Pennyworth Books

A Downward Spiral into Evil

Maya, brilliant, and successful in her academic pursuits became enmeshed in a search for truth and false enlightenment that led her to the brink of darkness. As a result of meeting with Cha Ma, a Hindu guru, the direction of Maya’s life changed directions.

In the midst of her doctoral program Maya decided to put it on hold, relinquished the lease on her Boston apartment, abandon her faith, and leave her family behind in an attempt to find truth through the study Hinduism. She traveled to South India to the ashram of Cha Ma, in the hope of finding truth and of moving to a new level of enlightenment.

Jones describes encounters with angelic beings, in a battle to influence the outcome of the lives of those experiencing spiritual warfare. She uses these illustrations to powerfully describe the impact of prayer in changing the results of these battles…

Molly Blume is a feisty crime reporter for a local Los Angeles newspaper. She also writes true crime books so when a Rabbi asks her to help find his run-away daughter, she jumps in and tries to help in spite of the bad feelings she has for the Rabbi because of something he did to her years ago. Because the daughter, Dassie, has lived all her life in the confines of the Jewish community, everyone is in a rush to rescue her before she’s hurt or worse sexually assaulted. That would ruin her life forever.

The book was slow and dragging in several sections but finally sped up and came to a satisfying conclusion. The ending was a surprise but….all the clues were there so I didn’t feel cheated. I enjoyed reading the book not only for the mystery but because Molly and her Rabbi husband and most of the characters…

I Kissed a Frog and My Prince Forgave Me is new book written by Naomi Jo Rush which is well-formed graceful trip thorough unfaithfulness. Naomi as the author of this book exposes the most susceptible period in her marriage. Her poems educates us that couples in the marriage prone to not remember about the need of each other and being immersed in routine daily behavior.

At the same time as she is stressed with the lack of attention of her husband, she pretends to look happy wife even though she is really stressed with her frustration in her mind. Her bewilderment becomes fully grown with the view of attraction. The excitement of impulsiveness joined with feeling of being much loved makes Naomi to her husband like an overwhelming individual that would very much grasp at a salvation.

She make clarification to her husband then she find the discovering and the change. It…

The Everlasting

by Jamie S. Rich

Oni Press Inc. (2006)

ISBN 1932664548

Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (9/06)

Jamie Rich somehow delves deep within the mind and soul of his main character, Lance Scott, and reveals a realistic view of man’s mind and how it works. While I’m certain the book wasn’t intended to open the window to a whole gender’s way of thinking, it certainly happened upon it, even if only by mistake, with the end results being a quick smack to the forehead as you realize you know this guy in real life!

Lance Scott is a typical 20-something man. What he has isn’t enough, what he had was great but now gone and what he chases after isn’t always what he wants once he gets it. A mixture of reality meeting fantasy, this outstanding novel encompasses the life and desires of Lance Scott who is searching for a comfort…

The title of this inspirational historical romance comes from Copper Springs, the arid town in Arizona to which a German refugee of Jewish descent and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance has been sent to escape the Nazis. The Reverend Robert Gordon waits there to greet Louisa. He is a friend of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a martyr of the Christian faith who was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Gordon抯 son William, a deaf child whom his father worries may be retarded, also meets Louisa and plays a critical role in the novel.

It turns out that William not only is not retarded but highly intelligent. Part of the action of the novel surrounds Louisa抯 attempts to get William to learn how to speak. Louisa, inspired by faith, brings healing to both father and son, both of whom were wounded by the mother, an ambitious woman who left her husband and…

Father David Anderton was born in Edinburgh, but as a child the family moved to Lancashire where he is brought up and educated at Ampleforth College in the North of England.

Now in his fifties, he is moved back to Ayrshire where, perhaps mischievously, the Celtic Football Club supporting Bishop gives him a parish in a mainly protestant area. There is a large wooden hut opposite the church, painted bright blue, where the local Orange Lodge band carry out loud practice sessions to coincide with church services.

Back at the manse Father David’s housekeeper Mrs Poole initially regards him with suspicion. He’s English after all, despite what he says through his plummy accent. He drinks wine and port for goodness sake, though their mutual love of music and gardening soon deepens their respect.

Outside of church Father David makes friends with some rough kids, teenagers from difficult backgrounds, where drugs and alcohol and…

The last family in England live in a world where the dogs, cats and squirrels all talk to one another. What is more they understand everything we humans say. But we don抰 understand them, except when we are completely plastered, in which case we have forgotten all about it the following day.

Prince is the young Labrador, eager to learn everything from his earnest mentor the older dog, Henry. He preaches the Labrador code. Look after the family for the family is everything. Yet as you might expect all is not as it might seem, and soon Prince is making decisions that he might not have made for himself, decisions that will come back to haunt him.

This book made me laugh out loud several times and any book that can do that, is all right in my book. But there is also sadness there as you might expect. Along the way…