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A Bride for Keeps Book Review
About the Book Everett Cline will never humiliate himself by seeking a mail-order bride. Not again. He’s already been jilted by three mail-order brides and figures a wife just isn’t in his future. However, a well-meaning neighbor hasn’t given up on seeing him settled, so she goes behind his back to bring yet another woman to town for him. Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiance. A mail-order marriage in faraway Kansas is a last resort, but she’ll do anything to leave her life in Massachusetts and the heartbreak she’s experienced there. Although Everett doesn’t…
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Until Leaves Fall in Paris Book Review
About the Book As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books. Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product…
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Special Book Feature & Excerpt – Every Star in the Sky by Sara Davison
About the Book Book: Every Star in the Sky Author: Sara Davison Genre: Romantic Suspense Release date: March 2, 2022 She is willing to testify against her trafficker. If she can stay alive that long. “You’re safe here, Starr.” How many times has Detective Cole Blacksky said that to her since helping her escape the life she’d been forced into eight years earlier? Starr desperately wants to believe him, but she knows Brady Erickson, her former captor, too well. Although Cole has promised her protective custody on his family’s remote ranch, no place on earth is safe enough. Brady will stop at nothing to permanently silence her before she ever reaches the witness stand.…
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Church People Movie Review + Giveaway
CHURCH PEOPLE is now available on DVD & Digital! CHURCH PEOPLE is a Christian comedy about the megachurch mega production sub-culture and getting back to the simplicity of the Gospel, starring Christian comedian Thor Ramsey, Hallmark Channel’s Erin Cahill, Stephen Baldwin, Donald Faison, and NSYNC’s Joey Fatone. This film has a powerful message about rediscovering your passion for Christ and learning to surrender what you hold dearest, all told in an incredibly humorous way About the Movie Weary from the showiness and materialism that has overtaken his ministry efforts, Guy (Ramsey) goes on a journey to get back in touch with the heart of ministry and be a real role…
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The Wedding Machine Book Review
About the Book Welcome to Jasper, South Carolina. A place where Southern hospitality thrives. Where social occasions are done right. And where, for generations, the four most upstanding ladies of this community ensure that the daughters of Jasper are married in the proper manner. Friends from school days, “the gals” have long pooled their silver, china, and know-how to pull off beautiful events. They’re a force of nature, a well-oiled machine. But the wedding machine’s gears start to stick during the summer their own daughters line up to tie the knot. In the lowcountry heat and humidity, tempers flare, old secrets leak out . . . and both love and…
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Abigail’s Secret Book Review
About the book Newly widowed mother Abby Baker goes home to Hope Harbor to help her ailing mother and restart her life. Weighed down by grief and fear of failure, she wishes she had the strength of her grandmother, who raised a young child alone while taking on the role of lighthouse keeper after her husband drowned. What was the secret of Granny Abigail’s strength? Carson Stevens is a lighthouse enthusiast who has bought the deteriorating Hope Island lighthouse to restore it and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. When he meets Abby, he wants the attractive granddaughter of the former keepers to be part of the restoration. As Abby and…
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The Heart of the Midwife Book Review
About the book Four Women Fight for the Right to Life and Love Love Charm by Cynthia HickeyOzark Mountains, 1868Bound by a common bond of wanting to help the Missouri hill people they’ve grown to love, Phoebe Hudson, socialite-turned-midwife, and Luke Morris, the schoolteacher, find themselves mediators in a family feud. Love’s Rebirth by Darlene FranklinDenver, 1871Dr. Vaughan Strahan, a war veteran, wants to work with expectant mothers so others don’t die like his wife and child, but there is already a midwife working in the old mining district whose approval he is determined to win. If Not For Grace by Patty Smith HallNew York City, 1889After her friend’s death in childbirth, Grace Sullivan converts her…
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Jewelry Stories from Bridge of Gold
Thank you so much for joining me for today’s edition of Jewelry Stories! From the moment I saw this book cover and read the back cover blurb, I knew there would be jewelry ideas inside. 🙂 This book was released in 2021, and if you have never read about the history of the Golden Gate bridge, this book will be the perfect introduction for you. Want to know more? Here’s the book’s description… Repairs on the Golden Gate Bridge Uncover a Century-Old Murder Underwater archaeologist Kayla Richardson is called to the Golden Gate Bridge where repairs to one of the towers uncovers two human remains from the late 1800s and the…
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Double Blind Book Review
About the Book Twenty-nine-year-old Lisa Newberry can barely make it through the day. Suddenly widowed and a survivor of a near-fatal attack, she is wracked with grief and despair. Then she hears of a medical trial for a tiny brain chip that emits electrical pulses to heal severe depression. At rope’s end, Lisa offers herself as a candidate. When she receives her letter of acceptance for the trial, Lisa is at first hopeful. But—brain surgery. Can she really go through with that? What if she receives only the placebo? What if something far worse goes wrong? Written in the relentless style for which Brandilyn Collins is known, Double Blind is a psychological…
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Jewelry Stories with Laurel Blount
Hello again, and welcome to a new Jewelry Stories post! I am thrilled to welcome today’s guest, Laurel Blount, as we talk about her Johns Mill Amish Romance Series. In particular, we’re going to discuss the first book, Shelter in the Storm, and share some jewelry and bookish bling that I hope you will enjoy. 🙂 It’s no secret that I love Amish fiction, having read it since its earliest days with Beverly Lewis and Cindy Woodsmall leading the way. Shelter in the Storm was Laurel’s first venture into this genre, and I heartily encourage you to read it if you haven’t! We’ll start today’s post with a short Q&A,…