Book Pick and GIVEAWAY: The Bride Wore Blue by Mona Hodgson

November 2, 2012By Karen Barnett 59 Comments

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

Friday Book Pick: BE STILL MY SOUL by Joanne Bischof

August 24, 2012By Karen Barnett 10 Comments

“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

August 17, 2012By Karen Barnett 1 Comment

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

July 27, 2012By Karen Barnett No Comments

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

June 29, 2012By Karen Barnett 5 Comments

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: ALONG WOODED PATHS by Tricia Goyer

November 25, 2011By Karen Barnett No Comments

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

November 4, 2011By Karen Barnett No Comments

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

Friday Book Pick and CONTEST: Book of Dreams by Davis Bunn

October 7, 2011By Karen Barnett 10 Comments

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