Poor Anna. That girl had a lot of sorrow and trauma to overcome, first with her momma dying in childbirth, the typhoid plague, and a flood that wiped out tons of her fellow townspeople and left Anna desperately ill. When she recovered, her father had...

When most people think of pivotal Revolutionary War battles, they focus on Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Trenton, and Yorktown. In A Passel of Hate, Joe Epley shows us the gritty truth about the key battle that took place on the Western Carolina frontier at...

Muslim extremists continue to use terror to disrupt life on the new Utopian planet of Medina in this 26th-century based sci-fi thriller, Attack on Orbital 454 by Mark Clay Grove. After an explosion destroys a major portion of Orbital 454, killing 250,000 people and most...

A Heart at Home (Everlasting Heart Series) by Sara Barnard is the third book of the series. Sanderson, an Indian Agent is moved to California and his girlfriend Charlotte moves with him from Arkansas. She decides to follow her love. Charlotte and Sanderson meet some...

Orphan’s Heart by Lori Crane is the life story of Ellen Rodgers. It is 1862 and Ellen is seven years old. Her mother has just died, leaving her, along with her brothers and sisters, to live with Aunt Mary. Ellen shares her feelings with us,...

In short? This is a great book! In a sweet, wholesome way Melody Carlson has painted a picture of frontier life that we can savor and learn from through her Homeward on The Oregon Trail Series. The third and final book is now here: A...

Africa's Unfinished Symphony is the work of Lucia Mann, a former journalist, who was born in South Africa. The story opens as a young man attempts to roust an elderly woman, Vimbela, who has Down's Syndrome, and is lying prone on the burial site he...

Across the River by Elaine Russell, is powerful reading. It is the harrowing tale of a family’s escape from the horrors of the Vietnam war. At the time, Nou is a child. It is her family's story. Freedom is when the Americans leave the country....

"A Christmas of Grace" is the story of eleven year old Grace Gillian and her almost six year old brother Henry James. For the Gillian children life had never really been stable. Because of their alcoholic mother, Grace had always been the one to make...

Thomas is a warrior in medieval England. He is not a knight or a squire. He is not well-known or incredibly exceptional (at least not that anyone knows) but all of that is about to change. Thomas has lived a rather commonplace life and hasn’t...