BOOK REVIEW | Love Finds You in Amana Iowa
Title: LOVE FINDS YOU IN AMANA, IOWA Author: Melanie Dobson Publisher: Summerside Press June 2011 ISBN: 978-1609361358 Genre: Inspirational/historical Amalie Wiese is traveling from New York to Iowa to join the new Amana communities as a head cook. She’s also engaged to marry Friedrich, another man in the Amana community. It takes five weeks of [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Chasing Mona Lisa
Title: CHASING MONA LISA Authors: Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey Publisher: Revell January 2012 ISBN: 978-0800720469 Genre: Inspirational/historical fiction In August of 1944 Paris is on the cusp of liberation. The soldiers of the Third Reich are fleeing the Allied advance, but enroute they steal countless pieces of irreplaceable art. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring will stop [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Marrying Miss Marshall
Chasing Miss Marshall by Lacy Williams Danna Carpenter cannot buy help, since her husband was murdered, she is now the Sheriff and cannot get any help. It is nearly like there is a plot against her. A new man in town offers his help, turns out he is a private investigator hired to find out [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Love on the Line
Title: LOVE ON THE LINE Author: Deeanne Gist Publisher: Bethany House October 2011 ISBN: 978-0764204098 Genre: Inspirational/historical/romance Georgie Gail is a rural switchboard operator, and proud of her independence. She may live in a man’s world, but she does a man’s job…or at least she did, until the telephone company sends out Luke Palmer to [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Remembering You
Title: REMEMBERING YOU Author: Tricia Goyer Publisher: Guideposts November 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8249-4812-2 Genre: Inspirational/contemporary/general Ava Ellington has just broken up with her boyfriend, Jay, and her job is quickly going south. Fearing she’ll be fired, Ava promises to come up with a news story that people will want to see, not turn the channel. But [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Title: BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE Author: Susan May Warren Publisher: Summerside Press September 2011 ISBN: 978-1-60936-215-7 Genre: Inspirational/historical/romance Dottie Morgan made a mistake. The blessing was that she had a son. But now her son, a high-school football champion, is dead, killed in WWII, and Dottie is in mourning. She wonders if she’ll ever survive [...]
BOOK REVIEW | The Baker’s Wife
Title: THE BAKER’S WIFE Author: Erin Healy Publisher: Thomas Nelson October 2011 ISBN: 978-1-59554-752-1 Genre: Inspirational/suspense Audrey was the pastor’s wife. But then false accusations took away her husband’s career, and suddenly their hobby had become their life and she was now the baker’s wife. Audrey is driving the car to the bakery when her [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Heiress
$Title: HEIRESS Author: Susan May Warren Publisher: Summerside Press July 2011 ISBN: 978-1-60936-218-8 Genre: Inspirational/historical/women’s fiction The heiress daughters of newspaper magnate August Price have been given everything their hearts desire. But what if they want only to be loved—without an enormous price tag attached? Esme is tired of society. She wants to write for [...]
BOOK REVIEW | A Lancaster County Christmas
Title: A LANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTMAS Author: Suzanne Fisher Woods Publisher: Revell September 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8007-1995-1 Genre: Inspirational/Amish/Women’s fiction Jaime has not been handling life so well since her mother was killed in a freak accident. She’s been on sleeping pills to try and cope, but when she needs her prescription refilled, there’s a different doctor [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Hattaras Girl
Title: HATTERAS GIRL Author: Alice J. Wisler Publisher: Bethany House October 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7642-0732-7 Genre: Inspirational/contemporary Jackie Donovan is pushing thirty and her loving relatives want to get her married off. But while Jackie would love to marry an honest, wonderful man, even more she wants to own a bed-and-breakfast on the beautiful Outer Banks [...]
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