My Top 10 Books from 2014!
1) Happily Ever After: Walking with Peace and Courage Through a Year of Divorce-Kristin Armstrong--This is by far the book that ministered to me the most while I was going through my divorce. So much so, that I have bought it for other friends going through the same thing.
2) You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a more Fulfilling Life-Eleanor Roosevelt--A friend was reading this book and bought a copy for me so we could read it together. We read it in January and it was an awesome book to start my year off with. Eleanor inspires people with her words and in the way she lived her life. She was an incredible woman.
3) Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight-Karl Rove--Rove is an amazing man on so many levels. I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about him in his candid book and about what went on in the Bush Administration.
4) Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer-David Reichert--Reichert is a man who never gave up on finding the Green River Killer (who turned out to be Gary Ridgeway) and thus bringing some measure of justice and closure for all the victims' loved ones. This was an inspirational story on not giving up on a just cause.
5) Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10-Marcus Luttrell--The book and the movie about this true story made both of my Top 10 lists. An incredible story about some amazing men, true heroes indeed.
6) Smokin' Seventeen-Janet Evanovich--No top 10 list is complete without a Stephanie Plum book on it. Evanovich's series on Stephanie Plum makes me laugh out loud, reader beware if you are reading this in a public waiting room, people will think you are crazy.
7) Sleepers-Lorenzo Carcaterra--I saw the movie about this years ago and didn't realize it was based on a true story. I found the book in a thrift store and ended up reading it right away and not being able to put it down.
8) Escape-Carolyn Jessop--This is the book that started all of my research on the FLDS and the many brave women and men who escaped the FLDS's clutches.
9) Frances Folsom Cleveland-Susan Sinnott--I found all the first ladies that I read about this year to be fascinating, but I especially loved learning about Frances because I didn't know much about her and there were a lot of firsts for her and her husband in the White House.
10) Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People-Sarah Bradford--A wonderful book about an amazing woman.
