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The Book Lover’s List
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items I like to think I and my husband have good book recs. Hubby is an author himself.
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The Lael Chronicles - My husbands epic fantasy novels
Healing from trauma
Science fiction must reads
Epic Fantasy Essentials
Fiction
Hard-to-put-down fantasy books
The Lael Chronicles - My husbands epic fantasy novels
My husband created an entire universe which bore 2 epic fantasy novels. Entire cultures with rich histories and legends, unlikely heroes, love and loss, all eloquently wrapped into 2 novels that captivate you from beginning to end.
Enter Vrandalin; a land where ancient powers stir, dark beasts prowl, forgotten lore returns, and those who are thought weak discover their strength. For over fifteen hundred years the kingdom of Vrandalin has withstood the might of the one enemy the...
Strife Of The Mighty: Book One of the Chronicles of Vrandalin (The Læl ...
The epic conclusion to the widely-loved adventure of Strife of the Mighty!
DOOM COMES. FAITH WAVERS. HOPE HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
The battle for Darfrandor is over, but there is neither time nor mood for celebration. Having received word of the appro...
Toils of the Valiant: Book Two of the Chronicles of Vrandalin (Læl ...
*ebook*
A HUSBAND. A LIQUOR LOVER. A STRANGER. THE DIREST ADVENTURE OF THEIR CENTURY.
For over fifteen hundred years the kingdom of Vrandalin has withstood the might of the one enemy they had need to fear. Now a new threat arises. In the southeaste...
Strife Of The Mighty: ebook
Healing from trauma
Healing from trauma with a focus on boundaries and nervous system science behind trauma and the body.
There is actual science behind trauma and how it is stored physically in our bodies. Understanding this, and understanding nervous system science is absolutely crucial to healing.
The Body Keeps the Score: Healing Trauma
A great read on why boundaries are important, why you need them, and how to implement them. Does a great job showing how boundaries are biblical and are not wrong or sinful as many of us were taught.
Boundaries: Updated and Expanded Edition
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these...
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are ...
Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don't serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises rea...
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Life
Meticulously translated by the Institute for Scripture Research. Yahweh’s (God) and Yeshua’s (Jesus) name are left in the original Hebrew as well as other names and places have been kept translated into the Hebrew. Less mistransliteration compared to...
The Bible - The Scriptures (2009) translation
Science fiction must reads
Great science fiction books
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.” Thus begins one of the most terrifying and morally prescie...
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearth...
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Epic Fantasy Essentials
Epic tales of fantasy - mythical creatures, heroes, swords and beasts.
Fendin, a spy for the dark tyrant Esgor, wants nothing more than freedom. Working undercover in the closely knit Resistance, he makes his own escape--with little care for how many lives his liberty costs. Rid of his bondage, he sets off in search of ...
Ashes by Grace Crandall
This, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth, gives us a privileged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien’s world—those of Turien and Lu...
The Lays of Beleriand - J.R.R. Tolkien
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it through...
The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater, make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles-until they are hired to pilfer a famed sword. What appears to be just a simple job finds ...
Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan
One of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin takes place in Middle-earth thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by Tol...
The Children of Hurin - J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf ...
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien: Books
Fiction
Just some excellent, good old fiction books.
When 16-year-old Pi Patel finds himself stranded in a life boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with only a 450 pound Bengal tiger for company, he quickly realizes that the only way to survive is to make sure the tiger is more afraid of him than h...
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for almost forty years, Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, co...
Watership Down: A Novel - Richard Adams
Tales From Watership Down returns to the unforgettable characters of Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion, and the legendary hero El-ahrairah, and also presents new heroes as they struggle to survive the cruelties of nature and the shortsighted selfishnes...
Tales from Watership Down (book 2) - Richard Adams
Squirrel and her brother Bone begin their lives in a toolshed behind someone's summer house. Their mother nurtures them and teaches them the many skills they will need to survive as stray dogs. But when their mother is taken from them suddenly and to...
A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin
African fiction/folklore.
A collection of nineteen folk stories from the Fon people of Benin, about orphans and twins with magical associations, spirits, animals, royalty, and farmers.
Why Goats Smell Bad and other stories from Benin
Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he's finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own--Old Dan and Little Ann--he's ecstatic. It doesn't matter that times are tough; together they'll roam the hills of ...
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
Hard-to-put-down fantasy books
Not quite epic fantasy, but still “awesome fantasy.”
Janner Igiby, his brother, Tink, and their disabled sister, Leeli, are gifted children as all children are, loved well by a noble mother and ex-pirate grandfather. But they will need all their gifts and all that they love to survive the evil pursuit ...
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (Wingfeather Saga book 1)
Janner, Tink, and Leeli Igiby thought they were normal children with normal lives and a normal past. But now they know they're really the Lost Jewels of Anniera, heirs to a legendary kingdom across the sea, and suddenly everyone wants to kill them.
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North! Or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga) #2
Janner, Tink, and Leeli Igiby, the Lost Jewels of Anniera, are hiding from Gnag the Nameless in the Green Hollows, one of the few places in the land of Aerwiar not overrun by the Fangs of Dang. But there's a big problem. Janner's little brother—heir ...
The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga book 3)
Historical Fiction
Fiction books inspired by true historical events
A Prince and a Pauper . . . Prince Brat and his whipping boy inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like each other. But when they find themselves taken h...
The Whipping Boy - Sid Fleischman
The Newbery Medal–winning classic novel about the courage and faith—and the love of a dog—that give a family strength in the face of inhumanity.
The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with their g...
Sounder - William H. Armstrong
With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart.
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor