Author Archives: Kathy Dove

“Christy”

I’m a fan of movies or books based on the pioneer period. “Christy” is an inspiring book by Catherine Marshall. “Christy” was also a TV series. The year is 1912 and 19 year old Christy Huddleston leaves her comfortable home to teach school in the beautiful Smoky Mountains. The lifestyle is quite different than she’s…

“A Gown of Spanish Lace” (Janette Oke)

Ariana is a very young school teacher in a small frontier town. She was adopted and her parents are very loving. The only link to her biological parents is a wedding dress made of Spanish lace. Her dream of being married in this dress comes to a halt, or so she thinks, as she is…

“The Lovely Bones” (Alice Sebold)

Susie Salmon is a young girl who is raped and then murdered, while taking a shortcut on her way home from school. The murderer is a neighbor who builds dollhouses. He encourages Susie to go inside his house and then into an underground room where the tragedy takes place. Because Susie’s murderer destroyed the underground…

“The Awakening Heart” (Betty J. Eadie)

“The Awakening Heart” follows Betty J. Eadie’s book, “Embraced by the Light”. She encountered a near-death experience and it changed her life forever. In turn, millions of readers worldwide have been influenced and inspired. This book is a journey of the lessons Betty learned from her experience and a profound spiritual awakening. She believes death…

“God’s Battered Child”

April Lorier is the founder of C.O.P.E., a non-profit organization formed for the retraining of abusive and neglectful parents and also for public education. Her testimony before the California State Legislature helped to promote the enactment of the Mandatory Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Law in 1974. Her book, “God’s Battered Child” is an account…

“Bridges of Madison County”

The Bridges of Madison County is a novel and best-seller by author Robert James Waller. I saw Bridges of Madison County on DVD, but the book left even more of an impact. It’s written in a poetic and captivating way. Clint Eastwood not only starred with Meryl Streep, but also produced and directed the movie….

“Saved by the Light” by Dannion Brinkley

Best selling author, Dannion Brinkley, started off his writing career with an autobiography called “Saved By the Light”. He has since written many more books and has his own web site where he does readings and sells other spiritually-minded material. In “Saved By the Light”, he recounts his experience of getting hit by lightning in…

“The Ghost of Flight 401″ by John G. Fuller

A gripping story based on actual facts and witness accounts of the crash of an Eastern Air Lines flight. The plane went down into the Florida everglades on a December night of 1972, killing 101 passengers and crew members. Miraculously, there were 77 survivors. Due to a landing gear malfunction, the crew desperately tried to…

Mayada, Daughter of Iraq (Jean Sasson)

This is a compelling and excellent true story of one woman’s life and what it was like for her and others to be living in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein regime. Living under the rule of Saddam Hussein could either be very good for you and your family or to the other extreme. As Hussein’s…