Book Review : The Negativity Remedy

 

The Negativity Remedy

Unlocking More Joy, Less Stress, and Better Relationships through Kindness

by Nicole J. Phillips

Baker Books 

 Christian 

Pub Date 01 Sep 2020 

I am reviewing a copy of The Negativity Remedy through Baker Books and Netgalley:

The majority of us are pretty nice people, right?  But occasionally we’re tempted to indulge in gossiping, or allow anger to overcome us.  We often think if everyone around us wasn’t this way we wouldn’t be either.

Maybe the trouble isn’t with everyone that aggravates us though, perhaps the problem  is with us.  More specifically the way we react to  inconveniences, accidents, and just plain old everyday life with negative words, thoughts, and actions.  When we start responding in kind ways, that's when something remarkable happens: we actually feel happier ourselves. 

This book is written with humor and devices, and ends with over 300 ideas for acts of kindness.

I give The Negativity Remedy five out of five stars!

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Book Review: The Shopkeepers Widow

 

The Shopkeeper's Widow

by Izzy James

Pelican Book Group 

Christian  |  Historical Fiction  |  Romance 

Pub Date 21 Aug 2020 

I am reviewing a copy of The Shopkeepers Widow through Pelican Book Group and Netgalley:

The Shopkeepers Widow will transport you back to the Colonial days of America and take you to the Colonial Port of Norfolk Virgina where you will be introduced to Delany Fleet.  Delany is a former indentured servant who dreams of having an estate of her own , where  she does not have to compromise her freedom.

Delany is forced to leave her home and her livelihood to protect her family and property from Lord Dunmore's raids.  As well as the conniving plots of a man who claims to be her friend, after the only man she ever loved shows up carrying a load of smuggled firearms.

Delany now has to find a new way to happiness,now that her destiny is altered forever.  

Can she find the path to happiness by reconnecting with her husband’s family and a former love be the path that God has for her? 

I give The Shopkeepers Widow five out of five stars!

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Book Review: Surviving Hiroshima

 

Surviving Hiroshima

A Young Woman's Story

by Anthony Drago; Douglas Wellman

BQB Publishing 

WriteLife Publishing

 Biographies & Memoirs 

Pub Date 01 Sep 2020

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Twenty two year old Kaleria Palchikoff was doing pre breakfast chores onAugust 6, 1945 when a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima, Japan.   Just a moment later everything went dark and the house collapsed around her and her family.  Her life and all around them changed drastically in that moment.  From Russian nobility, the Palchikoff's barely escaped death at the hands of Bolshevik revolutionaries until her father, a White Russian officer, hijacked a ship to take them to safety in Hiroshima. Safety was short lived. 

Kaleria’s Father, a talented musician was able to create a new life for his family.     But after the Second World War broke out a cloud of suspicion fell over the family leading to imprisonment and and years of deprivation for his family.

Kaleria managed to summon enough strength to of bomb victims, treating the never-before seen effects of radiation.  Being fluent with English Kaleria was soon recruited to work with Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s occupation forces in a number of secretarial positions until the family found a new life in the United States. 

This book is heavily based on quotes from Kaleria's memoirs written immediately after World War II, as well as transcripts of United States Army Air Force interviews with her.

I give Surviving Hiroshima five out of five stars!

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Book Review: It’s All About Jesus

It's All About Jesus

A Treasury of Insights on Our Savior, Lord, and Friend

by Randy Alcorn

 Harvest House Publishers 

 Christian  |  Religion & Spirituality 

Pub Date 01 Sep 2020   

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In Its All About Jesus we are shown how to see our Savior through new eyes.  

We are reminded too that Jesus was both human and divine and that no human changed the world as much as Jesus did.  In It’s All About Jesus, bestselling author Randy Alcorn has compiled some of the most powerful and inspiring words ever said about the Son of God words that will inspire, instruct, and encourage you to love, trust, and follow him.

In this book you’ll read quotes about Jesus from well known authors, scholars, and theologians and writers such as Augustine, Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, Joni Eareckson Tada, Francis Chan, and Trillia Newbell.

I give It’s All About Jesus five out of five stars!

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Book Review: Is God Speaking to Me

 

Is God Speaking to Me?

