Growing up, my mom had an old, battered paperback copy of The Family Nobody Wanted. When I was about five, while learning the finer points of reading in the bathtub, I dropped it in the water! I read …
Meet Mary Russell. Brilliant, lonely, and orphaned, she just happens to stumble onto someone while walking and reading a book. That person is none other than the imitable Sherlock Holmes! From that…
Hats off and congratulations to Orson Scott Card in Pathfinder for being brave enough, crazy enough, and brilliant enough to tackle time travel and not have the story implode! Pathfinder begins as r…
As a person who has spent a significant portion of her life in doctor's offices and hospitals, a book that promised to give a look at the world of medicine from the other side of the exam table immedi…
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a lyrical fable, simply told, of an Andalusian shepherd boy searching for his destiny and his treasure. Stylistically, one can almost hear an ancient storyteller unfol…
“Merely to live, merely to exist—what sense is there in that? A fly also lives!” So states the father of Reuven Malter, a young jewish boy in America. In The Chosen we meet Reuven and Danny Saunder…
I have loved the Chronicles of Narnia all my life. As a child, I loved to read them because the story was magical! I imagined in my mind the journey of Lucy, Edmund, Peter and Susan as they discover…
Literature at its finest, The Witch of Blackbird Pond is an unsurpassed coming of age tale that has survived the test of time, and will undoubtedly be found in the hands of readers for generations to …
Like many girls, I "grew up" with L. M. Montgomery's books about Anne Shirley, and they remain some of my very favorites! Anne of Green Gables, the first in the series, is the story of intrepid orpha…
The Evolution Of Thomas Hall has a little bit of everything—art, music, romance, conflict, miracles, and, most importantly, a journey of faith. Thomas Hall is a talented artist and self-professed agn…
The Door in the Forest by Roderick Townley opens with a bewitching description of a curious and alluring island, promising the kind of adventure that delights children ages 9-12. Interestingly, whil…
Imagine you live in a world of magic, but you refuse to acknowledge it or believe it until it starts to literally tear you apart--including your family and all you hold dear. The heroine has backbone,…
