ISBN: 9781935265245

Paperback, 269 pages

Deep River Books

 Jess Dixon

Key To The Kingdom Trailer from Marc Percy on Vimeo.




MY REVIEW:

If you are like millions of people and love anything Disney then you will really enjoy this suspense book by Rev. Jeff Dixon.  Hawk is a pastor and have a very good friend that is an Imaginee at Disney World " Farren Rales".  When Farren wants Hawk to meet him in a locked gate way back in the woods Hawk could not imagine why.  When they meet Farren gave him a gift after walking through an enchanting little house that looks just like the home of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"  he then gives Hawk a gift which is wraped very carefully in different layers of cloth.  When the got to the gift it was a golden key and Farren told him now he was the keeper of the Key to the Kingdom, what did he mean?  After Hawk looked at it and then turned around Farren was gone. 

While he tries to find out what this key is for he starts at Disney World as he has a pass to go when ever he wants.  But the people and the things that he uncovers while trying to solve this puzzle. 

This is really a great read and it kept me on my toes each page I turned.  Thanks to the Author for a signed copy of this book and to Bring It On Communications for sending to me free.  It was my choice to review it.

 

Genoa Bay

by

Bette Nordberg

ISBN: 9780825462962

Paperback, 317 pages

Lion Hudson PLC publisher

Genoa Bay

When Brandy Beauchamp first showed up at Maggie's place, she was nothing more than a kid - lost, forgotten, unwanted. Twenty years later, she finds herself lost again, a widow with a child of her own. When Maggie leaves the house at Genoa Bay to Brandy, she feels a glimmer of hope. Can Brandy move back to Canada, restore the old house and make a new life for herself and her daughter? Or will the power of money and progress keep her from the life she hopes to create? Can Brandy resist the treachery, adversity and misfortune about to cloud her path?

They say you can never go home again; the question is - can you make a new one? Or, are we destined to forever remain the child we once were?

MY REVIEW:

This is my first time reading any of Bette's work and I really enjoyed it.  As a young Navy pilot had lost his life in a fiery crash, and leaving behind a wife and little girl.  Brandy Beauchamp as a widow still lived in Florida with all the other navy people but she just didn't fit in with their group of friends any more as she was single and the others were couples.  She worked as a graphic designer and loved what she did, but with the Navy holding up the life insurance for her husband, she was having a hard time making ends meet.  When she got a call telling her that her "Mother" so to speak Mattie had had a stroke and was in a coma she and her little girl left to go to Canada to check this out.  Mattie was not her real mother and was really just a very close friend that had taken her in when she was a teen and a run away from an alcoholic mother and a step-father that was abusive.

Brandy left her little girl in Tenn. with the parents of her dad and went on to Vancouver Island to check on Maggie.  Maggie never came too but died and when Brandy found out that she had inherits the old home that was once a bed and breakfast, how will she handle this.  She has no money and the house was in terrible shape so she picked up her little girl and went back to Florida to try and decide what she needed to do.

I really enjoyed this book and hope to get to read more of Bette's work. 

This book was sent to me free form Kregel Publisher for my honest review.

 

BOOK TOUR

For

In Grandma's Attic 

and 

More Stories from Grandma’s Attic. 

by 

 Arleta Richardson

Patrice Barton (Illustrator)

 

 

 

 

 

ISBN: 978078140380                                            ISBN: 0781403804 

David Cook, publisher     

MY REVIEW:                                                                        

Mable and her friend Sarah Jane as they find themselves in one scrape after another! I find so many of the little stories in both books that are related to myself and my niece Gail as we were growing together. We were in my own Mama's attic since I was a very late baby and had a niece about the same age. When I was reading these books I just lay in my bed and laughed and said "oh yeah" we did that. I am now a great-grandmother but like to read these books to my little grandchildren and tell them "you Mama T did that" it is so very hard for them to believe that I was ever that young. The entire Grandma's Attic Series I believe would be a set of books that you will pass on down so they can be kept and read to all your ancestors. I have only read these two and to tell the truth had never head of them before. But not that I have I want to get the other books in the series, I relate to so much. I am so thankful to B and B Group for sending me these two books for my review.

