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As a homeschooling veteran, I review middle-grade stories to help parents, librarians, and teachers choose good books.
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Free ebook: a Christian novel of the old West
Our featured free ebook today is Ruby, a historical novel by Lauraine Snelling, published in 2003 by Bethany House. Forty-nine Amazon reviewers give it a composite of four stars out of five. It’s published on Kindle.
Lessons from Fiction by Ada Brownell
Ever been amazed at how a person born in an author’s imagination becomes as real as your next-door neighbor? Novelists’ characters often seem to live and breathe, and many of them miraculously generate faith in the hearts of those affected by their stories—although readers know it’s fiction..
Asking God
If you’re like me most days, you don’t ask God for miracles.You don’t expect them, and they don’t happen.
My arthritis flares up. I mutter and take an aspirin. A lymph node feels enlarged. I make a note to ask the doctor about it. I need to avoid eating wheat, or my digestion is interrupted. And so on.
Free ebook for today: Light of Eidon by Karen Hancock
Light of Eidon by Karen Hancock, a Christy Award winner for fantasy in 2004, is our featured free ebook for today. You can get it on Kindle, where you can read it on the “cloud reader” without a Kindle device. One hundred seventy-five Amazon readers give it a composite of four out of five stars, the same ranking it gets on Goodreads with 688 readers.
Compassion is caught
Do you ever catch yourself saying something, then clamp your mouth shut with the realization you’ve become your mother? Or maybe you’ve glanced behind you to see your child rolling their eyes…just like you…
Miracles in the U.S.
I went to an amazing Global Awakening prayer conference just recently in Orlando. I and others laid hands on a woman and prayed for her back, injured in an accident. She pitched forward suddenly from the waist and then straightened. She had felt the vertebrae in her back realigning, she said. She could bend and twist without pain now. So cool. Thank you, God!
Free ebook: Autumn’s Shadow, a romantic mystery
Autumn’s Shadow by award-winning author Lyn Cote is my featured ebook, available today for free on Amazon Kindle. While it’s the second book in the Northern Intrigue series, I’m guessing that you could start with this book, since it seems to have a complete story arc. Twenty-six readers gave it a composite of four of five stars on Goodreads.
Miracles in Mozambique
So how would you feel if you, full of anger, helped beat a man to death and landed in jail for it. The next day the very same man that you beat to death appears at your jail, unscathed, credits Jesus, and says he is forgiving you and dropping all charges. Would you give your life to Jesus? This murderer did.
Winter by Keven Newsome, a review
It’s a supernatural tale–will God transform a troubled young woman into an Elijah-style prophet?
Two alternating stories about Winter Maessen unfold in this book, separated by three years.
A free e-book for your e-reader
Today’s featured free Christian fiction ebook is Julie Cantrell’s Into the Free, a literary novel of the South that’s gotten five stars at Amazon on 20 reviews.
What is your gift in the body of Christ?
I’ve been studying 1 Corinthians 12 about spiritual gifts this week, along with lots of other folks around the world in Bible Study Fellowship.
Why do we cry?
Some researchers looked into the question of what makes music listeners cry. British psychologist John Sloboda asked music lovers to identify passages that set off a physical reaction. Looking at 20 such music passages, he found that 18 of them contained an appoggiatura. That’s fancy music-speak for a note that lands just off the target and then slides home.