Amish Christmas & Faithful Love Collection 16 book box set by Grace Given

Amish Christmas & Faithful Love Collection 16 book box set by Grace Given is a stunning ebook publish by Pure Read and one of the best one if you want to appreciate the essence of Amish life thanks to these set of books.
In the first book the story of two common people who, from New York in vacation met an Amish man with his kid and took a picture. After all they think there is  component of folklore  in that two Amish. Their life so different and distant from the common one.
But...That New Yorker couple will discover that this encounter will bring new hope and joy in their hearts as well.

In the Amish Drummer Boy we are in a period of war, desires.

The story I love the most is the one of Joachim and his three "lost" children.
An Amish community is compact. Sometimes young people wants to go away and they are free to leave this life. Sure: for the community when a young person goes away it's a failure.

Written with great intuition, inspiration, love, "It's a wonderful Amish Life" wants to reassure parents. Joachim will understand that maybe his children wherever will go will be the mirror of the education received before thanks to him and his wife and a reflection of their past life.
There are lessons that won't never be forgotten so no one after all will be lost but a gift for the outside world.

Beautiful book, I bought it after Christmas and trust me when I tell you that it was money very well spent.

These stories are plenty of humanity, simplicity, and reassure us about life and big thematic.


I love the cover so badly.


I downloaded this eBook on Amazon.


Anna Maria Polidori

Feature Writing Telling the Story Third Edition by Stephen Tanner, Nick Richardson and Molly Kasinger

Feature Writing Telling the Story Third Edition by Stephen Tanner, Nick Richardson and Molly Kasinger is a wonderful, fantastic book for every journalist and writer and I started to fall in love for it, when I opened the package. It was another case of love at first...page.

Being a reporter I discovered reading the book the big potentialities that this book offers and the fresh perspective with which all topics are treated.
Published by Oxford University Press this book/tool gives complete coverage to a profession, the one of journalist and writer always more articulated and complex thanks to the new media and the advent of the net. Blogs, videos, social networks.

You can use this book if you are a journalist and you have some doubts or if you need an inspiration and a support in your "featuring stories."
You can use this book/tool as a great support if you are a writer because every aspect of the creative process of writing a story is examined in great detail, attention but at the same time with lightness, without stress.
This book has been thought as a great companion of adventures and an indispensable and secure "land" where you can find certainties.
You will discover many interesting resources if you want more support and every section is clear and transparent.

Divided in three parts the first one, the most creative one is: Mastering the Techniques.
Where do you want to share your news? Today there are many available channels for you, your talent and your interests as well.
Featuring Writing will analyze podcasts, so trendy in big realities and big magazines and newsmagazines, blogs, but also other kind of digital journalism.

The famous questions: "Who, What, When, Where, Why and How" are old like the Time and before the written word, let's remember that men have always been real storytellers using maybe other forms of expression but leaving this world telling us who they were and what they were doing in that moment.

These authors, thinks that this book will be great for you if you search for an intrument in grade of illuminate your mind enlarging your horizon.

What is journalism?

And why writing feature stories?

Feature writers have more freedom first of all and they can write of different, diversified topics.

So, first of all you will learn how to focus on a certain topic, researching for informations. Later once you have created your "shape of the story"  the phase B:  interviewing people a crucial moment of all the process of creation of a story.
You will learn various ways for writing your piece understanding the importance of characters in a story.

We all know that a journalist must be ethical in his/her profession and this topic will be treated abundantly.

Impressive the considerations of the authors of this book.

They say:

"The individual journalist's moral compass develops over time. It is influenced by a range of factors including the family environment in which they grow up, their life experiences, and other impact that other people or groups have on them during the development. These may include friends, church, community, and sporting and political groups." Important also "The inevitable socialization that takes place within a newsroom."

The book's authors are Australians so the moral code of ethical behavior is principally the one of that country but looking better it's not distant from any other ethical behavior recommended in other countries.

Part B of the book treats Different Styles. Covering diversified people from celebrities to common people, passing through obituaries without forgetting other aspects of this profession like investigative journalism, sport features, columns, strategic for a news magazine and creative non-fiction.

The latest part is about reviews, yes the one I am writing at the moment. You can write a review on every topic. Food, drink, including coffee and tea, books, but also travel - travel writers writes books and articles reporting their adventures in the world - games, TV, music theater, cinema.


Published by Oxford University Press this book is plenty of good energy and vibes.

Highly recommended for sure!

Anna Maria Polidori

Confession of an adoptive parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption by Mike Berry

Confession of an adoptive parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption by Mike Berry published by Harvest House Publishers is a very good and interesting christian book about adoption a modality of giving and receiving love from a kid not biologically created by a couple.

Why adopting?
It is common to think that in general sterile couples   experience the biggest joy of this Earth,  the one of maternity and paternity adopting one or more kids. It's a great adventure to growing up babies, educating them and trying to give as much love as possible to them for creating  future men and women to go proud of.

Story can be this one of course, but always more often other typologies of couples adopt: there are ladies "scared" of the changes of their bodies while pregnant, other ones who simply don't want to experience maternity. They don't feel that this is an important experience in their life as in the case of the author's wife.

Other couples have other biological children but they want to continue to give love and more love because they're plenty of love to sharing with and for other children. Reasons are endless. Surely there is a main reason: the one of giving and receiving love.