The entire Grandma's Attic Series I believe would be a set of books that you will pass on down so they can be kept and read to all your ancestors.  I have only read these two and to tell the truth had never head of them before.  But not that I have I want to get the other books in the series, I relate to so much.

I am so thankful to B and B Group for sending me these two books for my review.

 

Fairer Than Morning

by

Rosslyn Elliott

The first book in the series "The Saddler's Legancy

ISBN: 9781595547859

Paperback, 395 pages

Thomas Nelson, Publisher

When I started to read this book and all the way through until I read the "Afterwards" page did I know that this is about real people, but written in a fiction manner.  I love books that are based on the 1800s and this one is just that.  The author really did her research and came up with the real names of the saddle makers and used them in this story. 

It is about a man that lives in Ohio and makes saddles,  he also is a traveling preacher.  He is the father of three daughters and the oldest one is having to raise and take care of the two younger ones as the mother died in childbirth.  Ann Miller is the oldest daughter and she is left alone with the little girls a lot when her father goes on his preaching jobs.  She had no idea what he did or where he went on these journeys but when he was home he made some of the most beautiful saddles of anyone.  He was always getting orders for them.  And on one of these trips to make a saddle he carried his three daughters to Pittsburgh and they stayed with the doctor that lived next door to another saddle maker.  That is when they found two of the most underfed and tattered young men they had ever seen.  These were the saddle maker's apprentice but they were indentured slaves.

This book goes through helping slaved to freedom, the loves of Ann Miller and helping Tom and Will the indentured slaves to get away from their mean owners that beat them.  It is so written that I wanted to just get in there with the author and help these people  myself.  This is my first time reading anything written by Rosslyn Elliott and I hope to get to read the others in this series.

Thanks to BookSneeze for sending me this book free to read and review in my own words and thoughts.

 

 

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
BLOG TOUR

with Kathi Macias
New Hope Publishers

April 18 - May 2, 2011

ISBN-10: 1596692820 

Paperback: 320 pages

New Hope Publishers

                                       

                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                 

MY REVIEW:

As I started to read this book, I was so intrigued that I could not wait to turn the next page. People of the Book starts with two different sets of people, one is set in America with a young Christian girl that get onto chat rooms and tries to get people to believe in God.  The other set of people live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and are of the Muslim faith.
I found this so interesting as it tells of the women in this Muslim county and how different they are from American women.  The women in Saudi Arabia are really not counted as anything except what they can do to please the men.  They have to stay covered from head to toe and they live in the very hot desert but I had no idea that they may have computers, but this if fiction, or it may be so.  I think that this is the best one yet in the series as I learned things that I had seen on TV.

Taken from the first page of the book "The dividing line between the before and after or Farah's life had actually been drawn earlier than she realized, during Ramadan, the eighteenth such observance of the holy month during Farah's brief lifetime." Farah has a cousin that has already begin to think of Jesus "prophet Isa" her name was Nura and she had been in a chat room with an American girl Sara, and Sara loved Jesus and to leave a seen planted but she and Nura had really become friends.  Farah had a younger sister and an older brother.  The brother Kareem hated Farah but he didn't really care for the fasting and praying with his father during Ramadan which was the most holiest time of the year.

As the girls kept in touch with each other through the Internet, so many thousands miles away there were some things that happened in each of their lives, that would separate them from ever getting in touch with each other again in this world.

I have read a lot of Kathi's books and as I have said before I think this in the best one yet and she has written some very good Christian books.

I was given a complimentary copy of this book from the author in exchange for posting the author’s interview on my blog. This blog tour is managed by Christian Speaker Services (www.ChristianSpeakerServices.com).

 

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THE ROAD OF BLESSINGS

by

PENELOPE WILCOCK

 ISBN: 978185259654

Monarch Book, 190 pages
Book will ship May 29, 2011
Pre-Order here

As I started reading this book I realized that it is a way to help in our everyday Christian lives.  When life is filled with so many choices and a lot of them are wrong for a Christian then we have to pray and rely on God to help us go down the right road. 

There are four chapters and each one deals with our lives as the first chapter is titled "What Does it Mean to Follow the Road of Blessing?" As we being to follow the correct road for a Christian we have to leave out all the old habits and try to be a better person and pray that we can overcome the old things.  We are all sinners but by the grace of God we can be forgiven.  We only need to ask and believe with out hearts and God will forgive us and wipe the slate clean.

