Need a Good Book to Warm Your Winter?

            At home in Mitford by Jan Karon. My husband Murray and I read the Mitford series about seven years ago, and we’re reading it together again now. A small-town pastor and the family that grows around him. Descriptions of funny village and surrounding rural people. Stories of deep personal struggles and wonderful grace.

 

Gold of Kings by T. Davis Bunn. A new, to me, book by one of my favorite authors. A story of adventure and danger, of people dealing with their faith, their identity, with different important relationships. Amazing descriptions from a faraway country.

 

The Paris dressmaker by Kristy Cambron. A fascinating story of the French resistance during the German occupation of World War II.

 

Tidings of comfort and joy by T. Davis Bunn. World War II has ended. Almost every family in a small English village lost someone. But the villagers and an orphanage of displaced children from across the continent of Europe find healing together through a language they can all understand.

 

To love and be loved: a personal portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey. A memoir focusing mostly on the last twelve years of Mother Teresa’s ministry and life. Because Jesus said to her, “I thirst,” she spent her life helping the poor, lonely, sick and dying. The author said Mother Teresa introduced him to Jesus. He was her lawyer, worked for a time as a volunteer for her ministry, and felt she treated him as a friend.

 

I can only imagine: a memoir by Bart Millard. The lead singer of Christian singing group MercyMe tells the story of how “The cross is enough.” He told of his dad’s abuse and then how later he became Bart’s best friend. Bart told of trials and successes, struggles with his faith, but in the end, “The cross is enough.”