MINDY STARNS CLARK and

LESLIE GOULD

co-wrote

THE AMISH BRIDE

ISBN: 0736938621

Paperback, 336 pages

Harvest House Publishers
Releases August 1, 2012

The Amish Bride

Mindy Starns Clark & Leslie Gould

Bestselling authors Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould offer readers The Amish Bride, Book 3 in the Women of Lancaster County series, which tells the stories of young Plain women as they explore their roots, connect with family, and discover true love.
Ella Bayer and Ezra Gundy are in love and hope to marry someday, but she is a young Mennonite woman while he is an Amish man. Though both Plain, one of them will have to forsake what they believe to embrace another way of life.
Hoping some distance will cool the relationship, Ezra’s family sends him to work at an Amish dairy farm in Indiana. But Ella disregards what her family wants and follows Ezra. In short order she finds a place to live, a job in a bakery, and an unexpected but budding friendship with a handsome Amish farmhand, Luke. When a family tragedy forces Ella back to Pennsylvania, she must face all she’s been running away from. And once she has made peace with those around her, she has an important decision to make: Whose Amish bride will she become—Ezra’s or Luke’s?

My Thoughts:

First I want to thank Jeanne from Wynn Wyn Media for sending me this Manuscript/early galley form copy of this book.

As Ella was now nineteen and her boyfriend rode a motorcycle, she was a Mennonite and he was Amish but had not yet been baptized.  Ella wanted to go on to school and be a bakery chief then she was going to join the Amish so that she could marry Ezra.

Ella had a book that had belonged to one of her great-grandmothers but most of it was written in code.  Her Mammi wanted her to see if she could break the code and to learn what all the drawings meant.  She was trying but wasn't having much luck but she loved all the old recipes that was written where she could read them.  She also was wanting to go to the "Home Place" that her Mammi talked about where she grew up in Indiana.

Ella lived with her mother and brother as her dad had left when she was around three, now he was wanting to meet with them but she just could not forgive him and didn't want to see him.  All she could think off was to get a job and save enough money to go on too school to learn to be a chef.  As Ezra's family wanted him to learn how to farm and was going to send him to a farm so he could be taught, Ella was scheming how they both could be in Indiana at the same time.

This book was an okay read but the early type of the book was hard for me to see as the ink was not very good.  But a book is a book and I love the written ones and will never settle for an e-book. 

Beyond Hope's Valley

ISBN: 9781433668708

Paperback, 290 pages

with receips in back of book

B and H Publishing

Go HERE to see the book traler:

I remembered the other series "Beside Still Waters" where two of the Sommer's daughters were killed in a buggy accident and this hurt the family so much alone with other things that they moved to 'Montana from Indiana in a rented house.

Marianna's old boyfriend came to Montana to see if he could talk her into getting married, she found out that she still had feeling for him even after she had met an English boy and really liked him, but he had gotten into trouble and wrote and sang songs.  Something the OLD ORDER AMish didn't want.  The Sommers found out that the English Bible told them more and explained it to their understanding more that their old German one.  They begin to be friends with the English and started to believe more in their way of worshiping.

One of their sons Levi  had gone back to Indiana and was going to get married to Naomi and rejoin the old Amish faith.  Marianna had also come back with Aaron after he came to Montana to see if she still loved him, so they were planning on getting married also and this was the first time she saw the house that Aaron had built just for her.

Naomi was expecting a baby out of wedlock and everyone thought it was Levi's so the parents wanted them to wait until the baby came to be married.  Abe and Ruth and some of their children were hiring a driver to go back with them to get the remainder of their household items also to go too Levi and Naomi's wedding.  But the driver that was going with them was the famous singer and song writer Ben Stone, Marianna's English boy friend.  He had been on tour but something came up and the tour was canceled so he was back home.  What is Marianna going to say when he shows up with her parents?

When they all arrived in Indiana that is when things begin to take shape in this story.  Good story line and if you have read the previous books then you will really enjoy this one, so that you can see just how the family is doing and what is going on in their lives.