Penelope Wilcock is a new author to me and I think this books is a great one to study as we read out Bibles.  She brings out some things that I have never really thought about.

A Great book for yourself and also a great gift book for a new or old Christian.

Thanks so much for Kregel Publishing for sending me this book for me to read and review.

 

 

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Beside Still Waters Tour

by

Tracia Goyer

 USBN: 9781433668685
Paperback, 300 pages

release date April 11, 2011

My Review:

Marrianne Sommer was born on the day her two sisters were killed in a buggy/eighteen wheeler accident.  The parents and children were on their way home when Abe the father kept dozing off and before he knew it the accident happened.

Marrianne was name for the two sisters and her older brother Levi was only three at the time.  Now Levi is grown and has left home for an English life style, Marrianne is (sort of) dating Amos Zook, even though he had never dated her, there was just and understanding.  He was building them a house but she had never saw it.  Abe had taken all he could at their home in Indiana and wanted to move to Montana where his brother lived.  They packed up everything and moved to a new way of life.  The Amish were few in this area and they mixed in with the English.  Marrianne had told Amos that she was only staying six months and she would return home to him, but will she?

Everything was different here in Montana the homes were far apart and there was no place to farm so what was Abe going to do?  Marrianne went to work and was getting involved with an Englich man named Billy, he was a driver for the Amish but didn't know many of their ways.  Will the family decide to stay in Montana or will they go back to their seventy acre farm in Indiana?  This book was different than a lot of the Amish books I have read, as in this one they mingled with the Englich a lot more than most of the ones did, from the other Authors.  

This is the first Amish book Tricia Goyer has written but she has plenty other books under her belt.  Good book.

This book was sent to me free from Litefuse Publicity Group for my honest review.

 

The Rose Trilogy book 2

ISBN: 978076420600

Paperback

Bethany House, Publishers

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MY REVIEW:

Beverly Lewis was the first author that I read about the Amish and I think I have almost all of her books on my shelves.  I have not read the first book in this series "The Thorn" and her third books comes out in September 2011 "The Mercy"

As I started to read this story I wish I had read the fist book as it details things that are in this book and I was missing.  But all in all this one was good also, as Hen had left he English husband Brandon and with her little girl Mattie Sue came back to live at her parents farm.  Rose and Silas are engaged but can she forget Nick?

Their Mother was in a lot of pain after her accident that had left her in a wheel chair, but she would not go to a doctor to see if something could be done.  Will they lose their mother also.

As the story continues I begin to learn more about the family and things that had happened in the first book.  The Bishop son had been killed in an accident and the foster son Nick had left his home.  Rose and Nick were really good friends and she missed him very much.

This book as all of Ms. Lewis' is a joy to read and I was really surprised at the way the book finished up, it was something I really was not looking for.

Thanks to Baker Publishing for this book for my review.

 

Sincerely Mayla

by

Virginia Smith

 

ISPN: 9780825436925

Paperback, 252 pages

Kregel Publications

Mayla Strong has lost her job and has trouble understanding her Mother, so with her severance pay she is headed to Florida to see her Parental grandmother whom she has not seen in years as the grandmother and the mother does not get alone after Mayla's mother had her dad unplugged from all the machines that was keeping him alive.

She was enjoying her time in Florida when a teenage girl the sister of a young man that had died with AIDS.  Mayla had been friends with three gay men and was always at their place parting until she found Jesus.  Then she was trying to get it across to them that it was an abomination to live that kind of life. One had died and the other two lived in her apartment building.

She had no idea that the whole state of Kentucky would follow her to Florida or it seem so.  At first the teen girl ran away from home and found herself with Mayla, the teen was pregnant and wanting an abortion.  Mayla was trying to talk her out of this.  Then one of her gay friend got saved by the grace of God and the other one was so upset he had to drive to Florida to talk to Mayla.  

At first I though that I would not enjoy this as I do not like to read about gay people but this one turned out great as they gave their heart to God.  Virginia always comes up with some great stories.

This was sent to me by Kregel Publishing for my review