Book Review: ENTICE by Amber Garza

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Title: ENTICE Author: Amber Garza Category: Fantasy/Paranormal/YA Pub. Date: 07/09/2012 Publisher: Createspace Format: Kindle Pages: 224 ISBN#: B007SN1B94 Series: Prowl Trilogy #2 Synopsis:   Mackenzie returns home from the summer with her grandma, certain that Wesley is out of her life for good. Until the nightmares resurface, and strange things start to happen. Is Wesley back? When the danger escalates and threatens those closest to her, Mackenzie must fight to save them. Only this time the evil is more powerful, and Mackenzie is faced with an impossible decision.  ...
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Book Review: Saving Grace by Darlene Ryan

Title: Saving Grace Author: Darlene Ryan Category: Young Adult Pub. Date: 01/01/2006 Publisher: Orca Book Publisher Format: Kindle Pages: 112 ISBN#: 1554697069 Synopsis:   Evie was pregnant and forced to give up the baby. But she can't just leave the child with strangers, especially when she thinks the baby is being neglected. With her boyfriend waiting in the truck, Evie snatches the baby and convinces him to drive her to Montreal where she plans to start a new life with her child. But when the baby won't eat and she and Justin argue, she ends up alone in a small town. As the baby becomes sicker, Evie must decide whether to admit...
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Book Review: The TRAVELER'S GIFT by Andy Andrews

Title: The TRAVELER'S GIFT Author: Andy Andrews Category: Self Help Pub. Date: 05/02/2005 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers Format: Paperback Pages: 240 ISBN#: 0785273220 Synopsis:   """The Traveler's Gift"" effectively combines self-help with fiction . . . sustaining momentum"" """while simultaneously passing on instructions for positive thinking . . . an exemplary job at """""""providing positive suggestions for overcoming life's obstacles.""""" - Publishers Weekly """"""Andy Andrews will challenge you to reach your fullest potential."""""" - John C. Maxwell, Founder, The INJOYTM Group "The Traveler's Gift""""""" """"""touched...
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Book Review: LAUGH AGAIN by CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Title: LAUGH AGAIN Author: Charles R. Swindoll Category: Christian Pub. Date: 3/23/95 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers Format: Kindle Pages: 252 ISBN#: 1418516074 Synopsis:   Did you hear the one about the Christian who couldn't keep from laughing?Chuck Swindoll has not only "heard" it, he "tells" it in this delightful book that gives us permission to be happy again."When did life stop being funny?" Swindoll asks. His answer is found in this best-selling book which speaks to all busy, joy-drained people?from the pressured businessman to the harried homemaker. In "Laugh Again," readers will discover ways to live in the present,...
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On My Wishlist

On My Wishlist is a Meme created by Book Chick City.    On My Wishlist is a weekly meme that allows us to share the books we haven't bought yet but are waiting to be bought and devoured. If you are anything like me then your wishlist is getting longer by the day! If you would like to take part and have your own 'On My Wishlist' post then you can more info here. (This post was inspired by the fab In My Mailbox by  Kristi at The Story Siren) ...
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Book Review: DEATH BY LIVING by N. D. WILSON

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Title: DEATH BY LIVING Author: N. D. WILSON Category: Religion/NonFiction Pub. Date: 07/30/2013 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers Format: Kindle Pages: 208 ISBN#: 0849965039 Synopsis:   A poetic portrait of faith, futility, and the joy of this mortal life.In this astoundingly unique book, bestselling author N.D. Wilson reminds each of us that to truly live we must recognize that we are dying. Every second we create more of our past more decisions, more breathing, more love and more loathing, all of it slides by into the "gone" as we race to grab at more moments, at more memories made and already fading.We are all authors, creators...
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Book Review: Teach Your Children God's Message by Patricia Allen McCuen

Title: Teach Your Children God's Message Author: Patricia Allen McCuen Category: Christian Pub. Date: 04/25/2013 Publisher: Outskirts Press Format: Paperback Pages: 86 ISBN#:  9781432789589 Synopsis:   God sternly and plainly stated, "You have to go back and tell." Somehow, I understood and already knew. I still did not know how I knew, but I knew and even replied, "Yes. I know. I have to tell." Shortly after leaving her fiance parents home located in Derry, PA, Patricia Allen and her fiance were crushed by a fully loaded coal truck. Patricia left her body twice at the scene of the accident. In the hospital when Patricia...
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Book Review: Calm Before the Storm by B. J. Robinson

