While it may have been slow moving, and I even put it aside for a few days to read something else, this book as a whole surprised me, and I finished it with the feeling that - I LOVED this book. The story and dynamic characters are beautifully written - I highly recommend this to all readers, but...
very good. good WWII story. This is on my "best book" list. It is s beautiful story with many lessons. I may even read it again.
I read this a while back but it was a good clean book. Rated: clean Surprisingly good, for something that's listed as "Christian fiction".
After the death of both parents, Elin Carlson feels she must protect her younger sisters from the advances of their uncle and leave their beloved farm in Sweden. With the help of another uncle, Elin arranges for the three young women to immigrate to America, in hopes for a better life. We follow ...
I read so many books, mostly historical fiction, that they can get lost in the shuffle easily over a short period of time in my mind. Lynn Austin is one of my favorite authors of this genre. I have read all of her books (with the exception of a few of her Biblically based books that I haven't g...
Lynn Austin did it again. This book really had me thinking. It is in the POV of southern families and former slaves just after the civil war. There was so much uncertainty and trying to rebuild their lives to the way they had been before the war without realizing that things will never be the sam...
Reading brings you to time in history where you can live it in the lives of others even in a fictional historical setting. You learn something that history books cannot obtain, the human emotions and struggles that give you a better appreciation of that time but also a appreciation of the time w...
Though Waters Roar is written in a different fashion than I've seen before, which sometimes added to the suspense, but also the confusion. The subject matter was interesting as it follows four generations of women within the same family and how they contributed to society during their time and pl...
I very much enjoyed this book. I've about read my fill of Civil War/Reconstruction stories (starting with GWTW) but read this because it's our book club selection for this month. I am always dismayed at man's inhumanity to man as shown in my beloved South. The book realistically portrays many of ...
4.5 stars.What a treat! A great reading adventure with many messages threaded through it.Alice always buries her nose in a book. She's young and flighty and a bit shallow. But a boring life as a minister's daughter with not much adventure or difficulty has made her find meaning inside the pages o...
Not only was this book better than I expected but much different than I was anticipating. I picked this book up at the library on a five minute break I had. Without time to really browse or even read the back cover I picked this one up from the recommendation shelf because I recognized the author...
3.5 stars!This book being the sequel to Candle in the Darkness (which I gave 5 stars to) didn't exactly meet the expectations I had. I loved the first book so very dearly (it made me cry, this one didn't), but this one, instead of focusing on the slavery during the Civil War period as the first ...
This is the second Austin novel I've read and found the style in which it was written, very similar to her other novel 'Eve's Daughters'. I enjoy this author's style and was just as captivated by this Historical Fiction as I was the other. Lynn Austin is a wonderful Christian author who has the t...
Listened to the first 6 CDs, skipped to disc 10 and didn't miss anything. Its historical fiction about Manassah's reign. Manassah basically felt neglected by his Dad Hezekiah who died young. He blames the early death on God. He happens to meet a sorcerer who makes him believe that his close frien...
Song of Redemption takes place right where Gods and Kings end. Hezekiah is now king. Even though he has gone through so much as a child and leading up to him becoming king. Hezekiah now faces a tough challenge. It is trail for him and his faith. The last thing he wants to do is fail like his fath...
Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Sometimes I read a book that just gets so inside me that I just... I just... CAN'T. Those books touch me in a very personal way; and they generally make my cry some place. Rilla of Ingleside is one of those, and so is Eve's Daughters. This book is the kind of book I just cannot ...
Story Description:Baker Publishing Group|September 1, 2005|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-7642-2991-6Chronicles of the Kings – Book #3 has rewarded Hezekiah’s faithfulness with great wealth and power, but the godly king has no heir. In desperation, his beloved wife takes forbidden measures to ensur...
I read this book because I was offered a free copy and because a friend recommended it to me. On the plus side, I agree with my friend that the author writes with more complexity than the marketing for her books would lead one to believe (if such a thing can be determined from reading one book)....
Passionate feelings. Love, Hate, Fear, Anger...I think everyone has dealt with intense emotions at some time or other in their lives. For the characters in Lynn Austin's third installation in her Refiner's Fire series, A Light To My Path, these emotions are an everyday occurrence. Ms. Austin take...
Caught in a nation splitting apart. Angered by those who would enslave others. Emboldened by a passion to make a difference. Torn between the one she loves and a truth she can't deny.Here is Caroline Fletcher's story.
The World's Fair.Chicago, 1893.It seems a perfect backdrop for what Violet Hayes longs to experience: a little mystery, a little romance.To be honest, it is more than a little mystery. She schemed her way to Chicago to discover the mother she barely remembered. As for romance...well, with the hel...
He was home. He hadn’t realized how much he’d missed Judah’s rolling green hills and rock-strewn valleys until he was gazing at them once again. Everything looked so wonderfully familiar—and yet so very different. The farther he journeyed into his country’s heartland, the more changes he noticed....
Asher and the other emissaries had returned from Casiphia with good news, and Ezra wanted to record all the details in his journal: Because the gracious hand of God was on us, they brought us Sherebiah, a capable man, from the descendants of Mahli son of Levi, the son of Israel, and Sherebiah’s s...
She had spent the long, hot day standing over the hearth cooking lentils and chickpeas, stirring Penina’s savory lamb stew, keeping the hearth fire going and the baking oven hot. Her master would return home from Jerusalem today, bringing guests, so the kitchen staff had to prepare an elaborate e...
Nancy was a sleuth who could solve any mystery, even the ones that baffled all the adults. She had “Titian” hair, a best friend named Bess, and drove a convertible. I wanted to be just like her. I could think of a few mysteries that I would have liked to clear up in my own life, such as why Mommy...
Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.Joshua 1: 2, 7The Jordan River is not impressive. Like most tourists who envision a river of Mississippi proportions...
She had avoided him since his release from the hospital, knowing that his devastating guilt would heal faster if he wasn’t forced to face her and be reminded of Jake. She also found it harder to hide her unending grief from Ben than from any other person. He knew her too well. He would see throug...
She sat up, clutching her blanket, her heart pounding. Should she run? Hide? Had the Samaritans attacked? The terrifying cries came from the tent right beside hers—from Zaki’s grandfather. Abba leaped out of bed to go see what was wrong, and so did everyone around them, it seemed. Yael heard the ...
Ginny said as she finished telling Rosa and Jean about her runaway sons. They sat around the lunch table, relaxing after a busy morning’s work. “I think you’re exaggerating just a bit.” Helen tried to brush the accolades aside, uncomfortable being cast as the heroine. “Your boys would have turned...