Book Review
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The Girl From the Papers
By Jennifer L. Wright “My mama always told me I would live and die as a nobody. Here at the end… I couldn’t help but wish she’d been right.” And with that opening line, I was completely hooked. Beatrice Carraway… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: Buried Wilderness Secrets
By Jaime Jo Wright Aaliyah Terrence is a Montana Park Ranger. With her black lab, Peaches, she patrols the wilderness, keeping campers safe and reveling in the beauty of the mountains. But her haven is shattered when she stumbles across… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: Hosannas Forever
By David and Barbara Leeman When I saw that David and Barbara Leeman were releasing another hymn devotional, I immediately pre-ordered it. Wow! It was so worth it! Hymns about heaven sound great, but how often do we sing them?… Continue reading
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Specters in the Glass House
By Jaime Jo Wright Knives Out meets The Great Gatsby! Rhemy Crenshaw had been in the foster system since an arsonist took the lives of her family. Determined not to be another statistic, she shoves aside her past trauma and… Continue reading
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The Broken Weathervane
By Laura DeNooyer This story started out straight-forward enough, but turned into an absolute tangled knot – to the point where I wasn’t even sure how it was going to end! 1950s: The Buckwalter Brothers Grocery Store is a Wisconsin… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: A Fierce Devotion
By Laura Frantz One of the few things that made the end of my vacation tolerable was the knowledge that this novella was waiting for me back home. I binge read almost all of it in one afternoon! Gabrielle Farrow… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: Toxic Empathy
By Allie Beth Stuckey Everywhere you look, there is controversy. The lines between right and wrong are blurred. As members of a Christian society, we are told we need to love and have compassion. But how much love and compassion… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: The Other Sister
By Jessica R. Patch When I read the premise, it brought me back to one of my favorite childhood movies, The Parent Trap (Haley Mills or Lindsey Lohan, both are good). The added ingredient of suspense and I was all… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura Frantz
As Mary at the Covenant Christian Resource Center in Randolph knows, I have been waiting for this book for a year. Laura Frantz releases these historical fiction gems every January and I clear my reading schedule for them. Each book… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: Rise to Rebellion
By Jeff Shaara After my trip to Boston, I’ve been super-excited to dive deep into Revolutionary War history. Using Audible, I got the 23+ hour audiobook by famed historical author, Jeff Shaara. It took a while to get through, but… Continue reading
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