Thanks so much to Jeane at Wynn Wynn Media for sending me this book for my thoughts.

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EVERYBODY'S DAUGHTER

by

Michael John Sullivan

ISBN: 9781936558445

Paperback, 326 pages

Fiction Studio Books

READ ABOUT THE AUTHOR HERE

My Thoughts:

I started to read this book yesterday and after I read a few pages I thought this was going to be one of those books that I never enjoy.  But all night I was thinking about the words I had read and thought to get at it again this morning.  I am a retired lady so I can read as long and when I want.  I started reading this morning and finished it today.  I could not lay it down.  I loved it!!!

Now for my review:

Michael Steward had raised his fourteen year old daughter Elizabeth alone and had given his life for her as his wife Vicki had been killed the day she was born in a car accident.  Michael still held this against the young man that hit her.  He worked in a church a lot and after I read on I found out why.  He and his daughter had found an old  book in the basement and had found a way to go back in the past to the time of Jesus.  They had met Leah and he had fallen in love with her, and that is all he thought about was "why hadn't he brought her back" to the future with him.  But it was not to be. 

As he worked in the basement cleaning and cleaning all the time he wanted to find the way to go back to Jerusalem and find Leah again as the tunnel had been in the basement.  As he was putting some boxes in a corner he found the cross that would led him back.  He could not help himself and so he went down the tunnel.  He came acros a cobra that struck at him but just hit his jeans.  When he got to the end of it, he pushed and pushed until he got the lid off, and then he placed a rock on top so that he would know how to find his way back home.   He found Leah but it was in the wrong time period and she was married to a roman soldier.  Then his daughter Elizabeth followed him but she was not supposed too.  They didn't find each other and when he returned she was gone.  She could not be found so the FBI got involved and had found some of her blood in his car so they suspected him of hurting his daughter.

Both Michael and Elizabeth got to met Jesus in different times of His life. 

You will have to buy this  book and read what all happened, it will kept you under its spell under you read that last word.

Thanks so much to B and B Media for sending me a free copy and I chose to review it.

ISBN: 88450167829

Christian Music CD

Circle of Friends Ministries

http://www.lisatroyer.com/
 http://www.ourcircleoffriends.org/events/links/
Lifeway Worship

I was really surprised when I received this CD full of worship music, as I am a Southern Gospel music fan, but these songs were really good.

The book is out but I received the music CD and when I listened to it, there are eight songs included on it.  There are not much I can say about a music CD, but listen to it, you an go to

http://www.lisatroyer.com/ and listen to some of the songs. I will pass this on to my daughter as she attends a "Praise and Worship" church and she really really loves this type of music, I am just old fashion and love the older music and church services.

Thanks to B and B Media for sending me this CD and I chose to review it.

Lost and Found written by Ginny L. Yttrup

 author of "Words"

ISBN:

9781433671715

Paperback, 340 pages

B and H Publishing Group

I had the privilege of reading "Words" and I really loved the book, so this one has to be just as great if not better!

Ginny Yttrup is an author, freelance writer, and writing coach. She has two grown sons and lives near Sacramento, California. Words was her first novel.

My Thoughts:

As I begin to read the Bouvier family was having a charity brunch in a Georgian-style mansion that was built in 1912 in California.  Jenna was not happy about having to go downstairs and attend.  She was not happy about anything anymore.  She had married a man a lot older that herself (or let's say forced to marry).  Gerald Bouvier was forty-five to her twenty-one years and he was controlled by his mother. 

At this time a lot of jewelry was missing that should have been in Jenna and Gerald's safe, she was so worried about what was going to be said when that was found out, she also was not as beautiful as she once was.  She had a scar running down her face and Jenna just could not see past that.  She had rather stay out of sight but the Bouviers would have none of that as it might look bad on them.

Jenna is a Christian and she wants to do what she thinks God would have her do but her husband and French mother-in-law was sure making it hard on her.

