Reading Excursions

  MY REVIEW   Series:  Season in Pinecraft (Book #1) Paperback:  352 pages Publisher:  Bethany House (January 17, 2023) Language: English ISBN:  0800741684 ISBN-13: 978-0800741684 ⬅️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ Mary Margaret Miller needs an escape from her small Amish community. She boards a bus, all alone, for a vacation in Pinecraft, Florida. Meeting Betsy and Lilly on the way, she's amazed to find two kindred spirits. They become fast friends and determine to have the best two weeks of their lives. For Mary, it starts when she meets Jayson Raber.    Jayson is taken by Mary from the get-go, but he has responsibilities back home in Kentucky--including a girl he's supposed to marry. And when someone from Mary's past shows up in Pinecraft, it seems like her perfect vacation is ruined. But that's nothing compared to what's coming when she realizes what Jayson has been hiding. ”   Thank you in advance to the publ...

  MY REVIEW   Paperback:  368 pages Publisher:  Revell (July 5, 2022) Language: English ISBN-10:  0800740270 ISBN-13: 978-0800740276 ⬅ ️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ Aidyn Kelley is talented, ambitious, and ready for a more serious assignment than the fluff pieces she's been getting as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. In her eagerness, she pushes too hard, earning herself the menial task of writing an obituary for an unremarkable woman who's just entered hospice care.   But there's more to Clara Kip than meets the eye. The spirited septuagenarian may be dying, but she's not quite ready to cash it in yet. Never one to shy away from an assignment herself, she can see that God brought the young reporter into her life for a reason. And if it's a story Aidyn Kelley wants, that's just what Mrs. Kip will give her--but she's going to have to work for it.   Debut author Sara Brunsvold delights with this emotional mul...

  MY REVIEW   Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Revell (July 6, 2021) Language: English ISBN-10: 0800739337 ISBN-13: 978-0800739355 ⬅ ️ Click Photo for Purchase Information     “ In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adopted family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival in their lives.   Though her father supports Mindy's desire to meet her family of origin, he struggles privately with an unsettling fear that he'll lose the daughter he's poured his heart into. Mindy's mother undergoes the emotional rollercoaster inherent in the adoption of a child from a war-torn country, discovering the joy hidden amid the difficulties. And Mindy's sister helps her sort through relics that whisper of the effect the trauma of war has had on their family--bu...

  MY REVIEW    Paperback:  352 pages Publisher:  Revell (June 1, 2021)  Language:  English ISBN-10:  0800739736 ISBN-13:  978-0800739737 ⬅️  Click Photo for Purchase Information “ Five years in a New York state reformatory have left a blemish on Hazel's real name. So when she takes a job as Doctor Gilbert Watts's lady in attendance in 1898, she does so under an alias. In the presence of her quiet and pious employer, Hazel finds more than an income. She finds a friend and a hope that if she can set her tarnished past in order, she might have a future after all. As Gilbert becomes accustomed to the pleasant chatter of his new dental assistant, he can't help but sense something secretive about her. Perhaps there is more to this woman than meets the eye. Can the questions that loom between them ever be answered? Or will the deeds of days gone by forever rob the future of its possibilities? ”   Thank you in advance to the publishe...

  MY REVIEW    Paperback:  352 pages Publisher:  Revell (May 4, 2021)  Language:  English ISBN-10:  0800738500 ISBN-13:  978- 0800738501 ⬅️  Click Photo for Purchase Information “ After a rough mission in Rome involving the discovery of a devastating bioweapon, Company spy Ben Calix returns to Paris to find his perfectly ordered world has collapsed. A sniper attack. An ambush. A call for help that brings French SWAT forces down on his head. Ben is out. This is a severance--reserved for incompetents and traitors. Searching for answers and anticipating a coming attack, Ben and a woman swept up in his misfortunes must travel across Europe to find the sniper who tried to kill him, the medic who saved his life, the schoolmaster who trained him, and an upstart hacker from his former team. More than that, Ben must come to grips with his own insignificance as the Company's plan to stop Leviathan from unleashing the bioweapon at any cost mo...