Out of Hiding

I FINALLY got a hold of a copy of Out of hiding, by Catherine Farnes. So here is my review on it. Or, you might call it a "book blurb."


When Ashton Cook leaves for a mission trip to Mexico, she doesn't expect to have to face the painful memory of her brother Tommy's sudden death. All she expects is a three week trip into the jungle, hiking into a village, building a church for the missionary working there and then leaving. Maybe it will change her life, maybe not. But a she arrives in Mexico, that painful memory is suddenly thrust directly in her face. As well as that, when she a the rest of her mission trip team arrive in the remote village, the missionary they were supposed to meet there has disappeared. Will Ashton be able to finally face the realization of her brother's death, or will she thrust it away again like she has been doing for the past two years? And will they be able to find the missionary who has vanished into the jungle?

Out of Hiding was written by Catherine Farnes and published my BJU Press in 2000.

Remembering Laura

Today marks the 140th anniversary of Laura Ingalls Wilder's birth. She was born on February 7, 1867 near Pepin, Wisconsin. Laura married Almanzo James Wilder in 1885. In December of 1886 their first child, a girl, was born. They named her Rose. Over the next years Laura and Almanzo moved many times. In 1894 they finally settled near Mansfield, Missouri on a farm they called Rocky Ridge. On February 10, 1957, three days after her ninetieth birthday, Laura died at Rocky Ridge farm. She is probably most remembered for the nine books she wrote for children.

The books Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote are:

* Little House in the Big Woods
* Little House on the Prairie
* Farmer Boy
* On the Banks of Plum Creek
* By the Shores of Silver Lake
* The Long Winter
* Little Town on the Prairie
* These Happy Golden Years
* The First Four Years

See also this book by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Erikson :

* The World of Little House

Click on this link to visit the official website for the Little House books.

Click on this link for a list of the Little House books from Wikipedia.

Prairie River (Book 2)

Okay, I finally got around to doing the review for A Grateful Harvest the second book in the Prairie River series. Sorry for the delay. I had so many other books I wanted to do. I still have a ton on my bookshelf waiting to be blogged about.

The beginning of A Grateful Harvest starts shortly after the end of A Journey of Faith. Nessa Clemens has been given the position of schoolteacher for Prairie River for another term. The head of the school board has told her that this is only a temporary position. It is only until they can find a more suitable candidate. The school board hadn't even wanted to give Nessa the position in the first place. The had all voted for another woman, Miss Laura Sears. But after Laura proved incapable of teaching in a prairie school the school board only had one choice--to accept Nessa as their schoolteacher. But now one of Nessa favorite pupils has died, and no one seems to trust her. To make matters worse, Fanny Jo, a woman who came out west on the stagecoach with Nessa, has entrusted her with a secret. When Nessa lets her mouth run, and ends up telling Fanny Jo's secret to Ivy, one of her new friends, Nessa risks losing some of the most important friendships she has made in Prairie River. When a time of trial comes, will Nessa be able to stand? Can she prove to Mr. Applewood, the head of the school board, that she isn't totally incapable of keeping the schoolchildren safe and that she isn't as completely worthless as everyone seems to think?

Medallion

Prince Trave is the prideful prince of a land called Gadalla. His country is ruled by his lazy uncle, Panii. Because of this, his uncle refuses to side with the other good countries called Kapnos, Kolonia, and Dider. Then Gris, King of Kapnos, comes to see King Panii in Ganet, the capital of Gadalla. Panii still refuses to become allies with the other countries even though the Dark Alliance-- the three remaining countries of Sarda, Torridia, and Litoris-- plan to take over Gadalla by force.

Then Gris tells Trave of a medallion. A medallion that belonged to Trave's late father. A medallion that the true king of Gadalla needs. A medallion that is needed to successfully rule the kingdom. Then Trave leaves with Gris in search of his father's medallion. But will Trave's prideful attitude get the better of him?

