The Opposite of Art

by

Athol Dickson

ISBN-10: 1416583483

Paperback, 362 pages

Simonand Schuster publisher

Description

A great artist is cast into the icy Harlem River by a hit-and-run driver. His heart stops, and he sees something that defies description. Presumed dead by all who knew him and obsessed with the desire to paint the inexpressible, he embarks on a pilgrimage to seek help from holy men around the globe. But is it possible to see eternity without becoming lost within it? After a quarter of a century, when the world begins to whisper that he may be alive, two people come looking for the artist: the daughter he never knew existed, and the murderer who hit him on the bridge all those years ago.

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As I begin to read this book was so interesting.  As I like to paint myself I could see where Ridler was going as he got so interesting into his painting that is all he wanted to do.  He was interested in Suzanne but didn't want to marry anyone, as she left he ran after her but could not find her as she went down into Harlem.  The taxi driver would not take him any futher when he found out Ridler had left his wallet at home.  He got out and made Ridler get out right where he was.

As he climbed over a fence and got on a bridge that was being worked on a car came alone and knocked him off the bridge and they though he was dead as no one could stand that fall into the cold river.  But Ridler did and hurt and sore started down the river. 

He really didn't know where he was but came upon some young men using spray paint on a wall and he grabed some of the paint and started to paint himself.  The youth could not believe the way he was painting the wall so they just stood back and let him paint,  He covered the wall and it was so good.

This book has a little of everything in it,  Some suspence, romance and just an interesting book.  I want to thank Glass Roads for sending me this book to review,

TRUTH AND DARE

by

Ann Margret Hovsepian

ISBN: 9781434702081

Paperback,

David Cook Publisher

Ann-Margret Hovsepian is a Montreal-based writer with nearly two decades of professional experience in various areas of the publishing world. She has written more than 210 articles for dozens of different Canadian and U.S. print periodicals and is becoming a sought-after author of preteen girls’ devotional books including Blossom – The Complete New Testament for Girls (Thomas Nelson, 2006) and The One Year Designer Genes Devo (Tyndale, 2007).
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I received this book and when I opened it, I want to use it myself, even if it is for a young girl.  Each page is a question page where it gives the Bible reference so that the Bible can be used to find answers then there is a place where it can be written.  To be it is a Bible diary for everyday use.  I think the young girl will love this and it will get them to read the Bible each day.  If they get into reading it every day while they are young then it will be cared throughout their lives.

The front of the book is so colorful and looks just like a teen, then the pages are in black and white, very nice.  I just don't know how to say enought about this book.  I have a teen age granddaughter and I know she will enjoy this book "if I don't use it myself".

Thanks so much to B and B Media Group for sending me this book for my review.

The Crossing

by

Serita Jales

ISBN: 9781400073030

paperback 292 pages

Waterbrook Press



The Crossing finds Claudia at the train track and a train was coming, she was the first one in line near the track but from old memories she freezes.  Even after the train had gone by she just sit there while the other cars went around her.  Officer Casio Hightower knew her as he was on the same bus the day the shooter got on and started to shoot.

That is what she was rememering, that day, she was so scared as he got on and shot BJ one of her friends.  She was a cheeerleader at her school and it had been ten years.  They had never found the killer and it was time to try to find him so that they all could get these memories eased. 

As the story progressed it got into the things that had happened and the things that are happened present day.  This is really a mystery that keeps you wanting to just keep turning pages so you can see what the next page brings.

Thanks so much to WaterBrook Press for sending me this book for my review.

Softly and Tenderly

by

 Sara Evand with Rachel Hauck

Jade is happily married to Max a lawer but the one thing she wants will not happen.  She wants a baby and has miscarried every time she gets pregrant.  She owns two shops and sells consignemtn and unusual items.  Max works in his father's law firm and plans on being over it when his father retired. 

