I'd give a half star if I could. I even tried to like it more. The first half of the book was thoroughly enjoyable; it was quietly spiritual. And then it turned. AT the halfway point I was really put off by the pushiness of the religious aspect. At the three quarter point I was like: "wait a...
This book was a 4+ in the pleasure it gave -- a page-turning fast read with delightfully vivid characters and an underlying puzzle/mystery that tantalized the characters as well as the reader. It is an interesting combination of historical fiction, Christian fiction, and mystery, with some qualit...
Book 3 in the Rendezvous With Destiny series. Stalked by bands of assassins, Jake and Pierre risk the ravages of the Sahara Desert to save a nation from the hand of tyranny.
John Falconer is a man whose spirit shines through the scars of his previous life as a slave trader. Falconer settles in a Moravian community on the Underground Railroad. He cherishes his new wife, Ada, and her son, Matt, whom he loves as his own. When the unimaginable happens, he and Matt face a...
As the Iron Curtain descends across battle-scarred Europe, American foreign policy races from crisis to crisis. With Stalin on the move, there's only one hope -- a strategy of containment to draw a defense against Communist expansion. At this moment in time, Jake and Sally are dispatched to Istan...
Sadly it was boring. I realized later that this is the third book in a series. Maybe there is something I missed but everything seemed to be explained; however, while listening I simply assumed a few things. Boy was I disappointed. This book was separated into two audio files. The two characters ...
When attorney Marcus Glenwood resigns from a prestigious corporate law firm to retreat to a small town in North Carolina and rebuild his life after a devastating personal tragedy, he suddenly finds himself in the biggest and most emotionally difficult case of his career.Fragile and spiritually wo...
When I finished this book, I asked myself: do I regret that I read it? The answer is: no, but I would never re-read it. Not that I don't like spy novels, but I found this one weak and unattractive. The main characters have no real depth and don't develop themselves, except that they fall in love ...
Award winning author T. Davis Bunn's latest novel, The Warning concerns Buddy Korda and the decisions he must make. The result of two weeks of nightmares, Buddy begins to make sense of disjoinged images. They meld together like an image projected on a screen coming into focus. And then, unmista...
An excellent suspense book.At the beginning I was confused by the chapters that are in italics. I figured that out and enjoyed the rest of the book very much. It is not like the 'normal' fiction books I read. The subject matter is deeper. Though, I like that about it. It is nice to read a more ch...
This book gets off to a slow start, taking a bit too long to let us in on what’s going on, but once it gets going, it’s not bad.Wynn Bryant is a man of means who obviously travels in better circles than I do, since at a mere suggestion from his sister, he becomes an interim Congressman. He wande...
Colonel Jake Burns had never imagined himself a spy, but the acclaim he won for rescuing a French Resistance hero and bringing a traitor to justice led to an even more clandestine assignment. He must venture into occupied Germany and secure the safe passage of two rocket scientists to the West. A...
As the main entrance to the medieval city of Cracow, Poland, centuries of history have passed through Florian's Gate. But for Alexander Kantor, now a successful antiques dealer in London, the place holds only one memory. It was here that he was arrested by the Nazis as a young man. There he passe...
As the questions begin, an extraordinary story unfolds. A story of love and loss and caring, of separation and reunion. Of small acts of heroism in a distant and war-weary English village, now half a century ago.As her grandmother shares this story with Marissa, the two discover that the most pre...
The sequel to Florian's Gate and Amber Room. Jeffrey Sinclair goes on a mysterious assignment into the crumbling Soviet empire where he is confronted by the struggle for power, wealth, and souls.
An eccentric old man is dying of cancer, and his painfully proud daughter must ask an embittered doctor for help. In this moving story of sacrifice, sorrow, and redemption, a quiet town in the Shenandoah Valley and the powerful city of Washington D.C. become the settings for a story of personal h...
Amid the Ravages of War, Will They All Discover True Peace?The war-weary American captain faces a nation in ruins and a daunting assignment on the border between Germany and France. A fighter from the French Underground is appointed to help him and becomes a friend. When they stumble upon stolen ...
The sun rose in a pristine sky and banished the bitter cold as though it had never existed. “A glorious morning,” Gregor said in greeting. “Let us hope it is truly the arrival of spring.” “Katya said that I should wish you a happy Name’s Day,” Jeffr...
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You’re making me nervous just watching you.” “Oh yes, sorry, of course.” The young woman in the crisp starched uniform settled down with the fluttering motions of a nervous robin. “I’m just so excited.” The older woman smiled. “First time, is it?” &...
All passengers alighted and carried their bags through customs before boarding the Spanish train. The French customs’ search was perfunctory. The Spaniards’ inspection was anything but. Fascist soldiers in gleaming black leather and funny feathered caps watched over the scowling customs officers....
Reverend Wilkins paused to wipe a steaming brow. It was approaching the end of the service, and the reverend was showing the strain. “Can I have me an Amen.” “Amen, brother.” “Say it!” “My heart’s on fire, now, for all those ...
Reluctantly Catherine’s arms relaxed. It was only for a few days. A few days and she would be back again, hopefully with an improving Antoinette. She shuddered at the thought of having her baby’s life threatened by illness. Poor Louise. Her friend had suffered so over the past months. Never knowi...
Yet when they started their final tack in the Bay of Fundy for their sunset run down Cobequid Bay, Nicole and Gordon and all the men bore the strain of those seemingly endless days. As the headlands at the Georgetown point rose high and emerald green to her right, Nicole felt a stirring within at...
The journey had proven more arduous than expected, with signs everywhere of coming tension between England and the colonists. The evening of his arrival back in Boston he was fêted by the finest of the city’s society. Everywhere he found himself surrounded by worrying talk and rumors of uprisings...
Anne had been laboring over how to word her answer, but thus far had only succeeded in supplying sheets of writing paper to the fire. Now as she broke the seal on the new envelope, her fingers trembled. She hoped Nicole had changed her mind about the outlandish proposal. Anne had planned to respo...
The weather was warm for the first week in March, with a wet wind blowing hard down the length of Pennsylvania Avenue. They could have hailed a passing hackney, but the hotel was visible from the front steps of the legate’s manor. Serafina’s parents followed behind Falconer, speaking in low, ters...
Fred was busy with an out-of-town call, so I took the bus up the hill to the orphanage. I was no longer afraid of being seen and stared at and whispered over. I could not explain why going to the Ministry had affected me in that way. O r perhaps it was the way the grocer's wife had greeted me. Or...
Angie said to Emma on the way out of town. “I spoke to a couple of the other teachers. They haven’t had two full sentences from her in the month she’s been here.” “I have her in my choir class.” Emma nodded her agreement. “Tried twice to get her transferred. But the princi...
And it was itself dwarfed by the newer Georgian structure. He walked the passage connecting the old house to the new. Lead-paned windows flanked him on both sides, overlooking carefully tended rose gardens. At the end was a winding staircase of darkened beams and pickled oak flooring, hard as sto...
She was back in Newgate Prison, crouched in the narrow recess between the empty fireplace and the side wall. The association room, the jailer called it, leering at her as he rattled his keys. Everything she thought had come since then had been only a dream. The surprise ar...