The Brushstroke Legacy
THE BRUSHSTROKE LEGACY by Lauraine Snelling As the book opens we find Ragni’s life is a mess. She’s going to be late for work if she doesn’t hurry and when she gets there she finds that someone has changed an ad layout that her team had worked so hard to perfect. She’d saved the original [...]
Rachel's Prayer
RACHEL’S PRAYER by Leisha Kelly This book is a slice of life during the second World War. It focuses on two families, the Worthams and the Hammonds. They live right next to each other and their lives are intertwined in many ways. George Hammond lost his wife 10 years before and the Worthams have been [...]
Mozart's Sister
MOZART’S SISTER by Nancy Moser This was a fascinating book. I wish I would have read her note to the reader, which in my copy was at the end of the book, before I read the book. The author had never written an historical novel before, had never written a novel in the first person [...]
Summer of the Midnight Sun
SUMMER OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN by Tracie Peterson Leah Barringer is concerned about her brother, Jacob. He was supposed to have been home weeks ago, but his return is long over due. The villagers are starving. There is no food to be had. Just as she gives up hope, Jacob returns with two sleds full [...]
Mark of the Cross
MARK OF THE CROSS by Judith Pella Lady Beatrice Marlowe is the daughter of a Saxon squire. When she is sixteen years old, she meets and falls in love with the new groom, Philip de Tollard. Being who she is, Beatrice is forbidden to marry Philip, and is forced into a marriage of convenience to [...]
A Promise for Ellie
A Promise for Ellie by Lauraine Snelling Young love! Is there anything better in this life? Is there anything more frustrating? This book is a story about young love shared by Andrew Bjorklund and Ellie Wold. The setting is North Dakota in the year 1900. As the book starts we find Andrew still living with [...]
Morning Sky
Morning Sky by Judith Miller Nicodemus and Hill City, Kansas will never be the same after the arrival of Lilly Verdue. The Harban family can’t fathom why the mysterious Aunt Lilly is visiting, but everyone especially, Ezekiel has his suspicions about what has driven her from her home in New Orleans to the unsettled wilderness [...]
Amethyst
AMETHYST by Lauraine Snelling Amethyst Colleen O’Shaunasy travels west to the Dakotah Territory when her father insists that she find the rightful heir for his property: his deceased son’s son, Joel. Amethyst is able to track down the location of her nephew, but getting to the Dakotah Territory by train in the dead of winter [...]
Music of the Heart
The Longing Season by Christine Scaub In the 1740s, British culture allows few options for the son of a merchant ship captain. And in a time of war, a man with John Newton’s experience must serve the king. But Newton’s a man who quotes Virgil and curses God with equal fervor is interested in serving [...]
The Longing Season
Author: Christine Schaub In the mid-1700s British culture allows few choices for the son of a merchant ship captain. In war time, a man is given no option but to serve the king. But John Newton (a man who quotes Virgil and curses God) is only interested in serving himself.
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