Without a Trace

Colleen Coble's Without a Trace is the first book in her Rock Harbor Mystery Series. The story takes the reader on a winding road of search and rescue while it weaves a cast of 'who did it' characters into a small imaginary town on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

When Bree Nichols' husband and son disappear in a plane crash, she and her search-and-rescue dog Samson begin searching the wilderness for the crash site to recover their bodies. After months of searching, Bree is forced to come to terms with the fact that she may never find them. Then the town is rocked by murder and the murder becomes strangely linked to her husband's plane crash.

Power Thoughts

Power Thoughts, by Joyce Meyer, offers an updated look at many of the issues addressed in her original Battlefield of the Mind book with 12 strategies to win the battle of the mind.

Based on Proverbs 23:7, it examines the idea that we become what we think. Unlike many of the humanistic books I read in the 1980s that put "me" at the center of using the mind and positive thinking, this book uses a biblical perspective.

As the introduction points out, this book is more of a study guide for practical use, not just a book to be read. Part one contains four chapters with questions to think about and answer for your own situation. Part two focuses on the power thoughts program with questions and scripture to study.