Book Review:  The Lowdown on Denim The Lowdown on Denim is written by Tanya Lloyd Kyi. Levi Strauss made the first denim pants to sell to the gold miners during the gold rush. The miners needed durable clothes. He had come to California from New York to make his fortune in selling supplies. By the […]

Book Review:  Healing is a Choice Stephen Arterburn has written Healing Is a Choice: 10 Decisions That Will Transform Your Life and 10 Lies That Can Prevent You From Making Them His book includes a workbook to help you make the decisions. He makes it clear that God wants us to be healed and that […]

City of Whispers, A Book Review FICTION – ADULT: Mystery, Detective, Suspense & Thrillers, City of Whispers (A Sharon Mccone Mystery)  written by Marsha Muller. Sharon McCone is a SanFrancisco P.I. When she receives an e-mail from her half brother Darcy it starts her on a course to locate and help him. Darcy is a […]

Book Review:  Hurt Machine Hurt Machine; Adult,Mystery, Detective, Suspense & Thrillers: written by Reed Farrel Coleman. Moses Prager is an ex-cop turned P.I. He has just discovered he has gastric cancer. His daughter Sarah is getting married and he plans to wait till after the wedding to have treatment. He will keep the diagnosis a […]

Beyond the Valley: Finding Hope in Life’s Losses is a  NONFICTION – ADULT: Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality: written by Dave Branon. Dave Branon tells of his valley that he had to walk through when his 17 year old daughter, Melissa was killed in an automobile accident.  He had several questions that he found himself asking […]

Review:   The Case of the Missing Deed The Case of the Missing Deed (Teaspoon Detectives) is a FICTION – JUVENILE: Action & Adventure written by Ellen Schwartz. Grandmother lives on Otter Island in a home where she was born.   Grandfather has recently passed away from cancer. The grandchildren come and stay a few weeks […]

Lassiter, A Book Review Lassiter: A Novel is a FICTION – ADULT: Mystery, Detective, Suspense & Thrillers: Suspense written by Paul Levine. Jake Lassiter is a man who had been a football player and is now an attorney in Florida. He has defended a young Hispanic man for DUI charges and gets him off. During […]

Winter in Wartime, A Book Review Winter in Wartime is a book about Holland during World War ll written by Jan Terlouw. Michiel was a 16 year old boy who lived with his father, the Mayor, mother, older sister, and younger brother. They were under curfew  and had to be in their homes  by 9 […]

 A Cowboy to Marry, A Book Review A Cowboy to Marry (Harlequin American Romance) is written by Cathy Gillen Thacker. Libby Lowell owns a farm equipment company. It was left her when her husband died a few years before handed down several generations by his parents.  She feels very alone as both of her parents are […]

The Mighty Quinns: Riley is a Harlequin Romance written by Kate Hoffman. It is story about  a librarian named Tiernan “Nan” Galvin who saves to go to Ireland to an area her Mom had visited 28 years before. Her mom had died when she was 8 and her dad last year. She has no siblings […]

All That Remains is a Harlequin Romance written by Janice Kay Johnson. Wren is running away from James, who had been her boyfriend.  She is pregnant and her due date is almost here.  She rented a car and is driving to Alabama to see her friend Molly.  She hasn’t seen her in years and she […]

One Brave Cowboy One Brave Cowboy is a Harlequin Romance Fiction story written by Kathleen Eagle. Cougar, a Native American who was an M.P. in the military was given a purple heart and medical discharge. He goes to S.D. to Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary in hopes of getting a horse to train.  His friend, […]

Waiting For Dawn Waiting for Dawn is a prequel to The Team Hope Series written by Susan May Warren. John and Micah were high school buddies. Both are now in the military.  Lacey has been in love with Micah from the beginning but dates John. When John went into the military he quit writing Lacey. […]

The Wounded Heart The Wounded Heart is an Amish Romance written by Adina Senft. It is about Amelia, a young woman whose husband was killed in a buggy accident and left her with a business of making pallets and two sons. She has two friends who work with her on making quilts, Emma and Carrie.  Carrie is […]

The Habit, A Book Review The Habit is written by Susan Moore. It is a book of recollections from the past and the current days of having an elderly parent. Susan is an Artist and married to an Actor. They have a daughter and twin sons. Susan has a brother Felix who lives a couple […]

Avery’s Crossroad, Book 2 is a three part story taking place during the civil war and written by Deanna K. Klingel. Part 1 Was 1863, Not How it Should Be but How it Was. It was about Avery Bennett’s time in Medical school and just after graduation. Avery graduated at the top of his class but […]

