One of my favorite fictional families has returned! Author Mona Hodgson spins wonderful tales of family bonds and community spirit in her historic romance series, The Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek. The books fit together to give you the complete picture of the family, but they can also be read alone as each tells a different character’s … Read More
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Friday Book Pick: BE STILL MY SOUL by Joanne Bischof
“Night’s chill tickled her skin. Lonnie pressed her hands together and glanced up. He was even more handsome up close. Having grown up the shy, awkward daughter of Joel Sawyer, she’d hardly spoken to any boy, let alone the one who had mothers whispering warnings in their daughter’s ears and fathers loading shotguns.” (Be Still … Read More
Friday Book Pick: RARE EARTH by Davis Bunn
Author Davis Bunn is the master of writing page-turning fiction and his character Marc Royce reads much like a big screen action hero. In Bunn’s newest novel, Rare Earth, the second installment of the Lion of Babylon series, Royce takes his heroics to Africa. (Even though it is a series, Rare Earth easily stands alone). Here is … Read More
Friday Book Pick: HIDDEN IN DREAMS by Davis Bunn
What happens when unrelated people around the globe experience identical terrifying dreams of world-wide financial collapse? In the novel Hidden In Dreams, all eyes turn to psychologist and dream expert Elena Burroughs for answers. Are these simple nightmares or predictions of a grim future? As the clock ticks toward impending doom, Elena forms an unlikely … Read More
Friday Book Pick: Wildflowers from Winter by Katie Ganshert
I’ve heard people argue that they dislike Christian fiction because it’s just happy people living happy lives. There are some novels out there that meet this description, but the vast majority of the books I’ve read deal with real people struggling to survive the problems that life throws at them. In Wildflowers from Winter, debut-novelist … Read More
Friday Book Pick: SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED… A CHEMO COCKTAIL by Joules Evans
Facebook has been a tough place to go, recently. It’s heart-wrenching to log in and read as another friend (or the parent of a young child) announces a cancer diagnosis. Some days it feels like too much. “God, why?” I ask. And then I tremble at the thought that the next cancer patient could be … Read More
Friday Book Pick: ALONG WOODED PATHS by Tricia Goyer
If you need to get away from the Black Friday Madness, is there a better escape than into the simplicity of Amish fiction? Amish stories are in high demand among readers of Christian fiction and it’s no wonder. Our lives are filled with busyness, struggle, and crisis. Many readers long for the purity and clarity that the Amish … Read More
Friday Book Pick: Love Finds You in Sunset Beach, Hawaii
Do you remember that old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercial where a person eating peanut butter collides with someone eating chocolate? You got peanut butter on my chocolate! You got chocolate in my peanut butter! Two great tastes that taste great together. When I first heard about Love Finds You in Sunset Beach, Hawaii by Robin … Read More
FREE on Kindle: Titles by Tricia Goyer and Lauraine Snelling
There are some fantastic freebies over on Amazon right now and you won’t want to miss them. I love being able to add new kindle books by my favorite Christian authors. This week’s treats? Two of the best authors in Christian fiction–Tricia Goyer and Lauraine Snelling. I have read several of Tricia Goyer’s books, but not … Read More
Friday Book Pick and CONTEST: Book of Dreams by Davis Bunn
Davis Bunn’s newest novel, Book of Dreams, releases this week to a world struggling with economic woes. Appropriately enough, Book of Dreams focuses on corruption within the banking industry and a select team who, because of dreams and visions, feel called to challenge the status quo. Book of Dreams is a thrilling page-turner that kept me reading (rather than … Read More