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Carrie Schmidt

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Carrie Schmidt is an avid reader, book reviewer, story addict, KissingBooks fan, book boyfriend collector, and cool aunt. She also loves Jesus and THE Story a whole lot. Carrie started the popular blog ReadingIsMySuperPower.org in 2015 and since then has had the honor of co-founding the Christian Fiction Readers' Retreat and JustRead Publicity Tours. In addition to these endeavors, she has written for magazines such as RT Book Reviews and Christian Market, and she co-wrote the book Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers. Carrie now lives in Georgia with her husband, though her roots range from East Tennessee to Central Kentucky and northern Illinois. ...more

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DIE TO YOUR OWN TUNE by Rebecca McKinnon SERIES: Octavia Fields Mysteries #3 GENRE: Cozy Mystery (Clean) PUBLISHER: Independently Published RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2026 PAGES: 197 After months of giving into her wanderlust, free-spirited violist Octavia Fields is ready to get back to her Aerie Pines music shop. But she hasn’t even had […]
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Unsolved Amish Abduction by Mary Alford
"This book was very good. I love Mary Alford’s Amish books. This book had great characters and a plot twist that I did not see coming. Through trying to figure out the cold case and dealing with new mysteries there was puzzle after puzzle that kept th" Read more of this review »
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Unsolved Amish abduction is written by Mary Alford. This author is one of my most favorite Amish suspense authors ever. One thing you will definitely count on is you will want to stay up and read the story without putting it down.

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Unsolved Amish Abduction by Mary Alford
"I know I am always in for a treat when I read a book by this author, especially when it takes place in Rachel's Crossing.

Anna was kidnapped as a teenager. She escaped, but sadly her sister was not able to escape. This has haunted Anna for years. Her " Read more of this review »
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I knew as soon as I started reading Unsolved Amish Abduction by Mary Alford that I would be on the edge of my seat the whole time. I also knew – based on her other books set in Rachel’s Crossing, Kentucky – that some stunning twists awaited
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It was so good to be back in Cooperton, Kansas, on the pages of The Blacksmith’s Songbird with several characters I grew to love in book one of this series by Kimberly Burkhardt. This second book follows blacksmith Josiah Crawford (a friend
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The Sky-High Witness by Sarah Ickes is a quick-read historical mystery with some unique elements, like an insightful 11-year-old protagonist, a hot air balloon, a bank robbery, a pirate, and a rooster. If you’re curious about how each of those things ...more
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“The morning my life changed started like any other.”

I enjoy author Jen Dodrill’s cozy mysteries in large part due to her engaging writing voice and relatable characters, and I easily found myself immersed in her new women’s fiction novel F
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“If God doesn’t fill the empty place in your heart, nothing will ever be enough. If you aren’t satisfied with Him, nothing and no one else will satisfy you either.”

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“We aren’t morning people based on the time we wake up or the mood we wake up in, but on the fact that we are made in the image of God, the original Morning Person.”

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