At the brunch her brother was in attendance with a young woman that Jenna didn't know but was supposed too.  Andee Bell was a young woman that had the world in her hands and would do what ever she could to keep it that way.  These two young women became friends in a long distance kind of way.

Can they both find and keep the love they so want and deserve?

This novel keeps you so interested that it would be so nice to be able to read it all in one setting. 

Thanks to Wynn Wynn Media for sending me this book to review.

A Plain Death

written by Amanda Flower

An Appleseed Mystery

Amanda Flower, an Agatha-nominated mystery author, started her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her sixth grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she'd found her calling of making people laugh with her words. Her debut mystery, Maid of Murder, was a 2010 Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel and the first in a series featuring amateur sleuth India Hayes. In July 2012, Amanda will debuting her second mystery series, the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series, which is set in Ohio's Amish country. In addition to being a mystery author, Amanda is an academic librarian for a small college near Cleveland. Visit her online at www.amandaflower.com.

This biography was provided by the author or their representative.

ISBN: 978143333676970

Paperback, 336 pages

B and H Publishing

Releases July 1, 2012

                                                      

My Thoughts:

This is the first time I have read anything by Amanda Flower but I loved this mystery about the Amish and the English joined together trying to solve a death (or murder).

As I started to read Chloe Humphrey was moving to Appleseed Creek Ohio to start a new job as the head of the computer department at Harshberger College.  She had rented a house over the Internet and had no idea what it would be like.  As she neared town she saw a green truck stopped and the two men were harassing a young Amish woman.  She stopped and almost got into trouble herself but she got the girl to get in the car with her and this is were the trouble began.  Becky the young Amish woman was leaving home because her strict Amish faith would not allow her to paint

portrait's.  Becky just took it upon herself that Chloe was taking her home with her to stay or that is what she wanted as she had no job and no where else to go.

When Chloe went to work, Becky took Chloe's car and was going for an interview without permission, but when she started down a hill the car had no brakes and she could not stop.  As she rounded the bend and Amish buggy was right in her way and she hit it, not knowing this was the Bishop of her church.  This killed the Bishop and now what was she to do.  She didn't even have a driver's license, would she be charged with murder?

I really loved this book and it kept me so interested that I could not even imagine how the book would end.  I loved this advanced copy from Jeane of Wynn Wynn Media for sending it to me and I chose to review it.

                    

Amanda Flower, an Agatha-nominated mystery author, started her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her sixth grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she'd found her calling of making people laugh with her words. Her debut mystery, Maid of Murder, was a 2010 Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel and the first in a series featuring amateur sleuth India Hayes. In July 2012, Amanda will debuting her second mystery series, the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series, which is set in Ohio's Amish country. In addition to being a mystery author, Amanda is an academic librarian for a small college near Cleveland. Visit her online at www.amandaflower.com.

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FALLING TO PIECES

by

Vannetta Chapman

ISBN: 9780310330431

Paperback. 332 Pages

Zondervan Publisher

First in a three book series:

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In this story Vannetta brings an Amish woman and an English woman together in a way that I have not read before.  Deborah Yoder really needs to sell her quilts to help out with financies in her family, while Callie Harper had inherited a qult shop from her aunt. 

In Shipshewana a murder and selling quilts brings the two women together.  Deborah is Amish and is tall and harty and the mother of five.  Callie is English and tiny, young single.  Deborah reveals her plans to auction off her quilts on-line, on a computer of all things in a town where most of the residents don't have electricty. 

A murder takes place and both women set aside their differences to try and solve it and to catch who ever the killer is. 

I love Amish stories and this one was just great as the two different women work together for the same reason.  The idea of a "friendship quilt" really works well with these two women.  Can't wait untill the next book comes out.

Thanks to Zondervan Publishing for sending me this book to read and enjoy and I am doing my own review.

Maps of Fate is the second book in the series of Threads West An American Saga

Written by Reid Lance Rosenthal

I really love history and have done the genelogy of my family, so when I got the offer to receive this book from Laura Kennedy the Publisher's assistant of www.threadswestseries I grabed the chance.  I really enjoyed finding out about my family's backgrounds when on one side came from Germany before the Civil war and the other are from England.

