I absolutely recommend reading Abandoned Identity by Tamara Tilley. This story will have you reeling at the possibilities. The excitement and constant twists keep you on your toes and you won’t want to miss a moment of it. Tamara Tilley did such wonderful work in her writing; you can literally see the tale unfolding in your mind. I believe this is one of those books whose story would make an incredible film!
Jennifer, being the strong professional that she is, is rightly irritated at the position she is thrown into at work forcing her to compete with her own boss. From the first page you will be intrigued by Ms. Jennifer Patterson and the peculiar relationship she shares with her boss, Harrison Lynch.
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The Moon in the Mango Tree has a little of everything within. It begins in the 1920’s and delves the reader deep into what life was like for women in those days.
Barbara has a beautiful voice, is training with the best teacher possible and has dreams of singing in the opera. She gets so far as to be given the opportunity to train with one of the biggest opera stars of the day. However, Iife never turns out quite like we think it will and Barbara soon finds herself married, albeit happily, and thousands of miles away from the opera stage.
Her life as the wife of a missionary doctor starts out rough, but eventually her husband, Harvey, ends up as the royal physician in Siam. The story takes the reader from the streets of the US to the jungles of the Orient and on to pre-war Europe. The book keeps readers guessing as the Barbara and Harvey travel around the world seeking to help each using their unique talents.
Based on a true story, The Moon in The Mango Tree is a great look at the life of women at the beginning of the twentieth century. Readers will identify with the characters search for their place in the world. As they travel across the globe chasing their dreams, they come to realize that God fulfills our desires in ways we ourselves could never even dream of.
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Non-Believers Beware. ADAM may cause your spirit to embrace what your own reasoning rejects. Ted Dekker has a way of enlarging the traditional scope of the common believer. He takes unpopular subjects like demon possession and illustrates each scene with a detailed precision that engages the readers’ senses causing a bone-chilling encounter.
One of the underlying stories of ADAM is the danger of a doctrine or philosophy that rejects supernaturalism and stresses one’s own dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason. Reasoning can be detrimental, allowing the mind, body and soul to be subjective regarding holiness. Though we have all been given the freedom of choice, however, not choosing is still choosing. Dekker reveals hard truths in this novel but the reader will carry the ending results far beyond the moment the last page is read.
ADAM leaves a lingering impression on the psyche that compels the reader to ponder the sincerity of one’s own intentions regarding that of a higher power. When reasoning out weigh faith the results are inevitable. It plays out to be a valuable lesson to one of the characters in this novel, a lesson to die for, or so it goes.
Alex, the main character in ADAM, is bound to his past. A prisoner of his childhood. The pain from yesteryears proves to be more than what Alex can handle. As a result, he conjures up the spirit Eve, a familiar spirit of his past, causing a murderous cycle that Alex won’t soon forget, and neither will the reader.
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Takiela Bynum
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Shelley has a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania. She sold her master’s thesis to a major commercial publisher after she graduated in 2002, and it subsequently became a double finalist in the 2004 National Readers Choice Awards. Grounds to Believe, her debut novel from Steeple Hill Books and the first book in her Elect Trilogy, won the 2005 RITA Award for Best Inspirational Novel of the Year from the Romance Writers of America. The second book in the trilogy, Pocketful of Pearls, became a RITA Award finalist the following year. Between books, Shelley enjoys playing the piano and Celtic harp, making historical costumes, and spoiling her flock of rescue chickens rotten.
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Author Jane Kirkpatrick is a clinical social worker who spent years directing a mental health clinic, then more years working on an Indian reservation with families of children with special needs. She says, “When I was old enough to know better, my husband and I moved to 160 acres of rattlesnake and rock in eastern Oregon to try our hand at ‘homesteading.’”
Her writing achievements include winning an award for the Outstanding Western Novel of 1996 (an award won by Barbara Kingslover and James Michener among others); having that same book, A Sweetness to the Soul be named to Oregon’s Literary 100: 1800-2000 identifying the 100 best books published about Oregon in the past 200 years. Other books have received awards such as BookSense 76 National Bestseller Pick and Best Novel of the West from Western Writers of America. Also, Literary Guild, Doubleday, Book of the Month and Crossings Book Club selections.
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Elizabeth Landis is Aware. Well, that is what she will tell you. She has people figured out. Either a person is Aware or they are Unaware. This is what she has firmly believed her whole life…until one day when God intervenes. In a single moment Elizabeth’s life is shaken to the core, changed forever. Clinging to her new found faith, Elizabeth reviews her life, an ill-kept garden in her hands. Hoping to discover the root of what caused her husband to seek the love of another woman, she examines her “garden”, weeds and all. Could she have foreseen and somehow avoided what had happened? What led to this betrayal? Is God’s grace sufficient to mend this broken relationship?
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In Bygones, Kim Vogel Sawyer has weaved a tale of a young woman returning to the roots of the Mennonite faith. Marie Koeppler left her Mennonite community when she was a young girl and in love. The death of a beloved aunt and the strange conditions of her will bring Marie, now a widow, and her daughter back to Sommerfield 23 years later. The Mennonite community is wary of Marie’s intentions and a spree of mysterious thefts point suspicion towards Marie and her daughter. Although Marie’s heart yearns for the faith of her youth, will the church and her family welcome Marie back into their community? And will Henry Braun, the man who once courted Marie, welcome her back into his heart?
Bygones is a well written book that will draw you into the community and leave you waiting eagerly for the next book in the series.
Review by:
Angela Meyer
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On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness takes place in the land of Aerwiar, oppressed by Gnag the Nameless and his followers as they search for the Jewels of Anniera. The Igiby family, guardians of the mysterious Jewels, are subject to the cruel whims of fate as they hide the Jewels of Anniera from Gnag the Nameless. Every where they turn, Gnag’s followers attack them, and ruin everything in their life, trying to get the Jewela from them. The Igiby family never reveals the secret, though, even at the cost of their own lives.
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MaryLu Tyndall dreamt of pirates and ships during her childhood days on Florida’s Atlantic Coast. She holds a degree in Math and worked as a software engineer for fifteen years before testing the waters as a writer. Her love of history and passion for story drew her to create the Legacy of the King’s Pirates Series which includes the three books, The Redemption, The Reliance, and The Restitution—not only book titles, or the names of pirate ships, but themes depicting God’s mighty intervention in the lives of heroic and often misguided characters. Even before being published, The Redemption was a finalist in both FTHRW Golden Gateway and Vintage Publishing Inspirations contests. Most recently, The Redemption is a Christy award finalist. MaryLu now writes full time and makes her home with her husband, six children, and two cats on California’s coast, where her imagination still surges with the sea.
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Summary of Reluctant Smuggler:
Looting of archaeological sites is big business in a thriving art and antiquities black market. When a desperate foreign government hires Desiree Jacobs’s security company to stop the hemorrhage, she runs afoul of a deadly art-for-drugs operation. Tony Lucano risks his rising career in the FBI to dive into the international underworld after her. Before either of them can come up for air, they must navigate through a deepening murk of ruthless looters, hair-trigger DEA agents, crooked government agents, and innocent bystanders caught up in an illegal trade beyond their understanding. Even if a miracle delivers Desi and Tony from evil, will their love survive the test?
Complete with a reader’s guide, this third book in the To Catch a Thief series explores the power of hope in the darkest of circumstances.
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