This book was written by Dawn L. Watkins and was published by Bob Jones University Press in 1985.

The ISBN for this book is 0-89084-282-5.

Visit www.bjupress.com for more information.

A Father's Promise

Rudi Kaplan is a Christian Jew. But just because he is saved doesn't stop the Germans from tormented him.

It is 1939 in Warsaw, Poland. Rudi's father is a doctor who works in the local hospital. Rudi sometimes goes along to help him. He sees many things there that could change his life forever. Then Rudi's father refuses the Germans' order to poison injured Jews. Dr. Kaplan knows that the Nazis will be back for him. So he sends Rudi to live in the forest. For the next five years Rudi has to survive on his own in the woods outside Warsaw.

But even though Rudi was spared the concentration camps, others may not have been. What about his father or his best friend Salek? Did they succumb evil of the death camps?

This book was written by Donnalynn Hess and was published by BJU Press.

Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language

Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language is a biography of missionary Cameron Townsend, the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators/SIL. It tells of how he began is work as a scrawny 21-year old selling Bibles in Guatemala, and eventually came to found Wycliffe Bible Translators, an organization devoted to translating the Bible in all the languages in the world. Today Wycliffe has more than 6,000 personnel in countries all over the world. They have also been involved in translating the Bible into more than 600 languages.

Click here to read to history of Wycliffe Bible translators at www.wycliffe.org.

Visit the website for Wycliffe Bible Translators at www.wycliffe.org

This book was written by Janet & Geoff Benge and was published by YWAM Publishing. It is part of a series called Christian Heroes: Then & Now

Prairie River ( Book 1)

Here is a better summary of A Journey of Faith, the first book in the Prairie River series by Kristiana Gregory.

A Journey of Faith
Nessa Clemens is a thirteen-year old orphan living in an orphanage under headmaster Carey's strict rules. She doesn't know who her parents were. She only had two friends. Albert is an orphan just like Nessa. They arrived at the orphanage within days of each other. Albert is really the only kid in the orphanage who is nice to Nessa. Nessa's other friend is Miss Eva. She is the school teacher at Mr. Carey's orphanage. Miss Eva is a orphan , too, so she knows what Nessa is feeling.

Then Nessa turns fourteen. Mr. Carey has a rule that when a child in his orphanage turns fourteen they have to leave and get a job or get married. It doesn't sound so bad to Nessa until she find out that Mr. Carey plans to marry her to Reverend McDuff, one of the ministers in their town. Nessa loathes the idea because th minister never wants to have children, and one of Nessa dreams is to become a mother.

Albert tells Nessa about a town in Kansas called Prairie River. It is barely a dot on the map, he says. It sounds perfect to Nessa. A town in the middle of nowhere, where it is highly unlikely that either Mr. Carey of Reverend McDuff will find her.

So on the morning of the day that Nessa is supposed to be wed she boards a stage to Prairie River. When she arrives she is taken in by kindly Mrs. Lockett. It seems like life will be fine for Nessa, but do other surprises await her in Prairie River?

Prairie River

Prairie River is a series of 4 books by the author Kristiana Gregory. It is about a girl named Vanessa "Nessa" Clemens. She is a 14-year old orphan who runs away from her arranged marriage to the town of Prairie River, Kansas. This book is set at the very end of the Civil War. The Prairie River books were published by Scholastic Inc.

Prairie River books
1. A Journey of Faith
2. A Grateful Harvest
3. Winter Tidings
4. Hope Springs Eternal

I hope to post more information about these books in the near future.

The Way of Escape

The Way of Escape is the last book in the series by Catherine Farnes. It is sequel to The Rivers of Judah, Snow, and Out of Hiding.

