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August 5, 2019
Book Review: A Worthy Heart by Sara Beth Williams
Joel Bennett has always known Serena Hayes as his sister’s gregarious best friend. In the three years since Lacey began college, Serena became a regular houseguest, but lately, she’s absent more than not. When Joel discovers she’s in an abusive relationship, protectiveness from within roars to life.
With only a part-time job to support her and nowhere to go, Serena fears leaving her current relationship would jeopardize her chances of graduating college. After a brutal attack leaves her no...
July 22, 2019
Book Review: Yours Truly, Thomas by Rachel Fordham
For three years, Penny Ercanbeck has been opening other people’s mail. Dead ends are a reality for clerks at the Dead Letter Office. Still she dreams of something more–a bit of intrigue, a taste of romance, or at least a touch less loneliness. When a letter from a brokenhearted man to his one true love falls into her hands, Penny seizes this chance to do something heroic. It becomes her mission to place...
July 18, 2019
His Encouragement #20-Benefits Better than Dental Insurance
I’ve joined my blogging friends for a new facet of my blog, called His Encouragement, inspiring scriptures shared each Thursday. My hope and my prayer is that these scriptures each week will bless your heart and encourage your soul.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. Psalms 68:19 KJV
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Psalms 103:2 KJV
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? Psalms 1...
July 16, 2019
Top Ten Tuesday-My Top Favorite Must-Read Authors
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday on Stories By Gina. Thank you for joining me for another Top Ten Tuesday with The Artsy Reader.
[image error]Today’s Top Ten Tuesday Theme is Auto-Buy Authors. Those must-have authors. Must-read authors. I must confess that I rarely purchase books new. I’d love to be able to, but it’s not in the budget. I purchase most of my books on the resale market from used bookstores or at library sales. It’s also one of the reasons I became a book blogger. I receive new, hot-off-the-pre...
July 15, 2019
No Greater Love Blog Tour w/ Celebrate Lit and Giveaway
Book: No Greater Love
Author: Gina Holder
Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense
Release date: April 30, 2019
One Book Changed Her Life… And Her Eternity.
He said he’d never risk leaving a widow.
She said she’d never love a man in uniform.
Paige McDonald collects antique literature and works at the largest bookstore in Portland, Oregon. When her grandfather, a firefighter, was killed, she vowed never to fall in love with a first responder.
An old Bible leads to an unexpected discov...
July 12, 2019
Midnight on the River Grey Blog Tour and Giveaway w/ Celebrate Lit
Book: Midnight on the River Grey
Author: Abigail Wilson
Genre: Historical Romance/Mystery
Release date: July 2, 2019
Abigail Wilson returns to Regency England with another tale of murder, mystery, and romance.
After her elder brother’s mysterious death, Rebecca Hunter vows to expose the man she believes responsible-Mr. Lewis Browning-known by the locals as the Midnight Devil and by Rebecca as her new guardian. He alone was on the bridge that fateful night and openly admits striki...
July 2, 2019
Top Ten Tuesday-Childhood Favorites or Passing on my Love of Books.
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday on Stories By Gina. Thank you for joining me for another Top Ten Tuesday with The Artsy Reader.
[image error]Today’s Tot Ten Tuesday Theme is childhood favorites. I’ve loved books for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, my family used to bring a laundry basket with us to the library to carry our books home. Each week, when we brought them back, the librarians marveled that we had actually read all of them.
When I began looking up books for this post, I was overwhe...
June 28, 2019
End of the Month Giveaway
At the end of each month I will be having a giveaway here on the Stories By Gina blog! It will usually be a book, but sometimes it might be something else.
This month the giveaway is a used, but in excellent condition hardback copy of…
The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers[image error]
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Giveaway ends June 30 at midnight (Mountain T...
June 27, 2019
His Encouragement #19-How’s Your “Love” Life?
I’ve joined my blogging friends for a new facet of my blog, called His Encouragement, inspiring scriptures shared each Thursday. My hope and my prayer is that these scriptures each week will bless your heart and encourage your soul.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Hebrews 10:24 KJV
Did my title catch your attention? It was supposed to. No, I’m not talking about your love life in that sense, however, I am talking about your “love life,” as in, how are yo...
June 25, 2019
Book Review: Wooing Cadie McCaffrey by Bethany Turner
After four years with her boyfriend, Cadie McCaffrey is thinking of ending things. Convinced Will doesn’t love her in the “forever” way she loves him, Cadie believes it’s time for her to let him go before life passes her by. When a misunderstanding leads to a mistake, leaving her hurt, disappointed, and full of regret, she finally sends him packing.
But for Will, the end of their relationship is only the beginning of his quest to figure out how to be the man Cadie wanted hi...