No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, A Book Review No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope In The Unlikeliest Place is written by Max Lucado, one of America’s most widely read authors. He talks of what the answer is when someone asks you to tell them, “What counts?”, “What Really Matters?” as […]

Belonging, A Book Review Belonging (Where The Heart Lives) is an Adult Christian fiction written by Robin Lee Hatcher. Felicia Kristofferson is a teacher for a small town in Idaho.  She had had her teaching credential for several years but the people who had taken her in when her mom died were in bad health […]

If I Tell, A Book Review If I Tell is FICTION – JUVENILE: Family & Everyday Life: Love & Romance book by Janet Gurtler Jazmine  is a 17 year old girl who works in a place that sells coffee and other similar drinks.  She lives with her grandmother and has all her life. Her mom […]

The Damascus Way The Damascus Way, Acts of Faith #3 written by Davis Bunn and Janette Oke. This book continues on in the lives of Jacob and his sister Abagail.  Abagail and her daughter Dorcas plan to leave Jerusalem and go to live in Nain where she will take care of a merchant stall.  Alban had […]

The Wonder of Your Love, A Book Review The Wonder of Your Love is an  Amish Romance story by Beth Wiseman. Katie Ann lives in Colorado with her 2 month old son Jonas. Her husband Ivan had died in an auto accident after he had left Katie Ann for an Englisher woman, Lucy, who lived […]

Saving Hope Saving Hope  is a Men of the Texas Ranger Series by Margaret Daley. Wyatt Sheridan is a Texas Ranger who lives on the Lone Star Ranch with his 14 year old daughter Maddie and his mom Catherine. Kate Sheridan runs the Beacon of Hope, a place where young girls who have been forced […]

Long Trail Home, A Book Review Long Trail Home is a western Romance, A Morgan Family Series, written by Vickie Mc Donough. It is set in Waco, Texas 1858. Annie is a small girl who is being forced to be a pick pocket by her dad who is a  thief and gambler. Her dad had told her […]

Treasuring Emma Treasuring Emma, A Middlefield Family Novel is an Amish romance written by Kathleen Fuller. Emma Shetler has just lost her Mom to cancer. She lives with her Grandmother, Leona. The day of the burial her Sister Clara’s husband, Peter King asked Emma about her and Leona moving in with them. Emma tells him they don’t […]

Tall, Dark and Determined, A Book Review Tall, Dark and Determined is the 2nd book in Husbands for Hire  Series by Kelly Eileen Hake. The Story takes place in Hope Falls, Colorado Territory  June 1887. Chase Dustan is trying to find out about a mine cave in that had killed his brother-in-law.  He hears that […]

Love Finds a Way, A Book Review Love finds a Way is 3 short stories in one Christian Romance written by Wanda E. Brunstetter. Blueberry Surprise is about  a young lady named Lorna who is a widow who has decided to finish getting her degree in Music so she can teach at a local school. […]

A Stranger’s Gift, A Book Review Anna Schmidt has written an Amish/ Mennonite Romance book, A Stranger’s Gift. John Steiner has moved to Fla. after his parents died and he was banned from his Amish faith. He owned land on the bay and was trying to have  a citrus orchard. He stays away from most […]

Close Enough to Hear God Breathe Close Enough to Hear God Breathe by Greg Paul, a Minister  who works in Toronto at The Sanctuary, a place that helps prostitutes, addicts, gays, alcoholics, and the homeless.  He uses things that have happened in his family life and his ministry to write about hearing God’s voice or breath. […]

The God Pocket by Bruce Wilkinson with David Kopp The God Pocket is a small book packed with a great idea.  It encourages you to  talk to God about how to help others and how much to give God in order to do so.  Then you set this amount aside in a special pocket or […]

The Hidden Flame – A Book Review The Hidden Flame is the second book of the Acts of Faith Series by Davis Bunn and Janette Oke. In Book one of this series Abigail has found her little brother Jacob who she thought was dead.  Abigail was also burned badly when she was doing laundry and the […]

Not By Might by Al Lacy Not By Might is a western novel with lots of preachy  background. This is book 8 in the Angel of Mercy series.  The main characters are  John and Breanna Brockman. John is Chief U.S. Marshal. Breanna is a nurse at the Denver hospital and part time visiting nurse. They […]

The Interdimensional Dumpster is a children’s book. Willie Ford, a 12 year old adopted boy discovers that he had been found in a dumpster. A thief had committed a robbery and when the police got after him he jumped into a dumpster and was never caught. When the police looked in the dumpster all they found […]