What no on knew but his Mom was that his dad was quite a ladies man.Jade alone with being married and owning two shops was taking care of her mother that was dying from lukumina.  Her mama had left them a lot when they were children and did whatever pleased her.  She was from the Woodstock era and now that she was dying she was tying to make up for that time to Jade.

Everything falls apart in this "great" family of lawers when things were found out by Jade and her mother-in-law June.  Jade's mama wants to go home to die so the two Benson left to carry Jade's mama back to Iowa to die the men could not blieve it.

Thanks so much to Book Sneeze for sending me this book to review.

In His Arms

by

Robin Lee Hatcher

ISBN: 9780310231202

Paperback, 311 pages

Zondervan Publisher

Third in Coming to America Series

Robin Lee Hatcher
Robin Lee Hatcher is the bestselling author of over sixty books. Her well-drawn characters and heartwarming stories of faith, courage, and love have earned her both critical acclaim and the devotion of readers. Her numerous awards include the Christy Award for Excellence in Christian Fiction, two RITA Awards for Best .Inspirational Romance, Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards for Americana Romance and for Inspirational Fiction, and the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. Robin currently resides in Idaho. For more information, visit www.robinleehatcher.com.
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I have really enjoyed this series as these three young women come to Amercia to seek husbands and a better way of life.  In this book it features Mary Malone as she is expecting a baby and is on her way to meet the daddy of it as he told her he would send for her when he got to America from Irland but she had not heard anything so she made the trip on her own.  When she reached America and went to find that her entended had married another as soon as he got to America and that he had been killed in a silver mine accident.  After she had her little son she started to work in a rich man's house and as he was making a pass at her she hit him and left with the intent that he was dead.

She went and got her baby son and fled New York.  She meet this woman on the train that had a terrible cough but she made friend with Blanch Loraine who was on her way back home to Whistle Creek, Idaho to die.  She had been in New York trying to get well but was told she was dying.  She talked Mary into going home with her but when she told Mary that she ran an house of ill repute and a saloon Mary was not sure, but she went as she had no other place to live and she got the job as tending to the books not as one "of the ladies of the night"

This book is filled with love, death and some mystery.  A very good read and I want to thank Zondervan Publishing for sending me this book to review.

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THE MERCY

by

BEVERLY LEWIS

ISBN: 978-0-7642-0601-6

Paperback, 306 pages

Bethany House Publisher

Third book in the Rose Trilogy

Meet The Author

Beverly Lewis, raised in Pennsylvania Amish country, is a former schoolteacher and accomplished musician, and an award-winning author of more than eighty books for adults and children, many of which have appeared on bestseller lists, including USA Today and the New York Times. Six of her blockbuster novels have received the Gold Book Award for sales over 500,000, and The Brethren won a 2007 Christy Award for excellence in Christian Fiction. Beverly and her husband, David, live in Colorado, where they enjoy hiking, biking, and making music, and spending time with their three grandchildren.

About the Book:

Rose Kauffman pines for prodigal Nick Franco, the Bishop's foster son who left the Amish under a cloud of suspicion after his foster brother's death. His rebellion led to the "silencing" of their beloved Bishop. But is Nick really the rebel he appears to be? Rose's lingering feelings for her wayward friend refuse to fade, but she is frustrated that Nick won't return and make things right with the People. Nick avowed his love for Rose--but will he ever be willing to sacrifice modern life for her?Meanwhile, Rose's older sister, Hen, is living in her parents' Dawdi Haus. Her estranged "English" husband, injured and helpless after a car accident, has reluctantly come to live with her and their young daughter during his recovery. Can their marriage recover, as well? Is there any possible middle ground between a woman reclaiming her old-fashioned Amish lifestyle and thoroughly modern man?