I have not read the first book in this series but I enjoyed this one anyway.  This book is set in 1855 and continues the lives of four generations.  As the family goes west they incounter all types of problems, alone with the Indians at that time.  The many  threads of the people in the story shows the struggles of the settlers, the cowboys,  the mountain men,  the  Native Americans and the slaves from about 1855-1875.  The author really brings this story to life and it is a book that you don't want to lay down.  As I read I wanted to get in there and help them out, that is the way the story will bring you into it.  A very well written book and as this was the first one I have read by the author Reid Lance Rosenthal, I sure want to read more.  Need to get the first one in the series "Threads West" to read and then read this one again.

ISBN: 9780982157622

Paperback, 450 pages

Rockin' SR Publishing

SAVING HOPE

by

Margaret Daley

ISBN: 9781426714283

Paperback, 335 pages

Abingdon Press

Book 1 Men of the Texas Rangers series

I have read a lot of Margaret's books but most of them were the smaller ones, I was really surprised when I received this one from Wynn Wynn Media to read and I chose to review it.  This book will really open your eyes and minds and I hope you get a copy and read for yourself as I can never do it justice.

A teenager Rose went missing from the Beacon of Hope School ( a  home for girls who were taken out of prostitution) and the Texas ranger and the school director Kate Winslow were really worried that this might be human trafficking.  Kate goes missing alone with Texas Ranger Wyatt Sheridan's own daughter.  Wyatt begins to try to find this ring of evil doers and to get it stopped before the ones he loves is harmed. Rose is fifteen year old really wants a new life and puts others before herself.

After Wyatt's wife died he swore that he would never fall in love again but as the race to find the women continures he finds himself having feelings for Kate. 



I have read a few books before concering human trafficking and it really will touch your life to read about what really happens out in this sinful world.  I have some young women granddaughers and worry about them as they seem to not to think about who they hand out with.   I just pray that God will take care of them as I think if something as this should happen in my family I could not take it.



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THE QUAKER STATE AFFAIR

by

Dan Romain

Publisher: Two Harbors Press

ISBN: 9781937293406

Hardback, 375 pages

You can order book here

About the Author:


Dan Romain is a nationally recognized business consultant who built one of the most successful insurance firms in the country. A graduate of the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a member of the Omicron Delta Epsilon International Economics Society, he currently resides in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Lori, their two children, Danielle and Brian, and their black Labrador, Kona. He has been widely credited as one of the few who accurately predicted the economic melt down.
 
About the Book:
 

What happens when “some day” finally arrives?
A mysterious explosion in Taiwan. Nuclear secrets stolen from Los Alamos. China’s manifest destiny at hand.
In the near future, America and China go head-to-head in a battle of technological bluffs, setting in motion a chain of events that could lead to skyrocketing oil prices, the end of the dollar, the American way of life, and the republic itself. The only man who might have an answer in the midst of the international crisis is Patrick “Mac” McDaniels, a world-renowned physicist who wants nothing to do with the government. Has he been conducting revolutionary energy research in secret? And if so, will McDaniels be America’s salvation—or its ruin?

My Thoughts:

It is always in the news about the economic of this country and others, what will happen to us if the dollar falls!  This book tells about what might happen when America has finally fallen and the collapse had began.
As McDaniels is aboard his anonymous sea craft in the Boston harbor, where only the most important people know about this place. He is checking all his plans and the food and items he will need as he is carried away on the tide on Wednesday morning.  No matter what he has in store and his way of escape he still is so worried about what is happening.  As he waits he hopes that the sea will erase his worries.
In November on a fateful Sunday the financial markets in Asia begin to fail.  In an hour's time the "Nikkei" in Tokyo closes down.  When Taiwan's market begins also this will eventually close the exchange.  All the Asian's markets are failing so America is bound to be next.p
By 10:00 P.M on a Sunday, Eastern time the bank of Japan had stopped all transactions for the next twenty-four hours.  The fall had begin, what the world had been worrying about for the past century had occurred.
This book is a look at what might really happen to the world economy and we in America have always had it so much better than some of the other countries
 what will we do.  Our money will not be worth anything, so that mean even the billionaires can't buy.  This is really a scary story because the way things look right now it could very well happen.
Thanks so much to Tribute for sending me this nice hardback book to read and review.