The Way of Escape is about a girl named Brenna Ewen. She is a cousin to Judah and Nathan Ewen from the other books. When her parents are suddenly killed in a car wreck, she and her brother, Connor, have to go live with their uncle. Ben Ewen. The pastor. Having never really payed much attention to religion, this is a big step for Brenna. And all she has to support her through this time is her rebellious brother. But Brenna comes to realize that just because her uncle is a pastor, it doesn't mean that he will somehow be hostile to her because her family hardly ever went to church. She also learns to place her trust in the Heavenly Father.

Click here for a summary of the book or here for a sample chapter.

The Way of Escape was published in 2000 by Bob Jones University Press.

The ISBN for The Way of Escape is 1-57924-454-8

For more info visit www.bjupress.com

Out of Hiding

This book is the third book in the series by Catherine Farnes. I haven't actually read this one yet. As soon as I do, I'll write more on it. Out of Hiding is the sequel to The Rivers of Judah and Snow and the prequel to The Way of Escape.

Based on reading the summary at www.bjupress.com (The website for Bob Jones University Press) I know quite a bit about this book. But I am not going to actually give a summary until I read the book.

Warning: The sample chapter for Out of Hiding contains spoilers for The Rivers of Judah. I would not advise reading it if you haven't read The Rivers of Judah before and wish to do so.

Click here for a summary of Out of Hiding or here for a sample chapter.

Out of Hiding was published by Bob Jones University Press in 2000.

The ISBN for Out of Hiding is 1-57924-329-0

For more information visit www.bjupress.com

Evergreen Secrets By Katie Hart

Katie Hart is a 23 year old freelance writer. I stumbled across her blog the other day while I was on the Internet. She in the process of getting her book, Evergreen Secrets, published. I have read the first chapter of her book and I found it very good, so I decided to post about it on here.

Visit her blog Christian Novels at www.writingchristiannovels.blogspot.com or click on the link on the left side of this web page.

Click here to read the first chapter of Katie's book, Evergreen Secrets.

Snow

Here is the review on Snow by Catherine Farnes. Snow is the sequel to The Rivers of Judah and prequel to Out of Hiding and The Way of Escape.

Snow is about a girl named Stephanie Teale. Stephanie is a sixteen-year-old, visually impaired albino. From Stephanie's point of view there is no God. And if there was why would he make her an albino? Why couldn't he have made her 'normal' like all the other kids? Then Stephanie moves from New England to Colorado. She has to adjust to a new house and most of all, a new school. She is no longer attending her special school for the blind. (As an albino, Stephanie is visually impaired, with vision of 20/400, making her legally blind. ) Stephanie meets one kid at her school who is nice to her. Only one. Nathan Ewen. He is the only one that will stand up for her when the other kids tease her. On the occasion that Stephanie visits Nathan's church, she also meets Nathan's brother Judah and Rebekah Cahill. They all talk about God and how good He is to them and how they are used by Him. Could what they are saying actually be true?

Snow was published in 1999 by Bob Jones University Press.

The ISBN for Snow is 1-57924-199-9 .

Click here to read a summary or a sample chapter of Snow.

The Rivers of Judah

I have just read a really good book by author Catherine Farnes. This book is called The Rivers of Judah.

This book is about a teenage girl named Rebekah Cahill. When Judah Ewen's family moves to her town Rebekah finds out that there is a subject Judah doesn't like to discuss. A bad memory from his past. But Rebekah doesn't know about the river. A river in Alaska that holds the key to Judah's past and that painful memory. She also doesn't know that the river at Silver Canyon Park--her church's retreat spot-- will become a big part of Judah's life, and bring her closer in her relationship with God.

I really enjoyed this book, and think that it is good read for all teenage girls.

The Rivers of Judah is a prequel to Snow, Out of Hiding, and The Way of Escape. I will write about these books in future posts.

This novel was published by Bob Jones University Press in 1996.

Click here to read a summary of the book or a sample chapter.

Katie Hart is another blogger and a freelance writer. Click here to read her thoughts on this book. You may have to scroll down once you get to Katie's blog page.