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November 30, 2017
My Own Personal Time Machine
[image error]I stepped across the damp cobblestone floor. The musty air filled my lungs as I drew a deep breath. I did nothing to hold back the tears. I stood in a place that still to this day the name alone brings a sense of foreboding. Auschwitz.
I love history! I have for as long as I can remember. I have a photo of myself with my hair braided like Laura Ingalls Wilder, one braid on each side of my head, wearing a plain old-fashioned floral dress, and trying to get a ball on a string into a cup. For my...
November 20, 2017
Embracing Hope- 5-Star Book Review
by: Janell Butler Wojtowicz
[image error]Book Blurb:Christian college dean Drew McKinley mourns his dead wife and still wears his wedding ring.
He stumbles on a desperate journey to understand God’s motives for her tragic death. Crossing his perilous path is Allison, a graduate student and new employee in the dean’s office. Even as she deals with financial hardships, she recognizes Drew’s unresolved grief from her own loss. Putting up a roadblock is Chris Whitney, the h...
November 7, 2017
Book Review: “Whither Shall I Go?” by Gina Holder
A review of Whither Shall I Go?
Review copy from the author
My Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars About the Book:
“I miss him too, Bitty, but God knows best. Someday you’ll see.” If only I could believe that…
In 1911, Ellie Williams struggles to see God’s hand in her life when she loses both parents and is sent to live with her wealthy, estranged aunt, who transforms her from awkward country bumpkin to socialite heiress. Six years later,...
October 31, 2017
Lady Jayne Disappears- 5 Star Book Review
Lady Jayne Disappears- 5 Star Book Review
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Joanna Davidson Politano
“No one understood her love of reading, but to Lady Jayne, fiction was far better than real life—it always had to make sense, and real life seldom did.” – Nathaniel Droll, Lady Jayne Disappears
Book Blurb:
Lynhurst Manor is a house built on secrets . . . and the arrival of Aurelie Harcourt might reveal them all.
When Aurelie Harcourt’s father dies suddenly, he leaves her just two things: his famous pen na...
October 24, 2017
These Healing Hills- Five Star Book Review
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Ann H. Gabhart
Last time we looked at Wonderland Creek. Here’s my review for These Healing Hills. Another Eastern Kentucky book, but this time in 1945, instead of the 1930’s.
“If you should meet a stinky skunk on an autumn day, what would you do? What would you say? I’d say, ‘Good morning, Stinky Skunk, how do you do? I’m glad to meet you, Stinky Skunk, I’d like to dance with you.’”
Book Blurb: Francine Howard has her life all mapped out until the soldier she planned to ma...
October 18, 2017
Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
[image error]When I set about publishing my debut novel with Amazon, I came to a startling revelation. In order to be successful and in order to actually sell books, I was going to have to open myself to the public and therefore potential criticism by said public. It was a scary thought, but hiding behind social media, I’ve been able to take baby steps in developing a public audience through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, and of course, here on my blog.
It was terrifying opening my creation to t...
October 13, 2017
Wonderland Creek- Five Star Book Review
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5 Star Review of Wonderland Creek
by: Lynn Austin
Blue Island, Illinois
1936
‘I took so long remembering all these things that Mack finally said, “Don’t leave me hanging here, Alice. Please…tell me what you think?”’
Book Blurb:
I was perfectly content with my life–that is, until the pages of my story were ripped out before I had a chance to live happily ever after.
Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book. But the happily-ever-after life she’s planned on suddenly f...
October 12, 2017
Christian Faith Publishing Book Review
A Book Review on Gina Holder’s novel Whither Shall I Go by Andrea D. Lim
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Love, equality, honesty, and respect are some of the essential things that should be present in an ideal family. This basic unit of society called family can be bound to fall apart even if the ties between its members have good foundation whenever tragedy strikes.
The novel Whither Shall I Go by Gina Holder is a riveting novel about how people from different walks of life, may it be family backgrounds or the complexitie...
October 4, 2017
Five Star Review- Bringing Maggie Home
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Bringing Maggie Home
Kim Vogel Sawyer
‘Well, except for Hazel. She still prayed. Every night she prayed the same thing. She whispered the prayer again, there in the smelly, dim, lonely chicken coop. “Let us find Maggie, God. Please bring her home.”’
Book Blurb:
Hazel DeFord is a woman haunted by her past. While berry picking in a blackberry thicket in 1943, ten-year old Hazel momentarily turns her back on her three-year old sister Maggie and the young girl disappears.
Alm...
September 19, 2017
Five Star Review- A Change of Fortune
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5 Star Review
A Change of Fortune by Jen Turano
Book Blurb:
Lady Eliza Sumner is on a mission. After losing her family, her fiancé, and her faith, the disappearance of her fortune is the last straw. Now, masquerading as Miss Eliza Sumner, governess-at-large, she’s determined to find the man who ran off with her fortune, reclaim the money, and head straight back to London.
Much to Mr. Hamilton Beckett’s chagrin, all the eyes of New York society–all the female ones, at least–are on him. Un...
