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Daughter of Lot
Peach Street Follies
Peach Street Follies is a charming tale of family life and love that rings with the incomparable warmth of truth. Lyndsey and Emily Pennington are sisters who live happily with their grandparents and Rosie, the family dog. Papa and Nana help the girls make every day a new adventure and the reader feels pulled into this loving family as the children go on a trip to the county fair … hatch a plot to catch the tooth fairy at work … even find a baby in a little red wagon on their doorstep. I found myself mentally in a mud puddle with the children on a special rainy day, and shivering with child-like excitement at the mysterious happenings during an overnight camp-out. When the girls and Nana create a very happy snowy-day birthday for a young friend, one almost tastes that first oh-so-delicious lick of chocolate frosting right off the beaters.
Susan Browning Pennington has created a warm and welcoming world that will be enjoyed by the young and the young-at-heart. This reader felt herself pulled cozily into the arms of a loving family. Pennington took me back to a childhood I thought mostly forgotten, and helped me remember what it was like to find adventure in every moment, and something exciting in every new day.
Faith Awakened
Publisher: Lulu.com
Released: October 1, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1430311119
Faith Awakened is unlike any other book I have ever read.
Mariah is an Irish slave, living in a time referred to as the “Trouble.” Greed and wickedness in high places has done away with freedom, both religious and natural. Only a few people cling to biblical principles and to God – whom they refer to as the Awakener, and Whom they serve in secret. They call themselves the Awakened. Governmental attempts to control the slaves ultimately destroy much more. Mariah and a handful of other slaves must find a way to survive after this devastation.
Faith enjoys all the privileges of freedom. From an early age, she suffers occasional bouts of temporary memory loss, frightening episodes which she learns to deal with and go on. Always, she seeks a special relationship with God. Not finding it, she fills her life with friends and other interests. Faith bounces from place to place, from interest to interest, eventually finding a few close friends and a satisfying experience with her Creator.
Two women who exist in different worlds. They lead completely adverse lives and, for the most part, have widely diverse interests. Yet they are deeply connected in a way that will shock not only the reader, but the two girls as well.
Faith Awakened is an intricately woven, well-written tale. Almost without realizing it, the reader is helplessly entangled in the undercurrents of the story, compelled to discover the link between Faith and Mariah. Once it is discovered, there remains the anticipation of the girls themselves discovering their connection, and wondering how and when it will happen. The next page? The next chapter? So the pages continue to turn, and the reader continues to be drawn in.
An excellent, touching, and spiritually enlightening read. Your own faith will be awakened as you share the experiences of Bridges’ well-defined characters, and you will remember their story for years to come.
Tales of the Tree People
“To tree … or not to tree?”
by Lori E. Mazzola
This little book of talking trees, all children – young and old – must read. Packed with wisdom, full of fun, it holds a gift for everyone. Readers will be captivated with the world the author has created. There, a wish lets children fly … and trees can talk, and even cry! The characters, most extraordinary … a very important message carry. From a country home to a big rain forest, Mars and Venus are transported. They carry a secret and a special key, given to them by a weeping tree. But theirs is not the only one … Mom and Dad have secrets, too … so come! Join this special family on a quest to tree … or not to tree!
A Regal Heart
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This short novel is a lightning journey through a special woman’s unusual life.
On the day of Victoria’s second wedding, she looks back on her life up to that point. Starting at age nine when her father went off to “the hospital” and never returned, readers share the heroine’s memories of a sweet romance and a sadly failed marriage, a heartbreaking loss, and finding the courage to keep going in the face of despair. But finding new love with an old friend is not the only good thing that’s about to happen to Victoria. She’s in for a number of surprises on her wedding day and in the weeks to follow.
A Regal Heart is a sweet Christian romance with a strong message of hope and a gentle reminder that our lives and loves are in the hands of the Most High God. Its brevity makes it an easy read; the wholesome content makes it a clean one.
If you’re looking for short, sweet, godly fiction, you’ve found it!
Joys and Sorrows of Living with Adult Autism
Released: March 12, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1424170135
Many people are familiar with autism only at its lowest functioning level, if at all. There are, however, autistic people who carry on somewhat normal lives – holding down jobs, having families, and appearing at first glance to be healthy adults. They are “high-functioning” autistics. Only upon close interaction with the individual is it obvious that they have a problem.
