October is the perfect time to read a few spooky stories. Sometimes, though, the scariest stories are the real life stories of ghosts, disasters and human trials. Here are 10 books that will have you thinking the truth is scarier than fiction!
Monthly Archives: October 2019
2 I read The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris last year and when I saw that she was releasing a new book on NetGalley, I chose to read it. Cilka’s Journey is the first historical fiction book I’ve read that is set in the Russian Gulags. Morris’ writing style captivates the reader right away in both books.
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
2 Night is a powerful memoir of a boy who faced the horrors of a concentration camp when he wanted to be studying Jewish Scripture.
Night by Elie Weisel
2 Midnight in Chernobyl is an eye-opening book about the 1986 disaster.
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Columbus Must Die is a very interesting historical fiction read. Books set in early American history take a lot of researching to get facts straight, which makes it harder to find.
Columbus Must Die by John McClean
The Ring by Sarah Anne Carter
The Ring is being read!
1 You may have heard of the Five Love Languages, but have you heard about the Apology Languages? We all do things we need to apologize for, but an effective apology is one that speaks to the person’s heart that we want to forgive us.
When Sorry Isn’t Enough by James Chapman and Jennifer Thomas
[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.” Elsie never wanted to be a coal miner’s wife. In fact, she did everything she could to leave West Virginia and stay away, […]
Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam
[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “What’s scarier: you teaching them to do it now under your supervision, or them learning it on their own?” Financial advice is something most people could use in some aspect or another. For parenting, it can be a topic that isn’t often broached, but should be, especially […]
Smart Money, Smart Kids by Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze
“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we’ve nothing worth living for.” Hadassah and her family got caught in Jerusalem when the Romans attacked it. Her father, who was brought back to life by Jesus, ventures out every day to spread the Gospel of Christianity. One day, he doesn’t […]