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June 13, 2019
His Encouragement #17-Sheltered
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.
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
Psalm 61:3 KJV
In our day and age being “sheltered” has a bad connotation. We think of it has someone (usually a child) who has been kept away from whatever it is that people think said child...
June 12, 2019
Book Review: The Pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma
A Desperate Mother Searches for Her Child
Step into True Colors — a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime
Widowed in Memphis during 1932, Cecile Dowd is struggling to provide for her three-year-old daughter. Unwittingly trusting a neighbor puts little Millie Mae into the clutches of Georgia Tann, corrupt Memphis Tennessee Children’s Home Society director suspected of the disappearance of hundreds of children. With the help of a sympathetic lawyer, th...
June 11, 2019
Revell Summer Reading Book Tag
I’m participating in the #RevellSummerReading book tag today. The theme is all about summery books. I’d love to have you all participate, too! Just copy the questions and add your own books on your blog or social media.
Without further ado, the Revell Summer Reading Book Tag…
A Book that Takes Place during the Summer [image error]A Desperate Hope takes place in the summer in upper state New York in the early 1900’s. A Book that Reminds You of Summer [image error] A Book with A Sun on the Cover [image error] A Book with a Beach on...Top Ten Tuesday-Unpopular Bookish Opinions
Thank you for joining me for another Top Ten Tuesday with The Artsy Reader.
[image error]Today’s theme is Unpopular Bookish Opinions. It took a bit of thought, but I was able to come up with ten bookish opinions that I have that may or may not be popular with the masses. Remember, it’s just an opinion. Even if we don’t agree, can we still be friends?
#1: Dog-earring pages is a perfectly acceptable way to bookmark. #2: Swear words and sex scenes don’t belong. (That includes all euphemisms.) #3: There...June 10, 2019
Book Review- The Golden Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse
Can Olivia survive the crime and Gold Rush fever of 1849…and the countless marriage proposals?
A series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees.
The Daughters of the Mayflower series continues when Olivia Brighton finds herself widowed and working her brother’s restaurant in San Francisco during the height of the rush for gold. Even though she receives at least twenty marriage proposals...
June 7, 2019
First Line Friday- The Golden Bride
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No matter how much he thought he deserved to be one, Olivia Brighton’s husband of six weeks was not a king.
I laughed out loud when I read this opening. It would seem Olivia has a very poor view of her new husband. Not exactly the respond you would expect from newlyweds. Join us on Monday for a review of this new release by author Kimberley Woodhouse and the newest addition to the Daughters of the Mayflower series!
[image error]Now grab the book nearest to you or the one you’re reading and comm...
June 6, 2019
His Encouragement #16-More Grace
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.
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
James 4:6 KJV
Last night, God laid this verse on my heart to share today, but then I was reading over the passage in preparation of writing this post and I rea...
June 5, 2019
Book Review- The Alamo Bride by Kathleen Y’Barbo
A Series for Lovers of History, Adventure, Romance, and Ancestry
Will Ellis Lose All at the Alamo?
Descended from Mayflower pilgrims and well-verses in the healing powers of herbs and plants, Ellis Valmont has grown up in the territory owned by Mexico but claimed as their own by the Texians who settled it. Now war has pulled all the available men from their town into battle, leaving Ellis and other like her to defend their homes.
Caring for a wounded New Orleans Grey, comr...
June 4, 2019
Top Ten Tuesday-My Favorite Genre (or Second Favorite…)
Thank you for joining me for another Top Ten Tuesday with The Artsy Reader.
[image error]Today’s theme is “Top Ten Favorite Books in your Favorite Genre,” or something like that. My favorite genre is historical romance, but I’ve seen a lot of posts today with that topic, so I chose to go with my second favorite genre which is romantic suspense. Suspense, as a whole, is a new genre for me, and to be a favorite you have to have read the book! So, thankfully, I’ve read more than ten books in this genre! M...
June 3, 2019
Book Review- The Tinderbox by Beverly Lewis
With her Amish parents’ twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across a surprise–the old brass tinderbox her clockmaker father keeps in his Lancaster County shop has been left unlocked. Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the cherished heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life.
Purchase link: https://www.amazon.com/Tinderbox-Beverly-Lewis-ebook/dp/B07F3CN276/
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