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My family and I visited the Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville while visiting friends a few years ago. While we had visited other Civil War battle grounds and Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, my favorite part of the vacation was learning the history of this grand home. When I discovered Tamera Alexander’s novel, To Whisper Her…
Do you enjoy historical fiction? Ever tried Biblical fiction? I discovered this new author through some book blurbs which interested me, and although I hadn’t read this genre before, I became hooked by these engaging stories. Connilyn Cossette weaves gripping tales set in Egypt prior to and soon after the Exodus with Moses. From the…
I love Lysa TerKeurst books because I feel like she understands me completely. Reading her books always makes me feel like I’m visiting with a dear girlfriend who totally gets me so when I finish the last page, I feel encouraged, satisfied, and happy. I feel like, “Yeah, I can do this. I’m not the…
As you might guess, I love sharing books with my children. It’s a fun and special time that often comes with the request of one more book or one more chapter. We are still discovering books together though I suppose a time will soon come where I will have to wait for grandchildren so I…
Outward beauty is praised in our culture. Skin products, clothes, diet plans, and exercise programs are among the many items used to bombard us with what some call beauty. Such concentration causes problems with self-esteem and sometimes health for all the people who cannot live up to such an ideal. The media portrays an image…
When we meet new people, we usually identify ourselves in such a way as to include where we work or what our career title is or by whose parent/spouse we are or what school we attend or what degree we are pursuing. Have you ever wondered why we do that? I suppose it is our…
Family secrets always cause pain. The secrets Hannah Sterling discovers after the death of her mother are shocking, and her journey to Germany to find the answers to her questions only brings more disturbing news and some unsavory people into her life. Hannah’s mother had always been distant, so much so that Hannah felt unloved…
Somehow in life we pick up false beliefs that drag us down and keep us from being happy and reaching our full potential. These lies run through our minds as negative thoughts or spill out of our mouths when we cut ourselves down. Sometimes events or circumstances seem to reinforce a lie because our view…
Often someone beautiful is trapped in a plain body or in a disabled body, and people are too busy to notice. Sometimes someone ugly is locked in a beautiful body, and the person causes pain wherever he or she goes. Karen Kingsbury’s Unlocked is an inspirational story about how people caught in different prisons can…
Risking Love by Brenda Anderson is a sweet Christian romance that I highly recommend. From the beginning, I wanted to know how Lissa was going to grow as a character. She was such a planner, and watching her wrestle with living outside her agenda for life was suspenseful in its own way. Perhaps I relate…