Title: Carnival Girl Author: Sonja Herbert Post world war 2, life is still difficult and the people are very poor in Germany. Sonja Herbert tells her true story about being raised in a traveling carnival by her parents, who used the carnival to hide from the Nazi’s during the war. I started out reading this…
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Hey Canada! by Vivien Bowers – Book Review
TItle: Hey, Canada Author: Vivian Bowers Gran has decided that she is taking nine-year-old Alice and eight-year-old Cal on a road trip across Canada “before she’s old and creaky.” With a sparkling combination of poems, silly songs, tweets and blogs, the trio records the trip for readers everywhere to share. Starting in St. John’s…
Preemie: Lessons in Love, Life, and Motherhood
Preemie: Lessons in Love, Life and Motherhood Author: Kasey Mathews. A story of a mothers journey raising a preemie baby. The honest truth and gut wrenching feelings of the first few days. The worries and concerns of the first few years. I myself had preemie babies, and the hardest part about it is the unknown….
The Mormonizing of America – By Stephen Mansfield – Book Review
With Mitt Romney running for president I was curious to know what this book was presenting to the world. A heads up, I am a Mormon. Stephen Mansfield, the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author, has highlighted the growing popularity of Mormonism—a belief system with cultic roots—and the implications of its critical rise. Mormons are…
The Most Important Catch – Book Review
Title: The Most Important Catch Author: Jaclyn M. Hawkes Publisher: Spirit Dance Books LLC; 1 edition (Mar 13 2012) About The Most Important Catch: She knew too much, and she’d seen too much. And the police refused to help. Knowing that she was to be the next scheduled death, Kelly Campbell hid under head to toe…
Crossed by Ally Condie
Title: Crossed Author: Ally Condie Series: Matched About Crossed: Rules Are Different Outside The Society Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky–taken by the Society to his sure death–only to find that he has escaped into the majestic, but treacherous, canyons. On this wild frontier…
Matched by Ally Condie – Book Review
Title: Matched Author: Ally Condie About Matched: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate… until she sees Ky Markham’s…
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas – Book Review How do you discuss a book about the Holocaust. This book was fiction so I went into it with a different perspective than the other books I have read on the topic. Told from a young boy’s perspective, we get a glimpse into a life of…
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult – Book Review
Jodi Picoult – Sing You Home About The Book: One miscarriage too many spelled the end of Max and Zoe Baxter’s marriage. Though the former couple went quite separate ways, their fates remained entangled: After veering into alcoholism, Max is saved in multiple senses by his fundamentalist conversion; Zoe, for her part, finds healing…