Category: Book Reviews

Book Reviews
October 27, 2011

Review: So You Want An Online Book Tour by Jaime McDougall

In her latest e-book, So You Want An Online Book Tour: An Author’s Guide to Online Book Tours, author Jaime McDougall has used her experience as a professional blogger, book tour coordinator, and book tour host to provide other authors with an easy-to-follow guide to online book tours. McDougall speaks to those authors who want to take on the entire book tour scheduling process themselves as well as […]

Book Reviews
October 3, 2011

Review: Waking Hours by Lis Wiehl with Pete Nelson

Former NFL linebacker Tommy Gunderson is awakened in the middle of the night by his alarm system. Upon investigation, he discovers an elderly woman on his property who exhibits superhuman strength and keeps repeating a Latin phrase to him. Just hours later, he receives a call from a young friend who has been implicated in a murder that happened near the time when he met […]

Book Reviews
October 1, 2011

Review: So You Want to Write a Guest Post by Jaime McDougall

So, you’ve written a book and now you need to promote it. In So You Want to Write a Guest Post: An Author’s Guide to Promoting with Guest Blogging [Revised Edition], author Jaime McDougall sets out to help other authors do just that by helping to demystify the concept and process of guest blogging. In this handy little e-book, McDougall begins by explaining the “why” behind authors writing guest […]

Book Reviews
September 29, 2011

Review: Lead Like Ike by Geoff Loftus

In Lead Like Ike: Ten Business Strategies from the CEO of D-Day, author Geoff Loftus examines Dwight D. Eisenhower’s leadership of the D-Day Invasion in order to find management lessons for modern-day corporate executives. Eisenhower overcame tremendous hurdles, including extremely tight deadlines, the need to assemble a huge executive staff and company, a board with not entirely in-sync wants, a chairman who wouldn’t commit, and […]

Book Reviews
September 27, 2011

Review: From Pearl Harbor to Calvary by Mitsuo Fuchida (audiobook)

In From Pearl Harbor to Calvary, Mitsuo Fuchida tells the story of how he went from willingly leading the attack that killed over 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 to serving his creator as an evangelist who preached about the forgiveness found only in Christ. The book also shares the story of Jacob DeShazer, who God used to bring about Fuchida’s salvation. This […]

Book Reviews Faith
September 24, 2011

Review: Putting Plan B Into Action: A DVD-Based Study

You have a story. Everyone has a story. A story of plans that didn’t turn out as expected, people who disappointed you, goals that didn’t pan out. Maybe you lost your job, you and your spouse have been unable to have children, or a loved one died of cancer. In Putting Plan B Into Action: A DVD-Based Study, Nashville-based pastor and church planter Pete Wilson […]

Book Reviews Faith
September 20, 2011

Review: Night of the Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos

What does a transformed life actually look like? In Night of the Living Dead Christian: One Man’s Ferociously Funny Quest to Discover What It Means to Be Truly Transformed, author Matt Mikalatos uses movie monsters to humorously yet thought-provokingly examine this question. The story follows Matt (yes, a character in his own story, which was written in the first person) as he meets werewolves, vampires, […]

Book Reviews Faith Health and Fitness
September 17, 2011

Review: If My Body is a Temple, Then I Was a Megachurch by Scott Davis (audiobook)

“For Him to increase in my ministry, I had to decrease in my waistline.” That, in a nutshell, describes comedian Scott Davis’ motivation for losing 132 pounds. In If My Body is a Temple, Then I Was a Megachurch: My journey of losing 132 pounds with no exercise!, Davis describes his journey to a healthy weight using a good-sized helping of humor. The author uses scripture […]

Book Reviews Faith
September 12, 2011

A Marriage Carol by Chris Fabry and Gary Chapman (audiobook)

In A Marriage Carol, Jake and Marlee Ebenezer are calling it quits on their 20-year marriage. On a snowy Christmas Eve, the parents of three young children are driving to their lawyer’s office to sign their divorce papers when they are in an automobile accident. Awaking in an empty car, Marlee assumes that Jake has gone looking for help and sets out to join him. […]

Book Reviews
September 10, 2011

Forbidden by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee

What would life be like if the only emotion we were capable of feeling was fear? In Forbidden, authors Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee describe a future society that believes it has evolved from the chaos of experiencing multiple emotions. As the story unfolds, we learn, with the book’s hero, that the reality is much darker: a previous world ruler used a virus to change the […]