Archive for May, 2006

Expect The Sunrise

EXPECT THE SUNRISE by Susan May Warren FBI agent Stirling “Mac” McRae is on a sabbatical from the FBI to recover from his brother’s untimely death, a result of a accident with on a fishing trip. Burke is killed when Mac believes he sees a terrorist attempting to blow up the Alaskan pipeline. He is [...]

INTERVIEW | Lisa T. Bergren

Q&A with Lisa T. Bergren The Begotten Where did you get the idea for THE BEGOTTEN book? From where do you generally draw your ideas for writing? I read and enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, although I was upset by the heretical “truths” the author set forward. I wanted to write a competitor for Da [...]

Being a Girl Who Serves

Being a Girl Who Serves by Shannon Kubiak Primicerio The author of this book is still in her twenties. I was surprised when I went to her site to find out that she’s already written 4 books with more on the way. She travels around speaking to teenage girls. This book is devoted to telling [...]

Imposter

IMPOSTER by T. Davis Bunn Matt Kelly mostly gets along well with his mom, except when his mother is trying to force him into the political lime-light, a place he doesn’t want to be. Matt recently graduated from school and is now working for the FBI and trying to avoid the political scene as much [...]

Escape to the Morning

ESCAPE TO MORNING By Susan May Warren Search and Rescue worker Dannelle Lundeen is in northern Minnesota, training a search and rescue dog for the local police department. The dog is near certification when she learns about a teenage girl wandering in the wilderness. Against the sheriff’s orders, Dannelle takes her dog out into the [...]

The Pattern of Her Heart

Jasmine and Nolan Houston are happy in their marriage and have two little girls added to their family now. Alice Ann is five years old and has miraculously recovered from a potentially fatal illness. While having a belated birthday party for their daughter, Jasmine receives a telegram stating that her father’s lawyer is coming to [...]

Beyond the Lie: Finding Freedom from the Past

Beyond the Lie: Finding Freedom from the Past by Alice Smith As the title implies, the author of the book went through some very painful experiences in her life. The original experience was being molested when she was six years old. This started a chain of events that caused her to see life from a [...]

BOOK REVIEW | The Englisher

Annie Zook reluctantly agrees to give up her beloved art work and in preparation to join the Amish church. But even though she turns away from her creative outlet, she finds other things to tempt her away from the Amish, in the form of one very handsome Englisher, Ben Martin. Annie’s modern friend, Louisa Stratford, [...]

River Rising

Pilotville Louisiana in 1927 is the setting for this new and compelling account by Athol Dickson. An isolated outpost on the Mississippi, Pilotville is a stilt village bounded by swampland and accessible only by boat – an island of tolerance in a sea of racism. It is a place where folks seem to live together [...]

Decorating Schemes

“Decorating Schemes” is the second book in the Deadly Decor Mystery series. I’ve read good reviews about Ginny Aiken’s books so this series has been on my reading list for awhile. Haley Farrell is an interior decorator who manages to stumble into trouble. In the first book in this series, “Design on a Crime”, Haley [...]