Your Mother Has Alzheimer’s
by Margaret Byers, Ann Guyer, and Nancy Willich
Review by David Mundt

If you are the primary care-giver of an Alzheimer's patient or know someone who is, this book is a must-read. Written by three sisters, this book provides an insider's look into caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s. It is their story of caring for their mother. It is written with great sensitivity and provides down-to-earth insights that these sisters wished they had learned earlier in their journey  Read the full review

Sisterchicks Go Brit!
By Robin Jones Gunn
Review by Cheri Clay

Skizzer
By A. J. Kiesling
Review by Deborah Khuanghlawn

Growing Friendships
By Tracy Klehn
Review by V. Colclasure

Many of us have great memories of the fun days of childhood, of going outside to play or neighbor kids knocking on the door. Then we grow up, get busy, and close the door to friendship as a life priority. Becoming aware that skills involved in friendship are often neglected, author Tracy Klehn determined to share her understandings and approaches to initiating, restoring and maintaining them.   Read the full review

Sometimes you just have to get away. That’s what Tiffany LeBoeuf intends to do when she suggests a vacation with her father. They’re both still recovering from her mother’s death, and the beach house in San Diego sounds perfect. But it becomes perfectly trying when a scheduling goof leaves her face to face with Eve Danfield, the epitome of mean. The old Tiffany would have bared her claws and dug in. The new Tiff tries—really, really tries—not to be bothered. Not even by the constant references to Eve’s boyfriend, Jeremy, to whom Tiff is not attracted.  Read the full review

Dancy Ames has your typical up and down life. Her father is an alcoholic and her mother is rather controlling, which is really the reason why her parents are separated. She is working her dream job at Lane Publishing with her eyes set on the Senior Editor Position and living in an apartment with her two best friends, Tabby and Laini. She helps out at the local coffee shop for the owner Nick, who she thinks is part of the mafia with his rough exterior but can’t help thinking of him as the father figure she so desperately needs.  Read the full review

Many books have boasted about its abilities to teach languages. However, from my experience, many books have not delivered. But this book, Learn Biblical Hebrew, has not only delivered but it also exceeded my expectations.  Read the full review

Hoerth and McRay have put together a helpful resource for people who want to know what kind, quantity, and quality of archaeological evidence exists for Bible times. Beginning with Mesopotamia and continuing with Egypt, Palestine, Persia, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, Hoerth and McRay systematically walk us through the archaeological finds pertaining to each of these regions and show us the significance to the Biblical narrative. Read the full review

Emily Benton is on the verge of becoming the first female to be elected President of America. Her campaign manager Kate Rosen is doing whatever it takes to make Emily's lifelong dream come true. This means making Emily look to be the best candidate possible and proving to the voters that she has what it takes to run the nation. However, there are those that want to stop Emily with threats and shootings. Kate also has to face the dilemma of what to do when her faith conflicts with the dark side of politics.  Read the full review

Many in North America think of Harry Potter or India when they consider the words “curses” and “occult”. After all, it seems like something that can only happen in movies or in places really far away. However, Unbroken Curses reveals the contrary to be true. In civilized and educated North America, curses and witchcraft are subtle and hidden. Read the full review

Jazmin’s parents have created a program that allows them to hear the Voice of God, a program that they have been kidnapped for. Jaz is only thirteen years old, a very grownup thirteen-year-old and has run to the one place her parents always told her to go if there was trouble: to her Uncle Charlie.  Read the full review

Pagan Christianity? Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices, may very well be the most important book written on the Christian church in the last two millennia.  Frank Viola and George Barna team up to give their readers a critical examination of the last 1700 years of church history.  Does the institutional church have any biblical and historical right to exist?  “Are the practices of the institutional church (the clergy/laity system, salaried pastors, sacred buildings, the order of worship, etc.) God-approved developments to the church that the New Testament envisions? Or are they an unhealthy departure from it?”   Read the full review

Haunting and powerful are two words that come to mind at the close of reading Roseanna M. White’s debut novel, A Stray Drop of Blood. Not since Francine Rivers’ Mark of the Lion trilogy has a book and its characters captured me so completely. From its rich, historical prose that depicts the era of Christ with startling reality, to a compelling love story that will both jolt and seize your heart, this is one of those rare novels that haunts you centuries beyond the last page. Read the full review

Elizabeth Westbrook is determined to prove to the world—and her Senator father—that a woman can be an outstanding photographer and journalist.  She has the perfect opportunity, too: a trip to the Colorado Rockies. All she has to do is send her work back to her employer at the Chronicle, and she may win a new position. One where she can use her own name.  Now all she needs is a guide through the wilds. . . and to keep control of the lung condition that had killed her mother when she was Elizabeth’s age. Read the full review

In the third book in the Daughters of Blessings series we are told the story of Grace Knutson, the daughter of Lars and Kaaren. Because she is deaf, she has always had to rely on everyone else, therefore earning the nickname "Grace Always." But she wants to break out of that mold, and her opportunity comes when Jonathan Gould arrives from the city to stay with the Bjorklands. His city ways and her country style seem to blend well together to the point where Grace leaves home to go to New York. Now she has to rely on herself to break barriers and prove that she can survive on her own.  Read the full review

A SUSPICION OF STRAWBERRIES
By Lynette Sowell
Review by Laura V. Hilton

Andi Clark loves her soap shop, and her new facial scrubs are taking off. She hopes that business will be even better now that Charla Rae Thacker and her bridesmaids are coming for a morning of pre-wedding pampering. Andi lets Charla Rae pick out her own facial scrub and then waits on the wedding party hand and foot while they are in her store. The last thing she expected is for Charla to keel over dead from an allergic reaction to strawberries—when Andi personally made a cherry facial scrub.  Read the full review

