia Hand, a review
Clara has a hard time believing she's an angel, until her mother shows Clara her mother's wings. Clara finds she has them too. Each part-angel, says her mother, has a Purpose which is revealed when he...
View ArticleDeceit by Brandilyn Collins, a review
Joanne Weeks' best friend Linda vanished six years ago. Linda's husband remarried, and now the second wife is dead too, ostensibly from a fall down the stairs. The husband, Baxter Jackson, looks like a...
View ArticleReplication by Jill Williamson, a review
Abby Goyer's not too happy when her scientist father moves her to Alaska from Washington, D.C. He's secretive about his new job, and that bothers her too, especially based on his history of working in...
View ArticleThe 13th Tribe by Robert Liparulo, a review
Jagger Baird felt like he was losing his mind in the aftermath of a horrific car accident that took the lives of dear friends. Now he's taken his family to a gig as a security guard for an archaeology...
View ArticleJoanie Hileman’s 32 Miracle Stories
Joanie Hileman was not a writer, but the Lord kept bugging her to write this book. Finally she did it. She gathered testimonies of God's faithfulness in miracles and in loss from all over the state of...
View ArticleAngel Eyes by Shannon Dittemore, a review
Brielle is crippled by her despair as she blames herself for her best friend's death. To learn to cope, she returns to the small town she calls home from the big city where she had attended a...
View ArticleDaughter of Light by Morgan L. Busse, a review
Rowen Mar discovers a strange white mark on her hand and loses her soldier father on the same day. Her father was her only friend and protector in her village of suspicious folk, who can't forget that...
View ArticleReplication by Jill Williamson, a review
Abby Goyer's not too happy when her scientist father moves her to Alaska from Washington, D.C. He's secretive about his new job, and that bothers her too, especially based on his history of working in...
View ArticleThe 13th Tribe by Robert Liparulo, a review
Jagger Baird felt like he was losing his mind in the aftermath of a horrific car accident that took the lives of dear friends. Now he's taken his family to a gig as a security guard for an archaeology...
View ArticleJoanie Hileman’s 32 Miracle Stories
Joanie Hileman was not a writer, but the Lord kept bugging her to write this book. Finally she did it. She gathered testimonies of God's faithfulness in miracles and in loss from all over the state of...
View ArticleAngel Eyes by Shannon Dittemore, a review
Brielle is crippled by her despair as she blames herself for her best friend's death. To learn to cope, she returns to the small town she calls home from the big city where she had attended a...
View ArticleDaughter of Light by Morgan L. Busse, a review
Rowen Mar discovers a strange white mark on her hand and loses her soldier father on the same day. Her father was her only friend and protector in her village of suspicious folk, who can't forget that...
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How I Became a Spy by Deborah Hopkinson, a review
I couldn’t put this book down, and it’s been a while since that happened! How I Became a Spy by Deborah Hopkinson, published in 2019, gives us a gripping middle-grade mystery about World War II....
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One Realm Beyond by Donita K. Paul, a review
In One Realm Beyond (2014), a YA series opener from Donita K. Paul, Cantor D’Ahma has grown into a young man. He leaves his elderly mentors and sets off to learn how to become a Realm Walker, using the...
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The Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson, a review
Andrew Peterson’s middle-grade Wingfeather series that started out as an amusing tale full of rollicking names moves to epic scope along the way. In this fourth book, The Warden and the Wolf King...
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Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan, a review
Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan is a novel that pairs the points of view of two fifth grade boys, Ravi, a recent immigrant from India, and Joe, a local guy. Both have to deal with...
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Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk, a review
When her father is struck by a falling tree and lies in a coma, Ellie wants nothing more than to heal him. He'd taught her some of the woodsy healing arts, and she sets out to try them first on a...
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart, a book review
A middle-grade book review: Twelve-year-old Coyote Sunrise and her dad, Rodeo, wander America in their retrofitted school bus, with no plans, no schedule. Well, there is one scheduled item--a weekly...
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