Lion
“Lion” movie This adaptation of the true story of Saroo Brierley – lost as a child in Khandwa, India, and eventually adopted by an Australian couple. In 1986, five-year-old Saroo and his brother Guddu steal coal from freight trains [...]
Garbage Bag Girl
Garbage Bag Girl, by Celeste L. Edmunds and Richard Paul Evans, Ascendt Publishing 2023, 135 pages. Paperback, $14.95 At age 7, Celeste Edmunds entered the state’s foster care system. She spent the next nine years moving from family to [...]
A Voice Out of Poverty: The Power to Achieve Through Adversity
A Voice Out of Poverty: the Power to Achieve Through Adversity by Jillian Haslam. Top Reads Publishing, LLC, Vista, California. 2022. 223 pages, paperback. $25.53 from Amazon, $8.99 from Barnes and Noble. This is one of the most moving [...]
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust, by Albert Marrin. Alfred A. Knopf, publisher. New York. 388 pages. Hardback, $19.99 Janusz Korczak’s dedication to orphaned children during World War II serves as a reminder [...]
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (also simply known as Possum Trot) is a 2024 American drama film directed by Joshua Weigel, and co-written by Rebekah Weigel. Actress and activist Letitia Wright serves as executive producer. The [...]
One Life
One Life by Barbara Winton. Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2024. 282 pages Hardback $14.95 Barbara Winton is the daughter of Nicholas and Grete Winton. She is devoted to carrying on her father’s legacy. She does this with the writing of [...]
The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
Boys In the Boat by Daniel James Brown. Viking publishers. Hardback 221 pages. $20.99. Daniel James Brown is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Boys in the Boat. He has two previous nonfiction books, The Indifferent [...]
Live-In Houseparents – Sunnybrook
Sunnybrook is seeking full-time live in Houseparent(s) Sunnybrook’s Vision Every child and youth in Mississippi will experience the advantages associated with growing up in a healthy Christian family environment. Mission Sunnybrook provides support to foster parents and children, while [...]
Jesus and Materialism in the Gospel of Mark: Traveling Light on the Way
Jesus and Materialism in the Gospel of Mark: Traveling Light on the Way by Robert Moses. Lexington Books. Hardback 263 pages. $99.78 on Amazon. Robert Ewusie Moses is Associate Professor of Religion at High Point University. He has served [...]
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. Paperback 289 pages. Simon and Schuster. $9.99 Jeanette Walls: Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir [...]