Life, Love and Books

An Amish Harvest: Four Novellas by Beth Wiseman, Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller and Vanetta Chapman Four very wonderful authors come together to bring us another amazing novel with four uplifting stories. Under the Harvest Moon  by Beth Wiseman After suddenly losing her husband, Naomi Dienner is not looking for love again. All she wants to do is be able to provide for her family and get the harvest in for the fall.When her father suggests a English family friend, Brock Mulligan; that will be able to help her in her time of need. As the time passes Naomi struggles with a very deep and dark feeling that seems to weigh her down with concerns. What seems to be a innocent option to help with this weighted down feeling turns out to be very much a bad thing. With the help of her handsome harvest worker, will she be able to see the light God has provided and the love that is in front of her. Love and Buggy Rides  by Amy Clipston On her first day working ...

Hope Prevails: Insights from a Doctors Personal Journey through Depression by Dr Michelle Bengtson As a board-certified neuropyschologist, Dr Michelle Bengtson has seen the devastation that depression causes to people. In her practice she prescribed the most effective  treatments for her patients. When one day the tables turned and she was now the patient suffering from depression; struggling just to get thru one day at a time. Using the same treatments that she prescribed for her patients, she felt worse than before. Seeking to find the hope she needed to overcome depression she turned to the one book that showed her grace, The Bible. Taking from her experience, Dr Bengston writes the words that most people struggling with depression will recognize. Taking her training and blending it with a vital missing piece, she shows us that we can pull thru even if it does not feel like we are going to make it. If you are someone who is struggling with depression or you know someon...

Really Bad Girls of the Bible More Lessons from Less-than Perfect Women by Liz Curtis Higgs She did it again, Liz Curtis Higgs has taken the bad girls of the Bible and brought them to life in her latest book. We are introduced to some very overlooked women in the Bible, Jael, Medium of En-dor, Athalia and Herodias. Also some women that touched lives thru the things they did, Bathsheba, Tamar, the Adulteress and the Bleeding Woman. Each of these women did things that were bad or something that was considered bad in that time period in the case of the Bleeding Woman. Each chapter highlights one of these womens stories and at the end it gives us insight that we can learn from each of these women. I loved reading Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible, so when I got the chance to review this book I jumped at it. Liz does an amazing job of taking the stories of the women in the Bible and bringing them to life for us 20th century women. I would recommend this book to anyone as a study...

I wish He had come with Instructions The Woman's Guide to a Man's Brain by Mike Bechtle Oh my, there are times I wish I had this book before I gotten married. But truthfully it has came at the right time in my life. I struggle with talking to my dear husband and at times I was not able to understand why he went silent. After reading this book it has opened my eyes to how a man's brain works. We women are and can be very complicated, while men can be very simple and straight forward. This book is a must for all women it will help each of us understand our men better. This book was given to me for free for an honest review.

 Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ by Carol Wallace One of the bestselling novels of all time is back, Lew Wallace's great-great granddaughter has breathed new life into it for today's readers. It was really interesting to take a step back into the time period that Jesus lived in. The storyline starts with young Judah Ben-Hur going to meet his best friend after having not seen each other for several years. The years have passed these young men and changed each of them in very vast way that touches their lives. It will be years later before these two former friends turned enemies face off in the big chariot race. But the underlying story that runs thru this story is how Christ touched the lives of a family in several different ways.  This is my first time ever reading this book, it was exciting to be able to review this book. From the moment I picked up the book to read it till the end of it, it held my attention and made me want to see the movie.  This ...

Deadly Encounter by Diann Mills In the newest series FBI Task Force by Diann Mills we return to Houston Texas, where meet the heroine Stacy Broussard an Airport Ranger volunteer. What seems like a very peaceful day to go horseback riding turns into encounter with a the FBI as the witness to a possible homicide. Drawn deep into the very baffling mystery of the dead man and his dog, Stacy chooses to take over the care of the injured canine. FBI Special Agent Alex LeBlanc has his guard up, after having learned his lesson of trusting a witness who was not so innocent in the end.  As time passes it seems the investigation keeps leading the Agents back to the vet clinic and it's owner as one of the target in this act of bio-terrorism. When a whole community is faced with a major health emergency that pulls everyone into all different directions.   Will the FBI task force be able to find the person behind all of this before other lives are endangered.  Diann...