connecting and encouraging
In order to encourage y’all and your little readers, we’re sharing tried and true kid lit favorites (books or series) from our family’s collection. (Feel free to return the favor and tell us all about your kid lit favorites in the comments!) Jesus Helps Me offers four levels of exploration: a quoted Bible passage, beautiful real-world photographs, supportive captions to relate the passage meaning to a child s life, and thinking questions to personalize the experience. [...]
Rebekah's Treasure by Sylvia Bambola is a thought-provoking read set in the early church era.
Journey now to Ruby City, Idaho of 1866 where a Marriage Mishap Creates an Awkward Love Triangle in this Silver Mining Town. Looking forward to a quiet life and a full stomach, mail-order bride Rebecca Rice is pleased to marry her shopkeeper intended, Mr. Fordham, until the justice of the peace calls him Thaddeus, not Theodore—proceeded by the title Deputy. Is it possible to marry the wrong man? [...]
Back when I worked for my hometown newspaper, going through the big archives each week was one of my favorite tasks! We’re borrowing the tradition with a little #tbt (Throw Back Thursday) feature here on the blog. Each Thursday we “throwback” to a review from last year so let me know if you’ve read the book or added it to your tbr! [...]
In order to encourage y’all and your little readers, we're sharing tried and true kid lit favorites (books or series) from our family’s collection. (Feel free to return the favor and tell us all about your kid lit favorites in the comments!) [...]
Fifteen years after she left Prince Edward Island, Natalie O'Ryan had no plans to return. But when her fiancé, music producer Russell Jacobs, books their wedding in her hometown and schedules a summer at Rose's Red Door Inn, she sets out to put the finishing touches on the perfect wedding. But she can't possibly prepare for a run-in with Justin Kane--the best friend she left behind all those years ago after promising to stay. [...]
about the book On April 24, 1962, U.S. Air Force Captain Samuel J. Lewis returns home to small Rockbridge, Texas. Six years older, Sam is the boy who moved four houses down when Sarah Jordan was ten. A teenager who nicknamed her Tomboy and teased her like an older brother. That boy is now a… Continue reading Prelude by JoAnn Durgin
Hello, reader friends! I'm delighted to share my thoughts on the final installment of the Isle of Hope series, His Steadfast Love by Julie Lessman.
I'm jumping right into the middle of the Ozark Mountain Romance series with book 2, At Love's Bidding by Regina Jennings!
She’s Out to Steal His Name. Will He Steal Her Heart Instead? Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they are no longer pickpockets—now they focus on high value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society. [...]
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