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The Edge of Recall, The (Paperback)416 pages by Kristen Heitzmann
Tessa Young is a landscape architect who specializes in the design and creation of labyrinths. For years she has immersed herself in the healing aspects of these elaborate structures, searching for God and hoping to make sense of the nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.
When Smith Chandler, a colleague who once betrayed her, offers an opportunity to reconstruct a remarkable Colonial-era labyrinth, she can't resist this project of a lifetime. But one evening, as dusk falls, an assailant ambushes Tessa and Smith and the real nightmare begins.
Safely Home by Randy Alcorn was an amazing eye and heart-opening book,plus being an exciting page-turner.After reading his The Ishbane Conspiracy, Deadline,Deception,and now this,he is my new favorite author of Christian Suspense.
After reading that, I read Glory,then immediately read Ruth,which were the second 2 books in Lori Copeland's second mail order bride trilogy(Brides of the West 1872).
I have no intention of reading the last book in this series,Patience,as I have run out of patience with this author's inability to keep her story lines and even the characters straight! Between the last book in the first trilogy,"Hope" and the first in this supposed continuation of the story with Glory,we get 3 different histories of how the character Ruth arrived at the orphanage!
With Ruth,it is a though a totally different author wrote this this book. It does not pick up where Hope ended with Marshall McCall having left,instead he is still here in this book,Ruth is even more antagonistic to him,after having just realized in the previous book that she truly cared for him,and let him know it,and readers will not even recognize this woman as Ruth,and she is a total stranger to us,like a newly invented character,because she is so different.
The author should have stopped this series at Hope,since from then on she can't remember her previous story lines. From the reviews at Amazon,her last book in this series Patience,is even worse!
Tonight,Lord willing,I plan to start reading a new author for me,Lori Wick,with her "Where The Wild Rose Blooms".
Tessa Young is a landscape architect who specializes in the design and creation of labyrinths. For years she has immersed herself in the healing aspects of these elaborate structures, searching for God and hoping to make sense of the nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.
When Smith Chandler, a colleague who once betrayed her, offers an opportunity to reconstruct a remarkable Colonial-era labyrinth, she can't resist this project of a lifetime. But one evening, as dusk falls, an assailant ambushes Tessa and Smith and the real nightmare begins.
Safely Home by Randy Alcorn was an amazing eye and heart-opening book,plus being an exciting page-turner.After reading his The Ishbane Conspiracy, Deadline,Deception,and now this,he is my new favorite author of Christian Suspense.
After reading that, I read Glory,then immediately read Ruth,which were the second 2 books in Lori Copeland's second mail order bride trilogy(Brides of the West 1872).
I have no intention of reading the last book in this series,Patience,as I have run out of patience with this author's inability to keep her story lines and even the characters straight! Between the last book in the first trilogy,"Hope" and the first in this supposed continuation of the story with Glory,we get 3 different histories of how the character Ruth arrived at the orphanage!
With Ruth,it is a though a totally different author wrote this this book. It does not pick up where Hope ended with Marshall McCall having left,instead he is still here in this book,Ruth is even more antagonistic to him,after having just realized in the previous book that she truly cared for him,and let him know it,and readers will not even recognize this woman as Ruth,and she is a total stranger to us,like a newly invented character,because she is so different.
The author should have stopped this series at Hope,since from then on she can't remember her previous story lines. From the reviews at Amazon,her last book in this series Patience,is even worse!
Tonight,Lord willing,I plan to start reading a new author for me,Lori Wick,with her "Where The Wild Rose Blooms".
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The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman.
:O It's like the Chronicles of Narnia for Atheists.
:O It's like the Chronicles of Narnia for Atheists.
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Where The Wild Rose Blooms,and Whispers Of Moonlight by Lori Wick,enjoyed them both.
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LoL. My favorite in that series was The Subtle Knife. I still need to finish the last book.
I have sort of readers block right now. Most of my reading has been nonfiction. But I want to read fiction again. I am hoping that the next Song of Fire and Ice book really IS coming out in September like the bookstores are saying. But until then it's torture. No books are jumping out at me and I've read everything I wanted from my favorite authors.
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Flower, A Story Of The Nativity
by Wayne Stahre
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ISBN 9781606430811
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The story of the birth of Jesus has been the subject of innumerable works of art, literature and music. But in the past two thousand [years] of storytelling no one has told the tale from the perspective of the innkeeper's wife. No one until Wayne Stahre put pen to paper to create "Flower, A Story Of The Nativity". With a genuine flair for engaging narrative, author Wayne Stahre combines both fictitious characters (such as Flower herself) with historical figures and retells the Nativity story with a realism that draws upon archaeology, history, and meticulous biblical research. Of special note is how within the context of an original and creative approach, "Flower, A Story Of The Nativity" deals with such implicit and explicit questions as to the identity of the 'Wise Men', the nature of the Star of Bethlehem, the appearances of the angels Gabriel and Michael, the background of the Roman census of Judea, why the God of Israel permitted the murder of children by Herod's forces, why there are differences between the genealogy accounts by Matthew and Luke, why Matthew says Jesus and his family fled to Egypt to escape Herod's slaughter of the innocents, when Luke's account has Jesus being taken to Nazareth after his birth. An entertaining and highly recommend read, "Flower, A Story Of The Nativity" is an informed and deftly written historical adventure novel that would make an exceptionally popular addition to any personal reading list or community library fiction collection.
