The Temple Curtain by Ruth Moblard DeYoung is a beautifully illustrated book about Nathan, a 12-year-old boy who lived in Jerusalem during biblical times. Poor Nathan is crippled and hates his situation, as well as his crutches, because it means he won't be able to...

In a unique and inspiring story that takes readers to the childhood of the famed Mary Magdalene, The Birthright of Mary Magdalene by author Joan Riise is definitely a book that will keep you reading from the very first page. At seven years old, Mary...

The Daughters of Jim Farrell is a Christian novel written by Sylvia Bambola. This story is set in the coal mine industry in the 1800s when poverty was at an all time high. Jim Farrell was hanged for murder, and as a result his wife...

In a very interesting take on Christian history, debut author Donald Joiner takes his readers on quite a journey in The Antioch Testament. When an American Army patrol takes control of a precious bundle that Christian Iraqi refugees were protecting with their very lives, a...

The Transformation of Bitty Brown is a Christian historical novella written by Joy Ross Davis. Bitty has been living on the streets of Dungarran since she ran away from the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage in Dublin, more infamously known as the Laundry, over a year...

The Cursed Ground 1 – The Child-Stealers (The Edhai) by A. Roy King is the first in a series of books based on Genesis. The Till are a peaceful people, living in isolation and living off the land. On a foraging trip, a family is...

In Angela Castillo’s The River Girl’s Song, the reader experiences the vulnerability of 1880s Bastrop, Texas. Sixteen-year-old Zillia Bright is abandoned with her baby brother on the family farm. The reader’s heart will ache for the lifestyle of poverty and backbreaking work endured by this...

First of all I would like to comment on the cover of the novel. The Fire, the Revelation and the Fall has such an attractive cover that I actually took the novel without reading its blurb. I never do that, ever. I never really believed...

The Gifts and the Fruits (The Freedom Series) (Volume 2) by Paul F. Murray is the long awaited sequel to Freedom’s Long March. Onesimus has been enslaved by Philomen. He meets Catia, another slave, and they get together to try to get the letters of...

The fascinating novella The Forbidden Customs of Africa by Mubanga Chipalo recounts the experiences of Andrew and Mary Hamazila and their son John, blinded by smallpox, during three decades of British colonial rule in Zambia. As Andrew and Mary come to terms with their son...