January's Books
Starting the year fresh:
a Comic - Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy (HardCover Edition) - published Dec 2009, artists include Olivier Vatine, Fred Blanchard, Edvin Biukovic
I enjoyed reading this Dark Horse comic, alot.
A victorian era Mystery - Mrs. Jeffries and the Merry Gentlemen: by Emily Brightwell (2013).
Not the first book in the series. That said, I was able to follow along well enough, despite not knowing immediatly which characters were part of Inspector Witherspoon's Household staff, and which individuals were brand new for the book. It takes a group effort to solve the murder while giving Scotland Yard's detectives and inspectors the right nudge to catch the murder in time to prevent another untimely death.
a Focus-on-the-Family four-in-one book: Danger Lies Ahead: Paul McCusker (2006)
In this writen omnibus, the Adventures in Odyssey don't seem to stop, as Mark Preston finds himself paired with the local bully while Lights Out at Camp What-A-Nut ('93), then finds out his parents are moving out of Odyssey and dealing with the fallout in The King's Quest ('94). Meanwhle, Jack Davis befriends a new kid at school, and learns that Danger Lies Ahead ('95). When Pattie Eldridge spends a day at the canrival, she encounters a mysterious curse in A Carnival Of Secrets ('97).
a dystopian novel ~ Partials by Dan Wells (2012).
Kira, a medic-in training, has been labled a rule breaker, a trouble maker, and a revolutionary by different divisions of the government that sprang up after ninty-nine point ninty-five percent of the human population died to a plague virus enginered by the Partials ... or so every survivor has been lead to believe. All Kira wants to do is save her best friend's unborn child from the ravages of the virus that has taken every single baby born in the last eleven years.
A historic story: 1776: Sons of Liberty: a Novel of the American Revolution by Elizabeth Massie. (2000)
"On his farm in Maryland, sixteen year old Caleb Jacobson waints anciously for news from Bostion: rebellion against the oppressive tyranny of King George III of England and his soldiers. War! Caleb longs to join the volunteer army of Genral Washington and win the fight for freedom, but he is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and" his black neighbors, enslaved by an evil master. "[Caleb] knows firsthand the horrors and hardships of slavery and wonders what good an American victory will do if [people] remain shacled in bondange. Then comes news that the British Governor Lord Dunmore promises freedom to any slave who joins his army against the Americans. Can he be trusted to keep his word?
"Caleb will have to choose."
an alternatue universe - Harry Turtledove's Gunpoweder Empire (2003) - the first novel in CrossTime Traffic.
Jeremy Solter and his family are traders during the summer - traders bringing in technological marvels in the form of wind-up watches to a world where Rome never fell, and the industrial revolution never happened. Can he keep himself and his sister safe when an accident issolates them from everyone and everything they ever knew back home?
a romance (or four): Christmas Letters: Letters of Romance during World War II. "Relive the tragedies and triumps of World War II ... see how God's steadfast presence brings His people through each trial. . . and rejoice in His Greatest 'Love Letter,' celebrated each Christmas--even in wartime."
Forces of Love by Susan Downs ~ Captain Jack Johnson fell in love with his pen pal. However, his time behind enemy lines has changed him, and he wonders (if he ever finds Caroline Harrington of Boston), will she welcome him into her family?
The Missing Piece by Rebecca Germany ~ Joyce Aldergate wanted more from life than her sheltered upbringing promised her, so she became involved in Europe as an Army Nurse. Will a chance encounter in an evacuation hospital reminder her of the source of true piece?
Christmas Always Comes by Darlene Mindrup ~ Kenshin Takano brings sad news to his late brother's fiancee. Mitsu, lives in a Japanese-American relocation center, and has learned to never expect comfort or help from strangers. Is a broken engagement just the beginning of trying circumstances, or is it the very thing she needed
Engagement of the Heart by Kathleen Paul ~ "Betsy Anderson has recieved a letter form a soldier in an army hospital informing her that her fiance' has died. Betsy is confused. She wrote many patriotic letters to soliders in servcie, but she has never been engaged. She goes to the hospital and meets Sargent Kevin Coombs. Will she be taken as a flirt or a soldier's Christmas Angel?"
a Comic - Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy (HardCover Edition) - published Dec 2009, artists include Olivier Vatine, Fred Blanchard, Edvin Biukovic
I enjoyed reading this Dark Horse comic, alot.
