Archive for the 'This & That' Category

Love Amid the Ashes

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

How Could Job Explain to His Wife That The Life They Once Knew Was Gone? “No, not my children! El Shaddai, Al-Uzza, by the gods, not my babies!” “Come, wife,” said Job with a sudden and unexplained calm. “Only one God can help us.” Drawing characters directly from the Bible and others from historical texts, […]

Bathsheba

Saturday, March 19th, 2011

Can She Ever Find Redemption After One Night of Passion with the King?   “As the last word dried on the page, Bathsheba read the message through blurred vision . ‘I am with child’ . She would not sign her name or address the message. He would know by the press of her husband’s seal […]

Angel Sister

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Angel Sister By Ann H. Gabhart It is 1936 and Kate Merritt, the middle child of Victor and Nadine, works hard to keep her family together. Her father slowly slips into alcoholism and his business suffers during the Great Depression. As her mother tries to come to grips with their situation and her sisters seem […]

Lady in the Mist

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

By virtue of her profession as a midwife, Tabitha Eckles is the keeper of many secrets. Dominick Cherrett is a man with his own secret to keep: namely, why he, a British aristocrat, is on American soil working as an indentured servant. In a time when relations between America and England rest on the edge […]

Stars Collide

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

  Her future’s so bright, she’s gotta wear shades Kat Jennings and Scott Murphy don’t just play two people who are secretly in love on a television sitcom–they are actually head over heels for each other in real life. When the lines between reality and TV land blur, they hope they can keep their relationship […]

Never Been Kissed

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

  New School = New Chance for That First Kiss Summer is ending, and for once that doesn’t seem like such a bad thing to Elise. She’s hoping that starting fresh at a new high school will turn her first-kiss prospects around. New guys, new friends, and a new lease on life. What she wasn’t […]

Fatal Judgment

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

 Fatal Judgment U.S. Marshal Jake Taylor has seen plenty of action during his years in law enforcement. But he’d rather go back to Iraq than face his next assignment: protection detail for federal judge Liz Michaels. His feelings toward the coldhearted workaholic haven’t warmed in the five years since she drove her husband–and Jake’s best […]

The Search

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

    A touching tale of secrets and young love in the Amish community, from the series that Romantic Times has called “refreshing.” Bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher has written extensively about the Amish, releasing both fiction and non-fiction books that have won the hearts of reviewers in both in and out of the Amish […]

Big Brother Strikes Again

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

  George Orwell thought he was writing fiction when he created 1984, but it appears that he just got the date wrong.  It was very unsettling to read that Obama wants to give the U.S. Commerce Department the authority to create an Internet ID for Americans.  This is allegedly not a government controlled system.  I […]

It Was a Very Good Year

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

 Did you reach your goals for 2010?  I have to admit to mixed results.  My biggie?  I’m debt free and have a five month emergency fund.  Financial goal met. What now?  I want to skip out of the rat race completely.  I’m on my way, but not nearly as quickly as I would like.  I’m now […]