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The Bible Tells Me So
Though this book may have been recommended highly by Rob Bell, author of Love Wins and What is the Bible? - "A great book about the Book" - that is not why I'm here. This is another notoriously...
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The Masterpiece
"A probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece." I finished this book in two days. I'm pretty sure that's the fastest...
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Breaking Cover
My favourite book so far this year! Granted the year is still young, but I anticipate recommending this incredible story all year long. Breaking Cover is the stranger than fiction account of...
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The Problem of God
"All of the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with the overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what...
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Isaiah's Daughter
"Whips cracked. Soldiers shouted. My feet blistered in a sunbaked wilderness. We kept walking, walking, walking..." She's done it again. Mesu Andrews has quickly become one of my favourite...
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Forty Autumns
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr....
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The House on Foster Hill
Colleen Coble comments that The House on Foster Hill, by Jaime Jo Wright, is "spellbinding and unputdownable". I think, ringing even truer, is Kristy Cambron's review--"The suspense grips early,...
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Water from the Heart
Water from my Heart by Charles Martin is a fictional yet realistic story, centered around a true story of tragedy, hardship, saving graces, and miracles. It tells of the major impact two men - each...
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Reclaiming Shilo Snow
Reclaiming Shilo Snow is book #2 following The Evaporation of Sofi Snow--another fantastic read from Mary Weber. In this high-stakes, action-packed sequel, Sofi Snow must conquer her fears, her...
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A Refuge Assured
I'm going to be honest for a moment. I have a hard time finding Christian fiction that I really, really enjoy, let alone Christian historical fiction. I find a lot of it to be cheesy and predictable...
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The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir
There is a note of heaviness to this book. The Gospel of Trees is a memoir written by a woman named Apricot Iriving, eldest daughter of missionary parents to Haiti. She weaves heartbreak through the...
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Knife
Definitely a new kind of "fairy" tale--quite literally! Knife, by R. J. Anderson is the first installment in a three-part series about a race of faeries that make their home in a monstrous oak tree,...
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Everybody Always
I had the privilege about five years ago to meet Bob Goff. If you are familiar with Bob and his book Love Does, he talks about his lodge that he and his family built up in an inlet on the Sunshine...
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The 49th Mystic
When Ted Dekker released the final title, Green, in his four-part series called The Circle, I thought that would be it for Thomas Hunter and his dreaming dance between worlds. I devoured that series...
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The Heart Between Us
The Heart Between Us by Lindsay Harrel opens with this:"That's why she had me write a bucket list... twenty-five things that will make my future brighter, that will stop giving my memories so much...
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Searching for Sunday
I think Rachel Held Evans' goal with her book, Searching for Sunday, is to help the reader fall back in love with the church--that is, the universal/international/global church; as in the body of...
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If I Live
If I Live is the third book in Terri Blackstock's If I Run Series. This series is a shoe-in for sucking you into a reading vortex, since I read the first two books in 8 hours. I paused life...
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The Lost Castle
The Lost Castle by Kristy Cambron, summed up in one word: AMAZING! I loved this book immediately, and therefore tried to read it at a normal person’s pace… BUT It pulled me in fast and well…. 5 hours...
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Finding Jesus in Israel
This book is a treasure. I am one of those people who only dreams about traveling to the Holy Land, walking the streets Jesus walked and seeing the setting of His ministry years. While my opportunity...
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Fawkes
I've always had an odd sort of fascination with masquerade masks. I judged this book by its cover, snatched it up, and delighted in the concept. The masks are used to signify an individual who has a...
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