Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Adult Book Review: Let Joy Arise by Ashea Goldson





 

Ashea Goldson
Paperback
Published: 1st edition (June 26, 2012)
Kensington Urban Christian;
ISBN13- 978-1601627278
Rating: 5 stars


Never let anything in your past affect what God has for your future.

Taylor Carter has not always been a Christian all her life. Before Taylor found God she was in a very serious car accident that killed the married man that she was involved with and also took away her ability to walk. After all that was said and done with this life altering event, Taylor still was able to see her way through.

Fast forward to the present; Taylor is now the owner of Push It Fitness center and married to Keith Bryant. Of course like many say, you cannot be a child of God and not have trials. The wife of the man that was killed in the accident that she was involved in is back to get Taylor. She has a serious case of a woman scorned syndrome. Added to the chaos, Taylor has to deal with the house guest from hell named Paul who is the good friend of Keith, and may hold the key to a painful past that he has hidden from his wife.

Will Taylor and Keith’s marriage survive all trials and tribulations? Will Taylor continue to support her husband once his secret past comes to light?

For a reviewer that is not a fan of Christian fiction I will say that I thoroughly enjoy this book. It was just enough religion to know that is Christian fiction but enough that it is not thrown in the reader’s face. The characters in this novel are those that the reader can relate to, from the wild roommate to the holy sister-in-law. For this to be a debut novel she knocks this one out the ballpark. Yes, I do see the best is yet to come.

Rating 5 stars.

Reviewed by Patrice Smith


Wednesday, September 17, 2014

What's New in YA





Check out these new releases in 
Young Adult Fiction. 
There is something for everyone!!!!


                  "The third most popular girl in the school's choice between the hottest boy in the town and thd a lonely but romantic misfit ends in tragedy and self-realization."- provided by publisher.
    Tags: Popularity, dating, high schools


Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen                                       
               "He is young. He is hot He is also evil. He is  ... the Librarian."- provided by publisher.









Tags: Librarians, best friends, demonology



Half a World Away by Cynthia Kadohata
             "Twelve -year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.







Tags: Abandoned children. inter country adoption



Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini
           In her hometown of Salem, Lily Proctor endures not only life-threatening allergies but humiliation her first high school part with her best friend and longtime crush, Tristan. But in a different Salem-- one overrun with horrifying creatures and ruled by powerful women called Crucibles, she is Lillian, the strongest and cruelest Crucible.






Tags: Teenage girls, fantasy, paranormal 



The Dolls by Kiki Sullivan
          "Eveny Cheval returns to Louisiana after growing up in New York and discovers she's a voodoo queen"-- provided by the publisher.





Tags:Vodou


100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith
        Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to fell like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandeez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away. 








Tags: Fathers and Sons, authors, dating, epilepsy


Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts
         "The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn't-couldn't be friends with her. In the hospital different rules apply, and what begins as a knock on the wall leads to a note- then a friendship neither of them sees coming."- provided by publisher.
       





Tags: Friendship, cancer



To place any of these new books on hold, click on the title of the novel and you will be directed to holding information for that title. For more information on other novels, visit www.ccpl.org or visit any of our seventeen locations. 

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

New Reads @ The St. Andrews Library TeenSpot



Hot New Teen Novels Are Now at the TeenSpot. Get them while you can!!!!
 
 

Fox Forever by
Mary E. Pearson
Before he can start a life with Jenna, seventeen-year-old Locke, who was brought back to life in a newly bioengineered body after an accident destroyed his body 260 years ago, must do a favor for the resistance movement opposing the nightmarish medical technology.
Series:
The Jenna Fox chronicles
Jenna Fox chronicles.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If You Find Me by 
Emily Murdoch 
"There are some things you can't leave behind... A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. Suddenly, the girls are taken from the woods and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of high school, clothes and boys. Now, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her ten years ago, while haunted by a past that won't let her go... a dark past that hides many a secret, including the reason Jenessa hasn't spoken a word in over a year. Carey knows she must keep her sister close, and her secrets even closer, or risk watching her new life come crashing down"-- Provided by publisher.
 
 
 
Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Branch, along with the four teen boys the Branch had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
 
 
 
 
 
In this retelling of "Wuthering Heights," Catherine explains how she fell in love with a brooding musician and left her family to return to him, and her daughter describes searching for her mother many years later.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Twins Sarah and Sylvia Price, two monsters in disguise at Lovecraft Middle School, are campaigning for student council with a secret plan to abduct the entire seventh grade, and Robert Arthur and his strange friends must stop their evil plot.
Series:
Lovecraft Middle School ; #2
Tales from Lovecraft Middle School ; #2
Tales from Lovecraft Middle School ; #2.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Check out these and other great new novels
@ The St. Andrews Library TeenSpot.
We have something for everyone!!!


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Charleston, SC 29407
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