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Title: Calm Before the Storm Author: B. J. Robinson Category: Christian Pub. Date: 02/23/2013 Publisher: Self pub Format: Kindle Pages: 130 ISBN#: B00BJWSF5A Series: Storms of Life #1 Synopsis:   Vera Minette Bradley lost too many loved ones in her life, and she wanted answers. Was it God's timing, someone playing God, or hospital error? This 18 chapter novel explores these questions when Vera returns to a small town she fled during the threat of a hurricane because her sister is ill and hospitalized. Jesus is our refuge through the storms of life, and Vera, her loved ones, and friends go through many in this inspirational...
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Book Review: SEASONS OF DEATH THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS MURDER BY MARLENE MITCHELL AND GARY YEAGLE

Title:  SEASONS OF DEATH Author: Marlene Mitchell & Gary Yeagle Category: Mystery Pub. Date: 08/04/2012 Publisher: Blackwyrm Fiction Format: Kindle Pages: 328 ISBN#: B008TC1WAS Synopsis:   In the fall of 1969 in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, a poor backwoods farmer and his wife were brutally shot and killed by four drunken hunters, along with their three dogs, horse and two fawns. The farmer's two young sons managed to escape but were unable to identify the killers. Now decades later, the murders of the Pender family remain unsolved. In Townsend, Tennessee, in Blount County, someone has decided to take revenge....
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TEASER TUESDAY

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teas.         ...
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Book Review: Undaunted Love by JENNINGS WRIGHT

Title:  Undaunted Love  Author: JENNINGS WRIGHT Category: Christian/Historical/Fiction Pub. Date: 09/13/2012 Publisher: Self Pub. Format: Kindle Pages: 375 ISBN#: B009AB33R2 Synopsis:   Hugh Byrd, the cold, ambitious patriarch of Byrd's Creek, is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants is the Colton's prime land, and the destruction of the Colton family. What he doesn't count on is his own daughter falling in love with Rafe Colton.Ripped apart by the Civil War, the young couple must find a way to keep their secret love alive. The end of the War should mean a joyous reconciliation, but when Rafe is accused of...
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Guest Post: Author Jennifer Malone Wright

Today I would like to welcome author Jennifer Malone Wright. We asked her to tell us 10 Things we don't know about her. So please welcome her to Breath of life and lets get started with her answers.                                             10 Things you don’t know about Jennifer Malone Wright. All right! This topic is actually hard for me because anything that you guys don’t already know is most likely something...
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Book Review: Vampire in Denial by Dale Mayer

Monday, August 26, 2013

Title: Vampire in Denial Author: Dale Mayer Category: Young Adult/Paranormal Pub. Date: 08/01/2011 Publisher: Valley Publishing Format: Kindle Pages: 215 ISBN#: B005FIRJTC Series: Family Blood Ties #1 Synopsis:   Like being a sixteen-year-old vampire isn't hard enough, Tessa's throwback human genes make her an outcast among her relatives. But try as she might, she can't get a handle on the vampire lifestyle and all the...blood.Turning her back on the vamp world, she embraces the human teenage lifestyle—high school, peer pressure and finding a boyfriend. Jared manages to stir something in her blood. He's smart and fun and oh, so...
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Guess what...Its Monday! What are you reading this week? This is a weekly event to list the books completed last week, the books currently being reading, and the books to be finish this week. It is hosted by  Book Journey.  I have been traveling the past couple of weeks so not  a lot has changed. Still working on these three books and hope to have them done soon. As well as some reviews. Thanks for stopping by.  What I Read Last Week:  Skip Rock Shallows (Copper Brown #3) by Jan Watson ...
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Sunday's with Rev. Kim

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Welcome to my feature. It's my prayer that you will be encouraged and blessed by following and becoming involved in this journey to love the Lord and His word. I invite you to visit often. The Welcome mat is always here, as my ideas, insights from Gods word is blogged as often as I can.  Rev. Kim   Sunday's with Rev. Kim is a feature that I created here on Breath of Life....
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Book Review: Beatrice Munson by Lorena Bathey

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Title: Beatrice Munson Author: Lorena Bathey Category: Women's Fiction/Chick Lit  Pub. Date: 03/17/2011 Publisher: Self Pub. Format: Kindle Pages: 229 ISBN#: B004U2F174 Synopsis:   In Vista Heights, the women of the neighborhood have started to look like their homes, varying shades of beige. Lost in this world of suburbia, Marissa Lyons learns her high school nemesis has bought the house right across the street from her. Afraid that her arch enemy, Beatrice Munson, will move in with Marissa’s high school crush as her husband and cause Marissa to relive the insecurity of high school in her forties, she decides to face the...
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Book Review: The Fugitive's Doctor by Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

