In honor of
today being Christmas, I’m passing along news of a new Louisiana book that’s
apropos for today’s celebration. Dr. Bryan
Sibley, a pediatrician who practices in Lafayette, doubles as a certified lay
minister in the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church. His latest
book is “God First: Setting Life’s Priorities” by Acadian House Publishing of
Lafayette.
“The book is especially designed to
help the reader set his/her priorities in life so that God is first, family is
second, and everything else is third,” Sibley said in a recent press release.
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| Dr. Bryan Sibley |
Sibley is president of the
Louisiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and devotes much of
his practice to the care of children with special healthcare needs. His book, a
compact volume which Acadian House described as “a short course in basic
Christianity,” contains writings about several of the core values of
Christianity. According to the press release, the
book is intended to support and encourage Christians and non-Christians alike
on their journeys of faith, inspire them to greater compassion for the poor,
encourage tithing as an act of faith and re-affirm the value of forgiveness and
reconciliation as a path to peace of mind.
The book is also meant to re-awaken
the reader’s belief in miracles — those supernatural occurrences that cannot be
explained by natural law or by medical science. Sibley relates the stories of
three miracles that he witnessed, one in which involved the restoration of
sight to a blind child who was fervently prayed over by members of a medical
mission trip in Peru. He relates how, with the help of his minister, he was
able to reprioritize his life, putting God first and “truly walking by faith
and not by sight.”
The 96-page hardcover book sells
for $14, plus $4 shipping. Signed copies are available through www.godfirstthebook.com
and www.acadianhouse.com.
New releases
Sidney P. Bellard, a native of Port
Barre and graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now ULL), has
published “A Cajun in France: Journeys to Assimilations,” available at
Amazon.com in digital and print version. The retired educator relates in his
book three different cultures where he encountered challenges such as the
language barrier, lack of family educational values, relative poverty,
discrimination and the chains of insecurity. Eventually, he developed two major
drives that were antithetical to each other, to master the English language and
to achieve literacy in standard French.
Steven Burgauer has published a
wartime thriller titled, “Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou,” available as an ebook
through Amazon.com. The book intertwines historic people, events and
locales of World War II with a fictional Nazi plot to disrupt the manufacture
of Higgins boats, the Allied landing craft built in New Orleans and used in the
invasion of Normandy as well as other battles. The story, covering two weeks
during the summer of 1942, includes the amphibious landings at Gavutu and
Guadalcanal, the Navajo code talker school near San Diego, the secret world of
Bletchley Park, England, and the Allied invasion of North Africa.
Diane Donovn of Midwest Book Review
said this of the book: “In a war that rips apart entire worlds, who can truly
be the winner? Add a dash of romance to the intrigue for a solid World War II
thriller that’s intricate, frighteningly realistic, and hard to put
down.”
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Cheré Coen is the author
of “Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History,” “Haunted Lafayette,
Louisiana” and “Exploring Cajun Country.” She writes Louisiana romances under
the pen name of Cherie Claire. Write her at cherecoen@gmail.com.
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