September 2016 Book Report

East of Midnight (1977) by Tanith Lee

Delightful tale of a slave from one world and a prince from another world. Prince Zaister is facing death and finds a way to trade places with the slave Dekteon from a parallel world. The only problem is that they can’t actually change places corporally, but spiritually. So when Dekteon wakes in a new world and is hailed as the soon-to-be executed prince, he is amazed to see in the mirror that he looks just like the prince. Meanwhile, Prince Zaister finds what is it like to be a slave facing death of a different kind in the copper mines.

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Coils (1982) by Fred Saberhagen and Roger Zelazny

Awesome but dated sci-fi story dealing with the new world of computers. Don has little memory of his former life, but figures it has something to do with computer tech. He has the ability to enter into a computer with his mind and make changes that affect the physical world.

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Tearoom for Two (2016) by Susan Page Davis

This is a new series from Guideposts: Tearoom Mysteries. Elaine and Jan are cousins, both widows who decide to open a tearoom together in their old home town in Maine. When they go thrift shopping for teapots and dishes to use in their business, they inadvertently buy a teapot that was stolen many years previous from a British museum.

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Light in the Dark Belt (1949) by Rosa Young

An outstanding autobiography of the woman who has been called the Mother of Black Lutheranism. The daughter of former slaves, Rosa Young knows the answer to the awful poverty of her people is education. In her search for a church to take over a school she has started, Booker T. Washington advises her to contact the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod for help. The Lutherans had a mission to the northern states, but because of Rosa’s urging, they made their way into Alabama and the South.

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Finding Home (2015) by Emily Thomas

Blue Hills book. Anne discovers that her Aunt Edie founded an international adoption agency. One of the services being handled by Alex’s late sister shows evidence of having funds embezzled from it, and that his sister was aware of something going on. Before she could discover what it was, she was killed in a car accident. Now Alex and Anne try to solve the questions.