MY REVIEW:

As all ways Beverly Lewis ended this series in just the way I hoped she would.  Rose was still without a beau after she and Silas broke up.  She didn't love him and he loved another.  She is still keeping house for Gilbert Browning and his daughter Beth.  Beth had dreamed that Rose's invelid mother would get better, so they are planning on her having back surgery after much prayer.
Rose had left a note in the box that was hidden for her love, not ever thinking anyone would ever find it, but when she went back and looked it was gone.  Oh she hoped the Lord took and no one else found it.  She didn't want anyone to read what she was feeling in her heart.
Her sister Hen and her little four year old daughter Mattie Sue is still living in the Dawi house while taking care of Brandon Hen's husband.  He was filling for divorce but after he had a car accident he was blind for the time being so Hen opened her heart and was taking care of him.  She didn't want a divorce but she felt that she just could not live the English life.  And Brandon felt he could not become Amish, now what were they going to do?
I want to thank Bethany House for sending me this book for my review.

 

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Diary of a Teenage Girl Becoming Me

Written by

Melody Carlson

ISBN: 978-1-57673-735-4

Paperback, 248 pages

Multnomah Publishing 

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If you have a teen age girl she will love this book.  It is written as a diary by sixteen-year-old Caitlin O'Conner.  She tell her diary things that she could never talk to a person about.  You will laugh and cry with her as she goes though her teen years.  About all her school what she loves and what she hates.  She talks about the way she feels about God, her parents and all her friends.  

This book was sent to me to join this blog tour by Glass Roads .

THE CHRISTMAS SINGING

by

Cindy Woodsmall

ISBN: 978-0-307-44654-1

Hardback, 189 pages

WaterBrook Press



Mattie Eash had moved from her home in Apple Ridge, Pennsylvania and moved to Ohio so that she could get away from the man she loved but he had broken up with her. She never understood why but Gideon had a reason that he thought he was protecting Mattie.

She moved in with ther brother and bought an old store building and got it fixed up so that she could do what she had always wanted a CAKE SHOP. She had started to date as soon as she had moved and was engaged to Sol but she knew she did not feel for him the same way she had for Gideon. When her shop burnt and she moved back home with her parents she learned why Gideon had broken up with her.

The Christmas Singing this year when both Mattie and Gideon went they had to talk to each other. She had taked to him some before as he was building the new home of her best friend and her intented. Mattie had to use the new house to cook the wedding cakes of her best friend and also for her aunt.

A very good book and if you have read any of Cindy's books some of these Characters keep coming up. I own all her books and love every one of them. "I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review"
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Ding Dong The Diva's Dead 
by
Cat Melodia 

ISBN: 978-1-60381-807-0 (Paperback)
CAMEL PRESS

 
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A Debbie de Lille Murder Mystery

Deborah de Lille is an opera singer—in the least grand sense. Debbie doesn’t foresee a future beyond Handel Messiahs and low-budget tours ... until her agent finagles her a minor role with a small-town company. Offenbach’s spooky opera, Tales of Hoffmann, features three leading ladies. The cast is all too well-acquainted, and familiarity has bred contempt. Debbie is the outsider, and someone is hell-bent on driving her out with smoke bombs, ghostly visitations, and booby-traps. Will opening night mean "curtains" for Debbie?

Cat Melodia's Bio:

Cat Melodia is the nom de plume of a Seattle-based mezzo soprano and voice teacher. Like her heroine, she often wears the pants on stage. Three of her opera adaptations/translations have been performed at community colleges. She has a Bachelor’s Degree cum laude in German Literature from Princeton and a Master’s in Music.

My Thoughts:
 

If you enjoy a book about the opera and the singers then you will really enjoy this book.  As for me this is just not my type of music and I could not really get into the book that well. I tried to read the book but just could not understand it enough to give it what it deserves as a review.

Thanks so much to Tuibute Publications for sending me a copy of this book to review.

