Bygones

Bygones

Kim Vogel Sawyer

Barbour Publishing, Inc.

P.O. Box 719

Uhrichsville, Ohio 44683

www.barbourbooks.com

978-1-62029-720-9

$11.99

348 Pages

After doing so many reviews for people, there comes a point where I need to read a book that gives me “SOUL”, food. This book did not let me down. It is a fast read about a young Mennonite girl named Marie who falls in love with young man who is a truck driver. She runs away with him and together they are happy. But after two years of marriage and one baby her husband dies.

She returns to her parent’s house and she is meant by her father who tells her to leave. That she is dead to him. She could never be a part of the community again. She is devastated and leaves with her young daughter.

Only one relative keeps in contact with her and it is her single aunt Lisbeth. Marie named her daughter after her, but calls her Beth. Then one day Marie’s ex-beau Henry Braun showed up at her home bearing bad and good news. Her aunt has died, and left her home and a small café to her daughter Beth. There is but one catch and that is she has to move back to Sommerfeld, Kansas for three months.

What happens next is really life changing.

Rated G

A Rendezvous to Die For


Betty McMahon

Self-published with the tools and support of the people at Lulu.com

978-1-257-93132-3

$14.38

267 pages

Sandra Heptinstall

Reviewer

This book has more twist and turns than apples falling off a tree at harvest time. I had to stop and write down who and what each character played out in the story. I enjoyed the heroin Cassidy and how she tried to handle whatever was thrown her way.

I love the descriptions of the weekend reenactment in the fictional town. The author hits the mark on that. I have been to one myself and could not do a better job than the author has. Plus the way she describes everything around her is interesting. Even though the ending of this book will surprise you, in my own opinion this is not a five star book.

I could not just sit and enjoy reading. I would have to look at my list to see who was who. Or add to my list. If I could go 3.75 I would, but since I can’t then I will bump this book to a four stars. I can see how Cassidy could solve even more mysteries from this book.

The Disillusioned


D.J. Williams

West Bow Press ……A Division of Thomas

1663 Liberty Drive

Bloomington, IN 47403

www.westbow.com 1-(866) 928-1204

978-1+4497-8600-7

$24.95 paperback

375 pages

Sandra Heptinstall

Reviewer

The back of this book will tell you a lot about the story that lies within. But you could never imagine what will happen. While it is a work of fiction there is so much truth in it. It is a book that will haunt me the rest of my life.

This is one of the best books I have read in this genre. The way it is thought out and crafted is brilliant. Right from the start you realize it will not be a book you will want to set aside and do other things. For me it was read as much as I can. I even cried at parts of the story.

The atrocities you will read about are happening in different countries every day. My heart breaks whenever I read about children and adults being tortured.

The author gives us a great story that is filled with realism. Thank you D.J. Williams for working so hard and opening our minds to things we know happens, but do not think about enough.

At the end of this book you will see some of the organizations fighting against slavery and child trafficking. Please everyone take a look for yourselves. Buy the book!
  
Rated PG

DETOUR TRAIL

I found this so interesting on many levels. The main character is Lorrie and her uncle they were headed out west on a wagon train. Lorrie had many aunts and uncles who wanted her to stay with them as she had inherited a lot of money when her parents died. She had only one uncle who loved her for herself, and did not need her money. So they decided to go out West where they would never find her.


Along the way to the Oregon Trail her uncle was murdered and she was all alone. She had two wagons and many animals. The Wagon Master informed her that she would have to leave the wagon train and she should be able to find someone to buy her wagon and stock. Then she could head back East to where she had family members to take care of her.

Well Lorrie had other plans. She gathered up some other people and they decided to stop where they were and build their own town. It was Lorrie who found people to come to where they were and start a new beginning.

One thing I found really profound was that I did not know the real women of the West that made a name for themselves. One was Pearl Hart. She was not a Christian woman but when she was arrested, I found her words at her hearing very profound. “I shall not consent to be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making. “ She was release from jail.

There were many women who helped shape our country and I am ashamed I never took the time to read about them. I found this book to be a good read for anyone.

Rated G

Sea of Crises

It was once said, "In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you get through, but how many can get through you."




This book blew me away. I have never read anything close to this that had me guessing as much as this book did.



Commander Bob Cartwright was an astronaut and had been on a space mission. As the capsule was returning to earth the heat shield had failed and the three bodies inside were burnt beyond recognition.



Years later one of Cartwright son's discovered information and called his two brothers to meet him. He found evidence that it might not be their father who was in the capsule. But if that was true, then what had happened to their dad?



I really liked this book and the development of each character. The author really spent a lot of time in taking totaly different personalities and making them work as one unit.



Excellent Read and worth five stars.

The Little Amish Matchmaker

Linda Byler

Good Books (Good Enterprises, LTD)

3513 Old Philadelphia Pike

Intercourse, PA 17534-7007

www.Goodbooks.com

978-1-56148-776-9

$13.45

187 Pages

Sandra Heptinstall

Reviewer

What a fun and delight it was reading this book. It was not your normal fictional book about the Amish. We find a younger brother named Isaac, who decides to get his older brother Simon to go out with his new school teacher. Simon tells him she was out of his league. No one as beautiful as her would go out with someone like him.

That just added fuel to the fire. Isaac tried in every way possible to get Simon to ask her out.  But all to no avail. Then in school the girl who sat across from Isaac would lift her desk top up and put her head in her desk and was always be blowing her noise. Isaac thought he would go crazy as he knew she did it just to irritate him most of the time. No one made the kinds of sounds like she did when she blew her noise.    

Then there was another girl who Isaac liked a lot who had problems with talking. She stuttered when she talked. Isaac tried in every way to help her but nothing helped. Poor Isaac did not know what to do. He had given up on his brother asking his teacher out. In fact he gave up on girls also.

This is just to give you a sample of what is in store for you when you read this book. I will be reading it more than just once. I have laughed and smiled a lot while reading this book.

Rated G

WINDS OF REDEMPTION

Winds of Redemption


Harvey Goodman

Jupiter Sky Publishing, LLC

2689 County Road 318

Suite 100

Westcliffe, Colo. 81252

978-1-617507-29-8

$14.95

337 pages

Sandra Heptinstall, Reviewer

I really liked the cover of this book. It brought back memories of my family sitting in front of the TV watching a good western. We also had a big bowl of Jiffy Popcorn to munch on and soda to drink. Soda came in glass bottles then.

This book is well written and the characters are engaging. This was my first time reading a western since I was about 11 years old. This book really delivers to all that like Western books.