Reading this fast legal suspense story, Blood Brothers was like being buckled into an intense thrill ride.  You know the kind. The extremely amazing roller coaster ride with all its surprises, twists, turns, ups and downs.  I just couldn’t put this book down.  I kept reminding myself “This is just Fiction” (breathe)! What was so unnerving to me was the story line about the pharmaceutical companies and how they rule the world! (or would like to). It was fascinating and scary all at the same time when Rick Acker describes the internal workings of a large pharmaceutical company and how they interact with the FDA.  All the court room drama in the story was just as powerful. It reminded me of the TV show Law and Order “Criminal Intent” on steroids, very vivid and deep.  Read the full review

Dr. Rachel Donovan has worked real hard to build a name for herself in Shady Grove’s a town where she grew up. The people of this town voted her Citizen of the Year because she loves them and they know it. She wants to make people proud of her but how can she do that when the past is not far behind. Always overshadowing her achievements. She was the responsible child growing up, always easy going and someone you could rely on until that one summer when her world was turned upside down. One bad choice, that’s all it took to be out cast and all alone. She thought she would never recover from that one decision.   Read the full review

Well, I finished a great book today. My Heart Remembers by Kim Vogel Sawyer. It was a story of three siblings who are orphaned during a tenement fire in NYC. The eldest, Maelle, has promised her father that she would take care of her siblings. She does not want to see them split up. But unfortunately after spending a short amount of time in the city's orphanage, the three children are carted o to a train heading west, the orphan train. And inevitably the three children are split up to three different families.  Read the full review

Lily is not in the small town of Browning City, Iowa to stay.  Nothing in the world could possibly convince her to forego her dreams of city life—people, lights, and enough noise to keep her from ever feeling lonely again.  It’s what she wants.  That’s why she’s determined to avoid Ben Purcell. The new man in town sends sparks down her spine, but he’s made it clear he’s in Browning City is his final destination, which means he isn’t the right man for her. Read the full review

This is an adorable book about how God cares for his animals.  If your child is interested in animals he/she will enjoy this book.  It is meant for younger children but as an adult I even enjoyed reading it. Read the full review

This book tells the story of a high school boy falling in love.  The author does a great job letting you into the mind of the main character.  Dante, the teenage boy and main character, feels things deeply but quietly.  He notices a girl in class and is drawn to her.  I love how the story centers on the young mans viewpoint and yet you get to know the other characters as well.  Even as an adult reading this story you can relate to the emotions the characters feel.  The girl Dante is attracted to is Helen.  She comes alive in the pages with her well written responses to Dante’s advances.  Her family life is an intricate part of the story and helps you understand her character even better.  She has an adorable younger sister, Maristella, whose interaction with Dante is priceless.   Read the full review

Abby Warner, editor of her family founded and operated Oak Hill Gazette, struggles with financial pressures that threaten to destroy her 100+year old family business and heritage. She reluctantly agrees to a twelve-week audit by Campbell Publishing, a Chicago-based conglomerate that considers the Gazette for acquisition. When jaded playboy and heir apparent Mark Campbell shows up to do the audit, he insults Abby with his ignorant and condescending attitude toward her small town and business. Although a mutual attraction flickers between them, it can’t change the fact that in Abby’s eyes, MBA/CPA Mark is a jerk and a slacker. Read the full review

Sarah Woodward came to Kentucky as mail order bride—for a man who’d fallen in love with another before she showed up.  But Sarah’s convinced the Lord led her to Little Hickman for a reason, and she isn’t about to leave just because a husband wasn’t awaiting her.  She has plenty of money, and she doesn’t mind the distance between her and the man back east determined to marry her.  What she does mind is the way one Rocky Callahan is dealing with his niece and nephew, who rode in on the stage with her. Read the full review

Dani Richards thinks she was getting a night off from journalism when she takes her aunt to the theater—but that’s before she discovers a dead body in the next box. And before her old flame Caleb arrives, now an investigator for the local police. She gets to cover the case by default—but the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that the killer won’t rest until she backs off.  And that’s something she just can’t do. Read the full review

Hours after Catherine Newbury meets an intriguing American architectural student, Carter Danby, at her home in England, her father, a wealthy merchant, is wrongly accused of a heinous crime. Newbury is imprisoned, but not before he bundles his daughter off to America with two trusted servants. Five years later in Philadelphia, where Catherine has been posing as the daughter of her servants, she desperately works as a dress designer and seamstress with hopes to prove her father’s innocence and gain his freedom before it is too late.  Read the full review

“A sojourner is one who resides as a foreigner or stranger in an unknown land.”  So starts this book about our journey here on earth as Christians.  The author does a great job describing how we should be different then the world we live in.  There are ample scripture references to back up what she points out.  The personal examples from her life are filled with God’s grace and love.  There are current events used to help clarify the principles she teaches.  The best parts of the book are the explanations and definitions of different Bible verses, words or events.  You come away feeling you better understand every scripture she refers to. Read the full review

Why has the cell church strategy flourished in other countries but floundered in North America? Cell churches around the world are exploding in growth but not in North America. Joel Comiskey takes a close look at the North American culture and then attempts to provide a model that will work in this context. And to be clear, the cell church strategy is not the same as small group ministry. Cells differ from groups in their intentional emphasis on evangelism, leadership development, and multiplication.  Read the full review