Sybil's Choice by Iris Sechriest

This true story is taken from the author's own journal. When her daughter, Sybil, a young woman with two grown children and a one month old grandchild, was diagnosed with brain cancer, Mrs. Sechriest accoomopanied her daughter to various doctors to learn of the forms of treatment available.

Sybil eventually chose an alternative method of treatment offered by a clinic in Florida. This treatment used an extract from the Aloe Vera plant. In order to do this, she moved from her North Carolina home to St. Petersburg, Florida, accompanied by her mother and her brother

This is the story of their journey, with all its ups and downs. This review is submitted by Norma Frank.

*The author's brother, Pastor Sonny Bolick, donated "Sybil's Choice" to our library. He and his wife, Rose, will shortly become members of HTLC.

Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortensen

Greg Mortensen's new book resumes the story of keeping his promises-this one made to the Kirzhig horsemen he met in 1999 who rode into Pakistan to secure his help to bring a school to remote northeast Afghanistan. Many other schools were built and many obstacles overcome before that promise could be kept. One crisis-making this book an even more timely read-involved responding to the devastating earthquake in the Kashmir in October, 2005. Told in the first person and almost as dramatic as Three Cups of Tea, Stones into Schools is a powerful reminder of what a sense of empowerment can produce.

Barbara Thomas
Stones Into Schools is available in the Christus Victor Library

"The Help" by K. Stockett

This is a first novel by Jackson, Mississippi native, Kathryn Stockett. The author sets her story in her hometown but moves the timeline to 1962. She uses the voices of 3 women, one white 22 year old, and two black women who courageously set about to change racial and gender attitudes in their community through their collaboration to write a book revealing the truth about relations between employers and the women they hire to serve in their homes. Readers of this well-written fiction will discover or perhaps recall how things were in the South of this decade of turmoil and emotion. Stockett unleashes humor, tension and hope to entertain and inspire us from the first page to the last.

Judy Shirley