Natalie Goldberg makes this comment about southern writers: “Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the...

"The Amish Nanny" by Mindy Clark and Leslie Gould is a beautiful story about love, commitment and the true meaning of family. Not being an Amish believer is in no way a deterrent to reading this delightful book. Ada Rupp is a woman who searches...

A megalomaniac with godlike delusions is destroying villages and killing people in Uganda. An American special forces team is sent in to eliminate the threat. The team is decimated when they encounter villagers gone mad and possessing super speed and strength. Colonel Jon Smith, part...

"Fallen" by Karin Slaughter is a fast paced thriller. I’ve been a fan of Slaughter for quite sometime. She has a unique way of presenting her characters. Sara Linton is a doctor and she worked closely with her deceased husband as a coroner. Slaughter has...

Long before there was women's liberation, there was Annie Whitaker Richie, and what a dynamo of a woman she was! Born in 1926 with learning disabilities in an old Pennsylvania family, Annie is forced to go through school in the same grade as her slightly...

Marieke Whitteker is a high-powered American businesswoman who travels to Amsterdam on business but ends up confronting her family's past of which she had known little. Marieke visits the Rijksmuseum where she'd gone years before with her parents. She recalls a painting of a beautiful...

"I’d Rather Be a Cat" by Allia Zobel Nolan is The Official “Better Than Dogs” Cat Book or so the cat says. The author poses a question that many find hard to answer. Which is the better companion, the cat or the dog? Well, that...

"The Awesome Book of Unusual Bible Heroes for Kids" by Sandy Silverthorne is a great book for kids aged 8-12 years. Today many children in this age group learn about the heroes in the Bible through their Sunday School class but some seem uninterested. Children...

This s a review of the audio book, "Apocalypse Scenario 683: The Box" by Mira Grant. This story grew on me. This tale grabbed my attention and held it. My chief complaint is the length of the story. It left me wanting more. Ms...

"You Dog: The Owner’s Manual" by Dr Marty Becker and Gina Spadafori, audio format osing the right dog for your lifestyle. If you are going to be gone a lot you do not need a dependent breed. If you live a sedentary life you do...

"Creative Slow-Cooker Meals" by Cheryl Moelier shows how to use two cookers for tasty and easy dinners. Most people do not like to cook in a slow cooker, claiming that everything turns to mush or and the flavors all combine into one and you can’t...

"Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard is based on actual events. It is a dramatic retelling of a traumatic event in American history. This book is filled with facts that somehow escaped my American history classes....

"365 Ways to Organize Everything" by Emilie Barnes and Sheri Torelli should be on every woman’s shelf to read. In today’s busy world, with women having to work and take care of a family at the same time, running children back and forth to school...

This book made me laugh out loud. It was a good thing I wasn't drinking milk or it would have come out my nose! It was interesting to learn that this book was based on DaySpring's greeting card line, "Bible Tails." This book provides...

God Bless you, Dr. Lesslie, for sharing these amazing and inspiring true stories with us. While movies portray doctors as having a "God complex," it is clear that this author, Robert Lesslie, MD, recognizes that angels show up in the form of mere humans and...

Teenaged Claire was just starting to realize her feelings for her best friend's brother when he was killed. Daniel was not only Addie's brother but he was Claire's brother Matthew's best friend too. Claire just can't seem to get back to life after Daniel's death...

Mia Picarde decided early in life that she would not go hungry and always have a roof over her head. When hearing her parents arguing about money Mia went to her brother Danny and asked him to see if she could work at the sandwich...

"The Study Train: Reunion of the Untouchables" by Kurt Freiner is an interesting and enjoyable Young Adult book. Ethan, a bullied and rather weedy teenager, is chosen to join the magic train that has been flying around the world for hundreds of years, turning unpromising...

"Unmasking The Antichrist" by Ron Rhodes is a book that deals with a topic that has always been much debated about. Just who is the Antichrist? Is he a Jew, a Muslim, or could he be from the Catholic Papacy? As Ron Rhodes takes us...

da Fischer "Micah & the Magic Helmet" is a charming book for children. Micah is a little girl with a huge imagination. She had an unstinting devotion to her magic helmet, which was really a cake pan. Once her helmet was placed on her head she...