Marc's Rebellion by Kathi Linz

 

What would happen if schools closed due to lack of interest? Time passes and technology is forgotten. Marc runs away from the family farm at the age of thirteen determined never to turn into a man like his father. He finds himself a small building with a fireplace in an abandoned city, determined to plan his own destiny. His destiny appears in the form of a small, undernourished boy named Justin. 

Marc’s home is a bookstore. He eventually stops using the books for kindling and teaches himself to read. He and Justin gather a small group of rejected and orphaned children and move into an empty library. Maggie, who has serious problems of her own, helps Marc care for the younger children. 

Life would have been excellent had the evil Director Crassus not chosen to harass Marc. Their battles become more and more dangerous until Marc learns Crassus’s plan to take everything away from the surrounding farmers - including Marc’s family. How can a group of abandoned children save themselves and everything they are trying to build from a mean and selfish man?

Okay, this is some self-promotion. I loved writing this book and my brother - who is not necessarily a reader, has gone through it more than once. That he has read it a second time means I call that a great review.

I am including an affiliate link to this title. I would be honored if you would give it a chance. It is available in hard copy, Kindle ebook and on Audible if you prefer to listen to your stories. Marc's Rebellion

Thanks for visiting with me. Happy reading.

Kathi

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Time Walker: Cara's Story by Kathi Linz

No one prepared Cara to understand the unusual gift that allows her to step through time to help people at critical points in their lives. Cara discovers the long-lost side of her family in ancient Sumer, finds love in the antebellum South, and, for a time, makes her home in pre-WWI Europe. 

Cara finds that even the smallest deed can make a huge difference in the lives of others. As Cara becomes the mother of three little time walkers, she finds herself chasing her own children through time. Cara also learns that she isn't going through life on her own. She finds God in the center of time, seeing to everything that happens, and giving her strength for every challenge that she faces.

If you follow the link to this book, I will get a few cents as this is an affiliate link: Time Walker .

Thank you for visiting with me. Happy reading.

Kathi

 

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading by James Patterson

 

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson is a collection of short stories about how librarians and booksellers figure out how to match books with readers. Often they know their patrons by name and by personality, and so are able to make recommendations that make the customers happy. Sometimes, the books they recommend change lives.

Having been a library person for 17 years, I know what it's like to make suggestions that keep people entertained. I've chosen books for people going into the hospital for surgery, for people stuck at home because of the lock-downs, for people going on vacation, and for students doing reports or science projects. It was all wonderful. I'd go home knowing I had accomplished something good.

These are stories like that told by a multitude of other people in the book business.

If you follow this link, I will get a few cents as this is an affiliate link: The Secret Lives.

Thank you for visiting with me. Happy reading.

Kathi

What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

 

What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella turned into one of New York Times Notable Books of the Year. I can see why. I devoured the entire book in one sitting.

Part one: The story begins with Eve, an author tired of writing her usual type of book. She comes up with something contemporary and completely out of her usual style. It is optioned for a movie and life is wonderful.

Part two: Eve wakes up in the hospital with bandages on her head and a lot of missing memory. She has had brain surgery and has to relearn to walk, move her head, regain her balance and memorize Christmas carols. She has five children. The youngest is 10 years old. And her diagnosis was brain cancer. The prognosis is dire.

This story tells how she went through various therapies and came out the other side against all odds.

In the end, you find this is the author's own story told as fiction. It's as real as it gets.

If you follow this link, I will get a few pennies as it is an affiliate link: How Does It Feel?

Thank you for visiting with me. Happy reading.

Kathi

As You Wish by Jude Deveraux

 After my last post, Order of Swans by Jude Deveraux, I tried and failed to read three other books because Order of Swans was so good that it spoiled me for the ones I tried to read afterward.

My only recourse was to pick up another Jude Deveraux book and see if I could immerse myself in it.

As You Wish is completely different from Order of Swans, but just as interesting in its own way. The story is about two women and a man sent to a "retreat house" by a therapist. You learn the life stories of all three and how their lives went wrong due to unhappy marriages. Each of the men talked about were having affairs on the side with women much more suited to them than their wives. 

Ray, the one man in the house, is called away on a business trip and is replaced in the house by his wife. We know his side of the story, but now we get her side - a completely different viewpoint.

Now we know everything about the women, but we're only halfway through the book!

The therapist - who never actually appears in the story - sends them business cards telling them to visit a house on the edge of town to meet with someone who can help them fix their life story. Really!? How do you change the past?

Well, if I tell you, you won't enjoy the book so much. Please read it, it's a treat.

If you click the link, I will get a few pennies as this is an affiliate link: As You Wish

Thank you for visiting with me. Happy reading.

Kathi