Indiana Cousins Trilogy

by

Wanda Brunstetter

About Indiana Cousins Trilogy: Enjoy the pleasure of owning the complete Indiana Cousins trilogy all under one cover. Follow four young Amish women who are forever changed after a traffic accident takes their friends and leave them scarred. Loraine’s fiancé is severely injured and breaks their engagement. Katie’s boyfriend is killed, and she sinks into depression. Jolene loses her hearing. Ella tries to hold her cousins together, but even she struggles with the loss of her brother. How will God take a tragedy and turn it for good in their lives? Book Description This jumbo volume encases three bestselling and highly praised novels by Wanda E. Brunstetter. On a quiet September weekend, plans for a fun outing turn tragic when a van load of Amish teenagers is struck by a semi-truck. Four young women’s lives are forever changed by the event. My Thoughs: I love to get a set of books combines into one and this one is just that, plus it is about the Amish and written by my first and formost favorite author Wanda Brunstetter. It is really hard to write just a little about each of the books but I will try, I like to tell the complete story. A Cousin's Promise starts with a group of the Amish young single people on their way to Hershey Park for a day of fun, they had hired an English driver and with no knowledge what lay ahead for them. As a bee got in the van and Katie started trying to get someone to get it out and the driver looked back for a second and that was all it took as they swerved onto the wrong side of the road and meet a large truck. When some of them awoke they were broken up and three were killed. No one imagined how this was going to affect their young lives in the future. As you read this book, you hurt and even cry with these young people. Some of them were engaged and this affected them. Will anything ever get back to normal in the Amish community in Indiana. A Cousin's Prayer is the second books of the series "Indiana Cousin's" and as the first one it features one person more that the others. In this on Katie Miller is still very depressed from losing her fiancée Timothy. She is really having a hard time with something she has no knowledge of what it is but if she leaves home she gets really sick and has an attack that feels as she is going to die. "I know how this is because I go through the same thing, I do not like to leave my house". Everyone is really worried about her and she finds a friend that she went to school with and she can talk to him more that she can anyone else. Freeman Bontranger has his own bicycle shop and loves his work. The Amish are like the rest of the country they are having a hard time with jobs and making a living. Freeman befriend Katie and tell her things about himself he has never told anyone else. The family encourages her to go to a counselor but at first her Mom went with her and answered all the questions, so the counselor told the Mom for her not to come in with Katie anymore. Katie told her mom that she didn't even want her to go with her in the car that they hire. Freeman started going with her, but another young woman has set her mind to have Freeman and she stats telling tells about Katie. This book features Jolene who had lost her hearing in a car accident and she was living with her aunt in Pennsylvania where she lad learned how to sign and read lips. She was teacher in her hometown of Topeka, Indiana, now they were wanting her to come home and teach some deaf children and this is where she goes back to her hometown. After she arrives home and greets her cousins, some had married and some had not. Ella had always liked Jake but he was a young man that just could not settle down. In this book there is a lot going on, while accidents happen, more that I think I have ever read in one of Wanda's books. As another young man lost his hearing when their propane tank exploded, so he could not do what he loved anymore and that was to help his dad in the family business of making and tuning wind chimes. He love to hear them and to tune them. Now this part of his life is over. When Jake came back home "again" when his dad fell and broke both of his legs, so he had to work on the pig farm, which he hated. In this book there are two love stories and they all are very good. As I read this book I realize that the Amish people have their problems as we do in the English community. Thanks to Barbour Publishing for sending this book to me to review

I love both of these authors and was really thrilled when I saw this book written by both.  The front cover of the book really tells the story.  An amish young woman Emma Switzer is bringing her family out to the west to help some relatives.  However there were never to reach where they were going as some robbers store their wagon and animals.  This leaves them asking for help as they pray that God will let them know what they are supposed to do.

