How many movie-goers do we have out there? My husband and I rarely go—the film has to be one we really want to see in order to shell out nearly $10 a ticket. The first movie I took my daughter Nikki to was The Little Mermaid. The year was 1989 and she’d just turned four. That was the year a …
Review of Daybreak
About the Book Book: Daybreak Author: Beckie Lindsey Genre: YA Fiction Release Date: July, 2019 Every girl has a secret she hopes the light will never find— but the demons already have. Krystal, Mackenzie, Tammi, and Sadie fight a spiritual battle between unseen forces of good and evil that reaches deadly proportions. When Krystal’s relationship with lifelong friend, Bryce, turns …
Review of Darling Hedgehog Goes Down a Foxhole
About the Book Book: Darling Hedgehog Goes Down A Foxhole Author: Auralee Arkinsly Genre: Early reader chapter book Release Date: September 13, 2019 Darling Hedgehog learns about the animal nature of things in high humor and carefree, cute, and winning episodes. This childhood story reads a bit like Aesop’s Fables or a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, for children …
Review of Practically Married
About the Book Book: Practically Married Author: Karin Beery Genre: General Market, clean fiction, women’s fiction, contemporary romance Release Date: October 22, 2019 She moved to a new town to marry her fiancé. Instead, she’s burying him. Ashley Johnson moved to northern Michigan to finally meet her fiancé face-to-face, but she arrived in time to attend his funeral. With no …
Review of Second Chances
About the Book Book: Second Chances Author: Shirley Quiring Mozena Genre: Family and relationships/Death, Grief, Bereavement Release Date: September, 2012 When Shirley and Bill set out on a dream trip in the beautiful northwest wilderness to celebrate their 40th anniversary, what develops is a nightmare that has no end. Mysterious pangs turn into a vicious virus that makes its way …
Review of Hope’s Highest Mountain
About the Book Book: Hope’s Highest Mountain Author: Misty M. Beller Genre: Historical Romance Release Date: October, 2019 When Ingrid Chastain agreed to accompany her father to deliver vaccines to a mining town in the Montana Territory, she never could have anticipated a terrible accident would leave her alone and badly injured in the wilderness. Rescue comes in the form …
Review of Meet the Misfits
About the Book Book: Zoey: Meet the Misfits & Zoey: Odd Girl Out Author: Melody Carlson Genre: Middle grade fiction for girls Release Date: April 15/ August 15, 2019 Zoey’s pretty sure her life is over when her wannaba-rockstar mother uproots her from from their home in Seattle and deposits her in Nowheresville, Oregon to live with her whackadoodle grandparents. …
Review of Risking Love
About the Book Book: Risking Love Author: Toni Shiloh Genre: Christian fiction, contemporary fiction, diverse fiction Release date: June 25, 2019 Nikki Gordon lives with a perfect trifecta of noes. No guys. No dates. No way. The past holds her bound with ropes made of fear-infused steel, and she’s determined that no one will ever cut through them. If only …
Review of The Medallion
About the Book Book: The Medallion Author: Cathy Gohlke Genre: Historical Fiction (World War II) Release date: June 4, 2019 For fans of bestselling World War II fiction like Sarah’s Key and The Nightingale comes an illuminating tale of courage, sacrifice, and survival, about two couples whose lives are ravaged by Hitler’s mad war yet eventually redeemed through the fate …
Review of This Healing Journey
About the Book Book: This Healing Journey Author: Misty M Beller Genre: Christian Historical Romance Release date: July 18, 2019 The mountain wilderness of her family’s home in the Canadian Rockies is all Hannah Grant has ever known. Now at the age of twenty-four, she’s on a journey to help her father to find the son he gave up for …
