Review for Bethany’s Calendar
This is a powerful, powerful book!! This real-life story has a tremendous depth to it, like few other books I have read. I admit to crying through most of it, although there are a few light-hearted moments. But the depth of the agony & struggle is almost overwhelming, and I… Read more “Powerful, Powerful Book!!!!”

Review for Bethany’s Calendar
What a poignant memorial for a family who lost their beloved daughter Bethany to cancer, capturing her delight while alive and even as she suffered, and as the whole family watched that lovely life ebb away. Each chapter ends with a “note to self” and a “note to others,” offering… Read more “A Poignant Memorial”

Review for Bethany’s Calendar
Bethany’s Calendar is a tender story of not only a mother’s love for her dying child, but God’s love for all His children. I thought this author did a masterful job of weaving both stories together while pointing the reader to the only One who offers true comfort. On a… Read more “… is a tender story”

Review for Bethany’s Calendar Cooper shares the journey she and her family experienced throughout her daughter’s battle with brain cancer. Having had a brother who passed away in his 30s from lymphoma, I found simultaneously relating to her while at the same time realizing how keenly painful it just have been for my own parents. I… Read more “Heart wrenching and poignant”

Review of Bethany’s Calendar “Bethany’s Calendar” is one of the best books I have read this year. The author brings the reader into her personal nightmare and shares with us her families feelings and emotions during one of the most difficult times. She gives a realistic, honest viewpoint of a family dealing with grief and… Read more “The best book I have read this year!”

Review of Bethany’s Calendar Beautiful. Heart-breaking. I feel like I walked with the author as she gripped God’s hand in anguish and in joy. An incredible true story of God’s power and grace in unimaginable circumstances. A not-to-be-missed story of hope and healing.

Review of Fields of the Fatherless Short novel of Christian historical fiction based on a true historical account of the 1775 conflict in the village of Mentonomy, Massachusetts. Betsy Russell is an eighteen year old girl living in a Patriot family near colonial Boston. Her village is busy preparing a militia for the inevitable battle… Read more “Torn Between Two Sides”

Review of Fields of the Fatherless Elaine Marie Cooper is by far one of the best Revolutionary War Christian historical fiction writers. Her historical research is so in depth that she puts you right there in the middle of the events surrounded by the sights, smells, and sounds. Fields of the Fatherless focuses on one… Read more “Revolutionary War Fiction at Its Best”

Review of Fields of the Fatherless Birth pains…..the birthing of a baby or of a nation? Both begin simultaneously in Elaine Marie Cooper’s newest book, intending a realistic comparison of the grueling pain and bleeding during birth and war. Believing the characters were fictional and the story based on Ms Cooper’s admirable deep research of… Read more “Truth in Fiction – Exquisitely Written”