In general kids arriving in a family didn't live a great life previously.

Maybe they were in an orphanage, maybe in a foster family.
Their life didn't start at all very well.  They need all the possible love from the new parents. Some of them can be sick, other ones maybe met along their path violence of various genre.
These children must be loved and helped to sort out their difficulties, for living the rest of their life in the best possible way.

Enjoy this book and enjoy the long trip for adopting a kid because there is not any other more wonderful act than this one: taking care of an abandoned little soul all alone in this world.

I thank NetGalley for this ebook.

Anna Maria Polidori

The True Story of Saint Valentine of Terni, Italy by Julie McDonald

I want to tell the truth: I didn't know the real story of Saint Valentine and for this reason I downloaded through Amazon this eBook: The True Story of Saint Valentine of Terni, Italy written by Julie McDonald.
Beautiful cover, stunning sweet Umbrian hills, it was a real prosecution this one against Saint Valentine as you will read. The Saint encouraged people at staying together, celebrating secretly marriages while the local Emperor Claudius didn't want to see anymore couples around. Discovered, the poor man was killed but his brutal departure meant a reason for celebrating love.
A lot of interesting facts, trivia, about Saint Valentine's Day follows this first historical part.

Recommended for sure.

I downloaded this ebook on Amazon.

Anna Maria Polidori

Backyard Farming for Beginners Easy Mini Farming for Self Sufficiency by Michael Benard

Do you have a house with a good garden? In general during spring and summer-time you cut grass, by Michael Benardand you see how beauty your garden is. Once an old man with a little garden because close to a city said me anyway that, not eating grass, he preferred to plant veggies, tomatoes, zucchini. You had to see the difference with his neighbor, who preferred just to keep cleaned the grass!

Your backyard can become this: a mine of food in particular if it's big enough for animals.

You can't believe it possible?

Backyard Farming for Beginners Easy Mini Farming for Self Sufficiency  by Michael Benard will follow you step-by-step for creating a beautiful reality plenty of satisfaction and where you could also keep if you have sufficient space (and legislation permits it) 2-3 hens in grade of giving to you if your family is of 3-4 individuals sufficient eggs for going on in a daily base without buying it.
Of course you can implement with more animals your backyard if you have space.
Remember that all food you can eat produced by you is always better than the one you buy at a store.

You can add trees, veggies and all plants you think are indispensable for your family like herbs as basil, rosemary and so on.



Highly recommended.


I downloaded this eBook on Amazon.

Anna Maria Polidori

Valentine's Day How We Celebrate Love and Friendship Around the World by G.B. Sholander

Valentine's Day How We Celebrate Love and Friendship Around the World by G.B. Sholander published by Apple Blossom Media is an ebook that doesn't leave anything out from Valentine's Day. Being this feast close to us, let's give a look at what it means for couples, friends, relatives in the USA and around the world.

In the USA it's no just a feast for lovers but it is a feast of friendship extended to all that people we love.
Relatives, friends, family members. Millions of cards are sent every year sometimes accompanied by with stuffed animals like teddy bears or a box of chocolates to friends, companions, someone loved in a few words.
The legend of St. Valentine is suggestive like also the message that bring with him: don't stop to loving.

It was the poet Chaucer during the 14th century, the creator of The Canterbury Tales who mentioned Valentine in a poem called: "Parliament of Fowls" and later William Shakespeare would have returned to mention this feast in A Midsummer's Night Dream and Hamlet.

The custom of sending handwritten letters of love and appreciation started to be trendy pretty soon in UK although it reached the USA later in 1700 reaching a complete success with the arrival of handmade cards and the first printed cards in 1810 in Europe.

In this feast chocolate is another appreciated gifts, very beloved by Japanese people as well.

A great tradition I discovered thanks to Angels on Earth, a magazine by Guideposts and reported in this ebook the one of Loveland a city in Colorado, where if you send to their local post office greetings cards that should reach people for the day of St Valentine, these cards will be sent to the people hand stamped by the official Sweetheart City Volunteers.

Every year Loveland serves all 50 American States including other 100 nations excited to send a special treat from the City of Love to their companions, wives or husbands.

The book is also specific about the day after and the feast, dedicated  to single people.

The author loves this feast not just because she is American but because her husband proposed to her on Valentine's Day!

I downloaded this eBook on Amazon.

Very nice! Highly recommended.

Anna Maria Polidori

Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership around the World by Eli M. Noam and The International Media Concentration Collaboration Abstract

Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership around the World by Eli M. Noam and The International Media Concentration Collaboration Abstract is an interesting book published by Oxford Press.

What kind of roles play corporations? And the net has brought more freedom thanks to social media, various networks and the possibility for everyone of sharing news and what it is going on in the world  in the "now" and "immediate"?

How much diversity and openness has brought the net with it?

Any answers given to this questions means implications in every field of our society because informations and news are not disconnected by the  social tissues.

The book gives voice to 13 media industries, television, newspapers, book publishing, film, and so on.

Every country is examined, compared, seen and read globally at the end.

France, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Spain, Ireland, Canada, USA, Chile, Brazil, Australia just for naming some of countries and the medias taken in consideration.

Highly suggested.

I thank Oxford Press for the copy of this book.


Anna Maria Polidori