ALABAMA BRIDES

by

Sandra Robbins

Three in One collection

ISBN: 9781616264598

Paperback,  346 pages

Barbour Publishing





Sandra Robbins

 

 

Genres: Romance, Suspense

Until a few years ago, Sandra Robbins was working as an elementary school principal, but God opened the door for her to become a full-time writer. Having grown up reading the adventures of teen sleuth Nancy Drew, it's no surprise that her first novels were mysteries -- Pedigreed Bloodlines for Barbour in 2008 and Final Warning for Steeple Hill in 2009.

 

My Thoughts:

 

I love to read storied that are set in the 1800s and really like the ones that take place in the south, as I am a southern belle myself.

 

This book has three different stories that all tie together and it took place right after the War between the states.  In the rich black belt part of Alabama is a great place to farm as the soil is black.  But most of the people have lost their homes or parts of them because of the war.  Savannah Carmichael was one of them, she had saved herself when their plantation home Cottonwood burned but her parents were killed in the fire.  She thought she still owned the land and would someday build the home back but it was sold because of back taxes.  Now her whole life is in turmoil.

 

The second book concerned a doctor in the same town as the first one "Willow Bend"  Tave Spencer was the daughter of Doctor Spencer and she was only twenty and had to help her father sometimes with the sick.  She had a suitor but she did not love him, and thought that she would wind up being an old maid, that is until a man was brought off one of the paddle boats on the Alabama River that had been shot saving the captain's life.

 

The third book is about a young lady that had to move to Willow Bend and live with her mother in the top of the mercantile with her uncle.  She had high hopes but the town was so small where was she going to find a young man that she could love and be happy with.  She wanted to better herself and that is where the young plantation owner of Pembrook came into the picture.  Marcus Raines was trying to run the plantation that his father had left him, but he had never been taught how to manage, so he was having a time trying to make the plantation prosper.

 

Thanks so much to Shalyn Sattle from Barbour Books for sending me this book and I chose to review it.

 

Inspiring Thoughts from a Simple Life

by

Wanda E. Brunstetter

 Barbour Publishing-

 Paperback - 176 pages 

 ISBN 1616261978

About the book:



Be inspired. . .or inspire someone else with this brand-new title joining the Life’s Little Books of Wisdom series. This little book is overflowing with inspiration and encouragement. Attractive package for portability and packed with relevant quotations, thoughts, and scripture. Perfect for your own personal use or as gifts, this charming book is sure to make a lasting impact.

 

My Thoughts:

 

I want to thank Wanda Brunstetter for sending this beautiful book of wonderful sayings and Bible verses.  The pictures are grousous in beautiful color.  This book is great for an everyday pick me up, when you need a little something from the word of God to keep you going.

 

It also would make a wonderful gift for Christmas or any occasion.  Not expensive just the right way to say Friend I am thinking of you today.

 

Sunrise on The Battery

By

Beth Webb Hart

ISBN: 978-1-59554-200-7

Paperback, 294 Pages

Thomas Nelson Publisher

If you love the historical Charleston SC then you will love this book.  I live in SC and know everywhere the author talks about except Meggett, SC where Mary Lynn had grown up as an illegitimate child as was always talked about and made fun of in her school.

Mary Lynn met and married a very handsome young man whom had not had an easy life himself.  They had three daughter and wanted more for them than they had grown up with.  Jackson get in with a young man that he knew and begin to learn how to make and invest money.  They bought an old Victorian home in Charleston, SC near the Battery.  They wanted to get into all the society that they could and Jackson was very strict with their daughters. He pushed they very hard and wanted them to learn the things that he wanted them to learn and not what they really wanted.  Mary Lynn was a Christian and went to some church and some of the ladies prayer meeting, but Jackson wanted nothing to do with God and didn't want his daughters to either.



When God really got into all of their lives after the marriage was almost destroyed they found out that they really didn't need to be in with the society groups but they all needed God more.  They sold their fancy house and the family found out what love really was, they knew they did not need all the things the world has to offer.

Thanks so much to B and B Media for sending me this book and I chose to review it.