When baby Emma has croup and can hardly breathe, her young widowed mother, Celia Anderson, is desperate. God sends Mark, a stranger looking for a room at Widow Anderson’s boarding house, to save Emma. At least that’s what Celia says, but Mark does not have much use for God. It’s 1882 and Mark is scouring […]
Reviews: Fiction
Review: The Christmas Pony by Melody Carlson
Eight-year-old Lucy Turnbull wants a pony for Christmas, even though she knows it’s an impossible dream. Nonetheless, when her mother puts her to bed, Lucy prays for a pony. Then, seeing her widowed mother’s face, she asks for paying boarders to fill the upstairs bedrooms of their home. Finally she realizes that what she really […]
Review: A Cry From Egypt by Hope Auer
Terrified, Jarah fled through the darkening streets of Rameses. She had been late bringing her mother’s weaving to Pharaoh’s palace, and Hebrews were not allowed outside Goshen past curfew. Jarah was almost home when an arm shot out of the darkness and clutched her shoulder…. As a young girl in Egypt, Jarah knew what it […]
Review: Life with Lily by Kinsinger and Fisher
Little Lily Lapp is Amish, and that colors her whole life. Even so, she is like any other little girl, loving her doll, learning to be friends, enjoying the family’s animals, facing the new world of school, loving her family. She’s helpful, gets into trouble, and enjoys the many simple pleasures of childhood in […]
Review: All Things New by Lynn Austin
God will make all things new, we are promised in Revelation 21. Then the newness will be amazing and blissful, but here and now on this earth, suffering is often involved when things change. Josephine, having survived the Civil War with her mother and her sister, discovered this fact as she moved back to her […]