Rejected by society because of his hunchback and crippled arm, artist and bird lover Philip Rhayader buys an abandoned lighthouse and a large portion of the desolate marshes of Essex surrounding it. Here he cares for birds, paints, and sails, all through the 1930’s. One day a little girl, Fritha, braves her fear of this […]
Reviews: Fiction
Review: The Miting by Dee Yoder
Leah’s friend Martha is wild and rebellious, interested only in boys, movies, and partying. She is, understandably, in trouble in her Amish community, and Leah’s Daet and Maem worry about her bad influence on their daughter. So they encourage Jacob Yoder, hoping Leah will settle down and become a good Amish wife. And, as her […]
Review: Daisies are Forever by Liz Tolsma
Twenty-year-old Gisela Cramer, an American, is living in a nightmare. In 1945, as the Third Reich is crumbling, Prussian Germans are fleeing west, always west, to escape the cruelty of the invading Russians. Gisela is among them, taking along her cousin’s two daughters, her Opa’s best friend, two senile sisters, a disguised British POW, and her own anguished memories of a […]