A victorian era Mystery - Mrs. Jeffries and the Merry Gentlemen: by Emily Brightwell (2013).
Not the first book in the series. That said, I was able to follow along well enough, despite not knowing immediatly which characters were part of Inspector Witherspoon's Household staff, and which individuals were brand new for the book. It takes a group effort to solve the murder while giving Scotland Yard's detectives and inspectors the right nudge to catch the murder in time to prevent another untimely death.
a Focus-on-the-Family four-in-one book: Danger Lies Ahead: Paul McCusker (2006)
In this writen omnibus, the Adventures in Odyssey don't seem to stop, as Mark Preston finds himself paired with the local bully while Lights Out at Camp What-A-Nut ('93), then finds out his parents are moving out of Odyssey and dealing with the fallout in The King's Quest ('94). Meanwhle, Jack Davis befriends a new kid at school, and learns that Danger Lies Ahead ('95). When Pattie Eldridge spends a day at the canrival, she encounters a mysterious curse in A Carnival Of Secrets ('97).
a dystopian novel ~ Partials by Dan Wells (2012).
Kira, a medic-in training, has been labled a rule breaker, a trouble maker, and a revolutionary by different divisions of the government that sprang up after ninty-nine point ninty-five percent of the human population died to a plague virus enginered by the Partials ... or so every survivor has been lead to believe. All Kira wants to do is save her best friend's unborn child from the ravages of the virus that has taken every single baby born in the last eleven years.
A historic story: 1776: Sons of Liberty: a Novel of the American Revolution by Elizabeth Massie. (2000)
"On his farm in Maryland, sixteen year old Caleb Jacobson waints anciously for news from Bostion: rebellion against the oppressive tyranny of King George III of England and his soldiers. War! Caleb longs to join the volunteer army of Genral Washington and win the fight for freedom, but he is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and" his black neighbors, enslaved by an evil master. "[Caleb] knows firsthand the horrors and hardships of slavery and wonders what good an American victory will do if [people] remain shacled in bondange. Then comes news that the British Governor Lord Dunmore promises freedom to any slave who joins his army against the Americans. Can he be trusted to keep his word?
"Caleb will have to choose."
an alternatue universe - Harry Turtledove's Gunpoweder Empire (2003) - the first novel in CrossTime Traffic.
Jeremy Solter and his family are traders during the summer - traders bringing in technological marvels in the form of wind-up watches to a world where Rome never fell, and the industrial revolution never happened. Can he keep himself and his sister safe when an accident issolates them from everyone and everything they ever knew back home?
a romance (or four): Christmas Letters: Letters of Romance during World War II. "Relive the tragedies and triumps of World War II ... see how God's steadfast presence brings His people through each trial. . . and rejoice in His Greatest 'Love Letter,' celebrated each Christmas--even in wartime."
Forces of Love by Susan Downs ~ Captain Jack Johnson fell in love with his pen pal. However, his time behind enemy lines has changed him, and he wonders (if he ever finds Caroline Harrington of Boston), will she welcome him into her family?
The Missing Piece by Rebecca Germany ~ Joyce Aldergate wanted more from life than her sheltered upbringing promised her, so she became involved in Europe as an Army Nurse. Will a chance encounter in an evacuation hospital reminder her of the source of true piece?
Christmas Always Comes by Darlene Mindrup ~ Kenshin Takano brings sad news to his late brother's fiancee. Mitsu, lives in a Japanese-American relocation center, and has learned to never expect comfort or help from strangers. Is a broken engagement just the beginning of trying circumstances, or is it the very thing she needed
Engagement of the Heart by Kathleen Paul ~ "Betsy Anderson has recieved a letter form a soldier in an army hospital informing her that her fiance' has died. Betsy is confused. She wrote many patriotic letters to soliders in servcie, but she has never been engaged. She goes to the hospital and meets Sargent Kevin Coombs. Will she be taken as a flirt or a soldier's Christmas Angel?"