Life, Love and Books

Under a Cloudless Sky by Chris Fabry The present and the past meet in this book about a Southern Coal mining town fighting to survive in a time where the big companies rule. We meet several very interesting characters in this storyline. Two of them are  Hollis Beasley, a landowner who is fighting to keep the land that his family had owned for years. Also feisty Ruby Handley Freeman whose children think that she is need of some fresh direction her life. Two very different people both taking a stand for something in their lives, paths that have crossed in the past. The storyline goes back and forth from 1933 to 2004, telling a story from the childhood of dear 83 yr old Ruby.   A story that has been hidden for years and is now begging to be told to her loved ones. The truth that has been kept quiet of what happened the day of the Massacre of 1933. Hollis's granddaughter has a interest in writing a article for the memorial that is being set up for the victi...

The Memory Weaver  by Jane Kirkpatrick As a young child Eliza Spalding Warren was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now she is a mother of two young children with no mother to guide her in her marriage and child raising  Her husband chooses to make a new start in another territory, which means leaving the only safe place she has known and her mother's grave; while returning to to the land of her  captivity. Struggling with the memories that haunt her, Eliza longs to know how her mother dealt with everything  that happened in her life. Reading her mothers diary brings her closer to how her mother dealt with the struggles that life dealt her as a missionary to the Nez Perce Indians. Also Eliza's journey toward healing takes he back to where the massacre happened and she is able to forgive the ones that she thought failed her.    Thank you to Revell reads...