How to Discern His Voice and Direction

by Lysa TerKeurst

 Harvest House Publishers 

 Christian  |  Religion & Spirituality 

Pub Date 01 Sep 2020

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Have you ever questioned whether God speaks to us today.  Or are you worried about whether what you are perceiving as God’s voice is you’re own thoughts.  You are not alone in these thoughts.

In Is God Speaking to Me, Lysa Terkeust shares how she wrestled with these very thoughts, and questions.  As well as sharing with the reader how God has taught her to more clearly discern His direction in her everyday life.

This book helps you by using scripture, encouraging personal stories as well as practical application.

Stop going through the motions of life and learn how to recognize and respond to the Divine appointment the Lord has for you. 

This little booklet carries a lot in a few pages, I’d recommend to anyone who has ever questioned whether or not God still speaks to us today.

I give Is God still Speaking to Me five out of five stars!

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Book Review: The Gene

 

The Gene

A Medical Thriller

by Timothy Browne

 BooksGoSocial 

 Christian  |  General Fiction (Adult)  |  Health, Mind & Body 

Pub Date 03 Jul 2020

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This book reminds us We are the dwelling place of God—it is woven into our very DNA.  And then asks the question, do we change the core of who we are by manipulating our genes? Is Gene therapy a miraculous cure or a slippery slope into eugenics?

Dr. Nicklaus Hart and Maggie Russell enjoy the splendor and passion of a honeymoon in Hawaii following their wedding.  They learn that their union  has brought new life but the overflowing joy of Maggie’s pregnancy and their romantic getaway is interrupted by the shocking news of a genetic disorder discovered in Maggie’s family lineage.

The possibility of both Maggie and the baby carry the mutated gene for the horrific Huntington’s disease is a devastating possibility that shakes Maggie’s Faith to its core.   Having to face a dreadful diagnosis  Nick and Maggie seek peace as they wrestle with the heartbreaking discovery of a genetic disease versus the knowledge that God is good that he made their baby in his image.  

Nick and Maggie search for answers like millions of people with genetic disorders.  With the belief that people are the dwelling place of God, and He is woven into the DNA, what should they do when that DNA has been corrupted?  Nick and Maggie end Up traveling to Poland so they can meet with top geneticist Emmanuelle Christianson, who founded and operates operates BioGenics whose mission statement is: Advancing the Human Genome.

Both understand that this decision will cost them something, but they have no choice faced with an impossible decision.   They are unaware too that the sinister side of genetic research has slithered in from the horrors of Nazi death camps into this modern-day technology.

This journey reveals more than the fight for knowledge, it uncovers the evil left over from World War 2.  A secret that puts their life in danger.

I give The Gene five out of five stars!  

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Book Review: The Black Midnight

 

The Black Midnight

by Kathleen Y'Barbo

 Barbour Publishing, Inc. 

Barbour Books

 Christian  |  True Crime 

Pub Date 01 Aug 2020 

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In Austin Texas, three years before Jack the Ripper began his murderous spree on the streets of London, women were dying in their beds as The Midnight Assassin terrorized the streets of Austin Texas.  The first murdered occurred New Years Eve 1884.  Three years later with suspicion falling on Scotland Yard, and her Majesty’s family Queen Victoria asks her Great Granddaughter Alice Anne von Wettin, a former Pinkerton agent who worked the unsolved Austin case, to discreetly look into the London Case.

Isaiah Joplin may be enticed out of his comfortable life as an Austin lawyer., with the prospect of a second chance to work with Annie.   If Isaiah’s theories are right, they’ll  find The Midnight Assassin and in doing so they will find Jack the Ripper.  But if they are wrong he and Annie are going to find themselves in a bigger mess, than the one he found himself in when Annie left behind when she departed Austin under cover of darkness three years prior.

Will the two be able to find the truth of who is behind the murders before they are drawn into the killer’s deadly game?   The story transitions from Austin Texas, to London England the story navigates the fine line between truth and fiction as Annie and Isaiah ultimately find the hunters have become the hunted.

The Black Midnight is a powerful story, that mixes fact with fiction in a smooth and thoughtful way.

I give The Black Midnight five out of five stars!

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