Today, Dienece is reviewing Down by the Water, an Australian historical fiction novel by Aussie author Jo-Anne Berthelsen. Book Description In 1909, Meg Porter heads to Brisbane to study art, but a family tragedy changes everything. Heartbroken, she decides to give up her art classes and accept a marriage proposal. After a miscarriage, Meg embarks on …
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Today I will be reviewing the second in the The Sweetbrier Inn Mysteries by Jan Drexler Blurb: The new art gallery in town is causing quite a stir, and Emma is in the middle of it! The Sweetbrier Inn is filled with guests, and the town is teeming with tourists who have come to celebrate …
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Within These Walls of Sorrow is about the Apteka Pod Orlem – a pharmacy operated by Poles who wouldn’t abandon their premises in the heart of the Krakow ghetto in WWII, choosing instead to risk their lives to serve those within the ghetto walls. Based on a true story, the characters are fictional amalgamations of …
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Today, Dienece is reviewing a Christian resource for silencing the storm of depression, D.M. Samms’ Storm Breakers. Back Cover Copy A small phrase [pictured above] began a search to understand how and why depression is affecting so many people, and to find a biblically-based approach to overcoming its effects. This book is one author’s revelation, …
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Today I am reviewing The Challenge to Trust on the Path to Peace: A 50-day Journey” by Cindy Janecka. Blurb taken from Amazon: “If you would like to exchange your restlessness and anxiousness for a heart and mind of peace, come along on this inspirational 50-day journey. We are commanded throughout Scripture to trust God, …
All the Lost Places is a dual timeline novel made more complex by the fact the past timeline (1807) is partly quotes from a series of children’s books and partly narrative, with a very blurred line between what is part of the fictional stories and what is part of this story. In the past timeline …
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Today I am reviewing Love’s New Beginning by Penny Zeller out Tuesday 13 December 2022. Book Description Where it all began… Lydie Beauchamp recently moved with her aunts—sisters Myrtle and Fern—to the untamed Wyoming Territory. When a teaching position in nearby Willow Falls captures her attention, can she leave her aunts, one of whom just …
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Today I am reviewing The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green Book Description An impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European Front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to …
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Today I am reviewing Susan Page Davis’s latest Cosy Mystery, The Plot Thickens. Book Description: Jillian only wants to redecorate one room at the Novel Inn—but first she has to deal with murder. Murder strikes Skirmish Cove during the coastal town’s winter carnival. Jillian Tunney, part owner of the nearby Novel Inn, discovers the body …
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Today I’m sharing my book recommendation for Melissa Tagg’s wonderful new release, A Seaside Wonder. It’s the second book in Melissa’s Muir Harbor contemporary romantic mystery series set in Maine. Here’s the Book Description: In one evening, Indi’s world falls apart. Enter the shy professor her family mistakes for her fiancé…make that ex-fiancé. Professor Philip …
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