We all have times when our brain is just swirling with thoughts and it can seem hard to stop them. Jennie Allen wants to help people fight that battle going on in their heads in Get Out of Your Head.
Sarah Anne Carter
The Book of Lost Friends goes back and forth between the stories of Miss Silva and Hannie. Both stories are fascinating and tell how the people’s history in one small town in the south is intertwined between former slaves and their former masters.
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
The Wive of Los Alamos tells the story of the families who moved to Los Alamos with their husbands and couldn’t tell anyone where they were going. They would come to find out their husbands were working on the atomic bomb.
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
We all want to be the best version of ourselves. By looking at our habits and trying to build up good ones and stop bad ones, we can do just that. Atomic Habits is not just about what habits to have and not have, it’s about how to start small and make it easy to do the things you set your mind to do.
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Sarah Anne's Bookshelf - April 2021
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – March 2021
Eight stories are woven together through time by one special rock in Treasures. A shamrock shaped rock that first finds itself in the hands of St. Patrick eventually becomes a key item in several people’s stories throughout the ages and even into the future.
Treasures: Visible and Invisible by Teresa Linden and other authors
Steven Curtis Chapman is a well-known Christian musician. I have been listening to his music for more than 20 years. He and his wife, Mary Beth, had three children and then adopted three more children from China. Then, the whole world heard that their family suffered a tragic accident – one of their sons hit and killed one of their daughters when she ran in front of his truck. They had to find ways to grieve and lean on each other, all while taking care of the son who was living through a very traumatic event.
Books by the Chapmans
I enjoy reading historical fiction and When Jesus Wept was a good read in that genre. It reminded me that the characters in the Bible for Christians were real people and had so much more details to their lives than we know from the Bible stories.
When Jesus Wept by Brock & Bodie Thoene
Parenting is not easy. There are so many parenting books out there that give advice on what to do and say (or not do and say), but not many address the heart and attitude of a parent. Love-Centered Parenting does focus on having parents take a hard look at their own motivations and encourages them to both evaluate they lies they believe about themselves and then replace them with the truth of being loved by God.
Love-Centered Parenting by Crystal Paine
I highly recommend The Rhythm of Life to anyone high school age or older either trying to figure out what to do with their lives or feeling like their lives are out of balance.