Luke Carson is so happy to be leading his first cattle drive as he has helped his dad all the years but this was the first one he was leading.  Luke met up with the Switzer family but really does not want to take the time to help and Amish family.  But he could not just pass them by and he finds himself involved with them and just maybe he will get some help with his cattle drive and there may be a young woman in his future.

Thanks so much to Jeane Wynn with Wynn and Wynn Media for sending me this book to read and review.



 

THE HALF-STITCHED Amish 

QUILTING CLUB

by

Wanda Brunstetter

ISBN: 9781602608115

Paperback, 312 Pages

Barbour Publishing

Wanda came up with a new twist in this story, Emma Yoder had lost her husband and was having a hard time making ends meet.  Her grown children had to pitch in and help so she though up an idea that might bring in a little money for herself.  As she loved to quilt as most Amish women do, she decided to see if she could teach Amish quilting.  She posted little notes around town and before she knew it she had 6 students and none of them knew a thing about sewing nor quilting.  They just all needed some interest outside of their own lives they now lived.

This was really a mixed up group, a man and his wife that was having married problems, a young widower with a baby that needed to finish the baby quilt his young wife had started before she was killed in a car accident.  A minister's wife that needed an outside interest beside the problems at her church, a biker that had lost his drivers license and a young woman with all kind of trouble.

Sometime when the group met. Emma tough she was going to have to call someone to stop a fight.  They all had troubles and seem to want to pick on each other.  But all in all the group needed more that just learning how to quilt, they needed someone to listen.  God can work out problems if we will only let him, but he does it in His own time and way.  Even Emma might find a new love in her neighbor.

Anytime I receive a book by Wanda Brunstetter I want to jump right in and read, so that is what I did. There is a quilt pattern inserted in the book, how great is that!

I want to thank the Author and Barbour Publishing for sending me this copy to read and enjoy and I choose to review it.

THE WINGS OF MORNING

by

Murray Pura

ISBN: 0736948775

Paperback, 300 pages

Harvest House Publisher

Product Description

Jude Whetstone and Lyyndaya Kurtz, whose families are converts to the Amish faith, are slowly falling in love. Jude has also fallen in love with flying that new-fangled invention, the aeroplane.The Amish communities have rejected the telephone and have forbidden motorcar ownership but not yet electricity or aeroplanes.Though exempt from military service on religious grounds, Jude is manipulated by unscrupulous army officers into enlisting in order to protect several Amish men. No one in the community understands Jude's sudden enlistment and so he is shunned. Lyyndaya's despair deepens at the reports that Jude has been shot down in France. In her grief, she turns to nursing Spanish flu victims in Philadelphia. After many months of caring for stricken soldiers, Lyyndaya is stunned when an emaciated Jude turns up in her ward.

Publisher's Description (taken from Christian Books.com)

Lovers of Amish fiction will quickly sign on as fans of award-winning author Murray Pura as they keep turning the pages of this exciting new historical romance set in 1917 during AmericaÂ’s participation in World War I.
Jude Whetstone and Lyyndaya Kurtz, whose families are converts to the Amish faith, are slowly falling in love. Jude has also fallen in love with flying that new-fangled invention, the aeroplane.
The Amish communities have rejected the telephone and have forbidden motorcar ownership but not yet electricity or aeroplanes.
Though exempt from military service on religious grounds, Jude is manipulated by unscrupulous army officers into enlisting in order to protect several Amish men. No one in the community understands JudeÂ’s sudden enlistment and so he is shunned. LyyndayaÂ’s despair deepens at the reports that Jude has been shot down in France. In her grief, she turns to nursing Spanish flu victims in Philadelphia. After many months of caring for stricken soldiers, Lyyndaya is stunned when an emaciated Jude turns up in her ward.
LyyndayaÂ’s joy at receiving Jude back from the dead is quickly diminished when the Amish leadership insist the shunning remain in force. How then can they marry without the blessing of their families? Will happiness elude them forever?
Welcome a powerful new voice to the world of Amish fiction!

