Review: Gabby’s Stick-to-it Day
Title: GABBY’S STICK-TO-IT DAY Author: Sheila Walsh Illustrator: Natasha Kuricheva Publisher: Tommy Nelson March 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4003-1805-6 Genre: Inspirational/childrens How do you get little girls to stick to it and finish what they started? Sophie wants to do good, and she tries very hard to be good. But when things get hard to do, Sophie [...]
Review | The Measure of Katie Calloway
The Civil War was hard on many people, but even harder on a young woman from the north married into a Georgian family. It didn’t take long to realize that the handsome young man from West Point, who was her brother’s friend, had a mean streak. More than a mean streak he was downright [...]
Review | A Necessary Deception
Laurie Alice Eakes 2011 Revell Set in 1812, in England, young widow Lydia Gale, helps a prisoner who showed her a kindness, only to discover that now she is being blackmailed into helping the French spy on her nation. Angry at being deceived, all she is interested in to doing, is getting her younger [...]
REVIEW | Hello Hollywood
by Janice Thompson Oh my, what a book, it was so cute, I kept thinking it should be called My Big Greek Family! Athena, head writer for the popular sitcom Stars Collide, which stars her best friend Kat (we met her in book one in this series Stars Collide). Athena is worried she is loosing [...]
REVIEW | Deadly Pursuit
Irene Hannon Intense does not even begin to describe this book. Of all the Irene Hannon books I have read, this one is the most intense, nail biter I have ever read! It gripped me and wouldn’t let go. A fiercely gripping book, I cried tears in the hard places, I felt that first flush [...]
Review | A Heart Revealed
by Julie Lessman Emma Malloy’s story is revealed in this book. We heard just tiny bits of it in the first book about this family. (A Hope Undaunted) We join this book at the wedding of Kate and Luke, and Emma is here, and this is her story. This book was a good book, but [...]
Review: Little Mercies
Title: LITTLE MERCIES Author: Lynn Coulter Publisher: Broadman & Holman April 2011 ISBN: 978-08054-4935-8 Genre: Inspirational/Christian Living Most Christians know the Psalm “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” But—how can we be happy when we are living in a broken, fallen world. Sometimes we have [...]
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 [...]
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