connecting and encouraging
Hello, reader friends! In additionย to the excitementย over Hope by the Book magazine,ย October has been a huge month for my little hometown! We celebrated our bicentennialย and the high school football team made it to the sweet sixteen in the state playoffs for the first time!
Once Londonโs top thief, Barclay Pearce has turned his back on his life of crime and now uses his skills for a nation at war. But not until he rescues a clockmakerโs daughter from a mugging does he begin to wonder what his future might hold.
Tressa Harlowe's father did not trust banks, but neither did he trust his greedy extended family. He kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it.
12th century England: Two men vie for the throne: King Stephen the usurper and young Duke Henry the rightful heir. Amid civil and private wars, alliances are forged, loyalties are betrayed, families are divided, and marriages are made.
After being forced to use a pistol against invaders, Evelyn Mapleton is no longer the timid girl her extended family expects. The more her aunt and cousin resent her new independence, the more Evelyn is determined sheโll make her missing father proud by taking up his cause and aiding Confederate soldiersโeven if she has to outmaneuver the Yankees guarding her home to do it.
Hello, reader friends! Autumn was/is short-lived and/or confused as usual and we had to close the house back up and crank the air conditioning once again. It's not stopping me from sipping my cold apple cider! Around here the seasons have serious identity issues.ย
Hi, reader friends! Today, we welcome back our author friend, Melanie Dobson, as part of a book tour for herย new novel! The year is 1938, and as Hitlerโs troops sweep into Vienna, Austrian Max Dornbach promises to help his Jewish friends hide their most valuable possessions from the Nazis, smuggling them to his familyโs summer estate near the picturesque village of Hallstatt.
In the aftermath of WWI, Grace Abernathy is determined to reunite with her family, crossing an ocean to convince her widowed sister to return home to England. Yet Toronto holds more tragedy and her nephew Christian is now in the custody of his paternal relatives, the formidable Easton family, who rejected Grace's sister because of her low social status.
Hello, reader friends! My internet host was unable to resolve the issue with MailChimp due to limited resources so I'm in the process of moving to a new host (which is why today's post is later than usual). I hope to never need to change hosts again because oh the jumping through hoops is about to drive me batty!
I don't know about all y'all but my head is still spinning from all the summer reads! Since I haven't even gotten a chance to read SIX of the books from my last list, I'm reigning in my voracious inner book dragon, trimming all the extras from my calendar, and buckling down to contain the overflow!
Faithfully Bookish 