Reading Excursions

  Welcome to the Blog Tour for Captive Set Free by Valerie Limmer, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours ! About the Book Title : Captive Set Free  Author : Valerie Limmer  Publisher : Green Sap Publications  Release Date : October 18, 2022  Genre : Non-Fiction, Christian Living Have you been hurt? Are you hounded by turbulent feelings and looping thoughts? Do you know you need to forgive but aren't sure where to begin? Captive Set Free is a lamppost along the path of healing, offering engaging stories and examples, explaining how forgiveness fits into our spiritual DNA, and examining mindsets that make forgiving easier or harder. In this book, you'll learn how to  - take concrete steps to forgive;  - be sure forgiveness has taken hold in your heart; and   - guard your spirit from bitterness, both now and in the future.  If you're tired of being imprisoned by pain and toxicity and want to step into the free and abundant life Jesus ha...

  Welcome to the Blog Blitz for Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers by Hope Bolinger, Linda Fulkerson, Rowena Kuo, and Carrie Schmidt, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours ! ABOUT THE BOOK Title: Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers  Authors: Hope Bolinger, Linda Fulkerson, Rowena Kuo, and Carrie Schmidt  Publisher: Scrivenings Press LLC  Release Date: October 11, 2022  Genre: Nonfiction / Writing Remember when Dorothy finally reached the Emerald City only to be halted by the Gatekeeper, blocking her hopes of seeing the Great and Powerful Wizard? The path to publication is like that. Agents, and Editors, and Publishers, oh, my!  Each one is a barrier between you and a publishing contract.   But what if you understood what agents, editors, publishers, and readers really want?   If you’re struggling to get past the publishing gatekeepers, this book will give you a behind-the-scenes peek at how to win the heart of each type...

  MY REVIEW    Hardcover:  336 pages  Publisher:  St. Martin’s Press (May 4, 2021)  Language:  English ISBN-10:  125023929X ISBN-13:  978-1250239297 ⬅️  Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrested by French police, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way, meeting at different points, ...

  MY REVIEW   Paperback:  208 pages Publisher:  Singing Tree Publishing (December 10, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0997163712 ISBN-13:  979-0997163711 ⬅️  Click Picture for Purchase Information   “It’s been nearly ten years since we retired. I’m still in the office Duane and the boys created for me. The seven quilts I promised to make have been completed. A few books. He has new knees and new guitars. We’ve had grief and loss in these years, occasional discontent, times of being alone even when we were together. We’ve also had a blessed amount of fun. Of music and laughter and family. Of the other side of being alone that comes of knowing we never really are.Much has changed in those nine years and change, and much has stayed the same. At first, it seemed as if this book was a vanity thing. Or a thing for the grandkids to look at and think Okay, Nana, what do you want me to do with this? But in the end, like most other things ...

MY REVIEW Hardcover:  384 pages Publisher:  Celadon Books (May 26, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1250621569 ISBN-13:  978-1250621566 Click Picture for Purchase Information “ We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts, visiting us for a morning, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they’d disappear again, for weeks, for months, for years, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams, our questions and confusion … So begins Hollywood Park, Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults. Per the leader’s mandate, all children, including Jollett and his older brot...