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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 small-town family success story. Run by brothers August, Fritz, and Edmund, everything appears ideal on…

  • The Friday Review: Glen Eyrie

    5th Friday, time for a different kind of review! In case you missed it, in the beginning of August, me and two of my writer friends did a mini writer’s retreat at Glen Eyrie in Colorado Springs. We absolutely loved it there and plan on going back. I highly recommend Glen Eyrie if you’re looking…

  • 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 has two years left on her indenture when Indians attack the frontier tavern where she…

  • 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 is too much? At what point do we cross the line between loving the sinner…

  • 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 in.  Wow, what a twisted ride! Charlotte Kane lives in a miserable apartment in Chicago.…

  • 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 is a trip back in time, filled with gorgeous detail, characters you love, sweet romances,…

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