Reading Excursions

  MY REVIEW   Series:  Cape Cod Creamery (Book #2) Paperback: 304 Pages Publisher: Revell (May 2, 2023) Language: English ISBN 10: 0800739485 ISBN-13: 978-0800739485 ⬅️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ Escape to Cape Cod--where you just might find the secret to happiness     Callie Dixon had the world by the tail . . . until it all slipped away. Fired from her dream job after making a colossal mistake, she's escaped to her aunt's home on Cape Cod for time to bounce back. Except it isn't a home, it's an ice cream shop. And time isn't going to help, because Callie's bounce has up and left. There's a reason she made that mistake at work, and she's struggling to come to terms with it.    Things go from bad to worse when Callie's cousin Dawn drags her to a community class about the secret to happiness. Happiness is the last thing Callie wants to think about right now, but instructor Bruno Bianco--a curiously gloomy fellow--is re...

  MY REVIEW     Paperback:  320 pages Publisher:  Revell (October 8, 2022) Language: English ISBN:  0800739515 ISBN-13: 978-0800739515 ⬅️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ It's not easy being the bishop's daughter, especially for Lydie Stoltzfus. She's not like other Amish girls, as much as she wishes she were. The only thing she does well is disappoint others. Leaving her family and church seems unbearable, but staying might be worse.   Knowing Lydie is "between" jobs, the local doctor asks her to fill in at the front desk for a few months. To Lydie, this is a boon. It gives her time to figure out how she's going to say goodbye to her neighbor, Nathan Yoder--the main reason she needs to leave Stoney Ridge. Nathan claims he's in love with her, but she knows she's not good enough for him. If in doubt, Nathan's father reminds her frequently.   As Dok spends time with Lydie, she recognizes symptoms of a disorder rare amon...

  MY REVIEW   Series:  Cape Cod Creamery #1 Paperback:  320 pages Publisher:  Revell (May 3, 2022) Language: English ISBN-10:  0800739477 ISBN-13: 978-080073948 ⬅ ️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ Dawn Dixon can hardly believe she's on a groomless honeymoon on beautiful Cape Cod . . . with her mother. Sure, Marnie Dixon is good company, but Dawn was supposed to be here with Kevin, the love of her life (or so she thought).   Marnie Dixon needs some time away from the absolute realness of life as much as her jilted daughter does, and she's not about to let her only child suffer alone--even if Marnie herself had been doing precisely that for the past month.   Given the circumstances, maybe it was inevitable that Marnie would do something as rash as buy a run-down ice-cream shop in the town's tightly regulated historic district. After all, everything's better with ice cream.   Her exasperated daughter knows t...

  MY REVIEW   Paperback: 320 pages Publisher:  Revell (October 5, 2021) Language: English ISBN-10: 0800739507 ISBN-13: 978-0800739508 ⬅ ️ Click Photo for Purchase Information    “ Ben Zook had only two loves in his life: books and birds. In a stroke of good fortune, he'd stumbled onto a way to cobble together those two loves into a career, writing books about rare birds. He was as free as a bird--until a chase for a rare White-winged Tern takes him to the one place on earth he planned to never return: his Amish home in Stoney Ridge.   Desperate for photographs of the elusive tern, Ben hires a local field guide, Micah Weaver, and boards at Micah's farm, planning to "bag the bird" and leave Stoney Ridge before anyone recognizes him. But he neglected to plan for Micah's sister, Penny.   One long-ago summer, Penny had introduced Ben to birding, even sharing with him a hidden eagle aerie. That was when she knew true love. She'd always hoped ...