Reviews - Fiction http://www.akgmag.com/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:00:02 -0600 By Miguel O Villegas. The conjoining of the Ortega and Valdez families was inevitable. Their families were prominent, affluent, venerated, and even feared by some. Having Señorita Marta Ortega and Señor Miguel Valdez marry made all the sense in the world, except to the bride. This is Marta’s story. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Family_Honor.htm Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:43:51 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Family_Honor.htm By smbrooksie. (The story of Louis and Marie Hebert) The year is 1617 in Paris, France. This is a story of two people deeply in love. This is the story of Louis and Marie Rollet Hebert. It is a tale of how they decided to leave their busy apothecary shop for the wild and unknown lands of New France. They are believed to be the first family to settle and successfully farm the land in the New World.... The bravery shown by Louis is epic as he learns new ways to survive in the vast wilderness and deep snows of Port Royale (modern day Nova Scotia) surrounded by other incredible people famed in history such as Samuel Champlain who was the royal cartographer or mapmaker for Henri IV and Sieur Jean Poutrincourt, Governor of Port Royale. The facts of history stand firm but little is known on the details and inspirations of those brave men who risked all to forge a new future unknown and waiting for them across the sea. The sacrifices of those women left home while their husbands risked their lives in completely unchartered lands that took two months at sea to sail to. Marie not only stayed home and kept up the apothecary shop while Louis was overseas-but she learned all of the skills necessary for survival in the New World. Their love kept them strong and their dreams alive. This novel is about all that lead Louis and Marie and their family to board that ship on that fateful day in 1617. It is about their dreams and hopes for a future unknown. Of why they were willing to leave their prosperous apothecary shop in Paris for such a brave new destiny! http://www.akgmag.com/article/Le_Point_de_non_retour_or_The_Point_of_No_Return.htm Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:41:37 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Le_Point_de_non_retour_or_The_Point_of_No_Return.htm By Lynda Forman. Banish is a thrilling book by Pamela Lamont - the story of magic and discovery when Jessica discovers hidden items that reveal more than just spells. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Banish__Mirror_Mirror_on_the_Floor.htm Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Banish__Mirror_Mirror_on_the_Floor.htm By Nigel Barto. A collection of short stories inspired by the author's journey. http://www.akgmag.com/article/feed_me_by_nigel_barto.htm Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/feed_me_by_nigel_barto.htm By Candace L. Bowser. The Athyxian Chronicles is a 3 part series by author Kevin C. Davison that the follows a group of unlikely heroes on a vast adventure. Rich in characters and a storyline that draws the reader into the dark and foreboding world of Athyx, the reader instantly develops a bond with the heroes as they try to save their beloved world and stay alive, for each step they take is full of peril and unseen enemies. http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Athyxian_Chronicles.htm Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Athyxian_Chronicles.htm By Candace L. Bowser. A four hundred year old curse plagues the Bristol family. When the matriarch of the family dies, the Mirror is passed to her granddaughter Adrianna Bristol. When Adrianna learns the real reason behind the curse, she will stop at nothing to set her family free. There is only one obstacle in her way, which is....the Mirror. http://www.akgmag.com/article/the_Mirror.htm Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/the_Mirror.htm By Candace L. Bowser. What would you do if you awoke from a horrifying and brutal attack with no memory of who you were? When Jaden Gibbons awoke in a dark alley, she couldn't remember who she was or how she had gotten there. A tragedy that befalls her a year later begins to unravel her true identity. When the entire truth is finally revealed, who will survive the aftermath? http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mantis_Pray_for_Death.htm Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mantis_Pray_for_Death.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. A gentle story of Virginia's Appalachian Mountains, David Baldacci's "Wish You Well" is the story of two siblings, Lou and Oz, whose father was killed in a car wreck which left their mother in a coma. Sent into the Virginia mountains to live with their great grand-mother's farm house with no gas or electricity, they learn to love the land which had won the heart of their father and his grandmother. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Wish_You_Well.htm Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Wish_You_Well.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Part of an upcoming Stephanie Plum novel series, One For The Money is a witty and exceptionally funny story of Stephanie Plum—a bounty hunter with a huge attitude who really is not afraid of much of anything. In her young twenties, she lives only five miles from her parents she spends as many nights as possible for supper, along with the live-in eccentric Grandma Mazur who keeps the reader in stitches throughout the entire book. http://www.akgmag.com/article/One_for_the_Money_by_Janet_Evanovich.htm Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/One_for_the_Money_by_Janet_Evanovich.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Three novels in one volume by author Kim Vogel Sawyer, the Sommerfeld Trilogy is about a Kansas Mennonite community involving three women—Marie Koeppler, her daughter Beth Quinn, and Trina Muller—who each has a different outlook on life with three different personalities and personal goals. But the big question is, how do these work into the lifestyle of the Mennonite belief system? http://www.akgmag.com/article/Sommerfeld_Trilogy__by_Kim_Vogel_Sawyer.htm Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Sommerfeld_Trilogy__by_Kim_Vogel_Sawyer.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. A fiction book written of an actual historical event with real characters, Love to Water My Soul by Jane Kirkpatrick is a spell-binding story which involves the life of a very young white child rescued by the Wadduka tribe, Oregon's Paiute people, after she falls off the traveling wagon train without notice around 1866. The female child Asiam is the author Jane Kirkpatrick's mother-in-law's actual great-grandmother, who was rescued and lived most of her life among the Indian tribe until running http://www.akgmag.com/article/Love_to_Water_My_Soul__by_Jane_Kirkpatrick.htm Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Love_to_Water_My_Soul__by_Jane_Kirkpatrick.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Big dreams after college in Boston take Mennonite Thomas Ollenburger along many paths, far away from his Kansas prairie roots and religious upbringing. Once graduated, he is torn between remaining in the big city with a woman who has no faith in God or returning to his Kansas roots where there are not jobs. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Where_the_Heart_Leads__by_Kim_Vogel_Sawyer.htm Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Where_the_Heart_Leads__by_Kim_Vogel_Sawyer.htm By Lynda Forman. Jack Kerouac´s The Dharma Bums is a fascinating look into the practice of Buddhism, the quest for enlightenment, and what the reality of both may be. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Review:_The_Dharma_Bums_by_Jack_Kerouac.htm Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Review:_The_Dharma_Bums_by_Jack_Kerouac.htm