BOOK REVIEW | Gabby, God’s Little Angel

Title: GABBY GOD’S LITTLE ANGEL Author: Sheila Walsh Illustrator: Marina Fedotova Publisher: Tommy Nelson September 2011 ISBN: 1400317150 Genre: Inspirational/childrens Gabby is an accident prone little angel, about to be assigned to guardian angel duty on Earth. She is assigned to a little girl named Sophie who is somewhat of a tom-boy. When Gabby gets [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door

Title: DON’T CHECK YOUR BRAINS AT THE DOOR Authors: Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler Publisher: Thomas Nelson August 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4003-1720-2 Genre: Inspiration/religion/general Do you know what you believe about your faith? Do you know why it’s true? DON’T CHECK YOUR BRAINS AT THE DOOR is a guidebook that has answers you’re looking for to [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Amish Values for Your Family

Title: AMISH VALUES FOR YOUR FAMILY Author: Suzanne Woods Fisher Publisher: Revell August 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8007-1996-8 Genre: Inspirational/nonfiction/Parenting Amish seem to know what they are doing when it comes to raising strong families. They enjoy life together, work together, play together, and even have strong extended family ties. What do they do differently than us? [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Too Blessed to Be Stressed

Title: TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED Author: Debora M. Coty Publisher: Barbour Books August 2011 ISBN: 978-1-61626-346-1 Genre: Inspirational/women’s issues Does your to-do list have footnotes? Are you imprisoned by the joy-sucking dully-funks? If you answer yes to either of these questions, then maybe it’s time for a healthy dose of truth gift-wrapped in humor. [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Thunder in the Morning Calm

Title: THUNDER IN THE MORNING CALM Author: Don Brown Publisher: Zondervan August 2011 ISBN: 978-0-310-33014-1 Genre: military/fiction/inspirational Lieutenant Commander Christianson Pendleton “Gunner” McCormick is a Naval Intelligence Officer tasked with briefing the current naval carrier strike force in the Yellow Sea with a new mission. This mission is intended to initiate a show of presence [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Uncovered: Revealing the Secrets of a Sexy Marriage

Title: UNCOVERED: Revealing the secrets of a sexy marriage Author: Susie Davis Publisher: Revell May 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8007-3392-6 Genre: Inspirational/love and marriage UNCOVERED is a book that shares the secrets of understanding your husband and making your marriage your top priority. Ms. Davis suggests using biblical wisdom, practical sense, and a bit a female charm. [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Cascade

Title: CASCADE Author: Lisa T. Bergren Publisher: David C. Cook June 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4347-6431-7 Genre: Inspirational/time travel/young adult Gabi Bertarrini has just returned to modern times from the fourteenth century where she left her heart. She finds her mother, but they are in trouble for disturbing an excavation site where her mom had been hoping [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Tea for Two

Tea for Two is the second book in the “Tea with Millicent” series, but I didn’t feel the lack of not having read book one. Tina Milano is a Christian counselor in town, and she is a frequent customer of Milly’s tea shop, and the ladies are good friends. When a man catches her eye, [...]

INTERVIEW | Miranda Parker, author of A Good Excuse To Be Bad

Miranda, describe yourself for our visitors. I’m the color of hazelnut. However, my hair is fluorescent beige…lol. I am Miranda Parker. I write romcom(romantic comedy) suspense for Kensington Publishing Corp. My novel, A Good Excuse to Bad is Book one of the Angel Crawford Bounty Hunter Series. It’s the story of a bad girl gone [...]

INTERVIEW | John Busacker, author of Fully Engaged

Q: What are the biggest barriers that keep people from leading Fully Engaged lives? The majority of people I encounter on a daily basis—leaders, coaches, parents, students—fall into one of two disengaged traps: Either they are overwhelmed by buying into the lie that “More is better”. As a result, they are on the verge of [...]