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December 10, 2018
My Heart Belongs in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania- A Book Review
When War Reaches Clarissa’s Back Door, the Trustworthy Become Even Fewer.
Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night she is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, working with a mysterious man called Liberty. She would like to share her work with Kyle, but he refuses to enlist when the war breaks out. How can s...
December 7, 2018
First Line Fridays- A Perfect Weakness
For the next couple of weeks on First-line Friday’s, I am sharing the first line to each of the books I got at the Faith and Fellowship Book Festival in Ohio.
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Hampshire, England, July 1868
Penelope Howard stood before a mound of earth in the church graveyard.
Whose grave is this? Is this a new grave or an old grave? How has this person’s death affected Penelope? What’s going to happen next?
I can’t wait to find out! Look for my review later this month...
December 6, 2018
His Encouragement #12- Death has Died
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.
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Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible...
December 5, 2018
The Patriot Bride- A Book Review
Lieutenant Owen Masters and Emeline Baratt meet on a British warship as sworn enemies. Where will Emeline place her loyalties when forced to spy against her country?
A trip home from England to Maryland in 1812 finds Emeline Baratt a captive on a British warship and forced to declare her allegiance between the British and Americans. Remaining somewhat politically neutral on a ship where her nursing skills are desperately needed is fairly easy—until she starts to have feelings...
November 29, 2018
The Cumberland Bride- A Book Review
In 1794, when Kate Gruener’s father is ready to move the family farther west into the wilderness to farm untouched land, Kate is eager to live out her own story of adventure like he did during the War for Independence and to see untamed lands. And she sets her sights on learning more about their scout, Thomas Bledsoe. Thomas’s job is to get settlers safely across the Kentucky Wilderness Road to their destination while keeping an ear open...
His Encouragement #11-Teach Them Your Children
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.
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Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when...
His Encouragement #9-Teach Them Your Children
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.
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Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when...
November 26, 2018
Thankful For Books Reading Challenge- Day 20 (11/26)
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Today, the theme for #tfbrc is #novella. I’m sharing with you two #novellacollections I was so excited to find during my Black Friday sale shopping at the used bookstore.
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Do you read novellas? Tell us one of your favorites in the comments.
November 22, 2018
His Encouragement #10- Thankful
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Psalm 100
God has been so good to my fam...
November 21, 2018
Thankful For Books Reading Challenge-Day 15 (11/21)
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Today the theme for #tfbrc is #holidays. I love Christmas, so I thought I would share with you my favorite Christmas books.
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