In Where The Forest Meets The Stars, Glendy Vanderah presents characters to readers as clearly as if we were meeting each other in person. The author does not skirt around the griefs of this world, but effectively uses them as a backdrop to spotlight human resiliency.
I’ve found a daily devotional book for 2021 that I think will be easy-to-digest (the entries are short enough that I’ll be able to catch up if I miss a few!) yet full of deep concepts.
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale is about a little girl who envisions beauty in the light of her last remaining matches as she faces death on New Year’s Eve. Let us take a cue from a master storyteller and remember that endings always make room for rebirth.
“Little Drummer Boy,” a Christmas carol that has been redone many times, becomes a fresh, living story through Josh Groban’s performance. Listeners will find themselves tagging along with a little boy who wants to give the only gift he has—and will experience a deep thrill when that humble gift is presented.
This charming treasury includes memorable quotes from Anne Shirley and her friends, quaint ideas for crafts and entertainment, and recipes the entire family can enjoy.
The Perfect Love Song is the ideal read-aloud-as-a-family story for the Christmas season. Children and adults will revel in the fun tone, sweetness of young love, sparkle of musical themes, and characters so real they pop off the page.
When Emily Emerson is laid off from her reporting job, she thinks she has lost everything—until she receives a beautiful, haunting painting of a young woman, recognizable as her grandmother, standing at the edge of a sugarcane field under a violet sky.
“Adiemus” is widely attributed as the breakout piece that would define the emerging genre that came to be known as classical crossover. In other words, Jenkins’s music created an ambiance that other people were already longing for—they just hadn’t figured out yet how to give a voice to it.
Every time I read a Mitford book, I’m completely drawn in, again, to the quaint town and its quirky characters.
Adam Grant’s Originals is for readers who recognize that they are not in the majority—or who want the courage to leave the majority.