Forever Hilltop

BY: Judy Baer

PUBLISHED BY: Guidepost

PUBLISHED IN: 2012

ISBN: 978-0-82494-529-9

PAGES: 576

    There are two books in one volume in Forever Hilltop. In the first book Unlikely Blessings, you meet Alex Armstrong, who after the age of 40 decided to follow God’s word and become a pastor. Despite being from the city, his first parish assignment is in Hilltop Township, a small community of Grassy Valley, North Dakota, city population 1,254. With the assistance of his nephew Jared, he travels to the small town, where upon arriving he learns that he is a pastor to two churches. The two churches can’t afford much; therefore Alex is pastor to both of them. He soon realizes that each church is the opposite of each other as the two sets of parishioners do not get along.

    The town isn’t exactly Mayberry, or anything Alex had imagined. The people tend to meddle in other’s affairs. And the single women like the idea that Alex is single too, bringing him plenty of food to eat. Alex doesn’t really know how to react to this as he is still getting over a failed relationship.

    In the sequel Surprising Grace, Alex Armstrong is adjusting as pastor of Hilltop Church, and adjusting to the odd ways and rituals of the town. His lost love soon returns, and Alex must choose between her and his parishioners.

Beyond Hope’s Valley
BY: Tricia Goyer
PUBLISHED BY: BH Publishing Group
PUBLISHED IN: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4336-6870-8
Pages: 292

In the final chapter of the Big Sky series, Marianna Sommer is returning to the Amish community of Indiana with her fiancé, Aaron Zook, a marriage she has been dreaming about since she was a kid. She is returning to Indiana to attend her brother‘s, Levi, wedding. Her brother had briefly left their Amish ways for the ways of the modern world, but has come back to the Amish community to marry Naomi, who is expecting a baby boy. Shocking as this may be, it is not uncommon for an Amish couple to get married because of an upcoming birth. Naomi’s parents feel different and don’t want them to get married until after the child is born. Marianna plans to stay for the birth of the child and the upcoming marriage.

    Meanwhile, an upcoming singer, Ben, is still grieving over the brief romantic relationship he had with an Amish woman, Marianna, in Indiana. He is also still dealing with his friend’s accidental death, which almost resulted in Ben going to prison for murder. As his music career booms, another accidental situation occurs that may send him behind bars.

The mountains of rural Georgia will never be the same after a series of viscous murders rock the area to its core. Not only does the killer target children, his gruesome murders are designed to inflict the ultimate agony upon their parents and to instill extreme terror within the small communities.

 Last month I entered a DVD giveaway on a blog just for a chance to win the Heathcliff: King of the Beasts. Luckily, I won the contest and I have been spending my free time watching new and old cartoons. Even though I was only a three-year-old when Heathcliff originally aired back in 1984, I vaguely remember the show, but for some odd reason I do remember the catch theme song.

Heathcliff is based on the comic strip by the late George Gately. Prior to the 1984, Heathcliff appeared in the 1980 series Heathcliff and the Dingbats, which last two years and 25 episodes. When Heathcliff returned to TV in 1984, it followed a similar format with each episode having two 11 segments, followed by a short ending segment with Heathcliff giving good pet advise to kids. The old Dingbats segment was replaced with The Catillac Cats, which was created by Jean Chalopin, Bruno Bianchi.

TITLE: Star Wars: Invasion Volume 3- Revelations
PUBLISHER: Dark Horse Comics
RELEASE DATE: April 25, 2012
ISBN: 9781595828828 
AUTHOR: Tom Taylor
CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Scalf; Colin Wilson; and Wes Dzioba