Reading Excursions

MY REVIEW   Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Revell (August 3, 2021) Language: English ISBN-10: 0800737512 ISBN-13: 978-0800737511 ⬅ ️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ Restless with the familiarity of her Alabama home, Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in a tiny Louisiana town deep in bayou country. Though rightfully suspicious of outsiders, who have threatened both their language and their culture, most of the people in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana, come to appreciate the young and idealistic schoolteacher as a boon to the town. She's soon teaching just about everyone--and coming up against opposition from both the school board and a politician with ulterior motives.   Acclimating to a whole new world, Ellie meets a lonely but intriguing Cajun fisherman named Raphe who introduces her to the legendary white alligator that haunts these waters. Raphe and Ellie have barely found their way to each other when a huge bounty is offered for the elusive gat...

  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:  400 pages Publisher:  Revell (September 13, 2020) Language:  English           ISBN-10: 0800737407 ISBN-13:  978-0800737405 “ When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandmother left behind more than trinkets and photo frames--she provided a path to the truth behind Ivy's adoption. Shocked, Ivy seeks clues to her past, but a key piece to the mystery is missing. Twenty-four years earlier, Harvey James finds an abandoned newborn who gives him a sense of human connection for the first time in his life. His desire to care for the baby runs up against the stark fact that he is homeless. When he becomes entwined with two people seeking to help him find his way, Harvey knows he must keep the baby a secret or risk losing the only person he's ever loved .” Thank you in advance to Revell (a division of Baker Books) for providing a c...

MY REVIEW Paperback:  336 pages Publisher:  Revell (June 30, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10: 0800735307 ISBN-13:  978-0800735302 Click Picture for Purchase Information “ Before Dan opened his door to find a wounded woman who had escaped from the tormentors in the mountain, his life had become rather quiet. He and the eight other people in the mostly abandoned town had become friends. They spent peaceful evenings around the campfire and even made vague plans to journey east one day and leave the ominous mountain behind. But the woman's arrival changes everything.  Who is she? How does she know so much about Dan's brother, who is still held captive in the mountain? Why are long-forgotten memories rising to the surface? And why does Dan feel so compelled to keep her presence in his house a secret? ” Thank you in advance to the publisher, Revell, for providing a complimentary review copy through the Revell Reads Blogger Program....