Title: The Fugitive's Doctor Author: Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker  Pub. Date: 05/10/2011 Publisher: Createspace Format: Paperback Pages: 300 ISBN#: 1461172616 Synopsis:    At age 51, Dr. Doretha Vaughn decides to advertise for a husband through Love on AOL. “Be careful,” her daughter warns. “Don’t worry,” Doretha responds, “I’m a pretty good judge of people.” Soon she finds the love of her life. For eight years, Sam Cawley, a warm and kind man, treats her like a queen - filling her days and nights with laughter and affection while providing a caring refuge from the daily suffering and death she battles as an emergency physician....
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Book Review: eat pray love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Title: eat pray love Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Category: non-fiction Pub. Date: 01/30/2007 Publisher: Penguin Books Format: Paperback Pages: 331 ISBN#: 0143038419 Synopsis:   In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want--husband, country home, successful career--but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and of what she found in their place. Following a divorce and a crushing depression, Gilbert set out to examine three different...
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On My WishList

On My Wishlist is a Meme created by Book Chick City.    On My Wishlist is a weekly meme that allows us to share the books we haven't bought yet but are waiting to be bought and devoured. If you are anything like me then your wishlist is getting longer by the day! If you would like to take part and have your own 'On My Wishlist' post then you can more info here. (This post was inspired by the fab In My Mailbox by  Kristi at The Story Siren) ...
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Book Review: SAVING THE QUEEN by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Title: SAVING THE QUEEN Author: William F. Buckley, Jr. Category: Historical Fiction Pub. Date: 01/01/1977 Publisher: Warner Books Format: Paperback ISBN#: 0446891649 Synopsis:   America s top financial secret agent Blackford Oakes performed his first heroic effort in Saving the Queen in which William F. Buckley Jr. coaxes readers back to the earliest days of the Cold War. The year is 1951. Harry Truman is president, and the beautiful, young Queen Caroline has just settled onto the throne of England. The CIA is baffled at the shocking things going on in London. Vital Western military secrets are falling into Soviet hands and,...
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Book Review: DARK CORNERS by LIZ SCHULTE

Title:  DARK CORNERS  Author: LIZ SCHULTE Category: Thriller/Mystery Pub. Date: 06/07/2011 Publisher: 4 Corner Press Format: Kindle Pages: 211 ISBN# B00550V8CY Synopsis:   Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life. Everyday reality slips a little more between her fingers as she struggles to break free from her memories....
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Book Review: Falling to Pieces by Vannetta Chapman

Title: Falling to Pieces Author: Vannetta Chapman Category: Amish Fiction/Mystery Pub. Date: 09/27/2011 Publisher: Zondervan Format: Paperback Pages: 332 ISBN#: 0310330432 Series: Shipshewana Amish Mystery #1 Synopsis:   In this first book of a three-book series, author Vannetta Chapman brings a fresh twist to the popular Amish fiction genre. She blends the familiar components consumers love in Amish books---faith, community, simplicity, family---with an innovative who-done-it plot that keeps readers guessing right up to the last stitch in the quilt. When two women---one Amish, one English---each with different motives, join forces...
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Sponsered Book Review: TIME KILLER by Todd M. Thiede

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Title: TIME KILLER Author: Todd M. Thiede Category: Mystery/Thriller Pub. Date: 01/25/2013 Publisher: IUniverse Format: Paperback Pages: 202 ISBN#: 1475972350   Synopsis:   Witness a gripping thriller that will surely hook you from start to finish in Time Killer…Have you ever stood in a line at a grocery store while a person in front of you argued every price and then at the very end they pulled out a book of coupons? Have you ever waited in a drive thru as the person in front of you took forever to order his food? There is a person in Rockton Illinois that has had this happen to him and he is doing something about ...
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Anyone Up For A Free Book?

Love & the Goddess by Mary Elizabeth Coen   “Sorry. It sounds so...” I couldn’t finish the sentence. I wanted to say perverted and realized how judgmental that would sound. After all, I didn’t really know anything about the nature of addictions. “Dangerous? No don’t worry. I assure you I’m not a rapist. And I try hard to practice celibacy because it’s essential for me. I’ve started a new relationship with a lovely girl. We’ve been dating for three months now and our relationship is celibate because I know now that if a relationship starts out being sexual, then my judgment gets clouded. I need it to work on the friendship...
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TEASER TUESDAY

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teas.         ...
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Author Interview with Rose Candis

Today I am really excited to showcase author Rose Candis on the blog for her Cover Reveal, UNDER the BED across THE WORLD.  I have a great Q and A for all of you.  So Enjoy!!!                          *What are the most important attributes to remaining sane as a writer?*                         For me, it has been critical to allow God to be in charge of the timing of                   ...
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