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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 I relished long road trips just so I could catch up with the breaking news…

  • Young Washington

    Starring William Franklyn-Miller I have been fully engaged in the hype surrounding this movie for the past months. But was it worth taking over my algorithm? For those of you who aren’t history nerds, there was a LOT of drama in George Washington’s early life. He was in his 40s when the American Revolution began…

  • The Friday Review: Without a Clue

    By Melissa Ferguson Knives Out with a dash of Murder on the Orient Express set on a cruise ship… but it’s a rom-com. Who wouldn’t be intrigued with a premise like that? Penelope Dupont doesn’t have time to be a writer because she works for one, more like seven of them. As the assistant to…

  • The Friday Review: Don’t Upstage the Body

    By Naomi Stephens The Earl of Montfort has died and no one really cares. However, despite how obnoxious the man was in real life, it wouldn’t do to have a sparsely attended funeral. Enter the Halfpenny family – professional mourners for hire. Quality actors, all discreet. But unlike the other gravesides the Halfpennys have grieved…

  • The Friday Review: The Dreams We Knew

    By Rachel Scott McDaniel Organized crime in the 1920s doesn’t always find its way into Christian Historical Fiction, so I was intrigued when I kept seeing the premises for Rachel Scott McDaniel’s novels. I finally checked out a book from the library and brought it along to keep me occupied in the airport. Was it…

  • The Friday Review: Something Else

    By Cher Gatto After the masterful (and heartwrenching) Something I Am Not, I knew the sequel would be a hard read, but it was worth it. On the outside, Billy’s story looks like a miraculous happily ever after. Despite his hellish childhood, he is now reunited with his birth family, is newly married, and works…

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