by Wayne Stahre
Habitation of Chimham Publishing
ISBN 9781606430811
available online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Books a Million
Review by Midwest Book Review
The story of the birth of Jesus has been the subject of innumerable works of art, literature and music. But in the past two thousand [years] of storytelling no one has told the tale from the perspective of the innkeeper's wife. No one until Wayne Stahre put pen to paper to create "Flower, A Story Of The Nativity". With a genuine flair for engaging narrative, author Wayne Stahre combines both fictitious characters (such as Flower herself) with historical figures and retells the Nativity story with a realism that draws upon archaeology, history, and meticulous biblical research. Of special note is how within the context of an original and creative approach, "Flower, A Story Of The Nativity" deals with such implicit and explicit questions as to the identity of the 'Wise Men', the nature of the Star of Bethlehem, the appearances of the angels Gabriel and Michael, the background of the Roman census of Judea, why the God of Israel permitted the murder of children by Herod's forces, why there are differences between the genealogy accounts by Matthew and Luke, why Matthew says Jesus and his family fled to Egypt to escape Herod's slaughter of the innocents, when Luke's account has Jesus being taken to Nazareth after his birth. An entertaining and highly recommend read, "Flower, A Story Of The Nativity" is an informed and deftly written historical adventure novel that would make an exceptionally popular addition to any personal reading list or community library fiction collection.
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I finished the Sisters & Brides novellas by Irene Hannon and Three Weddings and a Giggle by 3 authors, including Liz Curtis Higgs, Carolyn Zane and Karen Ball. I'm in a wedding mood I guess. 
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Learn The Bible In 24 Hours by Chuck Missler.
Wonderful overview of the books of the Bible,and study guide. I like is so well,that before I barely got into the copy from my library,I knew I wanted to own it myself,so I ordered it! I want to spend much more than 24 hours absorbing the method and info here.
Wonderful overview of the books of the Bible,and study guide. I like is so well,that before I barely got into the copy from my library,I knew I wanted to own it myself,so I ordered it! I want to spend much more than 24 hours absorbing the method and info here.
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I just finished re-reading Rising Sun by Michael Crichton. I'd forgotten how great it is.
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Freefall by Kristen Heiztmann another good Christian Thriller/Suspense/Mystery by her
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I just read "Island in the Sea of Time" by S.M. Stirling. It was a really interesting concept. Most time travel novels you see are one or two people together - but this was based on the entire island of Nantucket traveling from modern time back to 1250 BC. Fascinating ideas.
In the book there was a renegade group of Christians who believed you should go join Moses and other Biblical characters right now. Others who thought they lost their faith because Christ hadn't died yet. And a bunch of hippies who thought for sure that the Native Americans on the mainland were friendly lots who were just going to be subjugated without a thought that they might actually be vicious, dangerous, or not need 'help'.
There were a lot of neat concepts that he looked at in the book. Not a Christian book though...be aware! A lot of grandstanding on what he believes to be right and wrong and 'fixing' mistakes that people made in government. Some of it on target - some of it whacked.
In the book there was a renegade group of Christians who believed you should go join Moses and other Biblical characters right now. Others who thought they lost their faith because Christ hadn't died yet. And a bunch of hippies who thought for sure that the Native Americans on the mainland were friendly lots who were just going to be subjugated without a thought that they might actually be vicious, dangerous, or not need 'help'.
There were a lot of neat concepts that he looked at in the book. Not a Christian book though...be aware! A lot of grandstanding on what he believes to be right and wrong and 'fixing' mistakes that people made in government. Some of it on target - some of it whacked.
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'Black Swan Green' by David Mitchell. I loved 'Cloud Atlas' but am enjoying this even more.
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Just finished reading the second book in the Christ the Lord series by Anne Rice.
Much better than the first because it's easier to see a 30 year old man using mature terminology than it is an 8 year old...God or not I really don't think Jesus talked like a grown human being when he was a kid.
Much better than the first because it's easier to see a 30 year old man using mature terminology than it is an 8 year old...God or not I really don't think Jesus talked like a grown human being when he was a kid.
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I read that before the book I'm now reading. I'd only ever heard of Anne Rice in connection with her vampire novels before, and they're not my cup of tea so had never read them. I really enjoyed 'Christ The Lord: The Road to Cana'. It put flesh on the bones of the Gospel stories and made me consider Christ the man as, maybe, the folks around him saw him. I know it's a work of fiction but it raised interesting points about the humanity of Christ. It occurred to me as I read that he gave up even more for us than I had previously considered. According to the story, he was constantly taking criticism and comment because, at the age of 30, he was an unmarried man and I realised that he sacrificed the prospect of family life. The description of his baptism and the temptation in the wilderness was, IMO, particularly powerful.
I haven't read 'The Road to Egypt' yet, but this one is definitely worth a read. Does anyone know if Anne Rice plans to continue the series?
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