My Thoughts:

I enjoy reading about the Amish way of life even if I do not agree with their ways. It is always interesting to see which author will come up with another book and Murray Pura is one I have never read his work. I recieved the a copy of this Paperback book for my review from Wynn-Wynn Media, LLC. Thanks Jeane

As Lyyndaya Kurtz is working in the family garden she heard something she though was bees and then she saw that it was aeroplanes. There were six of them and one broke away and few even closer to the ground and a hand came out and waves at her. Then it landed in her papa's field. She could not believe her eyes when a young man got out, and as all the children and Lyyndaya ran to meet him it was Jude a friend of Lyyndaya's she could not believe he flew from Philadelphia just to see her. No one knew they were counting, as was a coustom of the Amish youth. This was something that the
Amish did not do and it really was not too appealing to Lyyndaya's dad.

To Love and To Cherish

To Love and to Cherish

by

Kelly Irvin

ISBN: 9780736943710

Paperback, 326 pages

Harvest House Publishers

Kelley Irvin has writing for 25 years, but this is the first book of hers that I have read.  I love the Amish books but there seem to be so many authors switching over to write about them.  I thought this book seem to be something I have read before as most of the Amish books do.  I didn't care for the story line as it started out with Emma's parents getting hit by a large farming truck and being killed.  One of her sisters was tending the produce stand and saw it happen.  The farmer that hit them was so sorry that it just about did him in.  A sad story to read with one thing after the other happening to the Shirack family.

After Emma had lost her boyfriend Carl Freiling to the English world now she would have to help raise her siblings.  Her eldest brother and his family sold their home and moved back in with them, but his wife Leah wanted to take over and none of the children wanted to listen to her not to their older brother Luke. Just too many adults in the same house.

Emma found out that their widowed neighbor Thomas really liked her but he had talked to her dad before his death and with Thomas being so much older, the Dad didn't think that it was the correct thing to do.

Will Emma find a true love and one that she can start her own family with or will she be left an old maid taking care of her younger siblings?

Thanks to Jeane Wynn from Wynn and Wynn Media for sending me this complimentary  book and the review is my own thoughts.

Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass

by

Jill Marie Landis

ISBN:  9780310293729

Paperback, 315 pages

Zondervan Pyblisher

I want to thank Zondervan Publishing for sending me this complimentary copy for my review.

I have read the first two books in this series and this one just follows on with the story.  I really love series of books as that seems as though I am one of the family.

Kate Keene who was adopted and when she had grown up she begin to use her architectural skills to fix up and old Louisiana mansion.  But when she returns to the south, (I am from the south also) she is really shocked to see that the man Colin, she had dreamed about for so long had become a hermit and angry at everything.

Colin forces Kate to go to his dying sister and promise she would care for her children.  Kate knew how it was not having parents so she plans to care for them to her best knowledge.  Will Colin help or leave her alone to raise the children?  Will Colin get out of his depression and anger and begin to love again?

The Daughter's Walk

The Daughter's Walk

by

Jane Kirkpatrick

WaterBrook Press

Paperback, 387 pages

This story takes place in 1896 as Helga Estby is determined to walk from Spokane Wa, to New York City in seven months.  She has made a wager to her friends that she can do this as she wanted to make ten thousand dollars in order to save her families' farm.  She and her daughter Clara started out on their 3,500 mile walk as they tried to follow the railroad tracks as much as possible.

After a year they retured to the farm and Clara decided to walk on by herself.  Why would she leave her family and what made her walk alone to the end of her lonely road?

A great story by Jane Kirkpatrick as she is the author of more than fifteen historical books.  She always make a story come alive and makes you feel as though you are there in the story.

Thanks to Blogging for Books for sending me this copy for review.